The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-08-07
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
THOS. A. ENDRICKS,
OF INDIANA.
THE STATE TICKET FOR 1884

ddi,tant and Inspector General,
A. NJ. MANIGAULT.
Solicitor sth Circuit.
JAMES L.. ORR.
The Greedy. party got within 458
miles of the pole
No less than, 1880 persons are
locked up in the jails and prisons OF
New York. -
= The population CT. the United
States increases at the rate Of 81 per cent.
every ten years.
Sam Nimmons, colored, Of Barn
!, well County, has killed thirty-two hawks
.ince January last. -.
There are seventy candidates now in
the field in Barnwell County and only
fifteen Offices to be filed.
- The Mormons, it is said, had more
missionaries in the field last year than
the American Missionary Society,
Jay Eye See beat the record at
Providence on Friday by trotting mile
in 2.10. The best previous mile was his
own-2.10a.
- In ,fifty.six years Mexico has had
fifty-four Presidents, one Emperor and q
regency. And yet some people think 1t
slow country.
"A bet was profered and taken last
week in Boston that Cleveland would go
out of that city next November with swo
votes tn Rlaire's one.
The prohibitionists are making an
active and telling canvass in New YORK,
and are directing their attacks chiefly
against the Republicans.
= Chattanooga physicians say they
have for years traced every case OF
typhoid fever directly to the drinking of
well water by the patient.
- Thomas Calhoun, young farmer
of Beech Island, Aiken County, shot
himself through the head on Monday in
consequence Of financial troubles
- Although Frenchmen are spoken Of
as 'sfrog eaters" it is asserted az fact
that more frogs are now eaten in New
York alone than in all of France.
Alcohol is said to be an antidote
for snake bite poison only when tho
patient is not addicted to drink and his
system already saturated with alcohol.
One of the veterans of the Stone
wall Brigade who had lost both feet in
battle, shot and killed man in Virginia
The other day in a quarrel over dollar.
= Colored Democrats in Aiken have
organized club with twenty three mem
bers. John Jollifer,is is President, 2. B..
Haynes Secretary, and John r. Boyce
Treasurer.
Capt F. w. Dawson, of che Mcsos
and Courier, publishes a card in which
he denies the truth of the story that he
is ambitious to succeed Senator Hamp.
ton. He says he would accept no public
Office.
Information from Florida is such
that Democrats may rest assured that the
State will wheel in line in November.
Considering the fact that returning boards
are things Of the past, the State is doubly
positive.
Archie Orme, the Atlanta ticket
agent who shot himself through the head
some months ago in consequence OF
deficiencies in his accounts, died on
Saturday after having apparently pro-
gressed far towards recovery with bull
let imbeded ia his brain.
The. Democratic Congressional Con-
vention. of the Fourteenth district Of
: Missouri, which has been in session at
Poplar Bluff for FIVE days, adjourned sine
die late Saturday night, after taking 4I7
ballots without nominating candidate,
an event unparalleled in that State.
- Jacob Wiseman, q miner in, West
Virginia, while sitting astride of 8
whiskey barrel, lighted his pipe and fool
ishly threw the lighted match into the
open bunghole. An explosion followed,
shattering the barrel, and the rider was
thrown some distance and seriously
hurt.
The annual reunion Of the Survi-
yors of the 18th Regiment, 6. @. ",
will be held in Walhalla, on the 2lst of
August, which day will be the twenty
third anniversary of the formation of the
regiment. The Survivors of the 9Th Reg
iment, S. G. ", will have their reunion
in Winnsboro' on the 2lst of August.
The shipment of buffalo bones from
the plains of ths West to Eastern phos.
phate factories has largely increased re-
Gently, because of the reduction in the
trunk liue freight rate. Thousands of
buffalo skeletons are gathered up by the
bone men on the prairies, especially in
the valley of the Arkansas, every season.
One Philadelphia manufacturer alone
received in the course of the last two
months over 200 carloads. Delivered at
the factory the bones are worth $25 a
ton.
- The town of Selma, Ala, claims to
have the most wonderful artesian we'll in
the world, and it would seem with good
reason, The remarkable feature in the
case is that two separate streams of water
of entirely different properties flow from
this we'll. The singular effect in question
is produced, it seems, by the simple in
- t,zn.snch y,ina within a f0t1r-