The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-22


State. Large numbers of our citizens, both
from the town and country, left on the train
Tuesday morning, and goodly number fol-
lowed on Wednesday. We understand the
train was crowded when it left Belton on
Tuesday, and no doubt by the time it
reached Columbia every available spot was
occupied.
The address of ex-senator Cochran to the
people of Anderson County has been pretty
generally commented upon by the Press OF
the State, and as far as We have seen the
comments have been favorable to him. He
is now spoken for the Office of UnitedState
Marshal for this State, and is generally pre-
ferred to either Wallace, Of Columbia, or
Johnston, of Sumter, at present the strong.
est competitors for the place.
It is with regret that we announce the
death of Mrs. John B. LeYerett, which oc-
Cured OH last Thursday morning, at the
residence of her husband, in Hall town.
ship. She leaves husband and five little
children, with many friends, to mourn her
death. She had been consistent member
of the Cross Roads Church for several years,
and her remains were inferred in the grave
yard at that Church on Friday.
The erection of telephone between the
main business portion of the town and de-
pot would be most desirable improvement,
and we would be pleased to see some one
take the matter in hand and secure its erec-
ton. It would be great advantage to all
those having business with the depot ofti-
cials, and compared to the trouble and
laborious walking saved during the hot
summer months, would cost but q trifle.
We desire to tender our sincere thanks to
Mrs. Ger. Humphreys for dish of deli
cio1s strawberries sent US on Wednesday
morning. The berries. were large and lus-
cio,ls and Of fine favor, and were much en-
joyed. Mrs. Humphreys has had straw.
berries regularly for three weeks past, which
fact is in itself sufficient evidence of the
success with which she meets in the culture
of this most delicious and wholesome fruit.
Through the cooperation of the Green
vile & Columbia Railroad Company, the
Signal Service department at Washington
will, as soon as all necessary arrangements
are perfected, send the daily weather reports
to all the principal stations on this Road.
The necessary blanks, ETC., have already
been received at the telegraph office at this
place, and as soon as the reports are for
warded they will be bulletined every morn
ing at the INTELLIaENCER Office.
The German Artillery of Charleston will
picnic at Walhalla for two or three weeks
in July or August. The company will 60
in full uniform, accompanied by number
of their lady friends and by the famous
Fusillier Band: After storming the town
of vValhalla, they will establish their head
quarters at that place, and leaving the ladies
and impediments within the corporate lin
its, will make a sortie into the mountain
fastresses of the Blue Ridge.
The lock on the safe in the Anderson
National Bank has recently been improved
by the addition of time lock attachment,
which is considered very great advantage
in the way of increasing the security of the
safe against burglars. The machinery of
the attachment is of the very finest watch
works, and is 30 constructed that it cannot
be thrown out of gear by a jolt or blow from
the outside. The principle advantage of
the attachment consists in this, that when
the safe is closed to be opened at certain
hour it cannot under any circumstances be
opened before that hour arrives. The long
est time for which it will remain locked at
any one time is forty-eight hours. The at
tachment cost $3.50.
The biggest hog story that has come to
our ears in a Gong time was related to us on
Monday by citizen of the Storeville neigh
borhood, the correctness of which he vouch-
es for. 1t is this: On Sunday, the 18th Of
January last, hog, weighing about It's
pounds, fell into a well, in which there was
neither water nor food, and there remained
until last Saturday morning, the 18th of
April, exactly ninety days, when it was ac-
cidentally discovered by some children.
When taken out it was found to be still
alive, and had suffered no injury whatever
except the loss of about rs pounds of flesh.
The hog is of the Guinea variety, and had
been missing since that morning, and was
seen near the well for the last time.
We take the following account Of the
wash out on the Air Line Railroad by the
recent heavy rains near Currehee mountain, I,
on a little stream called North Broad, ordi-
narily not larger than spring branch, from
the Pickens Sentinel: 'The embankment
was 105 feet high and 400 feet OF it was car
ried away. The authorities of the road had
taken the precaution to cut down all the
trees and collect every chunk and brush in
the field above the road, through which the
small streams runs, in order to prevent the
choking up of the culvert and the daming
up of the water during heavy rains. But
the rain that did this damage was so terrific
that no human foresight could prevent it.
The trees and saplings in the woods were
washed up by the roots, and carried down
into the culvert, choked it up and prevent
ed the passage of the water. The water
stood in kind of basin, covering six or
eight acres of ground and to the depth Of
seventy-one feet. The volume of water
was so powerful that the embankment
could not resist its weight and was carried
away with tremendous clash, carrying
destruction to timber and everything else
that came in its way below. The transfer
of passengers and baggage was made in We
hicles around the mountain, distance of
three or four miles," In addition to this
wash,out there were twelve or thirteen
others, and all within a distance of two
miles.