The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-03-06
General News Summary.

IuClC niC 0IShIJ hhlC'iS"i oeu"S"s'
at the University of Berlin this winter.
= The people of Abbeville are sub
scribing literally for the relief Of the
cyclone sufferers at Bradley.
= The residence of the Rev. S. Drum
mond, at WoodruiEa, Spartanburg County,
was burned on the 25th. Loss, $4,000
no insurance.
= Charleston had hard freeze on
Friday and the Strawberries and green
peas on the truck farms are put back and
seriously damaged.
- The Republicans Of Beaufort Coun
ty express great satisfaction with the
administration of Governor Thompson
and are heartily in favor OF his re'elec'
ton.
- The Associate Reformed Presbyte.
rian Churches of Newbcrry County have
subscribed Sg92 to the endowment fund
of the Theological Seminary at Due
West.
- The Lancaster Lcdycr states that
the cyclone unroofeti and blew down in
that county one hundred houses, causing
| damages to the amount Of $50 900. Only
one person was killed.
- 1t is the verdict of an English jour
nal of mechanics that The American
locomotive Of to day is one Of the most
perfect pieces of mechanism wrought
out by the hand and mind of maa."
- The cotton factory which was estab.
lished in the Cotton Exposition building
in Atlanta is now running 10000 spindles,
employs a capital of s35O,OO0, and is
making clean 10 per cent for its first
year of actual work.
= 1t is reported that Gen. Butler will
be delegate to the National Democratic
Convention. The last time he appeared
in National Convention of the Demcc
racy was at Charleston in 1860, twenty
four years ago.
"A wedding party of IS men, women
and children was crossing the River
Thesis, in Hungary, about three weeks
ago, when the ice suddenly broke under
them and the entire company, with one
exception, was drowned.
Abraham Lincoln's tomb atSpring:
field, ILL.,, is going to ruin. Two of the
supporting arches have collapsed, one
corner of the monument has settled sew
eral inches, and it is estimated that the
restoration will cost 81, ,000.
= While Jim Sherod, colored, and his
wife were absent from their home, in
Abbeville County, on Tuesday Of last
week, their house caught fire and was
burned to the ground. Two small chill
dren in the house were burned to death.
- About ten days ago, Albert Sligh,
of Newberry, took fit of hiccoughing,
caused by violent exercise. Since then
he has had but brief intervals of rest.
Physicians have been in constant attend
ance, but up TO Thursday morning they
had been unable 10 check the fit.
- A very persuasive rascal induced a
number of ignorant Illinois women to
cut off their hair and entrust it to him to
be made up in fashionable forms. They
expected to thus achieve permanent
and beautiful style of coiffure, but they
never saw the man or the material again.
The Union Times says that in the
Fish Dam section of that County the
suffering from the cyclone is truly heart
rending in many cases.. Not less than a
hundred persons we're made houseless,
without food or clothing and no means
of procuring these and other necessaries.
Brooks Latham, colored, alias
Brooks Ferguson was shot last week by
the officers Of the law in Pickens County.
He was charged with housebreakins, and
when the officers attempted 10 arrest him,
ran and was fired upon, receiving flesh
wound, which it is thought will not prove
fatal. He made his escape.
Lewis r. Redmond, the noted
moonshiner, has written pathetic letter
to A. B. Williams, editor Of the Green
willie News, pleading for the intercession
of his friends in securing his removal
from the Albany penitentiary to Colum-
bia. Redmond says that he has con.
sumption in its worst stages, and is now
lingering between life aud death.
California stands ifth in the list OF
States in the manufacture of salt, and is
the only State in the Union where the
distillation of salt from sea water is
carried on to any considerable extent.
This industry has increased rapidly dur
ing the last twenty years. The produc.
tion has risen from $4,000 bushels in 1860
to upwards of $4,000 bushels in 1883.
Near Spartanburg, a few years ago,
man who needed money badly gave his
note for about 500 with interest at
per cent. month, which, if not paid
monthly, was to be compounded. The
maker and the holder of this note both
died thi. Winter The executor now
puts in his claim for about So 900 for the
note OF 500. The courts will settle the
matter.
"A special correspondent of the
REGISTER writes from Darlington: "a
rough estimate of the loss by the storm
in this section will be ten thousand dol
lars. A good many that have lost their
houses will not be able to rebuild with
out assistance. A committee here have
raised about S4O0 or $500, but that fund
has been only applied to those that were
wounded by the storm. Those whose
only loss la, been their houses and fur.
niture are yet without any relief. Out
side aid is needed"
= According to the statistics given by
Boston lecturer, twenty thousand di-
vorces have been granted in New Eng.
land during the last twenty years.
In Massachusetts there is now one di'
vorce to fourteen marriages. Since 1860
the rate of divorces has increased 147
per cent. while the rate of marriages has
increased only four per cent. In Yer
mont there is one divorce to IA marriages,
in Rhode Island one to -. in Connect.
cut one to eight. These ngures indicate
that of all civil contracts made in New
England marriage is the one most likely
to ho hroGop