The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-03-12

The Hartwell band chartered train
and came down to help the people of
EIberton rejnice.
The town is wild with enthusiasm.
= On Thursday when DR.. Groeson
was hanged at Philadelphia two conyicIs
confined in prison we're terribly affected
by the knowledge II what WAS going on.
Joseph Barrett, IS years old, confined in
cell near the gallowa, ahowed intense
interest in the hanging but all informa'
ton was denied him. This cell was
sealed during the execution but Barrett
must have heard the footsteps of the
solemn procession on its way to the gal.
lows. When his cell was opened, he.was
found dead, and his death is attributed
to fright. Joseph Taylor, under SEN
tence Of death for murder, became de.
lirious with fear. He heard the noise al
be sat in his cell, few feet from where
the scafold stood. The echo of the fall
ing doors had hardly died away when
the murderer was writbing in commissions
with his eyes almost bursting from their
socket, and fruthing at the mouth like q
mad dog. His fit lasted for FIVE minutes
and wss followed almost Immediately by
another.
"A few days ago L. II Batson, of
Paris Mountain township, saw a huge
hawk which had been circling above his
yard for some time suddenly swooP down
and gather a hen. Mr.. Batson is 10
years old, but did not hesitate to count
wears when he witnessed this outrage.
Seising stick, he sailed forth and gave
battle. The hawk measured four feet
two inches from tip to tip aud fought
fercely, and the battle waged for severa!
minutes, the bird seizing Mr.. Batson with
claws and beak and beating him With his
wings. Science and pluck were victori :,
GUS at last, however, aud Mr.. Batson had
the pleasure of seeing the bold marauder
dead at his feet.-Greenpilic Mews.
- Five hundred persons gathered on
the street in front of the Sterling hotel
at Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Wednes-
day, expecting to witness the payment OF
wager made before the presidential
election, which was that prominent
married woman would kiss the first man
she met after IL o'clock if Cleveland WAS
insugurated. The kissing was to be done
in the street, and publicly. The woman
failed to appear, and the crowd, after
waiting an hour, scattered. A notice
was posted on tree, saying, "The woman
has been attacked with small po1, and
the kissing has been postponed until
March 4, 1885,"
= In conversation with Collector
Brayton yesterday he stated to the Regis
ter reporter that there is no term to bis
Office, and with Republican senate a
strong fight might be made over the con-
firmation of bis successor. The salary
of the collector is $3.50. He has one
deputy with salary of 81, 400, two depu.
ties at 81 200 each, ten deputies at 81 100
each, one clerk at $1,000, one clerk at
5000 and thirty storekeepers who receive
81 per day when on duty. Five store
keepers only are employed at present.
The term of Office of the postmaster in
Columbia expires in May.
Mrs. Abigail Gardner, of Boston, on
Thursday, was convicted of the murder
of her husband and sentenced to life i'm
prlsonment. The murder was committed
thirty years ago, and now Mrs. Gardner
is an old lady of II years of age. She
confessed that abe poisoned her husband
with arsenic. She SAYS he was kind TO
her and that she had no motive for the
deed, but that an irresistible demon
forced her to the crime. She is over
whelmed with remorse for her crime.
"A meteor passed over Victoria,
British Columbia, on February %. 1t
was Of enormous size, and appeared like
a mass of molten iron. The noise caused
by its passage was like that of escaping
steam. Smoke and flames were thrown
off by the meteor. 1t Tas seen to
descend into the sea, cloud of spray
and steam marking the spot where it met
the water. This extraordinary phenome,
non was witnessed by many persons.
= It has been discovered by scientific
investigation that if Atlanta bores
through the earth with the Artesian we'll
she will not strike China, bnt will strike
the bottom of the Indian Ocean, several
hundred miles West of Australia. This
is very important and quite reassuring.
Now that it is an established fact that
there is water ahead the boring can be
pushed forward with more confidence.
The we'll is now considerably more than
a quarter OF mile deep.
In the discussion as to the deleterl-
Gus effect of tobacco upon the human
system, which has just been sta. ed
aEsesh, the case of a Kentucky woman,
vouched for by the Cincinnati Gazette,
should not be forgotten. She began
smoking con.cob pipes while young
girl, and, persisting in the practice, died
st the early age of ITO years.
PENNSYLVANIA has furnished twenty.
eight Cabinet officers, Massachusetts
twenty seven, New York twenty three,
Virginia twenty.one, and California,
Florida, Rhode Island and Texas COM
bined not one. Rhode Island is the only
one of the original thirteen that has
never had any Cabinet material.
= Mrs. VIM. Johnson, of Heard
County, was burned to death recently.
She was nursing child by the fire when
it rolled down and caught her clothing.
She Immediately went to tub of water
in the yard, but finding it frozen she
became frightened, and in her fright vas
burned to death.
A son of Mr.. Miller Green of Car.
ters,ille, Darlington County. was sitting
on fence and rail of the fence turned
and threw him on cotton stalk, which
stuck through the main artery of the
neck, killing him instantly.
-Adger Fair, boy who disappeared
so mysteriously week ago from New
berry, returned home on Friday night Of
his own accord. He has been to Charles
ton, and performed most of the journey
from Florence to Newberry on foot.
= The hero of the Inauguration parade
WAS Fi,zhugh Lee. He was dressed in
gray and his fine appearance elected
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