The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-05-04
DE. Gillstrap, revenue prisoner
confined in the Pickens Jail, escaped last

- d. +. Gllstrap, a revenue prisoner
confined in the Pickens Jail, escaped last
week.
Within twelve years Squire Beas.
ley, of Aberdeen, Kentucky, has married
$500 couples.
= Williston expects 10 ship 10000
crates of peaches to New York via
Charleston this summer.
= The pinkey, is raging in Chester.
field County, Sc, .ral fine horses having
recently died Of the disease.
r.. n. Wallace has beer appointed
Chief Supervisor of Elections for this
State vice Samnel 7. Poinier, resigned.
= In Edgeheld there are already an
nouuced for clerk Of court five candi-
dates, and for school commissioner two
candidates.
= The saw and grist mill of Dir. J. w.
Cook, in Aiken County, we're destroyed
by fire ON the goth inst. Loss $500. No
insurance.
- Mr.. Robinson, Of Summer Hill,
three miles from Aiken, will make be.
tween seven and eight hundred dollars
from his asparagus patch this year.
= Rose McGill, colored, gave birth 10
three girl children last week in the up.
per part of Marion County. They are
of good size and doing we'll.
= Another mineral spring, the water
Of which is said to De good for skin dis.
eases, has been discovered in the Town
Of Spartanburg. It was accidently dis
covered by some laborers while working
on Main Street.
= The Funderbunk gold mine, in
Lancaster County, about three miles
from Taxahaw, was sold last week by its
owner, Mr.. Uriah Funderburk, to Messrs.
Willis & Co., of Boston, Mass, for ten
thousand dollars.
= There have been 1852 liens filed
in the clerks Office at Newberry to date.
balance for supplies. Estimating the
average lien at $50, it appears that more
than 100000 have already been pledged
out of the next crop for provisions.
A new telegraph wire is being put
up between Newberry and Columbia by
the Columbia and Greenville Railroad
Company. The company finds that one
wire is not sufficient for the work re.
quired. This wire will connect with the
one from Laurens, thus making q
through line from Laurens to Columbia
= 1t is said that when Melton once
defended Buttz on memorable occasion,
on being asked what the fee was. he very
slowly turned and replied, $50 for legal
services and $3.50 for the odium." We
wonder how much he is paid for the
odium now Orangeburg Times and
! Democrat.
= There WAS considerable excitement
on Monday at the New York Cotton Ex.
change over private dispatches which it
wss alleged bad been received from Man
chester announcing the formation of a
powerful syndicate for creating a corner
in cotton.
- On the night of the 10Th inst, Mr..
Henry Holland, living near Marshall's
Church, twelve miles east of Camden,
had his cotton house, 13 sacks of guano,
200 bushels of cotton seed, his wagon,
buggy, harness, ploughs, seed corn, &C.,
destroyed by fre-the work of an incen.
diary.
= The railroad from Wolf Creek to
Paint Rock, Tenn, branch of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail.
road, was completed on the 28th ult.,
connecting the Western North Carolina
Railroad with the Tennessee system, and
giving another line from the seaboard
through the Blue Ridge Mountains to
the West.
= The Atlanta Post Appeal, new party
organ, speaking of prospective indie
pendent mass meeting, says "Tha
friends of Hon. Alexander n. Stephens
are coming, and the Post-Appeal is en-
abled to state positively that Hon. Alex.
II. Stephens will run as candidate for
Governor if the people assembled in
mass meeting at Atlanta on thr first DAY
of next June shall so decide"
= The B.rnwei! Ptn"ic >,y<: From
all quarters "t the g my ~ get the
most encouraging crop reports. Wheat
IS rusting, but some exnrrirnred planters
think that partial crops will still be
made. The prospect for an immense
yield Of oats WAS never before so fair
Stands of corn are good and il i. grow
ing beautifully. Snme complain that
the stand OF cotton is being injured by
the dying out of plants soon after com.
ing up"
= Gov. Colquit!, who is in New York,
has been interviewed with regard to the
situation in Georgia. He says the indie.
pendent Democratic movement in that
State, as led by ex-Congressmen FELTON,,
is Of no political Importance. He thinks
Mr.. Tilden would be strong candidate
for the Presidency, and that he would be
acceptable to the South. Ho SAYS the
colored men of Georgia are entirely con
tented that they are carefully projected,
honestly dealt with, are prosperous, and
there is no talk on their part Of emigra-
tion.