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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29
A Love Tragedy In the Escurial.

A singular tragedy was enacted recent
ly in the palace of the Escurial. While
the visitors were being conducted through
the cloisters, they were startled by three
or four reports of gun following one
another in quick succession. Several of
them ran in the direction from which
the sounds came, aud met in one of the
passages a handsome and well.dressed
girl, who exclaimed in piteous accents,
"Help me for Gods sake; my heart is
cut in two" She was holding her hands
to her breast, and blood was flowing in
large quantities down her dress. A few
PAGES further on young man was found
lying in pool of blood with gunshot
wound in his side. When he saw the
crowd. and the girl among them, he just
had the strength to exclaim, "Oh, look
at me, thou star of my life! I wish to
die with your eyes looking into mine"
The two victims were taken into the hos.
pital of the palace; they may both re-
cover. 1t has been ascertained that the
young man, native of Madrid had for
some time been in love with the girl, and,
as she would not listen to his suit, be
determined to kill her first and himself
afterward, Hearing that she was going
to visit the Escurial with one of her
friends, he thought the opportunity
would be favorable for carrying out his
scheme of vengeance, and he followed
her from Madrid to the palace without
being observed, and called out to her
while she was in one of the corridors,
shooting her as soon as she turned round.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29
When Sugar Was Invented.

The exact date of the invention of
sugar is lost in the midst of fable. How.
ever, sugar is said to have been known
to the Chinese three Thousand years ago,
and there is not much doubt but that the
manufacture of the article was carried on
under the Tsin dynasty two hundred
years before Christ. A strong claim for
priority has been made for India. Prob
ably the Hindoos learned the art from
the Chinese, and from China the knowl-
edge was carried farther West. Three
hundred and twenty-five years before
Christ, Alexander sent Nearchus with a
large fleet down the Indus to explore the
adjacent countries. When that officer
returned from his expedition he brought
to Greece an account Of honey Sugar
which the Asiastics made from cane,
without any assistance from bees. Tiis
was the earliest idea the Western nations
had Of sugar, the Jews, Egyptians, Baba.
lonians and Greeks knowing nothing of
its use. AS late as A. d. $50 sugar was
prescribed by Galen, the famous physi-
clan, as medicine. Before the discov.
cry Vi Amerlca sugar was cosby luxury,
USED only on rare occasions. During the
wars of the Roses, about 1455, Margaret
Pastor, wife of a very wealthy country
gentleman of Norfolk, wrote to her hus-
band begging that he would "vouchsafe"
to send her a pound of sugar. As late as
1700 all England consumed only twenty
million pounds in the course of year,
but since the consumption has greatly n
creased, twenty million hundredweight
now being used by the English people.
The process of refining sugar was not
known in England previous to 1869.
That was probably an invention of the
Arabs. A Venetian merchant learned
the secret from the Saracens of Sicily,
and sold the art for one hundred thou.
aand croWns
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29
An Heroic Deed.

"Greater love hath no man than this,
that man lay down his life for his
friends" This is what Chief Engineer
Balm, of the steamer State Of Florida,
did. The only woman saved from the
wreck of that vessel was Stewardess Jane
MacFarland, Of Glasgow, and she owed
her life to the self.sacri6ce of the chief
engineer. He was in one of the boats
when he saw that this woman was left on
the sinking steamer. He gave her his
place, returned to the Florida, and went
down with her. Such deed recalls that
thrilling scene OIL the sinking Birken.
head many years ago. There was only
room in the boats for the women and
children, and there were many British
troops on board. At the command of
their officers those brave men put all the
women and the little ones in the boats;
then drew mp with parade steadiness on
the deck, and as the vessel sank they
fired volley and went down with her,
their ranks unbroken to the last. That
was collective heroism, but it was no no.
bier than the perfect self-devotion and
manliness which the Scotch engineer
displayed when he deliberately gave up
his own life that helpless woman might
be ayed.-NeU York Tribune.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29
Sad End Of an ElOpement.

A dispatch from the Greenbrier White
Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, says:
An attempted elopement Friday night
in the southern part of Greenbrier Coun.
ty resulted in the death, by drowning, of
the fleeing lover and the ayenging father
and the narrow escape of the young lady.
The lady's family are among the most
prominent people in Greenbrier County,
and the tragic occurrence has produced
intense excitement. On Thursday even
ing Ellen Farrier, the daughter of James
H. Farrier, eloped with John Biggs, who
had for some time been paying attention
to Miss Farrier, despite the strong oppo.
sition and threats of her father and
brother. They fed towards Greenbrier
River in buggy, intending to cross the
stream and he married at the house of q
minister some distance beyond, with
whom they had au understanding. The
father was absent from home when the
couple left, but on his return he pro.
cured buggy and, accompanied by bis
son, started in hot pursuit. Biggs and
his intended bride, unconscious of the
chase, arrived at the river, and entering
skif started across. Hardly had they
left the bank, however, when the pursu.
ers dashed down to the shore. Jumping
into another boat the young lady father
and brother followed the lover, at the
same time calling upon them to stop.
When about half way across the river
the fugitives were overhauled, and, drop.
ping their oars, the father and his son
sprang into the boat. The former grap-
pied with Biggs and his son took his
sister into the other boat. A struggle
ensued between the irate father and
young Biggs, in the course of which the
skiff was overturned aud the father and
lover were drowned Miss Farrier and
her brother reached the shore in safety
The news of the affair spread rapidly
and the next morning searching party
found the body of Biggs lodged in pile
OF drift. Mr.. Farrier's body has not yet
been found.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29
A Chinese Superstition.

As an illustration Of the rcgardlessness
of the Chinese for the female offspring,
a child of tender years was observed to
fall from sampan into the river on Sat
urday last, when no attempt whatever
was made to effectits rescue. The infant,
however, fortunately became entangled
in the cordage of broken spar, which,
whilst drifting down the river, was
picked up by the crew of another boat,
and the child restored to her parents,
who, as is customary, administered a
sound flogging to the semi.drowned
infant. The theory held by the natives
is, that by preserving fellow.creature
from a watery grave the rescuer is answer.
able in the next world for all the sins
afterwards committed by the person res.
cued; which literally means that wise
dispensation Of Providence has been
frustrated. Hong Kong (CAina) Mail.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29
A Cyclone In lancaster County.

On last Wednesday evening destruc-
tive cyclone struck Mr.. Henry Duncan's
plantation in this County, doing consid-
cradle damage to his outhouses and fences,
uprooted large oaks in his yard, stripped
many trees of every vestige of branches
upon them, and literally destroyed his
orchard. 1t had the appearance of being
a large ball of smoke bouncing along at
rapid rate on the surface of the earth.
When it reached the dwelling it COM
pletely enveloped it and hid it from view,
and a neighbor CHANGING to see it, mis-.
took it for smoke and thought the house
was burning.
In the Eastern section of the County
the wind and rain were accompanied by
most destructive shower OF hail, which
literally ruined the vegetable gardens and
field crops wherever it fell. A regular
cyclone must have struck Mr.. Calvin
Massey's plantation in Chesterfield
County, near the Lancaster line, blowing
down many of the outhouses, and then
swept down both sides of Lynche's River,
annihilating everything in its pathway.
A little negro was blown several hundred
yards and not found till next day. What
the wind failed to do in the way Of
destruction was fully accomplished by the
mammoth bailstones. One hundred
acres Of fine young cotton on Mr.. Mas
sey's place was severed from the earth as
if with knife, necessitating the replant-
ing of every acre.. The plantations of
Richard McN1anus, Erwin Robertson, F.
NJ. Lowry, Emanuel Faile, Samuel Belk,
Jefferson Funderburk and others along
and near the banks of Lynche's River,
were subjected to similar treatment. Mr..
Jefferson Funderburk's house was blown
down, one of his arms broken by the fall
ing timbers and his wife fatally injured
by a stroke across the breast by flying
limb.
The thriving little town of Taxahaw
came in for its share of the damages. Mr..
H. V. Massey, Wm. Cook and several of
their neighbors lost considerably in the
way of wrecked tenant houses and dam
aged crops. Mr.. John r. Welsh, one of
our largest and most successful planters,
who lives in that section of the County,
sustained heavy losses by both wind and
hail. He had not many outhouses blown
down but large bodies of line timber de-
stroyed and many of his tenants will have
to replant their entire crops. In fact,
distressing accounts of the storm come to
US from that whole section of the County.
It will be difficult matter for many of
the farmers to procure cotton seed with
which to replant their crops, as much
trouble was experienced in getting seed
this spring anyway.-Lancaster ReuieD,
May 81.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29
How to Tell O Good Cow,

Many persons select COWS from their
knowledge Of single indication denoting
quality, but it is claimed that the best
sign for richness of milk is q deep orange
color inside the ears. Such is said to be
infallible, but there are accompanying
points that assist the expert in making
his selection from number. After ex.
amining the ears, feel the skin on the
rump and observe that it should be soft,
velvety aud easily falls to its position
when the hand is removed. The hair
should be fine and silky, with a yellowish
cast from underneath. The milk veins
should be prominent, uniform, and the
udder we'll balanced, extending full to
the rear, and we'll forward in front to the
main milk ducts that extend along the
belly. The bones should be fine, the
eyes mild and expressive, the body show
ing a tendency to avoid accunlilating fat,
the teats even and at regular intervals,
with the escutcheon we'll defined, dan.
druff being easily rubbed theretrom, and
the COW should give indications of being
a good feeder.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29
Death of Cyrus II. Mccormick.

CHICAGO, May 13.-Cyrus II. McCor-
mick, head of the great harvester manu-
featuring company, and one of the rich.
est men in Chicago, died this morning,
aged rs. He had been an invalid for
several years.
Mr.. Mccormick was born in 1909 in
Roekbridge county, Va. He was the
son of Robert R. Mccormick, q farmer,
who invented the original reaper in 1916,
but afterward abandoned it owing to
inperfections. His son successfully COM
pleted the invention in 1881, when q
wears old. For this invention Mr.. Nc
Cormick was elected by the French Insli.
tute a member of the Academy of
Sciences, and received the decoration OF
the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
In politics he was Democrat, and had
been prominent in the party as mem.
ber of the National Committee. lie
founded and literally endowed the Theo:
logical Seminary of the Northwest, and
also endowed professorships in the Wash.
ington and Union Theological Colleges
of Virginia.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29
Carp Culture.

Editor of the Enquirer: For the bene-
fit of those engaged in the cultivation of
carp, 1 will give my experience with
these fish. have been engaged in the
cultivation of fish for sixyears, beginning
with the perch, when my attention was
drawn to the carp. l procured twenty
and placed them in pond, in January,
1880. These young fish averaged about
three inches in length. On the 9Th of
July following, l drained my pond, tax.
ing from it the fish, which had grown to
a length of from ten to sixteen inches.
In March, 1883, they commenced s, .wn.
ing, once week for three weeks.
Again in September I drained my pond
and found about six hundred young fish
from three to nine inches in length.
These placed in pond of the dimen-
sions of one acre. The fish are now
from nine TO fourteen inches in length.
The only trouble Ihave in raising these
fish successfully, is that of keeping other
species of fish out of my ponds, which
is one of the most important essentials in
the successful breeding cf carp, and
every means should be provided, by
screening, or otherwise, to prevent other
varieties from entering into ponds.
Carp will spawn at two years of age.
In large ponds, where there is plenty of
natural food, feeding will not be neccssa.
ry. 1t is claimed that six hundred carp
will stock one acre, and thrive without
artificial feeding. II more than this
number are in one.acre pond they
should be fed. A pond of smaller size
than one.acre I consider worthless. A
one.acre pond properly cared for will
furnish one family of ordinary size with
all the fish they will require for food, but
to do this, of course the pond must con.
tain more than they would consume.
My fish commenced to spawn on the
goth of last month. The eggs Matched
in eight days after they were deposited.
I now have thousands of young fish.
The young fish begin to take food in
from four 10 five days after they are
hatched. The necessity, therefore, of an
abundance of acquatic plants, especially
in the Matching ponds, will be apparent,
since they serve the double purpose of
supplying food for the fish, aud natur.
al place Of deposit for the eggs.
Small ponds will not serve for growing
carp, even if the fish are regularly fed
arti6cially. Too many fish in the pond
will keep the water constantly muddy,
which will render the fish unfit for food,
especially in the summer months. The
carp is large.growing fish, and requires
plenty of water and food.-JoHN F.
HINsoN, in YorkviNe Enquirer.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29

"A terrible accident took place the
other day at Auxonne, by which one of
the men connected with a menagerie,
which is now being exhibited there, lost
his life in q cruel manner. The unfor.
tunate man was showing the wild beasts
to some friends, and in passing before a
cage containing lion and two lionesses
he had the imprudence to put one of his
arms between the bars for the purpose of
stroking the lions name. With terrific
bound the lionesses Immediately sprang
at the mans arm, in which they buried
their claws, while the lion, by single
snap of his teeth, severed the arm clean
from the shoulder. The unfortunate
victim was taken away by another atten-
dant, who was obliged to beat the beasts
back into their cage with a three, pronged
fork. The man died in hospital on Sun
day morning in the most terrible pain
London Telegraph, .i.wil 80.
y We have follies, troubles and evils
enough in our own lives without oul
giving attention to the shortcomings o.
others.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29
A Long Lost Husband Found.

MARIETTA, GA, May 14.-Six years
ago there lived in a cozy country home at
Battle Creek, John Maginnis, who had
but year before won the heart and
hand of Miss Emily Rogers. A little
girl blessed the first year of their married
life. The young couple were among the
attendants at camp.mecting on Salem
Camp Grounds in 1879. One night the
revenue officers entered the tents and ar
rested six men, among whom was John
Maginnis, and carried them off to At
lanta on a charge Of illicit distilling.
The young wife was in the greatest grief
at the loss of her husband, aud the whole
congregation vas deeply stirred by what
in their eyes was desecration of the
sacred spot. Mr.. John Hockenhall, since
dead, who was one of the wealthiest citi.
zens of Dawson County, proceeded short
ly after to Atlanta for the purpose of
giving bail for the arrested men. On
arrival there he was told that Maginnis
had effected his escape under dozen
shots fired by his guards in the skirt of
woods near Cumming, but that in the
darkess of the night they found it inpos-
sible to find him. A week and month
passed and no word came of the missing
man, and at last it was believed that he
must have been wounded, and, escaping
to some out of the way place, died. The
young wife, however, clung to the belief
that her husband would return, until at
last there seemed no ground left for
hope.
A young man who had been former
lover pressed his suit, and at last Mrs.
Maginnis agreed that if nothing was
learned of her husband by May she would
listen to him. May came and, more in
sorrowful resignation than in joy, Mrs.
Maginnis began making preparations for
her nuptials. On Friday bearded man
made his appearance at her house and in
him she found her long lost husband.
His story was that he was afraid that the
revenue officers would take him away,
and going West he got into the cattle
business in Montana. Neglect to write
for month made him ashamed to write
later, and thus years past until the week
before last, when, having counted his
possessions at Helena, Montana, he found
himself worth $4,000. He then deter.
mined to come in person for his wife and
child, and yesterday the happy family
took 8 Western and Atlantic train for
their distant home.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29
4 Miniature Locomotive.

One of the finest exhibitions of the
patient ingenuity of a skilled mechanic
is perfect reproduction of locomotive
made by Mr.. Case, a matchmaker of
Franklin, Penn. From the point of the
COW. catcher to the end of the tank it is
six and one. fourth inches long, and
weighs two pounds. 1t is finished in
gold, silver and steel, and to the most
minute part is perfect locomotive. Mr..
Case has spent four years in building it.
1t makes its own steam, pumps water
into the boiler, has throttle valve, bell,
sand box and, in fact, lacks nothing
found in o frst.class locomotive. Many
locomotive engineers have examined it,
and they pronounce it perfect. Mr.. Case
will have q miniature track built and
place it on exhibition at the Cotton Cen.
tennial Exposition in New Orleans.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29

1t is almost impossible to take fish
with net from Indian river, Florida, as
the sharks attack the nets when filled
with fish, and tear them to pieces.
- Mr.. r. G. Strother, of West Union,
Oconee County, since last August to the
present time has paid out as much as
$4,000 for crossties, or an average OF
81 500 per month. This amount of mon.
ey would purchase, at 25 cents per stick,
10000 crossties, about the number bought
by Mr.. Strother.
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BOYS FIGHTING MIMIC BATTLES.

BOYS ESGdI1NG MlMlC . A11OEcs
But what were our boys doing while
the girls were sewing up sand-bags to
fortify Dewry's Bluff? 1t seemed the
HDemon of Destruction" was possessing
the whole land. The boys were keeping
their patriotism warm by playing "Yank"
and"Reb" in Mock battles, and so sore.
ly did these Joupg larchets! wound each
other that steps had to be taken by the
city authorities toward the suppression of
these hostilities. I remember being on
Church Hill on one occasion, when the
rowdies from Rockets, calling themselves
Yankees, came upon our boys who were
unarmed. Immediately our party OF
little girls. few f. to. coal house near
which Happened to be open for replen:
ishing, and filling our little aprons with
the dusky diamonds ran into the midst
of a hot battle, screaming with all the
enthusiasm of our young natures, "Kill
them kill them,p We bound up heads
and C6lied pockets with ammunition"
till our nurses, noticing our escapade,
came to carry us to our mammas to be
punished for soiling our dresses.
Our bravery increased with our sue
cssses. No news came but of victory,
till one: Sabbath morning. wei>were all
seated reVsrentiy nd,calmly at church,
Hhen a messenger arrived almost breath.
less upon the scene and handed the
.minister-a, notice. BE arose and- read
aloud to; the congregation that theFa'o'
nee was coming up the river. The men
were ordered to Rockets at once, and the
women requested to make and send car
tridges to them as speedily as possible.
What scene our parlor presented just
a.short,while afterwards ! The men had
I'll Sgone off,sleaving only women and
children atdefenceless homes, but no
stern warrior ever stood at his post OF
duty with truer heroism than these brave
"Women of the South"
We had living with us lovely old
Virginia matron, Mrs. Eliza Darlington,
whose head, "all silvered o'er," had
passed through the trying times of 1872
She quietly remarked to the busy crowd
seated round the parlor, that there was
no cause for fear, the British had tried
that trick before and could not gel over
the bars. Yet her dear old hands kept
!. busy fashioning what seemed to us curl
:ous parlor Observation-Disclosures her
skill in this line had come into requisi.
ton the second time. After all her words
proved true; the Yankees gave up that
little game and We were left in: peace as
far as Richmond was concerned.
Then onr courage grew stronger and
stronger, no matter if We did give up ou,
old established way oflivipg, and curious
dishes and vestments did take the place
of costly yiands and rich apparel. Rye
coffee was good enough for us at home
when our poor soldiers way of on the
battlefield had no better, and after little
while it would all be over-"Stonewall
Jackson was in the 6eldW Then home.
spun dresses became perfect rage, and
bounets trimmed with chicken feathers
dyed every conceivable hue. We would
show the Yankees we could do without
their miserable old trades. people who
made all their money out of the Southern
folk, with theirrwooden nutmegs, paper
soled shoes, &C., and orsooth we wore nc
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q don't sec why you are so partic.
ular about your hair" said churlish
husband. Il don't suppose Eve ever
wore bangs" II don't suppose she did,"
replied the wife, with quiet smile, "but
then there was nobody in the world but
her husband to admire her."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29

- The man who enslaves himself to
his money is proclaimed in our very
language TO be Il miser, or miserable
man,
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A DOMESTIC "co1JRr MARr1AL."

The wardrobes of our urchins were
very limited in those days, but by dint
of securing old chests and trunks they
managed to wad themselves very com.
fortably, especially when they had de.
pleted the school-room of all copy.books,
and folded them securely under their
jackets. Will, the youngest of the
crowd, seeing the laudable endeavors Of
the older boys to protect themselves,
essayed the same task, but so complete