The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-03-13
Guiteau aud Garfield.

NEW YORK, March 6.-Charles IL.
Reed who was counsel for the assassin
Guiteau during the latter part of his
trial, was interviewed to day. He said
re had read in the newspapers state.
meIt Of x-Postmaster.G General James to
the committee in Washington, which
conveys the impression that the Star
route prosecutions we're in some measure
the cause of the shooting Of the late
President Garfield. He continued: :'i
am therefore willing to have published
for the frs. time some conversations
which occurred between Gu;!eau and N.Y.
self while l acted as his attorney. On
several occasions, when alone with
Guiteau, l asked him if he had any
accomplice or if any person knew that
he thought Of shooting the President.
he always announced in the most EN-
phatic manner, NO, no one but God and
me knew anything about it, On the
day before ne was executed, when saw
him for the last time, I said 10 him ::
"Guitesu, all hope of saving you is gone
and you must die tomorrow. Now, 1
ask again, had you any accomplce or
did any person besides you know any
thing about your intention to kill the
President?' With q wild light in his
eyes, which waa impossible Of stimulation,
| he replied: No, no! No one but God
and me knew anything about it, as |
have often told you. That is the truth
Sc expect to meet my God 10 morrow"
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! = The Darlington .Ncws says that a
curiosity of the cyclone can be seen at
the yard of Mr.. Black, the Brown house,
Mt the depot in Darlington. a plank is
driven through live oak tree, splitting
the oak just as wedge would.
The Chester Bulletin reports the
| capture in that county Of monster
which has the head oi lion and the
body Of goat. 1t was captured by q
party of coon hunters in the canebrakes
OF Sandy River, but not until it had
killed five dogs. 1t has no name and it
Is said that its genus is unrecorded in
the. psges'cf zoology"
= Fatal cases of tricIlinosis have lust
occurred in Michigan and Indiana. In
both instances German families were the
sufferers, and the victims had been eating
uncooked swine's flesh. The pernicioua
habit of eating smoked or salted pork,
without cooking it, retains its hold upon
the Germans, notwithstanding the warn
ings of physicians and the frequent re-
ports of disease and death resulting from
the practice. 1t is t. this habit to which
the great prevalence of trichinosis in
Germany is to be. attributed.
= Here is the latest reference TO Gen.
eral Toombs: Gen. Bob Toombs owns
some very valuable land in Texas. A
| little whiie ago ne refused $40 an acre
for tract of 1000 acres, and he owns
much more than this. It was to this
land the general referred when he an.
swered the inquiry uf Northern man
III faTis issss alter the war. The latte,
asked "how that id rebel managed tc
live" TELL him." replied the General
that am eating an acre of dirt day.
He was selling Texas lands at S5 an
acre, which was about his daily expenses
"Rough on Corns."
Ask for Wells Rough on Corns." l5c
warts, buniops.