The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-07-10

claimed that taere will be less votes
against Cleveland than there were against
Tilden.
II would be useless to attempt to con-
ccal the fact that the reaction in this
State in favor OF Cleveland and against
Kelly has grown to great proportions
within the last week, aud its influence
has been very marked upon the delegates
to Chicago. They are all expected TO be
at Chicago by Saturday evening, when
the delegation will hold its first meeting;
and unless the present calculations Of
C!evcland's friends shall prove unfour
ed, it is believed here that his nomination
will he assured before the Convention
assemblies. .SpeciN 10 he IhNudciphia
Times.
= Wheat in parts Of Texas is turning
out forty.fivc bushels to the acre.
= Chesterfield County has postollice
named Catarrh. That would he II good
place for the patent medicine man.
Fourteen barbccues are advertised in
Lexington county, South Carolina, for
July and August, and the candidates arc
expected to patronize all of them.
= The breeding stallion Almont died
ct Lexington. KY, Friday. !ia vas the
siEe of several fine trottcrs. His owner
had refused $4,000 for him.
= Colonel Thomas S. Long of Cataw.
ba Station, n. c., committed suicide last
week by blowing off the entire top of
his hend with an old flint and steel pistol.
= 1t will cost the Government $1,000
for messengers to carry to Washington
the votes Of the electors of tho several
States for President and Vice. President.
- The State of Georgia lacked $780,.
600 of having enough money to pay
S250,00 Of interest on her debt due July
lat. Gen. Toombs and other citizens ad.
vanced the money.
= Captain John w. a ndrews, Of Sum
tor. South Carolina, .he mon0genarian
who on may 6 started to walk from his
home to Boston, is said to have shaken
hands with more than ten thousand peo.
pie on his way.
= The Albany Times (a Flower organ)
tells story of Gov. Clevcland's expert.
ence in the Adrondacks last year, while
hunting for deer. He had scouts out to
drum up deer for him, but found when
the deer stalked past him that his gun
was unlondcd.
= Miss Lula Hurst, tho Georgia
wonder" will appear at Wallack's Thea.
tire, New York, for an indefinite season,
beginning on Monday, July 7. The
engagement was made after satisfactory
private exhibition of her powers on
Monday, in the presence Of several
prominent physicians, managers and
officials.
- The following arc the Items for
South Carolina in the river and hurbor
bill as finally agreed upon by both houses
of Congress Charleston harbor $780,
900, Georgetown $4,000, Ashley River
$4,000, Edisto River SIS. 900, Salkehatchie
River $4,000, Waccamaw River $4,000,
Wappoo Cut $4,000, Wateree River S..
600, Santee River $4,000.
= Says the Lincoln IN. C.) Press. 1t
is not often that man in this part of
the world is called upon to mourn the
death and burial of two wives in one
year, yet this is tho sad experience of
Jos. Parker. of this county. On the 18th
Of June, 1883, his first wife died. In
few months he married her sister, and on
Saturday, June 18th, she. too, died.
= ]! il said that in'Winnebag0 lake,
Wisconsin, they fish with lines six miles
long, and use 10000 hooks on line.
Que catch generally realizes 1000 fish.
The 10000 hooks are bnited with pieces
of meat and lowered to the bottom. It
takes twenty boats with two men in each
to look after this big catch. Most of
the fish taken from ihis lake are sturgeon.
Weighing on an average seventy pounds.
= West Point cadets are taught how
to swim, how to rescue a drowning per.
son and the quickest method of restoring
the apparently drowned. In last years.
class all were unable to swim q stroke
when they entered the academy, but be.
fore the summer every one of them could
swim across tho Hudson, three quarters
OF mile, and sonic could swim back
again.
= The New York World of Monday
says: It was stated in labor circles last
evening that every Assembly of the
knights of Labor thus lar held has pass
ed resolution to Boycott" Blaine and
Logan. The moro enthusiastic Of the
members of this powerful order claim
that this means loss Of several hundred
thousands of Republican votes for the
party nominee in the United States and
over fifteen thousand votes in New York
State alone, ,gr
q The British consul in Galveston,
Texas, warns young men from the moth.
ler country against emigrating to that
State. He says: "Young men from
desk in an office, unacquainted with
country life and unaccustomed TO manual
labor, had better stay at home. find
many such are induced to come here, and
the resultlis that they become roafe,s,'
and rapidly descend in the social Hcale."
- In a letter,ito an acquaintance IN
Alahania, Governor Cleveland states he
Ia now occupying q position in his own
State high enough for his ambition ;that
hois "seeking no other Office" and that
he thinkn above all things that the people
should "have their way in the matter of
the Presidency. Governor Oleveland's
friends make the claim. which is certain
ly a creditable one, that he has never
sought Office, but has been nominated
and elected in every instance without his
own solicitation. li5i :. u. @
About year ago the wife Of Mar.
Gus Shell, of .Newberry County. deserted
her husband and eloped with follow
named McGiil. from Lancaster, who left
awifs and children. Mr.. Schell shortly
Afterwards moved to North Carolina,
whera he recently obtained a divorce and
married again. Nothing was heard Of
the runaway pair until Thursday last,
when Mira. Schell returned to Newberry
and went at onca IN the houae of .bnr