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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29
He Goes up for Life.

Yesterday the supreme court rendered
decision in the celebrated Beck murder
case. Eugene w. Beck was indicted for
the murder of his wife in Rabun County,
on October 2Sth, 1854. He shot his wife
and sister.in.law, Miss Addie Bailey,
killing them both, and snapped his pistol
at the servant who was present.
The defense attempted to show that
Beck had delirium tremens, and labored
under the delusion that he was being
attacked by dogs, and was insane both
when be fred the shots and when he
made the statement next day. The
whole family history WAS brought to
light. The eccentric conduct of his
mother and other relatives was pnt in
evidence, and DR.. Fl. V. NJ. Miller and
other experts on insanity were introduced.
The prosecution denied any insanity or
delirium tremens, and insisted that the
evidence showed that Beck was merely
furiously drunk, and that in this state,
voluntarily assumed by him, he was
maddened by the idea Of his wife's threat
to leave him, made few weeks before,
and her sisters presence and encourage.
ment, and so consummated the deed.
The case was one Of the most interesting
ever tried in this State.
In the superior court Beck was con-
yicted and sentenced to Imprisonment
for life. His counsel moved for new
trial, which was refused, and his case was
carried to the Supreme court. The array
of counsel on both sides was strong, COM
pretending we'll known lawyers from
different parts of the State. The speech
es were of unusual interest and strength,
embracing a thorough discussion of
insanity, delirium trcmens and drunken.
ness as relieving from responsibility for
crime.
The Supreme court affirmed the judg'
ment of the court below, holding that
Beck was not insane but madly drunk,
and that such condition voluntarily
assumed did not relieve him from the
guilt of murder.
At the next term of the supreme court
of Rabun County he will be brought
before the bar and re.sentenced to life
Imprisonment. Nothing further remains
for him except to expiatc his crime by
servitude in the pcnitentiary for life
atlanta Constitution, AprI2l.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29
"A GEOGRAPHICAL CONTROVERSY SET
TIED AT LAST.

Descending from the Himalaya noun
tains and flowing for nearly 1000 miles
along the southern border of Thibet is
the River Sanpo, which has been the
subject of more geographical controversy
than any other river in the world. NO
body has known whether this large river
was the headwaters of the Brabmaputra
and reached the sea through India, or
whether it fed the Irawaddy and flowed
through Burmah. Most geographers
have been disposed to identify itwith the
Brahmaputra, but as late as January last
year MI. Robert Gordon, the leading au-
thority on the photography of the Ira
waddy, read q paper in London to. show
that the sanpo must be tributary to the
Burmese River.
In the southeast part of Thbet is a
large region marked on some maps as
ssThe Country Of robber and wild tribes"
These tribes have guarded the secret OF
the sanpo. No explorer, white or In
dian, has ever penetrated their country.
The last to. try it was the now famous In
dian traveller, Ak, who had to turn
back three years ago from the threshold
of the dreaded Mishmi country. The
Mishmis are still unyisited, but the secret
of the Sanpo has been solved beyond all
doubt. It is identical with the Dihong,
the northern branch of the Brahmaputra,
and is thus tbs headwaters of that Indian
river.
Not, far from the southern edge of
Thibet river coming from the east
unites with the Dihong to form the Brah-
maputra. Messrs. Needham and Moles-
worth fifteen months ago followed this
branch far east until their explorations
Joined those of Ak, proving that the
river was identical with the Zayul Chu,
whose upper course he had thoroughly
explored. The Zayul Chu is therefore
the eastern branch of the Brahmaputra,
instead of an afluent of the Irawaddy,
as Mr.. Gordon and some Chinese geogra-
pliers have believed.
The Zayul Chu having now been as
cended east and northeast for several
hundred miles to its sources, it is certain
that the Sanpo cannot join the Irawaddy
unless it either burrows under the zayul
Chu. or takes flying leap over it. 1t is
thus proved beyond doubt that the
Sanpo is identical with the northern
branch of the Brahmaputra. Another
geographical mystery has passed into the
realm of ascertained fact.
The explorer Ak is so called because
the names of the travellers in the employ
of the Indian Government ere not pub
lished until after they quit the service.
Ak travelled in the 'guise of mer'
chant, and if his real character became
known in many regions north OF India
his usefulness. as au explorer would be
destroyed.-Nsps and Courier.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29

The Honea Path Plaindealr is now
owned by a joint stock company and ed.
tied by Mr.. B. Watkins, Principal of
the Honea Path High School. Mr.. Wat.
kins is competent and energetic and will,
no doubt, make good paper. He is
alive to all the varied interests of the
County and State, and, if he receives the
support he deserves, will make the Pain
dealer power for good.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29

No teacher can hope to teach his pupils
politeness unless he himself is uniformly
polite; aAs is the teacher so are the pu-
pils.n Politeness is commodity whose
value is incalculable. Affectation OF
manners is disgusting, but that genuine
courtesy which springs from a proper ap'
probation of the dignity of others is ad-
mirable whether found in youth or man
hood.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29

81 have such an indulgent hus'
band" said little Mrs Doll. eyes, so
George says" responded Mrs. Spteful,
quietly; sometimes lie INDUCES too
much, doesn't hep They no longer
speak to each other.
1t is said that of the GO, 900 Hebrews
in New York city, not one is the keeper
of grog.shop.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29

= All marriages in England do not
take place in the morning, but very
large majority of them do--the hours
fixed by law being from S to - o'clock,
noon. When it is desired that the cere.
mony should be in the afternoon, a
special license is necessary, at an expense
of f10 or more extra.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29

The Carolina Teacher has been pur-
chased by the publishers who promise
great improvement with the next issue.
Success attend their efforts.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29

Messrs. Boleman and Thornton have
had prosperous year at Townvii,e'
Their classes are we'll advanced and MAKE
creditable examinations.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29

Our list of competent teachers wanting
summer work is increasing. Trustees
having vacancies to fill would do well to
maize applications without further delay.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29

Miss Iva Cooks school will give an
entertainment on May 9Th, and the
Townyille school, one on Friday, 7sh'
Thanks for invitations.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29

= There are men whose friends are
more to be pitied than their erenies;,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29
'T'E'A6HE;Rs'Go1UMN,
+ q. CLINKsCALEs, EDITOR.
Corporal punishment is fruitful sub
;ect. Let us hear something more OF 1t.

About ninety.fve OF Mr.. Watkins
pnpils have had measles. Many other
schools in the County have been similar
lv afflicted.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-04-29

ohtAA GA WSAS S~ASAy S'NN'
Then without stopping to dry clothes,
we pushed ahead, but rain soon afterward
came down in torrents and every little
valley in that hilly country soon became
overrun with deep, muddy stream,
through which we waded breast high.
When the command got to Winchester
the feet of the men, from the constant
rasping of the water and sand in their
shoes, were in terrible condition, and
their shoulders were CALLED like those of a
tow.path mule. Had the enemy's caval-
ry come on US next day, as was fully ex-
pected, for they had advanced to Berry
Vile, the brigade could not possibly have
maneuvred rapidly enough to give them
q stiff fight, unless by taking up positions
behind the stone fences and staying
there.
The last march from Petersburg to Ap.
pomatox was the most terrible to the
retreating army of any have read of in
history, except the French retreat from
Moscow. 1t is true that the weather was
generally mild during the seven days
march, but there was only four hours of
sleep and rest out of the twenty -four, and
for four days we were entirely out of
provisions.
don't see to this day how the beaten
army managed to sustain any sort of
organization under the frightful hardsbips
they endured. And never did the Cos.
sack hordes pursue more re!entlessly the
broken columns of Napoleon amid the
Russian wastes and SHOWS than did
Sheridan the veteran army of Lee after
Amelia Court House was passed. The
attacks upon the retreatipg column were
incessant day and night, and the noise of
rifle aud cannon firing lulled the brave
but exhausted men to sleep and greeted
their ears in reveille at daybreak. Oh!
it was terrible time, but thank GOD,
those who survived the fearful ordeal can
now look back at it as a troubled dream,
and without particle of ill will to those
who caused it.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-24
LElTH LIBERAL CLUB.
MR. GLADSTONE APOLOGIES
FOR RIs ABSENCE.
Address by the Earl OF Aberdeen
Liberals must Heal the Scbism
In Their Ranks.

LONDON, October % The Lsith Lib
ersl Club was opened yesterday. Mr.
Gladstone sent an apology for his abb
sence and hearty good wishes for the
success OF the club, sdding: "Your
club was formed during an epoch Of a
dangerous chism, which every good
Liberal must desire TO heal. 1t is the
object OF the Tories to keep the dis
sension alive by postpon;n the ques-
ton upon which II a. ose. l rejoice to
see Lord Monck, dissenting L beral,
suggesting reapproachment. l hope
he will continue his patriotic labors."
The Earl Of Aberdeen delivered an
earnest address, 10 the course OF which
he asked his countrymen to consider
whether the time has not come to
show that our policy toward often
saddsned Ireland ia one OF peace, sp.
pealing to The best side of human ma
ture. Away, he ssid, with the notion
that that policy lie bsse surrender to
violence. No, it is policy, no mat
ter which party carries it, which lie in
accord with the best instincts of the
traditions of Liberalism. Lord Rose
berry, in an apology for his absence,
wrote: For the present we are in the
back water Of the torrent Of passion
which has rsged the greater part Of
the year. We have no policy to OPP
pose. The governments dealing wi h
foreign affairs will be guild d by facts
Of which we were unaware, but il
they use British influence in
support OF liberty and order
in the Balkans, firmly main
tain the neutrality OF the New
Hebrides, and while supporting the
rights Of the North American colonies
aim at an amicable sett ement OF the
fishery dispute, they will receive the
support of all of their countrymeu.
Their Irish policy is tt II uudeveloped.
Tho Liberals therefore must endeavor
to heal the fchism ia their ranks.
fear the leaders will be able to DO lit
tie in this direction, but / have uu-
limited faith in the rank and file. If
during the winter they eel themselves
to discuss, without pafsi n or rtju.
dice, the QUESTION dividing Us, they
may solve difficulties that appear more
formidable than they really are. We
can do nothing without the United
States, and they can do nothing with
out US. Both sections will incur great
responsibility il they allow the party
to be permanently broken up without
making an eff, 10 prevent it."
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-24
Notes

The. WAsHBURN has secured the
ealoon privileges. 1t could not have
fallen to better hands.
WILLIE MARTIN and Belle Bracket
are not likely 10 start here. Leroy il
the best of the Brckett lot.
JENNIE Tracy, at the beginning o.
the season one OF the best OF two year
olds, has had enough, and is now in
the pasture.
SOUTH HARRIS is growing tired OF
trotters. He says several boys who
used to rub horses for him at 500 per
month are now making big mone y
with the runners, while he is barely
making living with the trotters.
On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
the races will be proceed d by q ( x
hunt, and three real live red foxes
have been especially imported fr m
New Hampshire for the occas n.
This W Il doubtless prove an attraction
that few can Withstand.
jim GRAY is considered the best
horse at the track. His owners had
concluded not to run him any more
this season, but it is now thought he
may 90 in the Peabody Hotel haudi.
cap. He has won for his new owners
seven races, netting $4,000.
GRAY & Co g stable, when here in
spring, had v4ral good ones-Jim
GRAY, Lucas, Faster and Wicklow.
The three first we're sold, and the last
h gone wrong. Mr. Gray now his a
number of yearlings, some OF which
he is likely to train into good race
horses
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-24
A VERY OLD CHESTNUT
BROUGHT FORWARD WITH A
GRAND PLOURISH
of tho Statesman Most Prom
inently Mentioned.

New YORK, October 23 The Mail
and Express says: Considerable talk
was caused today by the dispatch from
Louisville stating thst the private pa
pers OF the late Jacob Thompson were
about to be published, and that they
would give some startling facts regard
ing the part taken in the plot to free
Or fsdeIate prjsoners during the war
by Western sympathiz are st the North,
some Of whom ara holding office at the
present time, IL was leaned by q
Mail and Express reporter that Mr.. A.
r. Hart, OF this city, has important
documents in bis posse sion bearing
on this subject. Among the are
sworn accounts of meetings held by
Thompson and other conspirators by
persons who were present., and in one
of these accounts the rame OF a man
now prominent Federal officer in
Chicago end OF man who Is a prom
inent city official there are men,
toned. At this meeting Thompson
wss heard TO tell OF the fai ures CT
this and other plots to cripple the
North and to say the Inauguration Of
riots and the employment Of men 10
engage in them cost the Confederacy
$500,000. Thompson ASP said that
they had undeItaken TO release pris-
oneIs from all the Northern prisons,
hal purchased arms and smuggled
them to their friends" sufficient to
have armed all the prisoners, aud that
"this was all that was wanting, our
friends North stated" Thompson
also told that when the time came,
which was the last night before the
Presidential election, at Camp Chase
the effort WAS too feeble to be recog.
nized, aud at Chicago, where he had
been assured the prisoners would be
released and the city burned and de-
stToyed, only little was done before
the leaders were arrested
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-24
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street.
The already large and constantly
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the carrying OF large stocks OF
supplies in the latest and most APP
proved styles OF bath tubs, wash
stands, water clostts, traps, cocks,
valves, etc, as well as the employ
ment Of large force of the most
skilled and reliable wo kmen, in order
to execute promptly the orders for this
work, and Browne, the Plumber" is
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is not necessary, or even profitable, ia
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for the lines in which Browne is en-.
g'ged that is the furnishing of gas
and steam pipes, cooke, valves, inspi
rators, steam pumps, 4 tings and en-.
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city trade-which is carried in large
quantities and ell sizes, from six inch
pipe and fittings down TO the
smallest sizes, and in order TO
fiji the orders of the jobbing trade
as we'll as mills and fac cries prompt y
and in the best manner, Mr.. b owne
has IT Gently added steam power in
his establishment with capacity for
cutting and threading pipes from the
smallest tize up to and including
eight inches in diameter, which is
equal TO the capacity OF any house in
the West or South.
In the gas fixture line the largest
stock and most varied selection of
newest designs are to be fouod here,
aud at prices as low as in the Esst IN
markets. 1t may be proper to say
here that this house is now the oldest
and most successful IN this liue in the
city of Memphis, and it will prove TO
the interes, OF sll to place their orders
with ]. w. Y. Browne, 254 Second
street.
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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-24
ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY TAKEN
YESTERDAY,
Tending to Prove That Mrs. Meyer
and Her Children Returned
Alone From Jackson.
THE PRISONER r ADS A WRIT
TEN STATEMENT.
Argument Begun by AttOrney-Gen-
eral Peters and Judge Douglass
adjournment OF Court.

The trial of the Meyer case was re-
sumed yesterday. The courtroom was
crowded, every available seat being
occupied in anticipation OF the fact
that the Arguments Of counsel would
begin during the day.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-24
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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-24

the State, Gen. Turner and Col. CAN'T
for the defenss, when Gen. Wright
will close for the prosecution. The
entire day tomorrow will be consumed
Ia argument to the Jury.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-24
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
Peabody Hotel.

O. d. GALLOWAY 4 co. .......P AoPRfKfoRs
Rates o. so and 80 per day. accordine IA
size and location of room-SpeciaI
mada xaiaa
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-24

The Herbal Chill Cure, the best
tonic and anti-perlodis known. A certain
tie. Send stamps for circulars. Any ref
eropoe gixon. Address John O. Raoker,
LynchborG. Va.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-24
GasiOn's Hotel.

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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-29
Only an omclal Endorsement.

The Dramatic Times tells the following
concerning parties whom old Sacramentans
hold in remembrance
During the war, when the First Califo--
MIA Cavalry was organized at Sacramento,
John @. Ceremony obtained the commission
of Captain, and commanded Battery u.
He had for Lieutenant a young French
man named Duchetel, who had the most
unabidlng faith in the obligation of a sub
ordinate officer on all occasions to support
his superior. Ceremony early found this
out, and in this connection a good story
used to be told around the club. 1t APP
pears that Ceremony gradually got into the
habit of telling the most outrageous kind
of yarns relating to his services in the
French army, and calling on Duchetel TO
cor-oborate them, which the latter would
always do Duchetel had really been an
officer in the Chasseurs d'Afrique, in which
regiment Ceremony also claimed to have
served When the command was in camp
on the ella river one evening, Colonel Gre
mony was telling wonderful story of how
on one occasion in Africa he had, with
nothing but naked saber, slain two royal
Nubian lions While he was telling the
tale his Lieutenant who was extremely
full of Commissary rum, came to the tent
and leaned against the pole.
:" am glad, Lieutenant" exclaimed Gre
mony, that you have arrived | was just
telling these gentlemen of my wonderful
encounter with the Nubian lions Of course
you recollect that time, Lieutenant, when
killed two of them with nothing but my
saber?" a long interval of silence pre-
vailed, and then Duchetel, gathering him.
self together with drunken gravity, re-
sponded "Cap'n Ceremony, if We as me as
Lieutenant Duchetel, Company B, First
California Cavalry, if l remember your en-
counter with Nubian lions I'll say | do
Ask me as one sbentleman to mother, say
it's id lie" 1t was all mutual friends
could do to prevent a duel.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-29
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Ariel Lathrop was among yesterdays visitors
to Sacramento.
Sheriff Wilson has gone to San Francisco to
remain a few days.
]. c. Stubbs and wife. of San Francisco were
visiting the city yesterday.
Colonel John P. Irish, of the San Francisco
Alta, was in town yesterday.
Fish Commissioner Dibble came down from
Grass Valley yesterday morning.
Major R. H. Henderson,, known in the history
of the late " the drummer boy of the
Rappahannock, is in the city, and expects TO re-
main here during the winter.
Monday evening a large number of the
friends of II. C. Wolf, Chief Engineer of the
Water Works, gave him genuine surprise
party at his residence, Fourth street, between
p and Q, in celebration of his 10th birthday.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yesterday
Miss E. Gilmore, Fresno; NJ. Z. Sanborn, Yuba
City; J. F. Crossett, San Francisco; John Boggs,
Colusa; James H. wilkins, San Rafael; George
w. Cate, J. Marion Brooks, Miss Rose Wood Z.
A. Swift, H. w. Burtis, J. II. Miller, San Fran
cisco; Joe Lacy, C. NJ. Ellis. New York.
Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday: Ed
McCue, A. A Merry, B. H. Chambers, Folsom;
Mrs. c. R. Wiicoxon, Yuba City, Joseph Hutch
inson, San Francisco; +. :. Freeman, F. +.
Baker, Woodland: w. c. Hendricks, Oroville; J.
W. Hughes, city; George Oleyer, Yuba City; ].
E. Krumb San Jose; John Lawton, FOLSOM; c.
p. Sprague, Woodland; j. B. Furnish Gait; J. ].
Horton, San Francisco: Charles w. Paine,
Monterey; ]. A. Owens. Truckee: Samuel Deal,
San Francisco; Alexander Beatty, Nevada; +.
Taylor, San Francisco.