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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-02-21
.The South Loses $s,0oO,0OO Year
by Gin House Cotton Fires,N

We have just read that statement, Mr..
Editor, in one of the leading papers in the
cotton.growing States. If the statement is
true, and we do not doubt it, how much
more important becomes the already Won
derful invention made by our friends Of
Belton If the Taylor & Cox Fire Extin-
guisher were as highly appreciated as it
ought to be, and as extensively used as its
merits demand, the popular journal could
no longer astonish its readers by such fig
ures, and these millions of money would
cease to be turned into ashes. Six million
dollars! That's a pretty big amount for
common countrymen like us to think about.
Six million dollars worth of houses, ma
chinery and cotton destroyed by fire. every
wear in the South, while Taylor d., Cox
stand ready to extinguish every spark Of
fire and save every dollar of that money
Surely the people of the South are too in
telligent and appreciative to suffer that
statement made again since this Invention
b as proved itself to be the very right thing
in the right place. If it will not do all that
is claimed for it, then have my own eyes
deceived me. One day last week our en-
terprising townsman, Mr.. g. F.. Horton,
operated the Taylor & Cox Fire Extinguish,
or to the satisfaction and delight OF our
entire community. Inc 'uooT anu walls VI
the house to which fire was applied were
covered with straw, shavings and cotton,
and then saturated with kerosene oil.
In space of time 80 short as to be
almost unappreciable every inch Of space
in the building was filled with fire and
! smoke. Mr.. Horton, that he might Civ:
the Extinguisher thorough test, did not
! operate it until requested by spectators,
who seeing the fierceness of the flames and
the critical condition of the building
deemed it beyond the power Of any human
invention to save the structure. The
building was fairly throbbing with its vol
ume Of Kissing flame and rolling smoke
| when the hot water and steam were turned
on, and so sudder was the change, SC
quickly was the fire e1tinguished, that it i
scarcely credible, certainly not appreciable
to one who has not seen it. The Taylor
| snd Cox Fire Extinguisher is in our hum
Bile judgment one Of the most useful in
ventions of the age. Wherever steam /!
used as motive power the E1tinguishel
should be attached. WILLIAMSON.
February 1S, 1884.
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After long Mercury and Potash treat
ment,;I found myself a cripple from Mer-
curial Rheumatism. Tried Hot Springs
two years without relief, and was finally
cured sound and we'll by the use of Swift's
Specific IS. 8. ST. CHAs. BERG,
Hot SPRINGS Ark.
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NEW GOODS.

r HAVE a full line of Dry Goods, Hats,
i Hardware, N. o. Molasses, Groceries,
Provisions, Crockery, Glassware, Carpets,
&C., DC. I will not attempt to name all my
goods in an advertisement, but will ask my
friends and customers to call and see me
before buying. keep good goods, and at
as low price as the same quality can be
bought. Give me trial.
A. B. TOWERS.
Feb IA. 1883 81
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Feb Ia,
Partnership Notice.

WYE, the undersigned. have formed
w partnership under the name of
McCULLY, CATHCART & CO., and will
conduct General Merchandise Business
at the old stand of McCully & Taylor, on
the North side of Public Square, and re-
spectfully solicit share of the patronage
of the trading public.
This partnership has been in existence
since the 2Sth day of January last.
2. K. McCULLY,
JAS. NJ. CATHCART,
F. E. WATKINS.
Feb :. 1884 30
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Yuu can find the best tobaccos for the
least money tic. F. Jones d Co.'s.
"A child tossing in its sleep indicates
worms. An army Of them are at work
eating the yitaIs away. One dose Of Shri-
ner's Indian VermifuSe will destroy them
and save its life: For sale by Wilhite &
Wilhite
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Guapo and Acid Phosphate.

We are receiving large lot of the old
reliable Soluble Pacific GuanO and
Acid, and the Standard Edisto
Acid Phosphate, all of which we are
prepared to sell at the lowest market prices.
These are old established brands of Fer.
tilizers, and no one can doubt the reliabili-
ty of its analysis or the quality Of the
goods.
w. S. LIGON & co.
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Partnership Notice.

WE, the undersigned, have this day en-.
w tered into partnership under the
name of w. s. LIGON & Co., for the pur-
pose of conductinga general merchandise
business at the old stand of W. s. Ligon,
on the Southsidc of the Public Square.
By close attention TO the 1Uants of our Gus
toners and fair dealing, we would solicit
the patronage of the trading public.
Our stock of GROCERIES is full up, and
we will make it to the interest of all to
price our goods before purchasing their
supplies for the year.
W. s. LIGON.
R. s. LIGON.
Jan. l, 1884
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POTATOES.

SHOES AND BOOTS.
II HAVE full line of Bay State Shoes
Il and Boots. Warranted not to rip and
to have no wood or paste board. Also q
few Miles Ladies Shoes. All in want Of
good Shoes and Boots will find it to their
interest to call on
A. b TOWERS.
Feb IA, 1884 81
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Wl1HIPEs Eye WATER is sure cure for
sore and infaned eyes, partial blindness,
&c. n you have not used it., ask your
neighbor about it. 1t is guaranteed to give
reliei and if it does not come back and get
your money or try another bottle free.
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The best preparation in the market for
cleansing, preserving and beautifying the
teeth; hardening the gums and imparting
delicious odor TO the breath, is Johnstone's
Odontine. Warranted not only to be harm
less but the best Tooth Powder that can be
used. For sale only by Wilhte tE Wilhite.
The best. Cologne at Wilhite & Wihite's.
Tappan's Sweet Bye.and-Bye," the best
Csc Cologne, for sale only by
WILHITE Il WILHITE.
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FOR, SALE.

A T Rivoli Plantation, near Pendleton
~ a valuable Jack, and some pairs of
Poland China Pigs, thoroughbred. Also
an uncommonly fine Jersey Bull, eleven
months old. not registered but thorough
bred, from Pennsylvania.
SAMUEL G. GEORGE, Manager.
Feb IA, 1884 81 3
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BRIEF MENTroS.

ssAAAA~Is e~Sss
whooplng cough i, still prevailing in the
: city.
Only one mora week in which to pay
your city taxes.
Court conYenes next Monday, Judge
Hudson presiding. :. s.
Droyes Of mules and horses are now Wis:
iting our County
Theboys should remember that it is $40
fine to rob birds nest.
February came in and will go out on
hangsman,s dayF liday
Thers is not much country produce COM
inginto the city at present.
We want the news from every section Of
the County. Send it to US, friends.
The guano and grocery men have done q
good business during the past week.
The weather has been quite changeable
I'm this section during the past week
a.. :, m..5,.- :;,t,srs ,o,,e ]; desirable
~ = ,orrsnt asoa ~ sig s5yerf;ssment. rf
],
9 snsss ~ ssgmi,.a.s = a.. $ ronntv
''saleiss o.s .s1ln tAooieAs :. -.
"A number of the nmashen OF the city
xere sorely disspp ppointed on ST Valentines
Day. -
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Better than Eyer.-Large arrivals
of Buggies of all Sly les just received, select
ed BY me IN person whilo in Cincinnati.
Be sure TO call on me when, you want to
buy: Those owing FOR Buggies and Sewing
Machines will please remember when their
notes fall due. c. a. REED.
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Dayton trains run through water and may have
to stop further out tomorrow. The Panhandle
has no traffic between here and Loveland but
takes freight from that point, and has no inter
ruption to Pittsburg.
AT p. NJ. the river was sixtysix feet eleven
inches. The water works Office reports one en-
gine still working which will continue to go till
the fires put out, which will be when the
stage reaches four inches higher Consumption
will be stopped tomorrow, except for domestic
purposes
A New Richmond telegram says: The town
has been cut off for six days from the outside
world, except by means of skiff. The water is
in every building Hundreds of houses are sub
merged. One-third of the population
depend on outside support. The water is twenty
six inches higher than year ago. Thirty-fv
buildings are off their foundations. Two feet
more of water will float them away. The vii
lage of Rural, KY, has been entirely swept
away only two of thirty six houses being left.
At Butler, KY, the Licking river has risen
five feet since morning, and is still rising It
has risen nine feet at Parks ferry, seventy-tive
miles above here.
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and this year should follow each other so closely
many made no such preparations or began too
late, and the result is their loss has been and
VIII be much greater than it ought to have been,
with anything like proper precaution
In the neighborhood Of Owensboro forty
miles above, on both the Indiana and Kentucky
SIDES there IS much corn III the water, and the
loss Will be extensive Between that point and
Newburg fifteen miles above here, fifteen or
twenty thousand bushels of corn will be lost,
and as much more is in the water between there
and Evansville. From here to Henderson,
twelve miles below. the loss is estimated at one
hundred thousand bushels. though this is proba-
bly, eXaggeratiou; the loss. however. which is
chiefly IN the Kentucky lowands, will be con
siderable. Water is i'll many houses across the
river, and thence to within two or three miles of
Henderson, is near the top of the first story.
None of the buildings have been moved from
their foundations. though anything like rough
weather viii almost certainly carry several Of
them away.
Below Henderson many of last years scenes
are already being repeated. Henderson, Mt.
Vernon and other similarly located towns which
dehed the last flood, are still high and dry, and
have nothing to fear. All about them. how
ever, is a vast waste of water extendingin every
direction as far Us the eye can reach. Portions
OF Uniontown and other places which were over
flowed last year are already submerged, and the
people removing everything peTisha-
ole to the upper stories of their
buildings. and preparing for another
long, weary siege. The Shawneetown levee is,
as yet, intact, but the wash of the waves is al
ready beginning to tell, and the citizens are ap-
prehensive that when the food reaches its
height, the embankment will give way, it did
last year, and that the town will suffer the ter
I1ble fate that overlook it then. There is great
excitement at Shawneetown. and many of the
people who remained there last year have not
courage to face another such flood; these are pre-
pairing to flee.
At Evansville the view of the flood is much
obscured by fog and mist, but the
officers of the harbor boats, which
are busily employed rescuing people and
property in the submerged districts,
describe the situation as already almost as bad
as last year The width of the river here and at
points below is estimated at not less than thirty
miles, and but for trees and hidden logs and
other distractions, the largest steamers could
run with ease and without risk, over all the
country thus flooded, the water on many farms
being twenty or thirty feet deep. The families
of many farmers have been brought here, and
others are arriving hourly. These people re-
mained in their houses until forced to leave by
the encroaching waves, and they hang about the
bulletin boards with anxious faces, eagerly scam
ming each item of news.
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PANIC PRICES PREDICTED.
Higher Quotations Promised in Wheat,
Corn and All Hog Products,
The "ShOrt' Interest in Wheat Finally
Forced 0ut-A Steady Advance in
Prices and Active Trading.

Special to the Indianapolis journal.
CHICAGO, Feb 11.-"Youll see May wheat
sell at 81. .05 before it touches 81 again." was
remarked on Change to-day, and that impressing
would seem to be general, judging from the
amount of 'sshorts" covered on sharply adj
vancing market May wheat opened at an ad
vance over Saturdays close of 1-2c and with con
slant and varied huctuation finally touched
$1.02 IA and closed there, scoring an advance
for the day of lie. The latter part of last
week saw heavy sales of Short wheat. It
seemed quite the popular thing to go short"
and the craze was sufficiently effective to re-
suit, it is said in ''shorC" sales for the May op
ton of not less than $4,000, 900 bushels
Early this morning the tide of popular opin-
ion changed suddenly, resulting in promiscous
scramble to cover. The disastrous floods along
the water courses are allowed their share of
credit for the bulge in wheat, although it is diff
fcult to imagine just in what way such over
flows can influence wheat, except the slight in
jury may work to next years bottom lands.
The crop of winter provisions also took a
strong upward turn, pork for May doing 30c
better than the prophesied $18. This marked
advance in the provision list may be accounted
for from the fact that the receipts of hogs are
continually falling under the expectations of
even those most capable of estimating the con-
ditions of stocks. As expressed by active traders
in this market May pork is sure to see 500 unless
receipts increase very materially and there are no
indications that they will do So Trading was
active in all hog products but no evidences of
manipulation were strongly enough marked
upon which to base theory as to what is to be,
the packers permitting
There well-developed indications that corn
will shortly be the recipient of good deal more
attention than now falls to its share. The effect
of the floods is not to be uuderrated and the
weather is likely to prove even stronger fac
tor in its future movements. 1t is estimated
that not above 90 per cent of the present visible
supply of corn grades No. 2. The remainder is
rejected and that, under the influence of quickly
alternating freezings and thawings is rapidly de-
teriorating in value,
'This poor corn will have a chance one of
these days" said broker, who Is counted
pretty good guesser 'When the weather gets
too warm to admit of shelling and shipping it
you'll see the receipts drop off at once 1t won't
take long to use up all the No. corn, and when
that's gone look out for famine prices"
At the 2 P. NJ. call wheat and corn were
stronger on reports of higher prices in New
York and Liverpool, and advanced 1-8c, with
heavy trading On the curb there was still
greater strength in the whole list. The closing
quotations were. for May wheat, $1.02 IL; corn,
50 l2c; pork, 1888; lard, $40 15 ribs, So Y IL
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Indictments Against Frank James Noniel.

KANSAS CRY, Feb. ll.--Int the Criminal Court,
this nothing, States Attorney Wallace dis
missed the case against Frank James and Charles
Ford on the charge of the Blue Cut train rob
berry, in 1881. The Attorney submitted a state
ment that, owing to the refusal of Governor Crit
tenden to pardon Dick Iiddcll, the State was de-
prived of his testimony and also of valuable cor
roborative evidence Hence he would be unable
to make case He stated, also, that the case at
Galatin for bank robbery against james would
also be dismissed thus vacating all indictments
in Missouri. The announcement created quito
a ripple of surprise in the court room. James
was Immediately taken before Judge Krckle of
the United States court, where hearing is now
in progress on the charge of robbery of the
United States paymaster at Musse Shoals, Ala
Bail was refused and James will probably be
taken to Alabama this week. He is now in the
custody of the United States marshal.
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One Foot higher tnan Last year, ana Rising
Inch an Hour.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
CINCINNATI Feb. 12-1 A. M.-The river at
1890 was sixty-seven feet four and three-quarter
inches, and rising inch an hour, with the
Licking coming up rapidly from rains. The
water-works have closed down. the gas
is out, water is everywhere, and the
situation growing worse hourly. Forty
thousand people are suffering in the three
cities here, and tens of thousands more at up
river towns. Relief is coming, but only slowly,
At Pomeroy, 5000 people are camped out, and
the situation is about the at Marietta,
Portsmouth, and smaller river towns. The
river is not expected to come to stand here
for day or so yet, and the worst is by no
means upon us.
kilograms received from stations on the
Scioto Valley & Hooking Valley railway, nearest
the inundated towns, state that the whole of
Portsmouth is under water and that
the citizens have fed to the hills.
The same story comes from Gallipolis
where 10000 people were driven from their
homes. The relief committee sent to Pomeroy
has just returned. The people camped on the
hills are in terrible want for food and shelter
One hundred and fifty houses foated
away. Boats land at the courthouse
steps. The people are haggard and worn out for
Sleep food and shelter Nearly every business
man is bankrupt
The coal mines at Syracuse are flooded. A
house went by Middleport this morning
with a woman sitting on the gable
end. Men rowed out and appealed to her to get
off, but she refused, saying she had four babies
below A glass was broken and the children
seen floating, dead
Pomeroy is in a similar condition. The Sec
retary of State, the Governor and Adiutant-
general have been telegraphed to send tents to
shelter the people, and the Legislature to take
prompt action for relief.
A Maysville, KY, dispatch says it has been
raining steadily all day, Business of all kinds
is suspended Citizens are at work helping the
needy.
At Chester small village above here,
thousand people have left their homes and are
camped on the hills Several houses have passed
down the river Houses at Aberdeen are tumb-
ling in the river.
The river at Gallipolis is at a stand. 1t is
now eight feet six inches above the flood of 1883.
heavy rain is falling
IA. M.-River sixty-seven feet five and one
fourth inches
"a. M-River sixty-seven feet six and one
half inches. There has been no lain since
dap1y
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AROUND THE FALLS.
Rapidly increasing Distress and Privation q
New Albany.


Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Feb. 1.-THE situation here is
rapidly growing worse, and the city tonight is
upon the verge of another calamity ominous OF
even greater disaster than the terrible food of
last year The food tide is rising tonight at
the rate of one inch and a half per hour, with a
channel depth in front of the city of sixty-eight
feet eight inches, against sixty mine feet in 1892
find seventy two feet in 1888 An old river man.
whose judgment is of value, said this evening
that the flood here will certainly exceed that of
last year. If it does, or even equals 1T, the loss
in the city and immediate vicinity will be very
heavy. Two of the public schools were closed
to-day by the food and it is feared another will
have to be shut up tomorrow. Several churches
could not hold services last Sunday in conse
quence of the furnace cellars being flooded so
chat fires could rot be built Three
more large tanneries had to suspend to-day,
and large -four mill. This leaves not over
half dezen factories left running in the city
Every industrial establishment closed adds
many to the list of sufferers Nearly all those
thrown out of employment poor people
and their condition for the next
three or four weeks will be bad enough.
Every hour adds to the number of inundated
houses. There are already not far from six hun
dred residences in the city and suburbs flooded.
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THE OLDEST INHABITANT GONE.
He Expires When the High-Water Record of
'32 Is Submerged.
Pittsburg Dispatch.


Pittsburg Dispatch ..t
One picture rises up continually before my
eyes through all the mist which clouds the debris
of flooded factories dank dwellings and miry
streets. l see the Oldest inhabitant sitting,
whiting, weather -beaten and gray III his gray
and weathe1-beaten old house on the bank Of
the river surrounded by factories that all but
crowd him into the stream.
"Oh, grandpa, come and look at the flood. It's
away up the wharf"
60 way, child What do you know about
floods l was here in 30 Then there was a
food"
And he keeps on whiting.
''rhe ice gorges have broken; the bridge from
Hers island is swept away; the river bank has
morning papers.
THE whole Point was under water in 327
comments the old man. proudly
There is two feet of water in our cellar" his
daughter reports.
The old man glances out of the window and
acknowledges that it looks like rain. BY and by
he steps out of the front boor just to see how
much lower the water Is than it fifty two
years ago and steps into the river up to his shoe
tops. \ little moist under foot, he admits. but,
bless you. no flood to speak of compared viih
what he has seen. Why, would you believe me
-, hut they wouldn't believe him. They have
taken refuge i'll the second story like selfish and
sensible people. Slowly, snakuy the brown
water creeps into the room. 1t is after the man
who has dared to snoer at it, 1t is around his
old knees now. He has six or seven different
kinds Of rheumatism, and they are all playing
hop-Scotch up and down his back but he sits
still and perversely wonders if there will be
rise enough to let the coal out. Which reminds
him that they don't have the rises they used
to have in the broad horn days.
The water laps the upper pewter button on his
old satin vest now He rises and throws one
arm fondly around the record of 81, which he
has maintained as the chief god in his household
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Pretty Nearly Everything Under Water.
Special to the Indiana polls Journal

Pretty Nearly Everything Under Water.
Special to the Indiana polls Journal
AURORA, Feb. IA heavy rain has been
steadily falling all day, and the river has been
rising faster than at any time since the flood
At o'clock tonight the river lacks about one
foot of being up to last years flood line though
there is enough water as low down as Cincinnati
to insure it to pass that and foot or two more
Last nights rise however, caused but little addi-
tiOnal damage, as there was no wind to loosen
the houses from their foundations. A number
of merchants are moving to-day who did not
move last year. There is now not dry goods
store, drug store, or millinery store that is not
under water, and there are only few small gro
ceries out of water. The banks are yet above
water, but one of them will be under by morn
ing, and the other by tomorrow night. The
postofice has about four inches to go on.
A meeting of the City Council was held this af
ternoon to make more extensive provisions for
dispensing charity. Hundreds of of families here
are now in need of help. Two deaths occurred
yesterday.
Reports from Patriot are very depressing, the
whole town being submerged. The reports here
this morning threw the whole town into the most
intense excitement Mrs, Jacob Cox died yes
terday and her body has been packed in ice; her
friends wish to keep the remains until the water
recedes before burying. A little child of William
Wheeler was buried to-day, the funeral process
sion going down two miles to the cemetery in a
boat. A man died while being taken from his
house in boat to safer place this afternoon.