The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-08-21

The crops in Fairfield County have
been worked out in every section and are
now looking well and promising.
- The Virginia legislature has met in
extra session, and is engaged in arrang.
ing defects in the State debt and election
laws.
- Reports from Newberry County are
to the effect that upland corn is very
good, but that the bottom corn is not
doing so we'll.
The democratic congressional con.
vention of the second Maryland district
has adjourned after taking 2,4OS ballots
among three men.
- Logan and Hendricks accidentally
met in the dining room of the Fifth
Avenue hotel, New York, on Friday
and had a pleasant converse.
tion. Politics was not mentioned.
"A German medical journal has dis
covered means whereby life can be pro.
longed. It is based upon the experience
of Mcthuselah who did not marry until
he was one hundred and eighty-si1 years
old, and then lived to be nine hundred
and si1ty.nine.
A rose bush at Antioch, Mich, has
bloomed this season without bud. The
petals have developed in regular order
around the stalk, and the effect is singu-
lar and beautiful. They seem to have
grown from the stem like common leaves,
but form splendid crimson roses.
The French Government commits
sion which has been making experiments
similar to those of NJ. Pasteur in connec.
ton with finding cure for bydrophobia
has reported that its Investigations de-
cisively confirm the correctness of the
distinguished scientists theory.
The New York World has discov'
cred q cat in the meal tub in the fact
that Elgins, Blaine's manager, is partner
with Beast Butler (the anti monopoly
candidate) in land speculation in the
West, the two being defendants in suit
involving 100000 acres of public terrific.
ry.
The Hampton Guardian says:
eve still report fine prospects for a good
Weld in all crops where they have been
we'll worked. Cotton is holding its fruit
and looks remarkably we'll. Our farmers
are busy gathering fodder, and prepara-
tions are being made to begin cotton
picking in very short time."
- The Abbeville Medium says: "The
Stock and Agricultural Association that
was formed here last week is step in the
right direction, and we truly hope that it
will grow and prosper. A large county
like Abbeville, with its $4,000 inhabi'
tants, needs such an association in order
that she may show what she is doing,
and in order to encourage her sturdy
farmers to renewed efforts"
The convicts in the Kentucky
penitentiary made a desperate effort to
escape on Thursday, headed by young
man of good family who is a convict.
He knocked down a guard with bottle
and led rush for the armory. A despe.
rate fight ensued, citizens being summon.
ed to aid the guards. Several guards
were wounded and a number of the
convicts escaped before the mutiny was
quelled.
There are now on the pension rolls
80 widows of Revolutionary soldiers, and
4S of these come from the Southern
States. Nine are from Tennessee, from
Georgia, IL from Virginia, 4 from West
Virginia, aud II from North Carolina.
There is only l Revolutionary widow
from Mississippi, l in Massachusetts,, 8
in South Carolina, in Ohio and New
York, S in Maine and New Hampshire,
z in Vermont and 8 in Pennsylvania.
= The Newberry Observer says: "An
improvement in the feelings Of business
men becomes more noticeable as the
season advances. The outlook for good
fall trade was never better. The crop
uews from all portions of our county is
very flatteriDg indeed. We are having
neither too much nor too little of sun.
shine and showers, and the crop yield
promises to be the most abundant we
have had in years"
- Governor Knott has just pardoned
Young man out of the Kentucky penl-
Tertiary after ten years confinement. 1t
seems that the unfortunate convict was
innocent of the crime with which he was
charged, and he was released upon the
statement. of the prosecuting witnesses.
After losing ten of the best years OF his
lie this man has practically no redress.
The State of Kentucky is not liable in
damages and the only remedy available
is to sue the prosecuting witnesses.
Mr.. Thornwell McMaster, who has
returned from business trip to Sumter,
states that he saw the Mason cotton
picker operated in field where there
were few open bolls, and the picker
passed by the unopen bolls and picked
the cotton from the open bolls with the
Judgment of human being. The Mason
gin. be believes, will also be a grand sue.
cess, and the saving off of the hands and
arms of feeders of gins will soon be a
thing of the past.-Columabia Register.
- Pinkerton, the great detective, once
adopted a novel plan for establishing the
guilt of suspected murderer. He was
employed to work up case against
johnson, colored man, in South Caro-.
lima, who was supposed to have commit
ted very brutal murder. johnson was
not arrested, but one morning when he
went to take his plow to the field he
found it spattered with blood. In the
field he found little pools of blood.
When he went back to the stable be saw
the bloody imprint of q human hand on
the door. Every hoe and rake had blood
on it. By nightfall the murderer was
paralyzed with fear and afraid to 20 to
bed. He believed that the spirit of his
victim was haunting him. The next day
he cut his throat from ear to ear, and his
suicide was regarded as conclusive proof
of hia ouilt