The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-08-18

appeared with n collection Of 81 300
made At I.athrop Monday last
- Or. Bliss has admitted that should |
the Prcsidcn; die it would be through the |
crosses, mi.managcment lie may re-
| gard this admission as pasted in the hat
| Of every patriotic American citizen Tor
| future reference. itJeerr-Ir,".
- The Illcnvillc Jourp,a says lhn, y
little son of an cx-soldicr i'll that village.
| who WAS badly wounded ir The late war,
| bears marks upon his body corresponds
ing in character and location 10 those
| made by the bullet which nearly ended
, his fathers life.
The Ncw England state, do not
make II very fat showing i'll the list Of
State contributions 10 the Federal Treas
ury for internal revenue. The southern
States pat S29,79j, i5i5l into the con:ri-
button box last year. and the New Eng
land States put in S;'.sl2,77i.
Julius Brockman, colored. Of Green
willie, was ran over and Killed by the
North h-bound fast mail train OH the Air
Line Railroad, about five miles from
inst. He had been walking OF. the track
and, sitting down to rest, fell asleep.
Notwithstanding the great anliction
which would naturally be expected To
soften the aspcrities of politics, says The
Boston U,yGij, little change is noted III
tho conduct OF state campaigns. Tho
Virginia controversy has already dcgcH-
Grated L. a low level OF personal abuse,
and now comes the New York 7rJune
declaring that Bookwalter is running for
governor Of Ohio as the enemy of Prcs-
dent Garfield.
= John Mithcll colorcd, convicted in
i-73 of burglary, and serving out u ten
years sentence, escaped from the Allan
tic and French Broad Railroad gang i'll
January last. y few days ago he WAS
detected robbing = house in Chester
County and WAS shot III the leg with
bhlckShot by the proprietor, an old man
of seventy. He escaped. but WAS found
, wounded in the wood, and confessed.
He is again in the Penitentary. the
wound not Icing dangerous.
= Edgciield village has fallen behind Il
little i'll the payment of the tax for the
r EdEctield, Trenton and Aiken Railroad
+ Sixteen miles of grading has been dono
on the railroad, and they have from
I Bauskctts mill to Aiken, distance OF
l six miles. TO grade yet With the
l amount subscribed ut the late barbecue
e the directors have enough TO grade two
= and a half miles further, which will bring
:, the road below CrOf's mill, leaving
r only three and II half miles yc, to pro-
q vide for
;, The Super vising Inspector General
u of Steam Vessels reports that during the
;, fiscal year of lssO-Sl, there were 26S lives
= lost of the passengers and crews upon
: the merchant steam vessels of the United
o States from explosions, fires, collisions,
Snags and shipwrccks, accidental drown
ings and miscellaneous causes. Among
those lost by shipwrecks are included
TIE victims ot the City of Vera Cruz and
n city of Aliio::. ,29 ;;c-S1::s. Compared
o with the previous year. there has been al
Is increase OF S3 III the number Of lives lost
l. Governor IIagood has offered Il re-
:, ward of 5000 for the arrest with proof to
II convict of John Mellow, the murderer n
: Deputy Collector Brayton. Collector
o l}rayton will also offer Il personal rcwarC
= of $500. and the United States Govern
d ment have already offered $500. Thi.
II sum Of 81 900 should suffice to stimulate
detectives in McDow'S apprehension
& He is believed in revenue and Oilicia
d circles to be still lurking in the noun
tains of his section. This is also believed
= IN Oconeo county. The revenue Office
f. has Information that his hrother-n-iaw
visits the trains ut Central daily to asccr-
lo tain if the officers are after him.
{ = The Atlantic FIGURING Mills, corne
III Main and Plumb streets, Cincinnati, VA:
ie struck by lightning on the night of til,
18th inst. An explosion instantly fol
10 lowed. and fire issued from every part
X, In half an hour the mill and the cntir,
y contents were destroyed. a number o
Il, men, at work on different floors, wer
=, =, blown through tho doorways and win
~ dows. receiving serious ami perhaps fata
81 injuries The fire spread to the Futur
N City Oil Works and to q warehouse con
tanning rosin and turpentnc. About =
It. men were employed in the mill. all O
X whom, it is said, are accounted for, bu
IL several are badly burned. Loss on tn
mill, Sl40,o0U; Insurance, $l20,00O. Ih
I'll oil works were damaged to the extent O
DO $4,000. Loss on the rosin warchous
rs not known
80 = New York Frcenans Joprnu w
Iv met last week a lady of Il family residen
.. on Coy crnors Island. She told us tina
or since July ., when General Garfield wa
- shot, General Hancock had refused to q
y, to public dinners, or OH those excursion
20 of n Qucit Kind he is very fond Of w
os could imagine gallant old General Pix
az Graham, Of the Graham OF Virgini;
!. making the point but here we have
~, from General Hancock, ofPennsylvania
81 et 1T is not proper that l accept festive Ell
- tertainmcnts whilo the president. cx -oili
~ clio my COMMUNICATIVE chief. is hoverin
%f of between life and DEATH Who will sa
~ the age of chivalry is passed when a ma
- Jor-yeneral OF the army, defeated by tn
-" lavish use of money in New York, thu
=; holds himself toward the man that i
~ president i'll place OF himself?
of = We printed some time ago an at
ns count of a cotton clipping and cleanin
III machine said to be in process of perfcC
ton in Arkansas. 1t is now stated that
co:ton-picker has been Invented. Mi
IL. Z. Dooley, Of Forest City, Arkansas
claims, after having worked at it fou
years, to have succeeded in inventing tn
desired machine. Mr.. Doolev says tina
a one man and two horses are all the hel
lie needed for his picker; the driver sack
n, and throws tho cotton overheard as tn
u machine goes from turn to turn. Th
to machine can be used as soon az cnouC
CO cotton is open to justify running it, an
aS so on until all the cotton is open. If al
C. the cotton is open tho picker will pic
eight acres of cotton q day, whilst it r
IN be built for $lO0. In the picking all tn
Y. dust, trash and dirt is shaken of.
~ " Christiana Taylor, an old negro wo
. man who was arrested for the murder c
- little boy and girl, aged three and 81
N years respectively, on the farm of Josep
~ Fisher, on the Bunker Hill road, nea
-, Washington City, on Saturday, 9th inst
- made the following confession on the l3t
- inst. lit was not God Almighty but tn
devil that put it i'll my head TO Kill then
did not use the axe nor the washboart
but II piece of wood as big as my arm an
about is inches long. The children wcr
ri running about the yard OF the house.
struck the ono with the long hair frs
but don't know how many times III
ce her. What killed them for l don
know. The devil got into me so that
at could not help doing IT, l picked th
or stick up in the road. l believe it ha
worried me some. l have told the trut
"a to you white people. 1t is the truth fror
* my heart. threw the stick away dow
y. by the woodpile.'