The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-08-01
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tragedian, has been dangerously i'll for some
time past, but is now in fair way to recover.
= Matthew Finley of Council Bluffs, gave
debtor two fearful thrashings and paid three
fines, in the effort to collect small bill.
"A Pekin (Ill.) woman became so enraged
in dispute about borrowed umbrella, that
she went into convulsions and died.
An inquisitive Indianian placed an OBJ
struction on railway track in order to see
how high locomotive would jump when going
at full speed.
- Seventeen hundred gallons of whiskey
were DESTROYED by lightning, in an Indiana
town the other day, but it was pretty even
tussle between the two.
= Since the street sales of newspapers have
been permitted in Paris, the aggregate clrcula,
tion of daily papers in that city has increased
100000
Mrs. c. Fl. Ballou, of Saranac Michigan,
weighs 678 pounds, and child OF =. Simmons,
of the same place, one year old, weighs 2&
pounds.
= The despondent looking man who sudden
ly started, on seeing new apples for sale, and
cried, "Now, my children shall have bread,"
was q doctor.
"A chicken Matching apparatus, worked by
steam, is in operation at Elgin, ILL., The first
batch of eggs was cooked by turning on too
big head of steam.
. It is estimated that the population of
the country fifty years hence will reach 16O,-
100000, while in 100 years it will exceed the
population of the whole continent of Europe.
= Chief Justice Chase's health has suffered
much from a recent attack of chills at Nara
gansett Pier, where he is passing the summer
with his eldest daughter and her husband.
The newly married man, not a hundred
miles from the Riverdale Church, who chased
the Spotted cat" from his hen roost, the other
night, has buried his clothes.
Always be sure that dog is mad before
you kill him. The best way to make sure OF
the fact is to let him bite few people and see
whether they have the hydrophobia.
"A Bloomington baggage-master found a
pocket-book the other day containing $50, and
returned it to the owner, who magnanimously
refused to receive all but s79 of the money
- Two daughters of Robert Hicks, of North
Carolina, were graduated on the same day, en-
gagged and married on the same day and by the
same minister, and professed religion and were
baptized on the same day.
- young lady in Peoria Church became
sea-sick on Sunday last from the effect pro.
duced by the continuous swaying OF fans all
around her. She had to be taken from the
building.
who has a foot so large that his shoes are Ia
inches long and II inches around the instep.
| An ordinary pair of summer shoes for him,
weigh pounds.
| - Montreal young ladies do not wear wat
teams or polonaises or long trains, and ten yards
will make dress in that savage land. 1t is
hard to make them believe that it takes l76
yards to make dress elsewhere.
- The report that there was but one daugh-
ter still living of any of the signers of the
Declaration of independence turns out to be
untrue. Two daughters of Elbridge Gerry are
still living in New Haven. Connecticut.
= A girl at Usage, Iowa, whose ears are
grown up, has no method of hearing except
through her mouth. When a young man is
talking she keeps saying eyes" for fear lest ne
might propose to her and she not hear it.
"A man named Randall, of Brandon, Fond
it. He had three teeth pulled, his wife had a
baby his bees swarmed, and he had camp
meeting in the woods on the butt end OF his
farm.
1t is taking an unfair advantage of fish for
lazy angler to throw aside his hook and line
and take to nitro-glycerining the harmless tel-
lows. But the Kentuckians do it sometimes,
and one pound of it hoisted eighty-six at one
explosion-big fish and little fish all went the
same height in the air.
The convict Francois, Governor of La Ro-
uuette prison, now under sentence of death as
an accomplice in the murder of the Archbishop
of Paris and other hostages, was married In
Versailles prison fortnight ago. The object
of the ceremony was to legitimatize q child by
retrospection, which French law, like Scotch
Law, allows. =,
"A Pennsylvania paper states that o table
spoonful of quicksilver was lately found IN an
old grave in York county, supposed to have
been taken by the dead man during life, In the
form of blue-mass as medicine This is tough
story to believe, but they must have practiced
medicine with heavy doses in that nelghbor-
hood, some years ago.
= Attention to agriculture in South Africa
is following the discovery of the diamond fields,
lust as it followed the discovery of gold in Cal
ifornia. 1t is now stated that the new district
which England has just annexed is unrlvalled
in the richness of the soil and of which only
yery small portion has hitherto been cultivated
by the Butch settlers.
| - warning to careless parents is given IN
singular accident at Jersey City. child
was sent to draw bucket of water. The little
girl could just reach up to the lattice-work sur
rounding the we'll, and having, filled the buck; ,
ct, drew it to the curb, and put her head
through the lattice. The handle slipped, and
the revolving windlass struck her on the head,
and scattered her brains at every revolution.
A New York gentleman has couple OF
blooded mares between whom strong affection
formerly existed Recently " however, howe a,,ds The
awkward step and cut the other on the ankle
On being embarrassed the injured attacked the
other with great fury, and now their owner
hardly dares let them come within sight OF each
other.
- Here is paragraph from foreign jour.
nal which goes to explain the effectiveness of
the German army "Sixty young officers have
been dismissed from the Prussian army. They
had obtained their commissions during the war
for bravery in the field, and without having
passed the ordinary examinations. They are
now cashiered for not having succeeded since
in acquiring the necessary qualifications Tor