The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-02
General News Summary.

Jefferson Davis will be 73 years of
age on the Sd of June next.
= The oats crop is a failure in Barn
well County, owing to severe drought.
The liens recorded in the clerks
Office at Orangeburg to date number
3,7O4.
In Abbevillc County the farmers
are paying rs cents a day and board for
hoe hands.
Two negro children were burned to
death on plantation in Sumter County
on Friday night.
Hon. ]. G. Sheppard, of Edge6eld,
will deliver the anniversary address at
Erskine College this year.
= The locusts are splitting the limbs
of fruit trees in Oconee County. Some
trees are dying, but whether from this
cause is not known.
"A company has been organized in
Atlanta, of which Gen. A. G. Haskell, of
Columbia, S. c., is president, to build a
railroad from Atlanta to Birmingham,
Ala.
"A colored man in Orangeburg Coun-
ty one day last week attended the preach
ing of his wife's funeral services in the
morning and got married again in the
afternoon.
- The trial justice at Rock Hill, York
County, last week fined a colored man
$25 for being a laborer already under
contract. The case was appealed to the
Circuit Court.
jay Cooke has at last paid all his
creditors in full, and has q comfortable
fortune left. He has just repurchased his
magnificent country.se of "Ogontz,"
near Philadelphia.
- Mr.. Edible Suber, son of Mr.. Wade
w. Suber, of Newberry, was recently
drowned while bathing in Broad River.
His body was not recovered until about
forty eight hours afterwards.
= The youngest son of the late Secre-
tary Stanton has married the daughter of
Mrs. Phillips, the lady who was sent to
Ship Island by Gen. Butler for insulting
Union soldiers in New Orleans.
- During the month of April, 1881,
there were shipped from Chester, l52
bales of cotton. The total shipments
since 1st of September, the beginning
of the cotton year, amounted to 25,524
bales.
- The Winnsboro' News and Herald
says: "Cadet Gaillard has been appoint
ed one of the gunners to show off in the
artillery drill before the board of visi-
tors at West Point. The skill he acquir-
ed as school boy demolishing flies with
pea-shooters enabled him q few days ago
to hit seven foot target Il mile off four
times out of q possible seven.' Early
training will tell.'"
The Hon. j. L. Jones, who has had
charge of the Columbia Female College
for the last FIVE years. and who has
served as president of colleges for thirty
years, has retired from that institution to
"engage in literary pursuits of different
character, affording more extended
field of enterprise" The Rev. o. A. Oar.
by, of the Columbia Conference, has been
chosen to succeed Mr.. Jones in the man.
agement Of the College.
Senator David Davis has written 8
letter to friend in Illinois. in which he
says, among other things, that "new par
ties are not organized in a day, but the
next Presidential election is nearly foul
years distant, and there will be abundant
time for the people to take the matter in
their own hands and to create a great
organization to protect their interests
now held in the grip of great organiza'
tions and monopolists."
= The Spartanburg Herald says
"Cel. J. B. Yates chief engineer of the
North Carolina Midland Railroad, was
here last Saturday, making arrangement:
for surveying the line of the proposed
road from Spartanburg to Shelby, N. @
He has employed Capt. S. S. Kirkland tc
make the survey, who will commence
work on the line as soon as he finishes
the survey of the Greenwood, Laurens
and Augusta Road, which will be within
the next few days"
Mr.. G. B. Hodges, of Florence
some time ago bought patent corn pen
Gil, such as is sold for the purpose of re-
lieving or removing these pests, and made
application as per directions. In short
while the little toe began to swell, anc
the pain was so severe as to necessitate
the calling in of a physician. The stuff
permeated his whole system, and at one
time he was in critical condition from
the poisoning. He now has to 60 on
crutches.
"A special dispatch to the Atlanta
Constitution from Laurens County reads
as follows: "a student from the county
who attended lectures in your city this
spring, brought home with him greer
corpse, which be deposited in an out.
building. His niece took a great fancy
in going to view the body most every
day, and she assisted him in boiling and
cleaning the bones. She was suddenly
taken sick few days ago and died. The
attending physician says her death was
caused by the odor from the dead body.
/. gentleman who saw this skeleton says
it was beautiful young lady,"
- The correspondent of the Paris In.
transigent in St. Petersburg, who profess.
es to be equally we'll informed as to the
movements in the palaces and the plans
of the Nihilists, writes that the Empress
recently discovered between the leaves Of
her prayer.book sheet of paper with q
pen-and-ink drawing on each side
Each sketch represented q gibbet, on one
of which Hessy Hoffman was seen hang.
ing, and on the other her Majesty. Be
meath were written the words, "An eye fol
an eye. Your child will meet the same
fate as mine." The Empress is said to
have tainted on reading this lugubrious