The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-11-27
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Railroad.
= There are two hundred and twenty-six
Oranges now in Georgia, and the number con-
stantly increases.
-.--C Courtshipis is defined, by man who pre-
tends to, know, as the sklrmlsh before tne
regular battle"
AN honest old farmer, on being Informed
that one Of his neighbors owed him grudge,
growled out, 'No matter; he never pays any
thing"
The physicians of Memphis have resolved
to erect a monument to the memory of their
professional brethren who died during the yell
low fever epidemic.
ON Tuesday, December 18th, the people
of PENNSYLVANIA are to vote upon the accep-
tauce of the new Constitution, just completed
by the State Convention.
- The New York -trca,lial defines Journal
ist" as man who spends the best days of his
life in comforting regulations on others and
getting none himself ~
1t is reported that Senator T. ]. Robert
son, of Columbia, has declared himself can
didate for Governor, and that supporters are
focking to his standard.
= The Georgia State Fair was great suc-
cess, and the total receipts of entrance money
to nearly $780, ,00O. Over six hundred
bales of cotton were entered for competition.
Women are said to be adapted for employ
ment on railroads, because they can manage
'strains," and understand Switches" perfectly;
but there is one disqualification to be consid-
ered-they attract too many sparks.
: If we 20 back to the carly colonial times,
saws a veteran observer, we shall find in the
letters, sermons and other discourscs the same
earnest structures upon the extravaganza of the
times and the. decay of household virtues as
now greet our ears on every hand.
- The St. Louis Globe says: "We have the
best authority for saying that, at a very early
stage of the approaching session of Congress,
one of the Connecticut Senators will introduce
a bill to:wind up the national banks, redeem
their currency, and issue greenbacks instead" ."
- The Georgetown Times states that DR..
Richard T. Greener, who has recently been
inducted into the chair of Moral and Mental
Philosophy in the University of South Caroli-
ia, is a colored man, or in other words negro
As consequence thereof it remarks, meta
physics will now be made as clear as mud.
A professor of one of the Philadelphia
medical colleges habitually puts this simple
conundrum to his class: eff monobomanthray-
ninone is obtained by oxidation of tryboman-
thracent, what would result from the union of
bithalne with dilute dichlor, or dbromanthra-
Gene disulphuric acid ?'
- A medical student under examination,
being asked the different effects of heat and
cold, replied "Heat expands, and cold con-
tracts" "Quite right; can you give an ex-
ample?" eyes, sir; in summer, which is hot,
the days are longer; but in winter, which is
cold, the days are shorter"
A gentleman in reading room happened
to look at person next to him who was hold
ing bis paper wrong side up. After observing
him for some time, he said my friend, you've
got your paper wrong side up" "Oh!" said
he, hardly knowing in his confusion what re-
ply to make, "I'm left handed p
= sympathy" says John Paul, ''is some
thing which I never withheld from those III
trouble, whether they happen to be friends or
not; there's nothing mean about me. / find,
too, that one can 60 around shedding sympathy
on all sides, for weeks at time, without spend
ing cent or being at much personal incon-
venience."
- The Spartanburg Spartan chronicles the
death of Rev. William Curtis, L. L. D., form
erly of Limestone Springs, which occurred at
Walthoursville, Ca, few weeks since. The
announcement of his death will be received
with sincere sorrow by his former pupils and
friends scattered all over this and adjoining
States He was not only successful and ac-
complished teacher, but was an eminent scholar
and divine, and an honored and useful member
of society.
= We do not like long sermons; never saw
any one who did but many people are afraid
to say so. Sermons should be good, but it is a
rare case for long sermon to be good through
out. They are scarcely more entertaining than
long editorials in country newspapers. The
advantage, if any there be, is ON the side of
the editorials, for We can read them, as we may
elect but if caught by q long sermon, between
the pul pit and the door, we have no remedy
but to bear it.
A newspaper correspondent, describing
scene on one of the old stage routes among the
mountains of Virginia, tells of 20 stream of
cool water tumbling over the rocks in fall of
fifty feet, surrounded by grove of sugar ma
piles, in which profusion of mint wastes its
sweetness on the air, with deserted stll-house
near BY" That cocl water, that mint, those
suggestive sugar trees and that idle still-house
was ever natural scenery in all this world
more melancholy?
"A few weeks ago baby was taken into
church to be baptized, and his little brother
was present during that rite On the following
Sunday, when the baby was undergoing his
ablutions and dressing, the little brother asked
mamma if she intended to carry Willie to be
christened. "Why, no." replied his mother
"don't you know, my son, that people are not
baptized twice?" "What~ returned the
young reasoner, with the utmost astonishment,
mot if it don't take the first timer"
: A Justice of the peace in Iowa, before
whom a citizen had prosecuted his daughters
lover for ejecting him from his own parlor the
Sunday evening previous, solemnly decided as
follows; follows: ut pears that this young Teller was
and that the plaintiff intruded, and was put
out by defendant Courtin' is a necessity, and
must not be interrupted. Therefore the laws
of Iowa will hold that parent has no legal
right in room where courtin' is afoot, and so
the defendant is discharged and plaintiff must
nav costs y