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

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| 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 s engaged in arrang.
ing defects in the State debt and election
laws.
/ = Reports from NeHberry County are
/ to the effect that upland corD is very
good, but that the bottom corn is not
doing so we'll.
! : The democratic congressional con-
yention Of the second Maryland district
has adjourned after taking 2,408 ballots
among three men.
| = Logan and Hendricks accidentally
met in the dining room of the Fifth
Avenue hotel, New York, on Friday
morning, and had pleasant conversa-
tiOn. Politics was not mentioned.
A German medical journal has dis.
covered means whereby life can be pro.
| longed. 1t ia based upon the experience
| of Methusclsh who did not marry until
he was one hundred and eighty-s years
| old, and then lived to be nine hundred
and sixty y-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 N. Pasteur in connec.
ton with finding cure for hydrophobia
has reported that its Investigations de-
cisively confirm the correr. less of the
distinguished scientists theory.
= The New York World has discov.
cred cat in the meal tub in the fact
that Elgins, Blaine's manager, is partner
w..l 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 good
yield 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
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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 iuhabi.
tants, needs such an association in order
that abe may show what she is doing,
acd in order to encourage her sturdy
farmers 70 renewed efforts"
- The convicts in the Kentucky
penitentiary made desperate effort to
escape On Thursday, headed by young
man of good family who is n convict.
He knocked down guard with bottle
and led 9 rush Tor the armory. A despe.
rate fight ensued, citizens being eummon
ed to aid tho guards. Several guards
were wounded and number of the
convicts escaI ed before the mutiny was
quelled.
- There arI now on the pension rolls
81 widows Of Revolutionary Roldiers, and
As of these como from the Southern
States. Nine are from Tennessee, 8 from
Georgia, IL from Virginia, from West
Virginia, and IL from North Carolina,
There Ia only l Revolutionary widow
from Mississippi, l in Massachusetts, 8
in South Carolina, in Ohio and New
York, s In Maine and New Hampshire,
in Vermont and 8 in Pennsylvania.
i = Tho Newberry Obserrer says: Gan
; improvement in the feelings Of business
men becomes more noticeable as the
season adv ances. The outlook for a good
fall trade was never better. The crop
news from all pOrtions of our county ii
very flattsring 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 peni
tentiary after ten years confinement. Il
eeenls that the unfortunate convict was
innocent of the crime with which he was
charged, and he was released upon the
statements of the prosecuting witnesses
4 After losing ten Of the best years of his
j life this man has practically no redress
The State of Kentucky is not liable 10
damages and the only remedy available
10 to sue the prosecuting witnessed.
I - Mr.. Thornwell McMaster, who has
returned from q business trip to Sumter;
states that he saw the Mason cotton
i picker operated in field where there
we're a few open bolls, and the pickle,
passed by the unopen bolls and picked
the cotton from the open bolls with the
Judgment Of human being. The Mason
gin, he believes, will also be grand sue.
cess, and the sawiDg off Of the hands and
arms of feeders of gins will coon be q
i thing Of the past Colunsbia Registsr.
Il - Pinkerton, the great detective, once
4 adopted novel plan for establishing the
/ guilt of q suspected murderer. He waz
employed to work up q cass againsi
4 Johnson. o colored man, in South Caro-.
lima, who was supposed to have commis-
ted very brutal murder. johnson waa
not arrested, but one morning when he
went to take his plow to the Geld he
found It spattered with blood. In the
Geld he found little. poole Of blood,
When he went back to the stable he cav
i TIE bloody imprint of q hunssn hand on
i the door. Every hoe and rake had blood
ca IL. BY nig6tfall the murderer wsa
paIalyEed with fear and afraid to 20 20
bad. He believed that the spirit Of his
victim ysas haunting bin. The next tiay
4 he cut his throat from oar to oa5, and his
suicide was regarded % conc,usive proof