The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-01-16

heroically sacrificed her bustle to secure safety
OF her companions.
- The man who works with "will"-The
probate judge
- at is feared the Presidents father cannot
last much longer" The fear is rather that the
illustrious son can last indefinitely.
= Miss Sophie Barnes took a premium at
Montgomery (Aia.) fair as "the young woman
WHO would make the best wife for poor man."
"A young lady being told by a friend that
silk dresses were very much worn, replied that
she knew it, for hers had two or three holes in
it. t!.i i-'.
Apples are said to be both food and med
icine, not only for cattle but for horses. Farm
ers are advised TO deal them out with discretion,
and note the result
= The most powerful of machines is loco
metive in good order, on the track; the most
impotent is the same machine off it. 1t is this
way with some people.
Johnnie" said teacher "why didn't
yol wash your face ?" 81 did wash it, sir"
"You didn't wipe it all over, then" "I did
wipe it as high up as my shirt would CO."
- Be always frank and true; spurn every
sort of affection and disguise Have the cour-
age to confess your ignorance and awkward
ness. Confide your faults and follies to but
few
BY an exasperatcd Michigan editor: "It
is disgusting TO see young girls parade the
streets of a modest and unassuming little coun-
try village with tuckupbehindwiggledar
phoolitiveness larger than they are"
= 1t is thought in Salt Lake City that Brig
ham Young will never pass another summer
above ground. When he dies thirty-seven
widows will mourn his loss, and one hundred
and seventeen children will be fatherless
= Bad luck is simply man with his hands
in his pockets and his pipe in his mouth,
locking to see how it will come out Good
luck is man of pluck, with bis sleeves rolled
up, and working to make it come out right.
Martha Rattle, of Jacksonville, Fla, has
fourteen children by her third husband. -Four
of them came simultaneously and the rest ar
rived BY twos. As Florida has no law against
this sort of Rafting, there is no telling where
the indefatigable Martha will stop.
"A new kind of railroad switch has been
invented, which kills the switchnlan if it hap
peas to be out Of place when the train comes
along-thus securing the safety of travellers by
appealing to the strongest of all motives, the
instinct Of self-preservaton.
"A Cincinnati editor thinks that war, pes
thence and famine always follow one another.
w t HaEe Had WIT, uIc uOW uuSiuss PesthohCoj
and, he thinks, will so have the famine. Like
Joseph, of Egypt he is laying in an immense
supply of corn; only he takes it in its fluid
fO:m.
Gentlemen, where do you think that beef
steak comes from 2" said the landlord, planting
his thumbs in his waistcoat arm holes. "From
near the horns," was the quiet reply of one of
tie boarders. 1t is singular, but that landlord
HIS not put any conundrums to those boarders
siace.
. - Hon. John J. Patterson, formerly of
Pennsylvania, but now of South Carolina, tells
the Harrisburg Telegraph that he was fairly
elected to the Senate of the United States on
account of his zeal for protection" Other
accounts, however, say that he disbursed large
amounts of what may perhaps be called "pro-
lection money!
- Gratz Brown is perhaps the only man who
has ever been voted for at the same election
fer both President and Vice President. For
tie first office he received twenty-four votes, and
fer the latter ffty-fve. He is also the only
candidate for whom an elector of his own party
has refused to vote. One Of those chosen on
the Greeley and Brown ticket in Missouri voted
for Davis and Groesbeck.
= A queer country is China; country
where roses have no fragrance and women no
aad the magistrate no sense Of honors where
keel where the place of honor is on the left
hand and the seat of intellect is in the stomach );
where to take off your hat is an insoent ges-
t:ire and to wear white garments is mourning
which has literature without an alphabet and
a language without grammar.
six miles east of Munfordsville, Kentucky
in the level barrens, is hole in the earth, cir
cnar in form, sixty or seventy feet in diameter
of funnel shape for twenty-five or thirty feet
when the diameter is diminished to ten or
twelve feet. Below this pontit has never been
explored, and sinks to an unknown depth. On
throwing n stone into this hole or sink, its ring
as it strikes the sides gradually dies away with
cut being heard to strike any bottom. 1t is
supposed that visitors have thrown more than
one hundred cart-loads of rock into it.
- In the whole history of criminal jurispru
dcnce there has probably never been anything
equal to the gigantic trial at Moscow, in Russia
en- the 21st of November, and in which were
arraigncd five hundred prisoners, upwards of
two hundred of whom were convicted and sem
fenced to cruel penalties. Among the accused
we're persons of every station in life-gray
among the latter some highly accomplished
and prepossessing in appearance.
= The New York Herald does not exagge-
rate the matter when it declares that "such
corruption and anarchy as exist now in the
South are not only injurious to that section,
but only check its progress and material inter-
ests, and, therefore, prove damaging to the bu-
siness interests at the North, but they are in
fectious, and must in the end demoralize the
whole republic. 1t is, in fact, long step to-
ward civilization, despotism and military rule.
1t is the way in which all nations have marched,