The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-26
General News Summary.

81, ,500--no Insurance.
Julius Sarratt, colored, living near
Gafney, fell from the Air Line train last
Wednesday night near Pacolet River and
was killed by the train running over him.
Smallpox has appeared among the
immigrants in Cabarrus county, North
Carolina. Local physicians refusing to
attend, the Richmond & Danville Rail-
road has supplied medical assistance.
Who says corporations are soulless7
- The new bridge over Broad River,
on the Columbia aud Greenville Rail-
road, has been completed; it is an ele-
CANT structure, and cost over 100000.
The change from the old bridge to the
new was made without the stoppage or
delay of single train.
A little negro at Early Branch, in
Hampton county, while playing with bis
fathers pistol last Monday, discharged
the contents into the Uranium of his lit
tie brother. The ball entered above the
right ear and came out over the left eye.
The doctor thinks he will recover.
- Special reports state that in Fulton
County, Kentucky, Constable Ben Corn.
well was recently killed by negro wife.
beater whom he was attempting to arrest,
also that Sidney Reeves in Ballard Coun-
ty had so severely chastised boy that
the lad is likely to die.
- The nomination of VIM. E. Chan
dler as solicitor. general was rejected BY
vote of "a to 19. The Democrats voted
solidly against him and were joined by
Senator Don Cameron. All the other
Republicans voted for him except Sena-
tor Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, who with
held his vote.
"A Charleston correspondent of the
Augusta Evening Ne1es says that a
wealthy New York gentleman has sub
scribed $4,000 for improving Sullivan's
Island, and that other capitalists are tax.
ing steps to build a large hotel there and
generally to make it second Coney Is
land.
= The three desperadoes who killed q
man in New Madrid county, Missouri,
last week, have just added to their fame
by killing a sheriff and his deputy who
attempted to arrest them. Five hundred
infuriated citizens are now hunting the
criminals for whom $4,000 reward is of.
fered.
"A young woman named Garrett shot
off the top of her mothers scalp in Lau.
rens Co., Ca, last week, and attempted
to fire second load at her, during fam
lily disturbance. The girls father
whipped her so severely that she may
die, the old lady also being in precarl-
GUS condition.
- The Abbevile Medium is response
BILE for the following tough story "A ne.
gro boy who lived on Mr.. J. G. Lites'
place, in this county, while going to bis
work riding mule, went into mire.
The mule was taken from the mire with
difficulty, his head only being visible
when discovered. No traces of the boy
have as yet been found"
- The board of trustees of Due West
Female College met on Monday of last
week, and directed Professor Kennedy to
act as chairman of the faculty, and to
take general charge of the College.
DR.. Lindsay will continue his services in
the institution, giving special attention
to the classes heard heretofore by DR..
Bonner.
= The New York Herald, which has
been fighting so desperately for Conk-
ling, now solemnly throws up the sponge
in leading editorial of column and
half. 1t not only considers the pros.
poets of the Republican party hopeless of
further victories, but that the party
will be too weak to act as an efficient op-
position hereafter to the victorious De.
mocracy.
- "It is remarkable step to take,"
said Ex-Governor Horetio Seymour, re-
ferring to the designations of Senators
Conkling and Platt, and he added: "It
will show the people that twenty years of
license has brought the Republican party
down to life and.death fight for the
possession of few miserable Offices"
Senator Conklins married q sister of Mr..
Seymour.
The Charleston Ne,rs and Courier has
received sample of the first yarn spun
at the Rock Hill cotton Factory in York
County. 1t issmooth, soft and very plia-
BILE, and altogether most creditablc
specimen of cotton thread. The capital
stock of the Rock Hill Factory is $780,
900. 1t is run entirely by steam. 1t
shows what energy and brains will ac-
complish.
- a Texas sheriff recently said to q
number of his intimate friends, "Boys,
I have just arrested you for murder and
arson, and | mean to hold you for
some time just to show you that the
laws of Texas are not to be violated but
here is a telegram from the sheriff of an
other County who wishes me to ride fifty
miles to help him bind his eyes while the
neighbors hang pony thief. Good
day."
- The silk industry is reviving in
Louisiana, the report Of this springs
hatching being very encouraging. In
terest in the culture is growing, and in
ducements are offered to silk workers to
come from France and engage in the
business. The first exports from Louisi-
ana were made ms far back as 17l8. The
culture Of silk is also being revived in
South Carolina and Georgia.
- Reports come from Europe of new
assassination plots directed against the
lives of these Emperors of Russia and
Germany. Both these rulers have re-
ceived warnings of his danger, and
though these inLimations may be un-
founded, it is not safe to slight them in
view of the success of the plot against
the late Car of Russia. The saying,
"Uneasy lies the head that wears q
crown" was never truer than now.