The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-07-10

- wheat ID partS OF ileAaS Is tu[uiuS
out. forty.fve bushels:to the acre.
a- Chesterfield County has a postoffice
named Catarrh. That would be a good
place for the patent medicine man.
Fourteen barbecues are advertised in
Lexington, county; South Carolina, fol
July and August, and the candidates are
expected to patronize all of them.
1.-THE breeding stallion Almont died
at Lexington, KY, Friday. He was the
sire of several fine trotters. His owner
had refused $4,000 for him.
- Colonel Thomas s.. Long of Cataw.
Fba Station, N. c.. committed suicide last
week BY, blowing off the entire top o.
his head with an old flint and steel pistol
- It will cost the Government $4,000
for messengers. to carry to- Washington,
the votes of the electors OF the several
States for President and Vice President
~ The State Of Georgia lacked $780,
900 of having enough. money to pay
$3.50 900 Of interest On her debt due July
1st. Gen. Toombs and other citizens ad'
vanced the money.
Captain John w. Andrews, of Sum
ter, South Carolina, the monogenarian
who on may started to walk from his
home to Boston, is said to have shaken
hands with more than ten thousand peo.
pile on his way.
The Albany Times IA Flower organ)
tells a story of Gov. Cleveland's expert.
'ence in the Adirondacks last year, while
hunting for deer. He had scouts out to
drum up deer for him, but found when
the deer stalked past him that his gun
was unloaded.
Miss Lula Hurst, the "Georgia
wonder," will appear at Wallack's Thea
tire, New York, for an indefinite season,
beginning on Monday, July Z. The
engagement was made after satisfactory
private exhibition of her powers on
Monday, in the presence of several
prominent physicians, managers and
officials.
The following are the items for
South Carolina in the river and harbor
bill as finally agreed upon by both houses
iof Congress: Charleston harbor $780,
600, Georgetown $4,000, Ashley River
$4,000, Edisto River SIS 900, Salkehatchie
River $4,000, .Waccamaw River $4,000,
Wappoo Cut $4,000, Wateree River S..
900, Santee River $4,000.
SAYS the Lincoln IN. C.) Press It
is not often that man in this part Of
the world is called upon to- mourn the
death and burial of two wives in one
year, yet this is the sad experience Of
Jos. Parker, of this county. On the 18th
of June, 1883, his first wife died. In a
few months he married her sister, and on
Saturday, June 18th, she, too, died.
- It is said that n'Winnebago lake,
Wisconsin, they fish with lines six miles
long. and use 10000 hooks on line
One catch generally realizes 1000 fish
The 20, 900 hooks are baited with pieces
of meat and lowered to the bottom. II
takes twenty boats with two men in each
to look after this big catch. Most oi
the fish taken from this lake are sturgeon
weighing on an average seventy pounds
West Point cadets are taught how
to swim, how to rescue drowning per-
son and the quickest method of restoring
the apparently drowned. In last years
class all were unable to swim a stroke
when they entered the academy, but be.
fore the summer every one of them coule
swim across the Hudson, three-quarters
Of mile, and SOME could swim bach
again.
| The New York World of Monday
SAYS: 1t vas stated in labor circles las
evening that every Assembly of th'
knights of Labor thus far held has pass
ed a resolution to Boycott" Blaine ant
Logan. : The more enthusiastic of tn
members of this powerful order clain
that this means loss of several hundred
thousands of Republican votes for the
party nominee in the United States an6
over fifteen thousand votes in New York
State alone, .,..e
T The British consul in Galveston
Texas, warns young men from the moth
er country against emigrating to tha
State. He says: "Young men from .
desk in an Office, unacquainted will
country life and unaccustomed to manua
| labor. had better stay at home. fnt
many such are induced to come here, ant
the result is that they become loafers
and rapidly descend in the social seale.'
In a letter to an acquaintance il
i Alabama, Governor Cleveland states b
is now occupying a position in his OWL
State high enough for his ambition tina
he is "seekipg no other Office" and tina
he thinks above all things that the peopl
should have their way in the matter Q
the Presidency. Governor Cleveland
/ friends make the claim, which is certain
ly creditable Jne, that he has neve
sought office, but has been nominated
and elected in every instance without bl
own solicitation.
About year ago the wife of Mar
Gus Shell, of Newberry County, deserte'
her husband and eloped with q feilo,
named McGill, from Lancaster, who lei
a wife and children. Mr.. Schell shortl
afterwards moved to North Carolina
where he recently obtained divorce ant
married again. Nothing was heard Q
the runaway pair until Thursday last
when Mrs. Schell returned to Newberr.
and went at once to the house of lie
father, Mr.. Thos. Phillips, near Noun
Tabor Church, where she is now staying
- The body of Mr.. Austin P. Pickett
the peniteutiary guard who was drowne
in the Congaree River last Wednesday
was recovered Friday morning, near th
West bank of the river, short distance
below the ferry crossing. An aged col
ored mau discovered the remains b.
placing bundle Of fodder in the rive
at the point of drowning and the curren
which carried off the body hoated tn
fodder to the very locality where tn
body had paused in its course down tn
stream-the two objects having drifte'
into the same eddy. The old man re
ceiyed reward of $25 for his discovery