The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-01-19
News and Gossip.

News and Gossip.
= The telegraph messengers in Rio
Janeiro used bicycles in carrying mes
sages.
| - General Kimball now proposes 10
take the waters Of the ChattahoOchee 10
Atlanta.
- The end Of man i, au action and
not thought, though i, were Of the
noblest.
- Already wc hear that fresh toma :
toes are being shipped from Florida TO
New York.
i spoke, handle and shuttle factory
is ut work in Winston, y. G. Pcrsimmon
wood is used. and the material is abun.
dant in the vicinity.
1t is alleged the person who offered
81 600 for Guiteau's dead body, is an
agent of Barnmm's. II .is intended 10
exhibit the embalmed cadaYer.
= Cameron, the new Goyerner Of Vir.
GINA, il married man, and, or The
first time in twelve years, L lady will
preside at the Executive Mansion.
= Very few public servants have been
| able, in the short space of ten months,
10 accomplish reforms Of such permanent
! value as thosc which Postmaster General
James leaves behind him.
The Illinois State Boa-l If Health
is KEEP, bn2y wrestling wth the smallpox
epidemic. Cases have been reported with
in six weeks from six'y.one points in the
State, about forty Of which are Ktill in
fected.
There is said to be grca, unrest in
Sumter among the negroes there, and
that ut least five hundred families are
preparing to leave the county in the
carly Spring. The farming interests are
| alleged TO be greatly imperillcd.
After n wedding party had assem-
bled ir church at Bloomington. H.,
the father Of the girl offered her 300 il
she would back out. She took the
money, remained ut home, and sent word
| TO the minister 10 dismiss the assembly.
= James Anderson has been arrested
at Marion charged with having murdered
Chas. Floyd, who resided near Bucks
| Swamp. lloyd was found in an insen.
| sible condition, alone, out in the cold
and with two small bruises on his head
1t was thought at first he had died from
the effects of undue exposure.
Savannah Ac'rs: a great many Geor-
| gians cmigrate to Texas under the impres.
sion that it is Il land Of milk and honey
where cotton will grow ten feet high
without any fertiizing. To show how
rose co!Drcd and unsubstantial these ileas
are we have been shown letter from q
Il xas emigrant. speaking OF the great need
in that State of fertilizers and nppyliug
for the position Of II we'll known fertilizc
house. lie says he could easily sell all
that lc could get his hand or.
| We are informed that Senator
Brown and Representative Stephens, OF
Georgia, had within short time m
interview with President Arthur. The ob
jcct of which, it seems. WAS IN &c: the
patronage Of the government to control
the politics of that State They prom
iscd to make il 'libcrally democratic" il
they could have the distribution of the
Offices, but il secms the president replied
to the suggestion that this is republican
administration. p Baltimore Gazette.
= In the Franco German war the Ger
mans lost over 10000 men by disease OF
the casualties of battle. 1t is to bt
remembered that every one OF these wa.
q picked man. in the full vigor Of life
when he ought to have been adding tt
the wealth Of the country and raising III
q family to strengthen the State. Be
sides the Official cost of the war, the vol
uutary contributions amounted to SlG
100000 in mncoy or kind. This was th,
price OF successful war. waged by thu
most economical of nations.
= Scovillc has received bona I'D
proposition from medical gcutlcmar
for the body Of Charles j. Guiteau. Th
gentleman, whose name Scoville declines
TO make public mt present, has offered t,
pay down Immediately $1,000, tn.
amount Of the purchase money, on con
dition that he shall have the body of th,
prisoner, as sooa as Tie actions Of ia,
law hnye been met, to dispose of rs b,
shal! see fit. lie also agrees to take hi
chances of waiting one month or twent,
years Tor the contamination Of the bar
gain. This somewhat liberal proposition
was submitted to Guitenu last Frida,
and seemed to impress him quite favora
bly,. After rejecting for moment, h.
suggested: II think l ought to brny
more than that. Perhaps some othe
fellow will offer $4,000, then can pa,
my debts, and if have to yet nev
trial that miserable Corkhill can't brn.
on lot Of fellows just to swear hoS;
much | owe them"
- The Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond
Va, who has become celebrity from hi
sermon declaring that 'Thc Sun d
move" receives salary of only $3.50, an,
refuses to receive more, though hi
congregation have long been anxious t
increase it. HIS great trouble is con
cerning his first wife, from whom H.
was divorced. He says "She went an,
married another man and had twins b,
him, and ever since she has been tryinl
to shorten nv days in order to get posses
sion of my property, by influencing m,
children. She's threatened my life ihrc
times, aud she done tried to kill me one
by putting poison in my cup. drunk it
but the doctors saved me. She is still
after me. I'm not afraid Of her, though
in the streets OF anywhere olse, and In
going to do my way and speak the truti
if I'm killed for it tho very next minute
Pm sot in it." He is SO years old, an,
has been preacher forty-o one years, hav
ing adopted the profession when he wa
q slave.
Nocturnal Ramble aud What Becam
of Ii.
Some gcnius-wc suspect him to be