The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-05-05


surprised to find quantity of gold mug
gets in the crop and gizzard. Having
thirtY-one chickens that had scratched in
the same patch he began postmortem
prospecting on them. In each chicken
4 he found nuggets, and the total quantity
gathered had cash value of 1887.
= A convict made his escape at Bren-
ham, Tex, few days ago in curious
manner. With number of others he
was working on railroad embankment.
When none ofthe guards were looking
the convict laid down in hollow made
by the spades. The gang near him
threw dirt over him until he was COM
pletely covered. When camp was reach
ed and the roll called the escape was dis
covered.
- Twenty-six mortgages have been
found in the possession of Senator Stew
art, of Nevada, only one Of which is made
payable in "lawful money" the rest
specifying "gold coin." This is the
practice of one of the chief free coinage
preachers, and he is probably perfect
type of the rest. They are eager enough
to force deprecated dollar upon others,
butas for themselves they will take gold
every time.
- Fruit from South Africa has been
imported into England in excellent con-
dition. Peaches were received in London
-a few weeks ago which sold at the fancy
price of $40 dozen. One dollar. and six
ty-fve cents seems to the San Francisco
Chronicle like big sum to pay for a peach,
butthere are plenty mon in England who
can afford the luxury, even if it is true
that half the laborers in that country who
reach the age Of sixty years become pau
pers.
= A gentleman in Newberry received
on Monday check for one hundred
dollars as a token of kind act done forty
five years ago. The gentleman who sent
the check was young man then, end
was taken sick while visitor in New
berry. He was tenderly nursed by
Newberrian-long since gone to his re-
ward-who then occupied house where
the opera house now stands, and his son
who now receives the token Of a gener-
+ GUS heart was then a six-year-old. The
gentleman lives in the lower part Of tho
State,-zNewber,y Herald d Nevs.
Mr.. Orr made two or three state
ments in his speech at Greenville which
are well worthy of the consideration Of
all thoughtful men in the State. One re-
remark was that; bale of cotton that is
made into cloth in the State brings in $40
bale instead of SS5, or just double mon
ey. Another was that the mill company
of which he is president alone pays to the
laborers of the Piedmont section of the
State over million dollars annually.
Still another was that the company is
also "giving 1000 children ten months
education every year with no expense to
them." Aside from this educational
work, which cannot be too highly praised,
the fact that the company brings into
the community and distributes over
million dollars In wages every year, and
doubles the value of every bale Of cotton
handled by it besides, is full of sugges-
ton for the future of the State: Enough
such companies and mills would double
the value Of the whole cotton crop of the
State, and we should have mills enough in
the State to handle the whole crop. They
may be long in coming, but Mr.. Orr's
testimony proves plainly that the best
policy for the people of South Carolina
in the interval is to encourage and foster
cotton manufacturing by every right
means in their power. We congratulate
the people of Bamberg and Camden
again that they are adding such manu-
factures to their industries. The more
the better; there cannot bo too many in
the State so long as one survives in the
North.-Ne,vs and Courier.