The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-08-14

cluding about twenty from Charleston.
DIR. Christopher q. Becbtler, who had
been living at Gaffney City for several
months, MAS arrested last Thursday,
few miles from this place, on charge Of
counterfeiting United States coin, and
was committed fer trial at The next term
of the United States Court at Greenvillc.
Notwithstanding the large number
of new dwellings aud business houses
erected during the past year, the demand
cannot be supplied. They are rented be-
fore they are completed, by new citizens,
aud the cry is "still they come"
Sra:taaIurS .eSjj;aTtt1a. nfr. Coleman
Wingo died at the advanced age Of cigh-
ty-four Thursday, the Oath of July. lie
was soldicr of the war of 1872 lie
quietly passed away with the esteem of
all his neighbors. On the same day Mrs.
Pleasant Wingo, wife of Paschal Wingo,
died. She was daughter of Capt.
John Ballenger. These two persons were
both buried me same day at Mt. Zion
Church.
Walhalla Courier: After eight days Of
wet weather, the sun il again master Of
the day, and the weather is very warm.
Crops are greatly revived, and promise
better......Dr. Smeltzer is papering the
recitation rooms Of the Female College.
They are much improved by the Doctors
taste and industry. County Sun
day school Convention had It's second
annual meeting on the list, and elected
the following officers President, John
>. Werner; Vice Presidents T.. l..
Sisk, T. =. Phillips, VIM. McWhorter;
Recording Secretary, VIM. G.. Neville;
corresponding Secretary, @. +. Watson
Treasurer, ID. A. Smith.
Yorkville Enquirer: In June last Mr..
4. g. Whitesidcs had ycarling which
was bitten by mad dog On the same
day the same dog also bit cow and a
goat belonging to Mr.. Brown, and later
IN the day bit q gentleman in the same
neighborhood, making slight incision
In the forearm. The yearling of Mr..
Whitesides showed symptoms of hy-
drophobia In month after it was bit
ten, and lived only four days after the
symptoms first appeared. Mr.. Browns
animals also died Of hydrophobia on
the fourth day after it appeared.
The gentleman who was bitten was pro-
tected, to some extent by his clothing,
though Immediately after being bitten he
resortcd to The best known remedies. 1t
- to be hoped he will escape the dread
itll malady. About thirty dogs in that
neigborhood, supposed to have been Bit
ten by the one i'll question, have been
killed.
Lancaster Lcdgtr: MIR. j. +. Kenning-
ton, while out hunting on Flat Creek, in
this county, one day last week, shot and
Killed what some suppose to bo pan
ther. His dogs chased him for several
miles in circle, when the animal final
ly came lii gun-shot distance. His weight
was about seventy-fve pounds. His
stomach when opened was found to con-
tain two squirrel hends and seven feet.
i It was panther, how he came to be in
this section OF the country cnnn0t be 30
satisfactory explained. But for his enor-
cat. numbers Of which inhabit the swamps
of the Catawba River, but VIC have never
heard OF one weighing over forty pounds.
Beaufort Crescent: The regular Re.
publican ticket was elected in Bcnui fort
on Monday last Intcndant, Alfred
Williams. Waroens-J. z. Boycc, II.
NJ. Ruiledge, +. w. Scheper, j. w. Col
Inns, j. Robinson, Hamilton Robinson.
......Cotton is opening finely on st. Hell
ena Island and some has already been
picked. Rice will be marketed from
Beaufort within four weeks. Caterpil-
lars are on st. Helena Island, but no
damage has been observed as yet.
Edgeficld Aionitor: We learn Just as
we go to press that Rev. DR.. Furman is
lying seriously i'll at his home Mt Ridge
Springs. 1.-THE late freshets have done
much damage to corn crops in the creek
bottoms, especially in Turkey, Big Ste
vens and Clouds Creeks.
Georgetown Tsmes and Comet Bird
minders are busy shooting over the rice
fields, The rice is nearly ripe. is a
p'tiablo sight to see tho white woman
confined in Our Jail, charged with living
in adultery with colored man. She
seems lost to all sense of shame. The
rice harvest will commence in two or
three weeks. And then we'll have N.Y.
riads of rice birds. The workmen at
The new s;:s mill dug Up the remains OF
a child on Tuesday, but it was so far de-
composed that it was impossible to iden-
tify it, or say whether it was white or
colored.