The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-09-24

- Gold worth S90,S0O00O was dug
from Uncle Sans rich soil in 1884.
"A little seven. year old son of Ed.
Nichols, of Hodges, fell from the sweep
of cane mill and broke his arm last
Thursday.
Mr.. w. j. Hill, a young man who
lived about ten miles from Darlington,
was drowned while bathing on Monday
afternoon.
= Sam Jones, the great revivalists, is
expected in Atlanta this week, and will
preach there for ten days, beginning with
October 3.
- Trial Justice Leckie held an inquest
Saturday on the body of colored child
on Mr.. Alex. Wise's place, in Chester
County. The verdict was death from
smothering.
= On Thursday night last week the
cotton house of Mack Crawford, colored,
on Capt. w. L. Roddey Blake's place,
southwest of Rock Hill, was totally con-
sumed by fire.
- There is natural bridge near the
boundary line between Arizona and New
Mexico. twenty miles North of the
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, which
surpasses in every way the famous one in
Virginia.
= Several hundred wife beaters in
Baltimore were annually let off easily.
Now that the whipping post yawns for
these wretches the crime has ceased.
Tho 1oo} 10 fho orant roforrnnr
= Some of the camels taken to Texas
in antewar days with view to breeding
them for army transportation contracts,
have perpetuated themselves in herd
in Bastrop County, whence showmen
make frequent purchases.
= Mr.. Thomas Murphy has met with
a very painful accident while feeding
the gin of Mr.. Amos Davis, of Wins.
boro'. 1t is the old story of putting the
hand too near the gin saws and it result
ed in the loss of two fingers.
= FIX Senator Chaffee, of Colorado,
says that when Congress meets an effort
will be made to obtain Mrs. Grants con-
sent to have Gen. Grants remains remov-
ed to Washington. He says that there
will be no difficulty in obtaining her
consent.
"A paper presented before the
French Academy of Sciences estimates
that man at fifty years of age has slept
an aggregate of 5000 days, worked the
same length of time, eaten 1000 days,
walked 800 days, and been ill 500 days.
= The skeleton of a man nine feet
one inch in height is said by the St.
Louis Globe. Democrat to be on exhibi-
ton at the Office of firm in Thayer,
Oregon County, Mo. The skeleton is
further said to be discovered by party
of men who were exploring cave some
three miles in length situated ABOUT nine
miles from Thayer.
- The land frauds in Texas have
blown into a public scandal. The re-
port forwarded by Special Land Com
missioner to Governor Ireland, OF Texas,
supports the grave charges recently made
by the Galveston Ne'cs concerning the
maadministraion of land affairs in the
State. That paper declared that foreign
cattle companies were occupying 22,OOO,-
900 acres-a block about tn" size of In.
diana-of school lands, for the use of
which the Governor and his associates
in the Land Board ought to have collect.
ed rent amounting to *2,O00,OOO. In
failing to do 80 they deliberately ignored
the law, which is mandatory. 1t was
also charged that the school fund had
been robbed since 1876 of 12,5OO, 900
acres of land, worth $25,000,OO0. The
States endowment of its public school
system was magnifcent-one half of the
public domain. Fraud, forgery, cor
rfuption, and official imbecili'y." tays
tha Wema