The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-05-10
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

- Kellogg remains in Washington, and
says he will contest the seat Of Senator
SpoHord.
Why are untried murderers like bells
on the ground? Because they want moth
ing but hanging.
One of the last utterances of Parson
Brownlow was q declaration in favor of
Hampton for President in preference to
any Northern Democrat.
= According to the Graphic we'll
trained legislator is never bribed, but
adroitly sells his jack knife for SIC, 900,
and calls it business transaction.
"A widow in Iowa, whose husband
was burned to death while under impris.
onment for drunkenness, has obtained
judgment for $1,000 against the man who
sold him liquor. ~ r..
"A facetious editor calls Austin,
Texas, the city of dead issues, because,
as it remarks, no less than fifteen papers
have died within the past ten years.
Mrs. Mary J. Willard, wife of Ma
rion Willard, and daughter of John s.
Martin, of Laurensville,. died at the resi-.
dence Of her husband, in the same coun-
ty, on the End instant.
This remarkable statement appears
among the personals of our exchanges:
"The widow of Daniel Webster, who died
nearly twenty-five years ago, is still liy-
ing in New York city" a.
An inebriate on being kindly ques-
toned in very narrow lane, across which
he was reeling, as to the length of the
road he had travelled, replied, "Faith it
Is not so much the length of it as the
breadth of it that tired me-" a+
Mrs. Martha Burkett, wife of Mr..
Willis Burkett, of Ocones County, died
on the 22nd Of April. She was, the
mother of seventeen children, most Of
whom are married and have families.
"A hunter in Lexington boasts that
he caught red fox a few days ago meas
uring from tip to tip four feet and one
inch, and from toe to toe three feet and
one inch. The race lasted four: hours
with seven dogs. -.-,a-1 -:a.ieE
= Among the inmates of the Nashville
Lunatic Asylum is a negro woman who
lives almost entirely upon grass, which
she obtains from the lawn in front Of the
building. She has great antipathy to
weeds, and suffers none to grow within
the enclosure. 80 49,.
- The Turkish minister at Washing.
ton has received great number of ap-
plications from young physicians, who
wish to 60 to the seat of war az surgeons
in, the Turkish army. he has been com.
PEELED to reply that he has neither au-
thority to commission nor funds to trans
port them. '4-
"Will our exchanges in the old
States" says, a Dallas (Texas) paper,
"warn their young MEN not to come to
Texas in search Of employment-unless
they want employment ON the farm.
There is plenty of work on Texas farms
to be had. but unless man desires to
labor on farm, he had better give Texas
& wide BERTH"
- The franklin Cotton Mill at Sau;
QUOT, N. Y, D7ilt in 1872, and owned by
81. D. Browell {; CO., was burned on Fri
day night. The fire originated in the
explosion of the watchman's lantern.
Loss SIT 900. Insurance $4,000: One
hundred persons were thrown out of em-
| ployment. !4 ~
= Mr.. Jennings, the London CORES.
pondent of the World, looks for d general
war in Europe, and thinks it will result
In a general revival in American securi-
ties, particularly in railroad securities,
which are now so much deprecated.
European capital will be compelled to
seek investment in America. y,
Gen, and Mrs. Grant, with their SON
Jesse, sailed for Liverpool from Philadel.
phia on Msy,7 in the Indiana. Presi-
dent Hayes and Cabinet offered him
passage on government vessel, but the
General preferred going as private citi.
zen, and probably thought he could make
the voyage in, a much shorter time
- The Legislature is pruning the Off
cial fruit trees close to the stem and the
people begin to feel the days of prosper
ity are in sight. If the salary of Auditor
is pruned down to $s00-which is fair
living salary these hard times-we have
a saving alone in that Office of $54, 400.
We wait the result of this good begin
ming. IA ,
The Massachusetts, State Board of
Health issues a circular descriptive of
hydrophobia. The disease is divided in
to three stages-the first is marked by
restlessness, the second by spasms and
frothing, and the third by paralysis. An
attack of the disease, it says, may be
avoided in vast majority of cases. after
person has been bitten by a rabid ami.
NAL, by at once washing and cauterizing
the wounds with white-hot iron or nj:
trate of silver.