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

"'c ''iaC III large cities where
the reporter is required to provide his
daiiy meiange of news, that when
from some circumstance he is unable
TO 10 30, his chief says: "then makoit.r
Inc reporter. to secure the continuance
III his position, seeing perhaps two
bootblacks in friendly spar, writes nm
the: "Severe Scuiile of Two Street
Gamins.-Work for Homo Mission
Along the Degraded Strcets.n The
report is highly colored. Tufts of hair.
broken teeth. and toe nails scatter
through the narrative; an excited
crowd watch the scandaious affray and
block the street. A policeman arrests
one of the gamins and is himself tram
pied by the mob! Next day the peo-
PIC say: whero was the fghtY where
was the crowdf 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 intallibility of tho report is never
doubted. Such reports are numerous.
Inc scenes arc continually being
enacted, every hour has it's ARRAY.
There are ten thousand to ten who
never saw one of them; tho ten saw the
friendly spar of the boys; but city
has 30 time to look Mt such nonsense; it
pushes its heavy human machinery
along, and the ten, if they give tho af-
fair thought. say: that must have
happened after we saw it. There is no
doubt cast upon tho cmissary of the
news. The columns of metropolitan
papers are pretty we'll filled with this
exciting education every day. No one
takes time to investigate; and vice
from the report of the sensational re-
portcr-is 80 common that people
ignore it as news. but expect it in their
paper rs evidence of the strenuous
trend of the metropolis. On the con-
trary, when news reaches tho County
newspaper from n correspondent in
the country, the report may be regard
ed as true. In n section where there
arc no saloons, no distillerics, and
whlskey is as scarce rs hens teeth, the
author of the report reflects before lie
sends in news of the vicious transac-
ton lest tho readers of his County
| should regard the account rs over
drawn; and so careful is he of veracity
thnt II nnecdOte is not found he will
not and never from his County edtoris
required to "make news" The word,
news, it is supposed had it's derivation
from the initial letters Of North, East,
West, South, such letters being cap-
tions for English papers expressing re-
ports coming from those points OF the
compass. Finally the N. L. w. s. be-
came word denOting what we under
stand it to be to-day.
The writer remembers when in n
large city in the North there was q
blockade of ten lines Of street cars, the
| crowd being 80 dense on their way to
and in the sections of streets whore o
phantom buggy had been passing for
days. The crowd poured in from hun
dreds OF surrounding miles. The
phantom buggy passed on certain
| place Mt u certain hour eyery dav.
passed, repassed, and disappeared in
the sight Of the bewildered crowd.
Dashing .buggies and carriages, tho
eyes of whose horses or drivers were
| csIsed-ss all wvre not permitted to
| see tho spcctre--wOuld plunge into the
women and men would scream, Hnd
! try 10 separate the colliding vehicles
when, 10! one of tho buggies was the
phantom and the others ran through il
as through thin air, tho crowd falling
back fainting md horror- stricken.
For 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 1T not yet having
seen the apparation. A gentleman
relative in the house was requested to
act as guide. He, however, kindly re-
FUSED, saying tho 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 a hoax originated by
the merchantsand newspapers to draw
q crowd which should advance the
commercial interests of tho city. Such
is specimen of journalistic enterprise
In large city.
is true, is that Mr.. George Busby, who,
in last weeks Issue of the INTEILIGEN-
GER was mentioned as 30 humanely in
terfering in the Clark-Davis aitray at
Asbury, has himself, on the evening of
the 10Th inst, ut the power house at
POrtmnn, been 30 severely injured that
few hours later his foot from above
tuc :inhlc Iau Decn amputatcu. Mr.
Busby was assisting i'm conveying
heavy, machinery for. the new generator
into the power house, when 10y some
sad oversight, bed plate on the top of
the drny fell. and imprisoned his foot
beneath weight of between G.00O and
1000 pounds. Under tho impulse of a
miraculous feat he cndeavored 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-
II O'Clock that night amputation was
found necessary. The mans wife and
large family are in great pecuniary
need.
Miss Annie Barton is visiting Mrs.
DeWit PALMER in Anderson.