The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-08-14
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

Texas is seven times as large as Ohio,
and good deal safer.
A forty-pound meteor killed sheep
near Little Rock, Ark.
A worth Carolinian has caught O.
perfectly black field.hare.
The most ancient paper in Arkan-
sas ia but thirteen years old.
= Clstern water in Corpus Christi,
lex, sells for one dollar per barrel.
A Davidson county, N. g., farmer
made sixty-two bushels of wheat to the
acre.
= The Rev. Mr.. Tucker, of Coluuit
county, Georgia, is the father of forty-two
children.
-. Atlanta has belle (?) who claims
that her average is dozen plates of ice
cream an hour.
| - Paul Boyton proposes to go through
the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls In
his rubber suit
"A judicial opinion has been given
in Florida that young orange trees arc
! liable &c taxation
| = One farmer in N0rfork county. Va.
has raised and shipped $4,000 barrels Of
potatoes this season.
! The cholera, or something very like
1T, has appeared in Iowa, and there is an
increased demand for collins.
| = VIM. N. Hunt, of Company III, 26th
Georgia regiment, is said to have fred
the last gun in defense of the Confeder-
acy.
According to the report of the Com.
missioner of Agriculture of North Caro-
lima, dogs cost the State s6,OoO,O0O an
nually.
Malarial fever prevails along the
Hudson. 1t Ia not yellow, but kills all
the same, and is quite malignant. if not
contagious.
The first Georgia bale of new cotton
was sold in Savannah on Friday at TWEEN
ty cents per pound, and shipped on Sat
urday to New York.
A Yazoo, Miss, negro woman at
tempted To fill glass bottle with powder
while smoking pipe. Result-no bottle
and not much woman.
=. The Supreme Court of North Caro-.
lima has decided that dogs are not prop
e.ty ;H chat State aud On thai ground an
Indictment was quashed.
= A recently enacted law in Galveston
provides that any employer who shall
force an employee to labor ON Sunday
shall be liable to o fine of fifty dollars.
Several counterfeit half dollar pieces
were passed at Abbeville, s. O., last
week. They were very we'll executed,
but were easily d.sccted by their weight
and ring
Twelve millions Of dollars are in
vested in Coney Ialand improvements.
| Ten years ago $4,000 would have bought
the whole island. About $2,OOO,0CO
more will be dropped there this year.
Let $500 dog bite fifty-cent man
and the howl in the neighborhood is ter
rife; but let five.cent dog bite and kill
$50 sheep and not q howl, dot -:ppie,
stirs the breeze-it is right NORTH Geor-
gia Citizen.
= Gen. Joseph Johnston, since his re-
turn to his home in Virginia, says that
enc years experience in the House of
r oresentatives has thoroughly disgusted
HIM with politics, and when his tarm ex-
pires he intends to retro to private
= Peter McKenzie's advice is good ::
"If you have greedy disposition, and
the devil comes to you when you are in
the act Of giving, and tells you, you
can't afford it, say to him, IF you don't
keep quiet I'll double it, and he'll soon
| give it up"
| - A Wicomico, Maryland, farmer
commenced the year with thirty sheep.
He has sold lambs and sheep from his
flock for the sum of S102 mas sold wool for
| $49.18--making S145.18-and has thirty
sheep and lambs left. The cost of keep
ing has not exceeded $25. -
| = Several ladies in Kentucky have
| signified their intention of running for
State Librarian before the next Legisla-
! latnre- Mira. Cornelia Bush. the pre-
ent incumbent, will ALEC be candidate.
| and 1t will be "woman's fght'' entirely
an promises to be an exceedingly inter
| esting one.
"A. singular thing has just occurred
IN Berr;en county, quite near tho Brooks
line, and not far from Little river. The
earth has sunk in to the depth of about
one hundred feet, carrying down s;me of
the tallest pines. The sink is all ost cir
cular in form and is about one ! 1undretl
feet in diameter. It is said ia be n won
| derful hole, and many personA % visit
ing It cnt &C cG.;c::tyr n:.:s:.; r:y:; ..l IA
Free Press. N
= Bristol is perhaps the only city in
tho world with two Mayors, two city gov.
in two States. The line between Ten
nessee and Virginia is in the centre of
Main street, and it gives rise to many
funny scenes, as, for example, the runa-
way couple needs no coach and four, but
arm.in-arm step across Main street and
are welded. The fugitive commits q
crime in Virginia, goea to the pavement
on the other side of the street and talks
defiantly to the officer on the opposite side
who has warrant for his arreet. A stun.
bic or too bold disposition viii some
times, however, bring him to grieE--
Norfolk Pirginian.
Our GLAZING. We claim that there Il