The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-08-19
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marked the other evening that he had
such love and veneration for his country,
that he wouldn't mind embracing the
whole thirteen young ladies who are go
ing to represent the original colonies
= Were we to ask hundred men, who
from small beginnings have attained
condition of comfort, responsibility and
| influence, to what they imputed their
success in life, the general answer would
be- cit was from being carly COM
PEELED to think for and depend on our
selves"
"James Jenkins" said a national
schoolmastcr to his pupil, "what is an
average?" "a thing, sir" said the boy
promptly, Chat hens lay eggs upon"
''Why do you say that, you silly boy"
because, sir, heard a gentleman say
the other day hen would lay on an
average hundred and twenty eggs
year."
- Bates has his religious opinions and
they are better than those of many an
ADLER man. He says: "1'm in favor of
meetin's, and prayin', and preachin,,,
and Bibles, and the best way Of spread
in the gospel, but when a man, with
not very much in him, gets up and
makes a sermon two hours long, l jest
think he's spreadin' the gospel a little
too thin"
"A gentleman from Fairfield states
that in eight years there have been
eleven burials of whites in Winnsboro'
and one hundred and forty-seven OF
negroes. In small section southeast OF
Winnsboro', where there were seven hum
dred and fifty negroes, there are now but
two hundred and fifty. The negroes are
dying of consumption, a disease formerly
unknown among them. ldleness and
bad living seem to be the chief cause OF
the mortality. r.
"A young man who was stranger IN
Chicago commenced a Irritation with d
girl in Union Park, the other evening,
and thought he was making fair progress
toward an acquaintance, when the young
lady suddenly startled him by drawing a
pistol from her pocket. lie dld not
know what he had done to make himself
target for cold lead; but was contem-
plating a retreat, when she pulled the
| trigger, and fan sprung out from the
| mlzzle of the weapon. The young man
felt relieved, but says that after this he
will keep posted on the latest style IN
that kind of toys. -,
49, The Monroe (Ga.) Herald, in wick
edly endorsing Gen. Banks for the Presl-
dencv. SAYS: Chow many ragged Reb
has risen in the morning, cold and hum
gry, and at the toot of Stonewall's horn,
marched over to the camp of the Federal
| General and partook Of q smoking break,
fast, while the redoubtable Banks would
quietly retreat, and leave the hungry
rebels to enjoy his abandoned stores.
We repeat, the Southern soldiers have
not forgotten all these acts of kindness,
but have treasured them up in grateful
remembrance, and will show their appre-
citation of them by voting for the Hon.
n. P. Banks for President--if they can
find no one that suits them better"
"A recent debate in the English
house of commons has given Engllshmen
neep through the sultan of Turkeys
keyhole. England seems to have right
to look into the su!tan's affairs. 1t has
lent him hundred millions of pounds,
has defended him in the Crimea, and has
entertained him in London. The sultan,
it seems, appropriates an income OF two
million pounds, while the income OF MS
whole country is only seven millions:
The shores of the Bosphorus are studded
with his vast palaces, and every day, at
dinner. the sultan, who dimes alone, has
| lO7 dishes provided for him. He main,
ta;ns 500 wives, $50 eunuchs, and 95o
oxen annually are provided tor tne
sultan's kitchen, and other live STOCK
and poultry in proportion.
"A Georgia miller in recent conVer-
sation with one of our grain buyers, IN
cidcntally remarked that dealers in his
section wouldn't need any of our corn
this year.
"\vell. we have raised it for you," re-
nlied the Fayetteville merchant, "and
you are bound to take it."
"No, we are independent now-Geor,,,
gia will have enough corn OF her own,
retorted the miller. ~
"Well, we'll feed it to hogs and sell
eve are safe there too," continued the
miller, "our people will furnish their own
Nothing daunted, our Fayetteville
friend discharge his Parthian shaft:
"Well, we'll make our corn into
whiskey, and you can't get around buying
| that" L..
there.
"A curious story comes to us concern.
ing Gen. G. A. Evans, of Augusta. AT
Frederick City, Maryland, while Leading
his brigade in battle, he was struck ST. IN 7,
the left side by minnie ball. Jhe ball
passed through his arm, and thence
through his body. In plowing through
his coat pocket it tore through paper of
nins. burying some of them in the flesh.
For the past few months he has been
troubled with pain about foot
and a half from the wound. A week or
two since a bump about as large as
pigeon egg, was raised on the spot where
the pain was most severe. A few days
ago three or four pins worked out OF tins
bump, and it disappeard at once. Thus,
for II years, Mr.. Evans has been walk
ing pincushion. 1t is q credit to him to
saw that he made his famous memorial
address, which breathed love and for
riyeness, while those hostile pins were in
| Ills BODY. a man that can forgive his
enemy, with handful of pins working
about his body, is Il Christian.
A Yankee and Frenchman owned
q pig in copartnership. When killing