The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-10-15
The Rice Crop Ruined.

SAVANNAH, VA, OCtoUe[ ia
strong Northeast gale, which has been
blowing all day, caused tidal wave in
the Savannah River at noon, and another
at 10 o'clock tonight. The rice planta.
tions are all submerged. TIE banks are
badly broken and the crop is all under
water. The loss is estimated at from six
ty to seveuty-6ve per cent. Hutchinson
island, opposite Savannah, is inundated,
and all of the residents came over to the
city at night. The rice crop along the
Ogeechee ard Satilla rivers is also seri-
ously damaged, and many fields will be
total loss. The heavy rain has flooded
the country South of here, and the track
of the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway is washed out in several places.
= There are two brothers who live in
Atlanta whose residences are opposite
one another on the same street. One
decided day or two ago to have his
house painted, aud closed contract with
painter who was to do the work last
Saturday, and as he was anxious to be
paid for the job that night the gentleman
agreed to accommodate him. The paint
er with large force went to work with
zeal, and shortly after noon notified the
gentleman at his place of business that
the work was done. He was promptly
paid, and the gentleman soon went out
to see his newly decorated house. lmag'
inc his CONSERVATION on arriving on the
ground to find his house untouched,
while that of his brother, just across the
way, shone like new circus poster, with
it's gorgeous trimmings and fringes. The
painter had mistaken the house.
We regret the accident which befell
Mr.. J. A. West on Wednesday. Mr..
West was shot by negro while turkey
hunting. He and Dr. w. Rogers went
into the woods and each concealed him
self in blind. Mr.. West began to yelp
for the turkeys. A negro man living
near, hearing the yelping, supposed there
were turkeys in the woods, took his gun
and crept up near where Mr.. West was
secreted. Seeing him move, the negro
thought it was turkey and 6red-one
of the shot entering the corner of his
eye next to the nose, entering the brain
another shot slightly wounded him in
the face. Mr.. West is perhaps mortally
wounded, being paralyzed on one entire
side. When the negro found that he had
shot man and not a turkey, he went
Immediately home, as be was frightened
-Eatonton Ga.) Messenger.
y Men make a living in New York by
picking up cigar stubs thrown away in
the slree,s by smokers. The tobacco is
used for The manufacture of cheap fine
cut. and is even used as "flling" for
cheap cigars. At the Fifth Avenue
Hotel recently, says the Tribune, the
porter elected n well.dressed stranger
who wandered about the corridor and was
seen to drop his handkerchief several
times alongside of cigar stumps, which
had disappeared when the handkerchief
was picked up. Cigars gathered in the
hotels are usually of the best quality OF
Havana tobacco, and this man is said to
have bank account of several thousand
dollars, wholly the result of his attention
to the cigar stump business.
= Elk Governor Moses, of South Caro-
lima, who was recently sentenced to
three years in the Massachusetts peniten
tiary, is not without friends. Several
eminent men have made appeals in bis
behalf and professed willingness TO
help him. An application for his pardon
will be made. Moses is in bad health
ond even under favorable circumstances
cannot expect to live many years. His
various swindIing operations during the
past few years have been of such petty
nature as to leave the impression that his
mind WAS affected.