The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-07-26

A boy has Just died at Hamilton,
y. u, from bite from an enraged cat
received six weeks ago.
= Bishop Wilson VIII preside at the
annual Conference If The ". f.. Church
to be held in Sumter ia December next.
- Last fall Capt, W. W. Riser of
Newberry County, sowed eight bushels
of wheat which yielded this year 2S5
bushels, an avcrag" of more than %
bushels tn one.
HAvASA, July %. Gen. H. Q. G..
Ord, L. :. a., retired, one of the
passengers from Vera Cruz To New
York on the steamer city n Washington
died here in the hospital las. evening.
= Mrs. Polly Hawthorn. who died in
Due West, Abbeville County, on the
10Th, was the mother Of fifteen children.
Added to these she has eighty grand
children and forty great grandchildren.
: The first bale Of cotton, grown by
&. II. Arnccke, near Gonzalez, Texas,
was sold at auction in San Antonio, on
Wednesday last, at the Merchants FIX
change, and was bid in at % cents per
pound.
= a small child of Mr.. G. II. Carpen-
ter'ss who lives III the Georges Greek
section of Picken's County, fell into a
tub of hot water last week and was SO
badly scalded that it died on the follow
ing day.
= Deputy United States Collector +.
r. Blodgctt, and party, captured DESTROY
slroyed this week, not far from the Burnt
lanyard, in Oconee County, an Illicit
distiilery, containing two stills, in which
there were several hundred gallons of
beer and low wine, but no whiskey.
: Second Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Elmer has reported to the Postm as
ter General an amount in excess Of
81 ,OO0,0OO which it is proposed to recov-
er by suits against various combinations
OF star route contractors. Part of the
evidence upon which this action is based
has been obtained during the last six
months.
= The Methodists in France are
growing very rapidly. They have 1874
chapels and other preaching stations, 20
ministers, II evangelists and teachers,
100 local preachers, III class.leaders
and about 1000 members. The Sunday
schools are correspondingly fourishing.
This will serve as wholesome check 10
the tide of infdelity and skepticism
which has been sweeping over that
country for 80 many years past.
- d. II. Bradley and family who
went to Texas in 1876, to try their for
tunes, have returned to Greenville. He
says that Texas is good place, but that
it is not equal to little South Carolina
and he therefore decided to return TO bis
first love. He says that he tried farming
for timo, but found that selling corn at
twenty cents per bushel and cotton at
eight cents per pound did not pay.
SpARTANDURG,S S. c., July 2l.-Tbis
afternoon two men, J. Is. King and -
Dentson, claiming to be North Cnroli.
mans, presented to the National Bank n
check for S75 on which was signed the
name of one Of our leading merchants
Mr. w. G. Cannon. The bank officials
readily recognized the forgery, and the
men were promptly arrested, and are in
jail.-Corresponclence GreenriHe 1Ncws.
= The returns Of the County assess-
ments iu Georgia, now going III to the
Comptroller, show universal and gratify-
ing gains in values. The assessment last
year aggregated $26s,5l9, ,976, an increase
of $4,000, 900 over previous years. and
returns so far received indicate that the
increase this year over last will perbans
run up to $20,0OO,OO0. The State is
paying herself out of debt aud gradually
reducing her rate Of taxation,
= More than twelve months AGO
perpetual" clock was started at Brus.
sells. An up.draught is obtained in a
tube or shaft by exposing it to the sun
this draught turns a fan, which winds
up the weight of tho clock until it
reaches the top, when it actuates a
brake that stops the fan, but leaves it
free to start again when the weight has
gone down n little. This oloek was
keeping good time In June, after run,
ming continuously for nine months.
= Mr.. John W. shipp, of Nashville
Tenn, son of the Rev. DR.. Sh,pp. ri
Vanderbilt University, On Mondav
evening last, at St. Augustine, put up At
the Edwards Horse and was dufS IA.
signed room. Happening to raise one
of the pillows of the bed he found a
pocketbnok containing $al, 900 In hills