The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-02-16

- The Governor has appointed q. A.
b. Gibson, of Walhalla, as Sheriff for
Oconee County, vice Brezeale, deceased.
= Prosperity, S. G., is to have bank.
The bank will be q private one, under
the management of Wheeler & Moseley,
of that place.
= after thirteen years, litigation an
Albany estate has realized IS cents
apiece for the heirs. The lawyers got
about $l1 900 each.
= American potatoes are scarce in
Chicago and tht usands ofsacks are being
imported from Rotterdam. A recent
consignment was $500 sacks.
= The charities of London last year
amounted to $25,000,000. They were
devoted chiefly to religious purposes,
$5,000,OO0 being spent on foreign
missions.
= The former school commissioner of
Oswego County, New York, who was
defeated in the last election by Miss Ida
l.. Griffin, and who claimed the lady
was ineligible on account of her sex, has
given up the contest, and Miss Griffin
NOUS tuo OluCe.
| John l.. Nally fled from Lafayette
Ind, while in delirium from typhoid
fever, to escape the penalty of unmarried
paternity. A few days ago he rushed in
to tbicket near San Diego, Cal, tearing
his clothing to shreds and nearly scratch.
ing all the skin from his body. He died
soon after being found.
H. ]. Furbor, Jr., is a young man
not yet 20, who is preparing to found
a great university in Chicago after that
of Heidelberg. He will devote 81 ,O0O,-
600 as an inducement for other citizens
to Join in the movement. He is a
graduate of the late Chicago University,
and is now in Berlin studying philosophy
under German masters.
= Eighteen deserters from the French
army in Tamaqua were drawn up in line
for execution, when the adjustant seeing
that the line was poor, said: "Can't you
fellows dress better than that? Right
Dress" The unfortunates Strengthened
themselves with military promptness and
perfection, and the next moment the
whole eighteen went down before the
| muFQerOuS Volley.
"A wealthy Methodist of Chicago, in
giving to the Missionary Society property
valued at S129'000, justi6es the purpose
of tka gift in these words: every man
in america has had as good chance to
hear and obey the Gospel as I have had;
therefore / propose to help those in the
older world who have had lesser or no op-
portunities."
The Sheridan boom is growing every
day. New York Republicans nre turn.
ing from Blaine to Sheridan and in the
West the cavalry general is strong.
Many Republicans who are friendly to
Blaine say that it would be great mis-.
take to nominate him again. They think
a new man is needed and that Sheridan
is the most available man in the party.
- Mrs. Phillips, white lady some
thirty odd years old, made last year thirty
odd bales of cotton and plenty ofcorn, peas
and potatoes on Capt. G.. O. Riley's place,
in Great Cypress Township. She plowed
an OK and did all the work of preparing,
planting, cultivating and gathering.
This year she has bought mule aud is
already ready to plant.-BarnaUeN People.
| = Ex. Representative Aaron Simmons,
colored, exhibited at this Office one day
last week mons.rosity in the shape of
twoheaded pig. The animal was perfect.
ly formed, with the exception of having
two we'll defined and shaped heads and
four eyes. 1t was the first thing of the
kind ever came under our observation,
and was certainly strange freak of ma.
ture,-0rangeburg Tines and Democrat.
- The cotton planters of Pickens, An
derson and Greenville, will find much
encouragement in the improvement ofthe
Pelzer and Piedmont cotton mills. Ifthe
factory business continues to enlarge in
Anderson and Greenville, twill soon be
equal to the cotton crop of the three
counties. If the work continues profit.
able, there are three or four valuable
factory sites in this county, which will
claim the attention of capitalists, and be
utilized inside of five years. These and
other kinds of mills will soon rise on our
water courses upon the completion of the
Cumberland Gap railroad.-Pickeps Sen.
tinel.
Quite remarkable incident occur.
red in Bethea Township, in the northwes.
tern part of this county, on the 30th,
ult. Mrs. Elizabeth Berry, an old lady
of seventy-four years, was in the filed
near her house when a large eagle
swooped down and seized hen that was
feeding near by. Mrs Berry came promp.
ly to the rescue and was in the act of
belaboring the marauding eagle with a
cornstalk to make him let loose the hen
which he had seized with the talons of
one foot, when, with his remaining
talons, the eagle seized her by the leg,
burying the claws in the flesh and holding
both the old lady and her hen, until Mr..
Andrew Berry, Mrs. Berry's husband,
attracted by her cries, came and liberia.
ted her only after he had cut off the
head of the audacious bird. The eagle
measured i've feet from tip to tip of his
wings. His talons are one and a half
inches in length, and the grasp about
that of a mans hand.-Afarion Star.
Bucklen's Arnica salve.