The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-11-18
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- Milwaukee is engaged in a controversy about
vaccnating the children in the public schools
- The November meteors are again making
their appearance.
- The city of Mexico is said to have neither
bank, insurance Office or rnhiic library.
= In 1865 there were S00,000,00O worth Of
horse flesh in tweaAy- ono Northern States.
- Utrecht, Holland, proposes direct communi-
cation by steam with the United States.
- Mrs. DIR. Walker wants n law passed compel-
ing men to maury before they ore forty years Of
age.
- The AllegLAnies- have donned their winter
night-caps.
"A policeman. having saved New Jersey lady,
at Elizabeth from insult, she has given him $751;
O00
= There are 1900 parishes and hnmets i'll
England and Wales in which nj liquor is sold.
- The latest title for Commodore Vanderbilt is
Venerable Colossus of Roads" :
- Mrs. Arabella A. Mansfield has just been ad-
mi,ted to practice at the Iowa bar. Nothing new
in this I'VE have heard of barrnaids before.
- George Peabody's ancestors, who came from
England to Massachusetts, in 1886, spelled their
name "paybody." "a. =
- In the great procession that marched through
London on October 25, to. meeting IN lyde Park
in favor of releasing the Fenian prisoners the line
was headed by body Of 400 women "e'
"A statistical observer, on n recent Suse@y
morning in Londeo, found 162 worshippers in
fourteen churches, whose pastors received alto
geiher e7,C74 salary.
- The annual race of tea clippers has been won
this year by the Titania, which left Shanghai q
fortnight after her competitors, and made the pas
sage to England in ninety-fve days.
Commodore Vanderbilt proposes to give New
4 ILL -
will sell him Sing Sing, which no wants for rail-
| road purposes .,t-
Six thousand acres of orchard and vineyerd
are nrtifcay irrigated in the neighborheod of Los
Angeles, California, and 10000 acres of other cul
tivated lands. .,t
"A girl must certainly be getting into the lum-
Der when she pines for spruce young man Of
whom she thinks great DEAL
- The Providence Journal tells of an account
recently filed in the city on sheet of paper lO5
feet long. The filing was done by rolling.
- Hon. Zadoc Pratt, who represented one of
the interior districts of New York in Congress
some thirty years ago, and who is set down as
worth SIS, 00O,0 900, was married a.few days ago,
on his seventy ninth birthday, TO Miss Grimm, q
Young cir! who has been employed as q wrapper
writer in one of the New York newspaper Offices.
- Missouri has produced an arithmetiGal phe-
nomenon, named Fields, who, wilhont the slight
est knowledge of letters or figures, solves any
mathematical problem-from twice two to the
calculation Of lunar eclipse in three minutes.
- The Virginia Penitentiary, it is announced,
is about to commence making boots and shoes-a
Boston manufacturer having proposed to employ
three hundred of the convicts in that business
.what have the rebels done, that they should
repent?" is question reported to have been ask
ed of General Garfield by Chief Justice Chase.
some days ago. "Were they not equally as con-
scientious in their support of the Southern cause
as we of the North were in our adVocacy Of the
cause of the Union ?" ... ~
= Mr.. Pelham again announces his intention
to resume The publication of his Southern Gudrdi-
an, which, it will be remembered, was suspended
by Sherman in 1865. 1t is to be daily, and will
be brought out early in the session of the Legis-
loture. r"a
- One of the Harvard professors, who had
taught French for twenty years, with great sue
cess. lately tried to converse with Frenchman,
and the man had finally TO inform the sage that il
was no use-he couldn't understand Dutch! -
"A non-explosive lamp, filled with non -eIplo-
sive oil, and capped with q patent non-explosive
burner, exploded in Cleveland, Ohio. on Friday
night. gentleman in the room suddenly noticed
that 'the lamp seemed to enlarge. lie drew back
step or two, when the lamp exploded sending q
hundred pieces of glass flying through the ROOM"
1t was standing on bureau at the time, md was
properly trimmed, and in good order; yet with
oil these "non-e1plosves," it did explode.
- The Providence Journal says that the Amcri-
can Colonization Society is overwhelmed with ap-
plicaions, by some of the best Of the freedmen to
be sent TO Liberia