The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-23
POr!man News.

lally melango Of news, that when
from some circumstance he is unable
to do 30, his chief says: "then makeitr
The reporter. to secure the continuance
nf h's position, seeing perhaps two
0ootblacks in friendly spar, writes up
the: "Severe Scufiie of Two Street
Gamins.-WOrk for Homo Mission
Along the Degraded Streets" The
report is highly colorcd. Tufts of hair.
broken teeth, end too nails scatter
through the narrative; an excited
crowd watch the scandalous affray and
block the street. A policeman arrests
one OF the gamins and is himself tram
pied by tho mob! Next day the pe0-
pie say: where was the fightP where
was the crowdq we did not see it. The
Inference is, they were behind their
counters or back in their offices; and
they don't bother about it, they sim
ply missed seeing what others saw; but
the lnfalllbility of the report is never
doubted. Such reports are numerous.
Inc scenes arc continually being
enacted, every hour has it's affray.
There arc ten thousand to ten who
never saw ono of them; the ten saw the
friendly spar Of the boys; but q city
has no time to look at such nonsense; it
pushes its heavy human machinery
along. and the ten, if they give the af-
fair thought, say: that must have
happened after we saw it. There is no
doubt cast upon the cmissary of the
news. The columns of metropolitan
papers are pretty we'll filed with this
exciting education every day. No one
takes time t. investigate; and vice
from the report Of the sensational re-
porter-is 80 common that people
ignore it as news. but expect it in their
paper as evidence of the strenuous
trend of the metropolis. On the con-
trary, when news reaches the County
newspaper from correspondent in
the country, the report may be regard
cd ms true. In section where there
arc no saloons, no distilleries, and
whiskey is as scarce as hens teeth, the
author Of tho report reflects before he
sends in news Of tho vicious transac-
tion lest tho readers of his County
should regard the account as over
drawL; and so careful is he of veracity
that it anecd0te is not found he will
not and never from his County editoris
news, it is supposed had its derivation
from the initial letters of North, East,
West, South, such letters being cap
tlonS tor English papers expressing re-
ports coming from those points of the
compass. Finally the N. E. w. s. be-
came a word den0ting what we under
stand it to be to-day.
lnrge city in the North there was a
blockade of ten lines Of street cars, the
crowd being 30 dense on their way to
and in tho sections OF streets where q
phantom buggy had been passing for
days. The crowd poured in from hun
dreds of surrounding miles. The
phantom buggy passed on certain
place ut certain hour every day,
passed, repassed, and disappeared in
Dashing Duggies and carriages, the
eyes of whose horses or drivers were
clOsed-as oil were not permitted to
see tho spectre-wou!d plunge into the
phantom, not knowing it was there;
women and men would scream, and
try 10 separate the colliding vehicles
when, 10! ono of tho buggies was the
phantom and the others ran through il
as through thin air. the crowd falling
back fainting and horror-stricken.
For q week this was going on; the pa
pers were full of it column after col
umn; the writer lived In the suburbs,
and was distressed ut not yet having
seen the apparatiOn. A gentleman
relative in the house WAS requested to
act as guide. He, however, kindly re-
fused, saying the crowds would simply
trample his protege to death. After
week the sensation died down. the bug
gy ceased passing. The gentleman in
the hOuse-whO was newspaper man
connected with Que of the big dailies
blew the buggy to atoms by explain
ing that it was hoax originated by
the merchants and newspapers to draw
crowd which should advance the
commercial interests of the city. Such
is specimen of journalistic enterprise
in large city.
News from Portman, that is sad rs it
is true, is that Mr.. George Busby, who,
III last weeks issue of the INTELLIGEN-
GER was mentioned as 80 humanely in
terfering in the Clark Davis aifray at
Asbury, has himself, OH the evening of
the 18th inst, ut the power house Mt
P0rtman, been so severely injured that
the ankle had been amputatcd. Mr..
Busby was assisting in conveying
heavy machinery for the new generator
into the power house, when ny some
sad oversight, bed plate on the top of
the dray fell, and imprisoned his foot
beneath weight of between G.0OO and
1000 pounds Under tho impulse of
miraculous feat he endeavored to extri-
cate his foot from beneath this weight
when he tore the flesh down over the
iustcp, aud broke into splinters the
bone and joint. DR.. Heller, Of the
Fork, attended temporarily. DR.. Orr
from telephone message sent at once
Doctors Gray and Henry from Ander.
son to attend to the sufferer. About
II o'clock that night amputation was
found necessary. The mans wife and
a large family are in great pecuniary
need.
Miss Annie Barton is visiting Mrs.
Dewitt PALMER in Anderson.
Miss El0isa Milford 10 =: