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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-09
ANDERSON FEMALE SEMINARY,

Commencement EIerciaes ut tNe CIoeo OF
the Second Se1sion-A Cinrac erlstic Ad-
dress by Col. Aiken-llarltcd sScSecs OF
Gen. Ayer's Efforts to EstablJIA, o first
Glass Fenn1e School In Anderson.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-09

I. Eessrs. Lamar, Rankin & Lamar: Gen.
tlemen-My .wifo had been troubled for
several months with Bronchitis, and du.
riEg that time tried nearly every thing i'm
eginable, without the elightest benefit. A
friend of her8 to whom / mentioned It
told mo 10. set o, bcttie of Brewer's Lung
Restorer, which did, aud lesB than one
bottle cured her entirely. I will recom-
mend 1t to all who ure similarly affected.
You're very truly, N. O. MuaEoE.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-09

President Columbus Female Ccilcge.
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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-09

The Greenyllle Nssps Of last Saturday
says that DR.. ], H. Maxwell, of that city,
formerly Of PendIeton, is the pcssessor OF.
a fine rife that bears the inscription 81. n,
Colhoun. Pendleton. So. Ca. t785i ~ It xFaa
pufciv ned by him at tho sale OF The estate
Of one of the CalhounB In Abbevilla county
some years ago. and Is known 10 have been
the property Of members of the Calhoun
family for many yeara--exactly how long IS
not known. Ewing Calhoun, the last
owner Of the rifle, was q cousin to John @.
Calhoun. It Is believed by some that the
names nCoIhounn and tCaIhnun'i Haro
originally tho same--ons branch or the
family calling themselves by the former
and the other by the latter. The rifle Is q
Tong old-fashioned, spring-hi Her, large bore
deer gun. finely made, heavily Dountcd
with Solld silver. and in good condition. It
was restocked FROM native black walnut.
that grow on John @. Calhounis plantation
in Old Pondleton. It u valuable relic.
that has passed through The diys OF vol-
Sumes OF fhissoFy.
The examiner., 1881-11-26
From Washington

UPON the adjournment of the court on the
 sixth day of Guiteau's trial the jail van started
 as usual for the jail, having one policeman,
 Officer Edelin, as guard, who sat on the seat
 with the driver. Before reaching the capitol
 the guard noticed young man on horseback
 riding leisurely behind the van. Near the cor
 ner of East Capitol and First streets the horse
 man rode directly up to the rear of the van and
 peered through the small grating. Guiteau
 was alone in the van, sitting on the right-hand side. After evidently satisfying himself of the
 exact location of the prisoner the horseman wheeled suddenly to the left of the van and fired directly through it. He then spurred his horse and rode rapidly away. Officer Edelin fired one shot at the fast-disap- bearing horseman. and the driver of the van whipped his horses into a gallop and kept in sight of him for several bio cks. The would-be avenger was however, mounted upon blooded horse and readily escaped out into the country. The van was then driven on to the jail, and Guiteau was taken out in state of great ex- citement He exclaimed: "I have been shot. Notify Major Brock at once Tell him to ar rest the scoundrel and have him dealt with as he deserves" On examination it was found that the ball had just grazed Guiteau's left wrist, inficting mere scratch. The ball struck the opposite side of the van and fell upon the floor, where it was found on reaching the jail. The man who was supposed to have fred the shot-one Bill Jones, dissipated farmer living on the outskirts of Washington-was ar rested in the evening in an intoxicated con- dition and locked up He denied having shot 1 at Guiteau, and Officer Edelin said positively l that he was not the man. This was the third 1 attempt on Guiteau's life since his arrest.
The examiner., 1881-11-26

EDGAR M. MARBLE, commissioner of patents, has resigned.
 THE Washington grand jury brought in seven indictments against Captain Howgate for forgery and embezzlement of government funds.
 WILLIAM JONES, charged with an attempt to kill Guiteau, was arranged in the Washington police court and committed to await the action of the grand jury.
 Ex-DEPUTY AUDITOR IILLEY, who was charged with receiving money from star-route contractors, has been released, the prosecution failing to substantiate the charge.
 THE National Grange, which has been in session in Washington, will make an effort to lift the department of agriculture into the position of an executive department of the government, the head of the department to be member of the cabinet. MT. Benjamin Le Fevre, member of Congress from Ohio, will introduce bill to this effect.
The examiner., 1881-11-26
FORTUNES CHANGES.

"There is no position in life, my daughter, so bad that there is nothing in it to be thankful for"
 "Pray, tell me, what we have to be thankful for ?'' cried l, impatiently. "We were brought up to expect for tune, and are entirely unftted fer the struggle before us, now that we are left without cent"
 "I have my lovely daughter and my little ones," replied my mother; "and if my daughter would but pray for a better franc of mind she would find that she has many things to count among the blessings of life."
 When mamma was young she was 8 dainty little beauty, the family she mar ried into had held 8 prominent social position f, F years, and were ambitious of continuing to hold it. But it seemed to be slipping from them, for my fathers only sister was soured old maid his oldest brother had married much be- meath him and my father was the only one of the family who continued a friendly intercourse with him. The second brother had erred in the oppo. site direction, marrying a marquise, the widow of a French noble of ancient family she scorned the society of the parvenuss of our new world and held herself aloof to absolute exclusion. Her husbands immense wealth,
The examiner., 1881-11-26
Foreign News.

TIE custom house at Valparaiso, Chili, has been destroyed by fire, the loss being s1 ,O0O,- 900.
 AN earthquake shake has been felt in Switz- erland and neighboring countries.
 FOUR Arabs, implicated in the recent mas- sacre of the twelve employees at the Oued- zergha Tunis) railway station, have been exe- cuted by the French.
 A NUMBER of arrests under the coercion act were made the other day in Limerick, Ireland.
 PRINCE LEOPOLD, seventh child of Queen Victoria, is engaged to be married to Princess Helena, of Waldeck.
 A GREAT disorder prevailed the other day in the Italian chamber of deputies when man in the strangers gallery suddenly hurled revolver at Premier Depretis. The premier was not hit and the thrower-one Maccaluso, 8 turbulent Sicilian- was arrested.
 SIXTEEN houses have been burned at Ayr Scotland, and thirty families have in conse quence been rendered homeless.
 TURKISH officers and soldiers have mas sacred Christian family at Luca and carried off sixteen men, women and children. Anarchy is reported throughout Macedonia.
 FIVE English gentlemen stopping at a hotel at Natashquam, Canada, were rowing on the lake there when the boat upset and four of the party were drowned.
 THE iron ship Culzean, while being lowed to the Clyde from Dundee, Scotland, was wrecked and seventeen persons were drowned.
 A PANAMA paper gives details of the sinking of steamer plying between Carthagena and the Sinu river, and the loss of all but eight of the forty passengers on board.
 A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch announces the death of General Nepokoitschitzki, who was chief of staff during part of the last war be- tween Russia and Turkey.
The examiner., 1881-11-26
A ThauksgiVing.

A little brown bird and sunbeam
 On leatless thorn at day; This foot, that foot, under his wing,
 From dawn to evening gray It lifted its happy, grateful song
 Tirra-la! tirra-lal tirra-la! And I thought in the one slant sunbeam That an angel waiting staid. The church bells broke into merry peals, And the little children played; And prayer and choral and grateful lay Filled all the air on Thanksgiving day. ooh Ancient Giver of untold years" Cried many happy voice, "For the corn and wine, for love and lie, Thou hast made us to rejoice" And the organ peal, and song and prayer, Thrilled with their music the clear cool air. Still in the sunbeam the angel stald,
 Though the streets grew empty and stlil' Festival lights were in loving homes,
 Feasting and peace, and goodwill, Why did the angel finger, pray2 Was it to hear tho little ones play? The little brown bird on the leafess thorn Sat still in the beam to sing, Till the amber west had turned to gray; Then he tucked his head under his wing, With soft, low, lingering "Iir-ra-laP' And the beautiful angel went away.
 -Mary 4. Barr.
The examiner., 1881-11-26
A Spoiled Actors Extrayagance.

When the dresses were being sele cted for the Merchant of Venice all the actors were assembled in the green room and the materials were spread out before them. All the costumes were decided upon save ons for a minor character, and Irving was very desirous of having certain color or combina- tion of colors for the said costume. At last he seized from the mass piece of stuff about three yards square, exclaim- ing, "This is just the thing" and di- rected the man in charge of the goods to make the dress from that material.
 ssDo you know, sir, that the value of that piece is one hundred guineasY
 'sI did not ask the price," replied Irving.
 "Do you know, sir, that twill take three such pieces to make the costume you describe P
 "Make it, then," was the answer; and throughout the run of the Merchant of Venice minor actor in a very small part q forget which one) appeared in dress that cost three hundred guineas, or over fifteen hundred dolIars.-Lon- f7o7 Tpftey
The examiner., 1881-11-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
eastern and Middle states.

eastern and Middle States.
 THE official count in Pennsylvania gives the following vote for State treasurer: Bally, Re publican, 265, ,293; Noble, Democrat 25s,5sH Wolfe, Independent Republican, 49,969; Jack son, Greenback, 14,s46; Wilson, prohibition, 4,512.
 THE value of personal estate in Massaehu- setts is s498 274 149 total value of real estate, s1, 149 965, 827 total valuation, ,64S, 239 976 Total number of dwelling houses in the State, 280, ,563. Total number of acres of land as- sessed, 1, 487. .769.
 THE Pacific National bank of Boston, Mass, was compelled to suspend payments in conse- quence of the failure of Theodore 0. Weeks, stock broker, who had been allowed to overdraw his account. At a meeting of the creditors of the bank it was found that the Pacific National had out about $500, ,000 of overdue paper, all of which amount was held by single concern. Most of this paper consisted of Weeks notes and when interrogated the Pacific bank people admitted that they had no money with which to meet them.
 JOHN REILLY, aged 100 years, died the other day in New York from the effect of burns re- ceived by his clothing catching fire from 8 pipe which he was smoking.
 THE Vermont supreme court has sentenced Emeline L. Meeker, the convicted child mur- derer of Waterbury, Vt., to be confined in the State prison till the last Friday of March, 1883 the last three months solitary and then to be hanged. This is the-Ssst time woman has been sentenced to be haas.s in Yernaont.--
 Ex-L1EUTENANT-G GOVERNOR Abraham Brod- kins Gardner, of Verneat, died the other night at his home in Bennington Center, aged sixty two years.
 WHILE number of-iaen were engaged in blasting rock on new race-course being laid out near Greenwich, Cean., a premature ex- plosion took place, by which fivo of the laborers were instantly killed and three others were seriously if not fatally injured.
 A FALSE alarm of fire in crowded theater in New York caused a panic, during which the audience, mainly composed of young men and boys, struggled desperately to get out, and nine or ten persons were injured.
The examiner., 1881-11-26
South and ~aef

A FIRE near Columbus, Ohio, destroyed the insane asylum, causing loss of about $250,>~ 900. The 764 inmates were all removed in safety.
 LEVI SPARKS, & colored man, was hanged at Lumpkin, Ga., for chlorofarming and assault ing a sixteen-year-ola~ ola~~hite girl, and at Ham burg, Ark, Boge Jackson (colored) was hanged for the murder of Reuben Jordan, also colored.
 LAST July Charles and Milton Coleman, brothers and deputy sherifs of Dunn county, Wis, attempted to arrest Edward and Ton Maxwell, alias Williams, for horse stealing. The Maxwell brothers resisted and shot both the Colemans dead. Then the outlaws fled to one of the most impenetrable forests of North western Wisconsin. Large bodies of citizens, 8 company of militia, Indian scouts and blood hounds hunted for weeks for the desperadoes, but without success. and it was finally believed they had escaped to another State. Recently the brothers were discovered in Nebraska, and Edward Maxwell was captured and taken back to Durand, Wis. On the morning of the day when his examination in court was to occur he was taken away from the oficers-of the law by the citizens, hundreds of whom had come into town from the surrounding country, and hanged in the court yard.
 DICK LITTLE, one of the prominent members of the notorious flames Al 4s gang of train robbers
 A. B. THORNTON, editor of the Boonville (Mo.) Neeos, was shot and instantly Xii led by Thomas A. McDerman, city marshal of that place. The paper had contained an article severely refecting on McDerman's official acts; and the two men, meeting in the street, came to blows and then drew pistols, with the result stated.
 SMALLPOX is prevailing to 8 somewhat alarm ing extent over territory reaching from Du- buque Iowa, to Bism srck, Dakota. There are at least 100 cases in Stearns county, Minnesota.
 A SERIES of fights between two rival factions of rufians at Fishers Station, Ind, resulted in the death of two men and the wounding of thirty-two.
 A SPRINGFIELD 1ll. dispatch says, that great damage has been done by the overflow of the sagamon river. The loss to the corn crop alone is estimated at s250,O00.
 HENRY BRoKEREAD and Joe Blose were in- stantly killed near Pique, Ohio, and A B Hunt was seriously injured by locomotive running down hand car.
 SIX train hands were killed by a collision between two trains near Savannah, Ga.
 
 white man at Fort Colville, Washington Terri tory, has been executed.
 WHILE some twenty-five young people of both sexes were skating on pond near Colum- bia, Mo-, the ice suddenly broke and two boys and a girl were drowned
 BRADFORD Qnd.) dispatch says, that nearly every day emigrants who 8 few years ago left their homes in Ohio and Pennsylvania to settle in Kansas, pass through that city with their teams and a few household goods on their way back to their old homes LOUIS RAAB, farmer living three miles south of Perrysburg, Ohio, shot his wife and then shot himself, both dying soon afterward. Raab was the father of nine children, the eldest of whom is ten years old and the youngest six months. A domestic difficulty is l supposed to have been the cause of Raab's act. l
The examiner., 1881-11-26
A Cow on the Track.

It happened on 8 railroad train which was going-wen, it wasn't ex- actly a lightning express. The engi, neer whistled "down brakes"
 "What's the trouble, conductor?' ex- citedly asked passenger.
 "Cow on the track" coolly responded the conductor. The man was satisfied,
 Shortly afterward "down brakes was again whistled.
 "What's the trouble now?" cried the same passenger.
 "Cow on the track" was the reply.
 ''Great heavens I'' cried the man. "haven't we caught up with that COW yet?
The examiner., 1881-11-26

scoville tried to quiet the prisoner, but ms ms commanded the prisoner to be silent, and pro, ceeded to say something, Guiteau continued his angry declamation, interrupting the ludgee'
 ar-d asserting that he did not care for the rus- ings, and that if he was excluded from ene seized by the officers he shook them of,
 snarled at them in a furry of passion,
 called them scoundrels, and bade them mind their own business. He made re- marks at times during the remainder of the session, but with the exception narrated be seemed peaceably and indeed humorously in-
 clined. He passed much of his time reading the papers and writing. Occasionally he looked
The examiner., 1881-11-26

fense was then begun by H. N. Burton, Con-
 gregational clergyman of Illinois, formerly
 resident of Kalamazoo, Mich. He testified
 that he there attended the lecture delivered
 by Guiteau on the ''Second Coming of Christ. "
 He thought that the general position of the
 lecturer was peculiar. Witness could not say
 that he then thought that Guiteau was
 so far insane as not to be 8 responsible person. The next two witnesses were Hiram
 H. Davis, of Erie, Pa, and Thompson Wilcox son, eighty-one years old, of Stephensom county, III. The first named testified that he
 had known Guiteau's aunt and her daughter, and that the latter was foolish. Mr. Wilcoxson testified to having known Guiteau's father in- timately and that he was peculiar Dr. John A. Rice, & practicing physician at Merton,
 Wis, was the next witness, and he testified that he had pronounced Guiteau insane sn 1876, and advised his seclusion in an asylum According to this doctors diagnosis made at that time from his personal observations, joined to bis knowledge of the family's history the prisoner was the victim of morbid exalta- ton of emotions, incoherence of thought and abnormal egotism, pseudo-religious belief, weakening of the judgment and an impair ing of the mental faculties. He regarded him at that time as insane, and thought that he had then described him as dangerous. Frank L. Union, of Boston, next testified that Guiteau had come to him to hire hall in 1879, and that from the prisoners actions at that time he thought him queer. Witness had re- fuse,i to let Guiteau have the hall. Mary L.
 
 teau had boarded at her house in Washing ton for month beginning March 12, 1881, and that he left because he could not pay his board. She saw nothing peculiar in Guiteau's manner except his abruptneest George W. O.ds, of Traverse county, Michf- gan, next testified that he was employed in the summer of 1876 on Mir S;oville's summer place at Beaver Lak4, Wis On one occasion Mrs. Scovile called witness to the house and said, in the presence of the prisoner, that he was crazy, and had attempted tn kill her, and told witness to pat him of the place. Witness took Gaiteau into back kitchen and talked with him. He seemed very much ex- cited about Mrs. Scoville's saying that he was crazy, and he said that she was the crazy one, not he. and that if she were taken away and put in all insane asylum everything would go along nicely on the place. Witness also related how Guiteau, when he was set to work to weed turnips and strawberries, pulled up more tur- nips and strawberries than he did weeds; and how, when he was sent out with pan of soft soap to soap some young apple trees, he set to work soaplng grove Of hickory trees, and per- sisted in saying that they were fruit trees.
The examiner., 1881-11-26

impulsively: "Pray, what is the mat ter; can I help you?"
 ooh, Emile" cried mamma, laughing with merry, almost youthful laugh, ssvou are impulsive and generous as ever, but you can hardly help here. Rita has given the maid holiday, and is now in a quandary about preparing a turkey for dinner"
 "Of course I can help" cried our guest. ''Miss Rita, your mamma and I are very old friends, and as you are your mammals very self, you and I are old friends. And as I never allow a friend to be in trouble without lending him helping hand, I intend with your permission to help you cook the turkey" The thought of taking him into the kitchen was too much for me, and fairly cried:
 ooh, indeed, I am not so stupid. I can get along, indeed can." Mamma had no opportunity to say anthing. MT. Cardolet and I had it all to ourselves; poor little dear, she could only laugh at my evident confusion, and his eager offers, as she had not laughed for many long years.
 "Now let me help," continued be-, "and if have not lost the skill of old camping days, when not only cooked the turkeys, but caught them, and 1 sometimes, I fear, none too lawfully, I l will make you dinner that gourmet ] might be thankful for.''
 Just then the children came in from ! church. Nellie, the youngest. an enfant terrible, delighted with the merry stranger, in our gloomy house, entered at once into any plan that would detain him, and, bringing one of my cooking aprons, gave it to him and offered to l show him the way to the kitchen. "See, I am unanimously elected, Miss Rita; you will have to let me join your staff"
 Mamma, to my astonishment, offered ] no objection, but said: "Go on, Rita, ] dear, and meantime will read the let ters Emile has brought me from his family"
 And so from our first meeting he has been shouldering my burdens, and mak- ing life, which looked so gloomy, con- stant joy-I had almost said jest That Thanksgiving dinner was success. The children said 80, and Emile and ] have since said so. It was not long after it that Emile Cardolet told me that he had big love for me. "You may know how great it is, my darling, he said, "when I tell you it has been growing more years than you have beer growing. It was planted by your like ness when you were yet an angel il heaven. Ihave crowded it down, buried it, smothered it and believed l hac dwarfed it; but when met you on the
 step Thanksgiving morning it sprane
 into full life, and overwhelmed me witl
 it's magnitude"
 Dear reader, need I tell you that i
 also overwhelmed mo with it's magni
 tude, or that Thanksgiving Day was fol