The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-11-24
General News Summary.
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Uencrat news summary.
- :, fourteen pound sweet potato has
been grown this season in Webster coun-
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- Ida Gilbert, q colored girl, was re-
fused admission TO the Philadelphia Mu-
sical Academy. and the colorcd element
in that city are in a icrInent.
= Public opinion Is like tickle wo-
man, and yet the oscillation of the pen
dulnn Of popular appreciation enables
his proper level.
: If we has. a navy. the present Secrc-
tary Of tho Navy couldn't take care OF il.
and il wc had !. good Secretary of the
Navy he would find 40 navy to take care
OF.
= Hon. A. IL. Stephens, it is an
historical work. on which he has been so
long engaged, and at an early day i. Will
be Issued from the press.
- Mr.. Stephens said last Spring that
the war on Malone would make him
great nan and add to his chances of con-
quest Has that prediction como true?
-Auyusta Chronicle.
= 1t will take ! ,0O0, ,000, 900 feet Of luni-
bcr in ties lone TO finish building the
railroads now projected in Texas.
= Mrs. Bclva ~ Lock wood, tho we'll
known i,:nalo lawyer, tra.crscs the
streets Of Washington on trycicle.
= The Suprolne Court OF Tennessee
providing for the assessment OF railroad
property is unconstitutional. This de-
cision will empower every city in the
State 10 assess railroad property as pli-
va,c property, and TO collect back taxes
since 1870 at such an assessment.
= Colonel Parker, of the Postofiice
Department, has received $500 in sub
scriptions for the widow of Ira Hum
rhrcy. the heroic mail carrier who lost
his life IL the discharge of his duty in the
terrible forest fires III Michigan.
Judge Prcssley lectured before the
Chester Baptist Sunday School last sun
day afternoon. His subject was 'Thc
Way to Happiness
An cxtla term of Court for Able
Vile county Will begin OF the first Mon
clearing the criminal docket Judge
Cothran will preside.
Dr.. Sampson Pope has returned to
New berry after an absence OF several
years i'll Texas.
Ncwberry NcicS i: An unsuccessful
attempt was mado 4 few days ago by a
negro named Sloan TO outrage Il Young
lady some miles below Prosperity The
fellow was brought to Ncwbcrry for inn
prisonment and escaped from his cap
tors within sight of the Jail. Something
must be done 10 arrest this appalling and
shocking phase Of crime.
Henry Long. Jr., colored. commit
ted suicide in Kershaw county on the
lIth inst, because his father had lectured
him upon his bad behavior.
= Mr. Motto Marlborough, of Edgefield
county, shot himself accidentally in ths
arm few days ago. Tho wound is only
slight.
pistol in the hands of Mr.. Lowrey
in store about eight miles from Adams
Run, accidentally went Off and killed
Mr.. Glen Smith. He was shot through
brother of Mr.. Smith, the County Audi
tor Of Colleton.
= On the 18th inst, near McLauren's
mills, MarlOoro' county. one negro killed
another with Il knife.
On the 18th inst, in Brownsville.
Marlboro county, p. a. Chisolm. n CON
white. Chisolm had six warrants for the
arrest of Pearce, VINO was q desperate
young man. Pearce endeavored to shoot
Chisolm, when the latter shot him in the
heart, killing him instantly.
= In Canada member of Parliament
receives one thousand dollars and mile
age for his services.
= Five men and grasshopper consii-
tute State whenever the Republicans
fall short Of votes in the United States
Senate.
A ten-year-old kid at Shelbvville.
Indiana, named Frank Ierner, ran ND
behind Louis Marietta, of the same age,
and stabbed him mortally. Il was ali
about game of marbles.
= Track laying on tho Georgia Pacific
Railway was begun i'll Atlanta on the
afternoon Of the 18th inst. Gen. J. B.
Gordon. President of the Road, drove the
first spike.
= Mr.. Griffin Rutherford, an old and
wcll-known citizen of the Mount Willing
with :" razor on Sunday last, from the
effects of which lo died on Tuesday
morning.
= Abe Gibson. aged I3, and Geo. Pat
ton, aged ten. both colored, quarrelled
near Bradley's Mills. Abbeville, on
Tuesday, 18th ult., over a game of marbles.
Abe obtained pistol and shot George
to death. The colored youth Of Able
Vile is progressive.
= President Arthur will take posses.
sion of the White House this month.
For his own private apartments he Sc
lected the room known as "Nellie
of the building. Ho did not caro- to live
in the room used by his predecessors.
fronting on the south and known as the
Presidents room," because of its pain.
fnl associations.
= The Barnwell Sentinel says; "a very
unfortunate difficulty occurred near
Bamberg on Saturday last between Mr..
Brabham, OF Buford's Bridge the par
ticulars of which we have not been able
to learn, further than that Brabham was
shot with n double-barrolled gun loaded
with duck shot, some sixteen of which
his side, inflcting mortal
wound, from the effects of which he died
on Monday last. Mr.. Brabham is the
third son of Major J. j. Brabham, our
highly esteemed Clerk OF Court, who has
the sympathy of the entire community.
troberg came up to Darnwell on Sunday
last, surrendered himself to the Sheriff
and is now in Jail to await his trial,
claiming TO have acted in self-defence.';
= The Springfield Republican notes with
pleasure what it terms the lone pleasant
episode and that is the display Of good
sense and good temper on the part OF tho
Southern press The Rich
mond papers suppressed all accounts of
the Entiianism on the morning aftS- it's
occurrence, and only published the facts.
finally, when It became necessary as n
part of the defence OF the city and it's in
habitants. IN all the comments OF tho
Southern press the bad behavior has been
stated as strictly confined to the few
drunken roughs who were guilty of it,
and neither Massachusetts nor the North
were held in the least responsible for it.