The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-05-17
. A mass meeting was held at the

Metropolitan opera House IN new ork,
on Tuesday night, in behalf Of the Freed.
mans Aid Society, under the auspices
of the Methodist General Conference.
Among the speakers was Prof. w. Il.
Crogman, colored, of Clark University,
Atlanta, Georgia, who said that when
the society's missionaries first went South,
at the close of the war, there were not
more than 10000 negroes who could
read and write, and even these were
nearly all in the free States. At the
present time, as result of the work of
the society, not less than 200, 900 color.
ed children are coming their lessons in
the free schools of the country. Prof.
Crogman should not have failed to say
that the white taxpayers of the South
were doing very large part in the edu-
cation of colored children. He could
have admitted this fact without detract.
ing in the least from the credit due the
Freedman's society.
- On Friday, April 9th, the parents
of Miss Anne Tilman, of Anson county,
N. O., placed that young lady, who is
only sixteen and extremely pretty, in the
care of James Mclaughlin, who was on
his way to Union Theological Seminary,
in Virginia, for the purpose of complet.
ing his education for the Presbyterian
ministry. The young lady was on her
way to school at Greensboro, N. @. The
embryo clergyman promised to take strict
care of her. He more than kept his
promises. On reaching Charlotte he and
the young lady decided to get married.
A license was procured and the ceremony
vas soon performed. Mr.. and Mrs. Nc.
Laugblin then went on to Greensboro.
There the bride left her husband and
entered the college. The groom went
on to the theological seminary. Both
are now studying. The groom telegraph
ed the girls parents of the marriage.
The preacher has done we'll, for the girl
is rich and pretty.
The house in which Gen. U. S. Grant
was born, nothing extraordinary of itself,
and no wise different from many humble
homes of its period, has been leased by
Col. Morton L. Hawkins, ex-sherif Of
Hamilton County, Ohio, Ind will be on
exhibition for one hundred days at the
approaching Centennial Exposition in
Cincinnati. 1t il to be lifted from its
present foundation, beautiful site near
the Ohio at Point Pleasant, put on fat
and hoated down the river to Cincinnati.
Then it will be put on wheels and taken
to the Exposition grounds, where it may
be seen at so much peep. Its lessees
hope to preserve the historic old building
intact and in its present excellent condi-
tion of repair as nearly as possible.
They have secured q good many Grant
mementoes, and will make 6rstclass
curiosity shop out of it. No doubt it
will be one of the features of the Centen-
nial aggregation, and give thousands
an opportunity to boast of having stood
in the very room where Gen. Grant was
born.
Mrs. Cleveland tells an interesting
story Of how she happened to come into
possession of the team of aorrel horses she
drives to her ph@ton. Several weeks ago
the White House mail contsined a letter
from man in Richmond, Va, who said
thai, he was in possession of beautiful
span of sorrel horses, which he had selec-
ted as wedding present to his bride.
Shortly after his marriage his young wife
expired in his arms. The bereaved hus-
band could not bear to drive the horses
his bride had grown fond of, SO he sugges.
ted that the President purchase them for
"the first lady in the land" Mr.. Cleve-
land had consultation with his wife,
and then telegraphed to the Richmond
man to ship the horses at once. By let
ter the President sent a check for the
amount asked for the beautiful team.
The prisoners friend in New York
is Mrs. Ernestine Shaffer, woman of
means, who goes every day to the Tombs,
converses with prisoners and learns their
histories. Ifshe concludes that pris.
oner is innocent she furnishes bail, Sc.
cures lawyer, and has never yet failed
to win on the merits of the case. She
attends every trial, sits through all the
taking of testimony, the harangues and
the quibbles, and with sort of second
sight predicts acquittal when the law
befogged minds of Judges and barristers
can force nothing but speedy conviction.
She is daunted by no hardship, deferred
by no fear of loss, nor prompted by any
hope of gain. During the three years
that she has pursued this course her
assistance has never once been misplaced.
= European nations have already
appropriated about 6,500,000 OF the
IL 900, 900 square miles of Africa, and as
the great desert occupies 100000 square
miles, only about $500, 900 square miles
remain to be scrambled for.