The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-03-06
All Sorts of Paragraphs.

1t takes 100000 cords of wood 10
make shoe pegs for the United States.
A Proposition to punish theft by whip
ping was rejected by the Texas Legisla-
turc.
Nashville is said to have more lawyers
than any other city of its size in the
world.
The MolIet register bill was "remorsc-
lessly slaughtered" in the Florida Legis-
lature.
= Young men who chew toothpicks
in front Of hotel are pickchews of
loneliness.
- The Picayune says prices of real
estate in New Orleans show an upward
tendency.
- One can live on two dollars month
in China and have 4 stcwed rat for din
ner every day.
- Lawyers arc never more earnest
than when they work with will--that
is if the estate is valuable.
"A Georgian is preserving as an heir
loom the identical knife with which Mrs.
Kate Southern killed her rival.
- There has been no rain at Manor,
Texas, since June, and stock has to be
driven three and four miles to water.
- Benefit your friends, that they may
love you still more dearly; benefit your
enemies, that they may become your
friends.
= One reason why re accomplish so
little in this world is because so much
time is lost hunting up collar-buttons Of
morning.
A physician announces that kissing
is unhealthy. Nonsense He was prob
ably caught by his wife while kissing the
servant-girl.
- Two Georgians have married each
others daughters, and editors are getting
bald wrestling with the question of their
relationship.
- Miss Celeste -Winans, of Baltimore,
is said to be the richest young lady in
America. She inherited S20,00O,00O
from her father.
= Some OF the largest jute mills of
Scotland, the head-centre of jute manu-
facture, have suspended on account Of q
depression in business.
-"Why should we celebrate Wash
ington's birthday more than mine?"
asked the teacher. because he never
told lie p shouted little boy.
"A Miss Tanner, Of Georgia, who re-
Gently married a widower named Hyde,
with eleven children, says she has given
up Tanning and is now dressing Hydes.
- When the train conveying General
Sherman to the South stopped at Kettle
Hollow, Montgomery county, Virginia,
Tecumseh walked out To view the sterile
aspect of the country Seeing an old
resident standing near, the General in
quircd: "What do they raise here, any
how?" The aforesaid Kettle Hollow
man replied: "They raise h-ll here
about as quick as any place you ever
saw" The General tucked his feathers
and sought refuge in the car instanter.
The Age: "The Republicans can get
no consolation from the disclosures.
There is no doubt of the fact that the
votes of Louisiana, of Florida and of
South Carolina were for sale. The Re
publicans got them and the Democrats
did not get them. That the Republi-
cans~bought g. part or all these votes
will hardlyibc doubted by any sane man.
That the PERSONS whos consummated the
transaction have been re-
warded by the president for their cor
rupt work is fact of history. BY the
action of President Hayes in this matter
he has become particeps crimi'lis after
the fact, however innocent he might
have been before it. He has sealed the
by his own image and super
and has thereby contributed,
in the most public and official manner,
to degradation of politics and the cor
ruption of the ballot. History will brand
him with the guilt which he sanctioned
and confirmed"