The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-08-04
General News Summary.

Carp in Horny county have grown
from four inches in length to fifteen
Inches in one year
- Mr.. Webb Bull has sold over 1000
watermelons this season from Mr. Hess
Andrews farm in Orangeburg county.
Mrs Sophia Haskell, mother OF
Judge and Col. Has kcll, died at her resi-
dencc in Abbevillc county on Saturday
morning.
The friends OF Senator Edmunds are
using his name "a the successor OF the
late Justice Clifford, and say that his APP
pointment would he received with great
satisfaction by the Republicans all over
tho country.
Liens have been given in Abbcville
county, says the Mc,ii,tD,, this year aggre-
this thing continues there will bo no saw
ing this country Matters seem TO grow
worse every year.
On Wednesday, the 10Th, ~. j. Mob
ley, OF Edgefeld, was taken before Asso-
cate Justice Mctiowan, in cham bers at
Abbcvillc, on writ Of habcns corpus.
charged with murder. He was admitted
to bail in the sum of $1,000.
President Joseph Young, OF the
Mormon church, familiarly known as
Uncle Joseph, and u brother of brigham
Young died Mt Salt Lake OH tho 10Th In
slant. Mt tho age of 81. He held the post
of President from 1880 until the day OF
his death.
Colonel Robert G. Inger,oll says
that Mexico looks las if the devil pur-
chased 1t ut n tax sale and the Almighty
had used 1t as n back yard of his work
shop to throw the shavings and refuse
into nfter He got through with the rest
of the world"
= The survivors OF the late war from
Clarendon county haTc invited all inter
csted to meet with them on the first Mon
for raising sufficient funds to erect n
monument to the memory Of the heroes
who wero slain in battle
- On the 27th instant, near Fisherville
Shelby County, Tam, j. A. Renfroe
shot and killed. j. l.. Wilson. They had
quarrelcd about n dog, and Wilson shot
at Ronfroo with musket, but missed
him, whcrenpon Ronfroe returned his
fire fatally with n revolver.
- The first balo of new cotton was re-.
ccived Mt New Orleans Saturday from
Texas, consigned to Victor Latour. and
| classed good middling. 1t was sold Mt
auction to Charles Hanson for lGi cents
per '>annd. an.' ,sii' '';':..:;: -. :Iy s,icam-
eI 10 tcedwalk & Co., liverpool.
= Tho surgical operation recently per.
formed upon Senator Ben Hills tongue
His recovery by the time Congress re-
| opens IS certain, for Bon Hill on the floor
| OF the Senate will speak though hell itself
| should cape and hid him hold his peace
- Chicago Times.
AT the present time there arc more
negroes In the South than there ever were
before. The census --.ys there arc twice
as many, and th,.t the acreage Of land
owned 10y coloret people is four times as
great as ton years ago. All OF which dis
poses of bull-dozing lies and tales of
murder.
= Ex-senator Conkling has ono poor
official privilege left. He may send and
receive public documents free of postage
until December |. Assistant Attorney
General Freeman has decided that SEN
| ator who has resigned is entitled under
the Act OF March 3, 1879, 80 tho same
privilege az one whose term has ex pired
49, 4 telegram from Richmond, Indi-
ana, says: Some OF tho citizens of Cam.
bridge City who were cnraged Mt Thomas
liibbs. saloon keeper, for having sold