The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-09-02

| - A correspondent writes to the Phil
adelphia Times in regard to offers made
to Gen. Grant to induce him to write his
war memories. An agent from Harper
Bros. first offered him $4,000 for the
copyright. he advised with friends,
and then on his own judgment rejected
the offer. E. L. Webster and Mark Twain
then proposed to publish the work and
pay him or to his family $1.50 per copy.
The number of copies issued has been
325,0OO from which Mrs. Grant has
received s450,000. Nearly all of the
edition is exhausted, and Mr.. Webster is
now in Europe attending to the sale of
the book there. Another edition will be
printed this year, and it is thought Mrs.
Grant will receive s150,000 more.
- The line which separates the United
States from Mexico keeps apart two dis.
tinct civilizations. Ell Paso is separated
from Paso del Norte by narrow, muddy
river. A. bridge and street car line
connect the two towns. On the American
side the houses, hotels, streets and people
are thoroughly modern. On the other
side the streets are narrow and dirty, and
smallpox runs riot all the year round.
The people 90 on, century after century,
drinking and smoking, eating frJoles and
wondering why the foolish Americans
cannot enjoy their way of life. They
have their feast days, and celebrate Sun.
days with cock-6ghts, bull-fghts and
monte games. The life of the Mexicans
is as it was in 1880.
- On Wednesday last Mr.. W. j. Car.
roll who lived four miles east of York
vile, was accidentally killed while
unloading from wagon some light saw
logs which he haulded to the saw mill at
Massey's store. Mr.. Carroll was assisted
by young man named Adkins. They
had thrown, one end of a log off the
wagon, and Mr.. Carroll, who had hold of
the other end, attempted to raise it over
the rear wheel, which he did, but in
attempting to sustain the weight of the
| los, it overpowered him and he fell, the
log falling on his head and crushing it.
Death was almost instantaneous.-Yo York.
vile Enquirer.
= About II o'clock on Tuesday morn
ing Mr.. 81. 81. Little6eld was struck
with rock thrown from the hand of one
Bob Butler, negro, and died last night
from the wound. Mr.. Littleield was at
work and Butler was abusing little
negro child, when Mr.. Littlefeld said to
him, "Bob you ought to be ashamed OF
abusing boy in that manner" where.
upon Bob picked up a. rock, threw it at
Mr.. Littlefeld striking him on the head,
and made good his escape. A party OF
determined men are after Butler, and we
trust he will be overtaken, and be made
to pay the penalty of his hellish crime.
= Wooruf Progress.
- Rev. James G. Beecher, of Cascot,
Conn.,. brother of Henry Ward Beecher,
and of Rev. Thos. K. Beecher, of Elmira,
N. Y, committed suicide at Water Cure,
Elmira, on Wednesday evening by shoot.
ing himself through the head with a
small rifle. He had been suffering
under severe mental troubles for num-
Der of years, and for time was under
treatment at Middleton Asylum, New
York. He went to Elmira recently in
care of special attendant.
The Augusta Chronicle of Saturday
says: On yesterday morning a Mr..
Davis, living on the line of the Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
bought ticket for his home and boarded
the outgoing train. He seemed to have
fallen asleep and no one took any notice
of him until the train stopped at Wards,
where the eincoming train was met. There
the conductor shook him in order to wake
him up, and to his surprise found the
man was dead.
"A beautiful marble monument to
the Confederate dead was unveiled with
elaborate ceremonies in Lexington, S. O.,
on Thursday. .T1dge Kershaw delivered
| the grafton.