The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-07-04


wife, ten children and the colt.
-Advices from Europe indicate that there
will be = heavy harvest generally, the growing
crops are looking unusually well.
= The name "grass widow" =. of French
origin. 1t is derived from the French "grace,"
and originally meant widow by courtesy.
: ragged newsboy passed the most credi-
table examination for appointment to West
Point in one of the New York Congressional
Districts.
= The Agricultural Department at Wash
ington estimates the wheat crop of the present
year at 22O 100000 bushels. This gives about
| five bushels to every inhabitant of the United
States.
- The latest advices inform us that terri
BILE earthquake has occurred in one of the in
sulated ports of Japan, by which five hundred
| lives were lost.
- Thirteen hundred and twenty-six water
| melons were shipped by the steam ship San
Jacinto to New York, from Savannah, on Sat
urday last.
To-day is the 96th anniversary Of Ameri-
can independence and should be appropriately
celebrated by all, regardless of party feeling
and prejudice.
"A large bear, weighing about 425 pounds,
was killed on Tuesday evening last, near
Browns Mill, about three miles from Barnwell
village, by Mr.. Jasper Redmond.
/ = An Alabama editor has found new pre-
MUM to offer subscribers He will name his
new boy for the patron who pays his subscrip-
ton the longest time in advance.
- The newest invention is a fan sewing ma
chine attachment, which protects the operator
from heat flies, and mosquitoes while at work,
and requires no attention whatever.
= The Laurensvile Herald says that Comp
troler Neaglc, who paid 81, 500 for the Lau-
rens Railroad, is willing to sell that property
for $65,OOO. Modest and generous man!
| = Congress has abolished corporal punish
ment in the army, and has made it illegal
hereafter to brand, mark, or tattoo on the body
of any soldier by sentence Of court martial.
"A gentleman in Pike County, Indiana,
who died recently, left large property, to be
divided among the widows living within eight
! miles of his late residence, grass widows inclu.
ded.
We learn that simeon passed over a
section Of Lancaster County few days ago,
DESTROYING about fifteen acres of cotton upon
the plantation of Mr.. E. B. literally
parching it to cinders.
- An artesian well at the corner of State
and Washington Streets, Chicago, has been
sunk to the depth of / ,220 feet, and discharges
300 gallons of water per minute. 1t Is to be
sunk still deeper.
= The leader of some California robbers al
lowed clergyman he was about to plunder to
keep his money and valuables, on the promised
condition that he would pray the worth of them
for the band and its chief.
= The Pickens Sentinel reports the inquest
in the case of M. F. Mitchell. Samuel Edens,
Absalom Edens Alexander Edens, j. NJ. Edens
and Jas. w. Sutherland, were Implicated in the
killng-all on circumstantia evidence.
= In the case of the State as. George w.
Black, indicted for the murder of Henry Thom-
son, tried at Abbcville the verdict was man.
slaugh The penalty was 80 years at hard
labor in the Penitcntiary, the extent OF the
law.
- Judge Rutland was the recipient of a
handsome ebony cane from the members OF
the bar of the Fourth Circuit. The bar also
rendered His Honor series of highly compli-
mentary resolutions on his retiring from the
bench.
= The editor of the Madisonville Times
knows of man who says his paper is too
small, but he borrows it regularly, and takes it
home with him to read This is what the edi-
tor pronounces the boiled scum of pure cussed-
ness.
A German named Joseph Mctzger, who
was put in Jail in Cincinnati for drunkenness,
tied two corners of handkerchief together,
hung it over the top corners of his cell, and
then put his head through it and swung from
the floor until he was dead.
- Eighty-six Counties have spoken in Geor-
gia Twenty favor Greeley, or temporary al
lance; eighteen call for strait nomination
forty are for party unity and abiding Baltimore
ten are -committal. Forty mine are yet to
hear from.
- One James Lane, living near Trinity
| Centre. CAL, WIS shot recently by trcacherous
savage who had gained his confidence, and up
on demanding of the Indian the cause for his
act, the latter bounded off with the rifle, crying
out: "A1e heap crazy Me heap too much era
zy Me too much crazyp
"A white woman, by the name of Fields,
while engaged in ploughing in a plantation
near Brown Marsh, Bladen County, n. c., one
day last week, was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed She was married lady. The
OK to which the plow was attached was also
killed by the same stroke.
- The Scientific Press recommends syrup
of coffee for use on long journeys. Put halt
pound of best ground coffee into three plnts OF
water and boil it down to one pint. Cool the
liquor, rcboil it, adding enough white sugar to
give it the consistency of syrup. when cold
put it in a bottle and seal itup. Two teaspoon
fuls in cup of boiling wafer will make cup
of good coffee.
= The New York World says Greeley
nomination at Baltimore is foregone conclu-
sion. and there are no indications of a formida-
bic opposition. 1t adds: There will be but
two candidates. For our part, we shall advise
nobody to vote for Grant, and as between the
remaining alternative of voting for Greeley OF
staying at home, we have no counsel to offer.
Our dSty may more clearly appear after the