The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-10-23
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

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be eloquence to those who listen.
1t is said that mummies make good
lamp-black, and now, thank heaven, we
know what Jane Swisshelm was made
for.
i More lawlessness in the South. A
Georgia paper prefaces a dun notice to
its delinquent subscribers with cut of a
double barrel shot gun.
"A lively old woman in North Car
olina cooked a big dinner for the friends
who came to celebrate her Tooth birthday /;
and, unless the local paper lies, she still
lives, though that occurred seven years
ago.
= According to Washington dispatch
to the Cincinnati Commercial, Southern
Democrats laugh at the story that they
fear the loss of Louisiana, Mississippi
and Florida at the next presidential cleo
.tion.
President Grevy deserves the graft
,tude of the travelling public for vetoing
the plan adopted by the municipal coun-
Gil of Paris for remaining the streets of
the Empire, such as the Rue Bonsparte,
the Boulevard Haussmann and the Rue
Cambaceres. Such g proceeding, aside
from the confusion it would occasion,
would be of piece with the Commune's
overthrow of the Vendome column.
y Gen. Chalmers diagnosis of Gener-
al Woodford's case is probable the cor
rect one. Woodford does not believe in
the jury system whenever his client loses !;
it is only when he wins that it becomes
the palladium, etc. General Woodford is
also incensed because he was treated like
q gentleman. he wanted to be outraged
and wasn't. He returns to New York
an unpunctured wind.bag-full of sound
and fury, signifying nothing.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague was SO
years old on the 18th of last August.
The Bible says so. In Mr.. Chase's diary
at the time of his daughters birth occurs
the following remarkable entry: "The
babe is pronounced pretty but think it
quite otherwise. It is, however, we'll
formed, and 1 am thankful. May God
give the child a good understanding that
she may keep His commandments"
Alas poor father Poor daughter
: The Bank of England was incor-
porated in 1649. 1t covers five acres of
ground and employs 900 clerks. There
are no windows on the street light is
admitted through open courts. No mob
could take the bank, therefore, without
cannon to batter the immense walls. The
clock in the center of the bank has fifty
dials attached to it. Large cisterns are
sunk in the courts, and engines in perfect
order are always in readiness in case of
| fire.
"A man in Kansas who represented
himself as practical farmer" visited
all the fairs with prize pumpkin, and
took the premiums every time. 1t
measured seven feet around and weighed
23O pounds. Several days ago, at Coun-
Gil Grove, rival farmer attempted to tap
tho pumpkin, in the absence of its own
er to getsome of the seeds, and he discov-
cred that it was made of wood. This beats
the ingenious Connecticut invention of
bass-wood cucumber seed.
When the present Pope was Car
dinal he cherished the idea of publishing
a Catholic journal that should be an
organ for his church, and that could be
read by all the people of Europe and
America in their mother language. Since
his elevation to the Pontifcate, he has
exerted himself to start this newspaper,
and now announces that its first number
will be issued next month. It will be
printed in seven different languages; it
will discuss the political and economical
questions Of the day, and officially repre-
sent the opinions of the holy See. The
compositors are to be the deaf and dumb
pupils in the asylums of Rome. Ali
monde will be the general superinten-
dent, and the Pope is anxious that Car
dinal should be at the head of the edito-
rial department. The novel paper will
start with $4,000 subscribers. Very few
of this number are Italians.
The arrest by the police of child
ten years old has revealed the existence
of one of those mysterious branches Of
industry carried on in Paris under cover
of darkness. The child in question had
been observed by the guardians of the
peace lettering, with big wicker cage,
along the streets, and making sudden
dashes into doorways after some invisi-
BILE object. This object was found, on q
closer watch, TO be invariably cat, and a
policeman thereupon thought himself
justified in asking the little yagabond his
business. "Oh, I am hunting CATS" re-
piled the boy, "but I hayn't done much
tonight, they are too cunning, and have
only got the one you see in the cage"
Further inquiry disclosed the fact that
he was thus sent cut at night to capture
the unlucky felines by his father, who
employed the day in selling the results
of his sons nocturnal prowlings to the
keepers of eating houses. What the lat
ter did with the cats is not stated.
When Mary Queen of Scots was a
prisoner in the Castle of Lochburne in
the winter and early spring of 1865, she
drew young George Douglas, the strip
ling brother of William Douglas, the
Governor of Lochburn, into her favor for
the purpose of efecting her escape. The
| youth was won completely. On the
evening of the I'd Of May, 1868, the
keeper and his family being at table,
George seized the keys and fled across
the lake with tho royal prisoner. For
this romantic allegiance Queen Mary
presented to George Douglas lock Of
her hair. Now it so came about that as
time rolled on this lock-of silken tex
ture and beautiful pale auburn-was
found among some old papers at
"Wishaw," ono of the estates of the
Douglas family. And as time again
passed when the late John Carol Brent
visited the late Mrs. Catharine Pyc
Douglas, of Rose Hall, Scotland, rela-
tive, she showed him the lock, and, dying
seven years later, in 1S47, bequcathed it
to him. At tho death of John Carol
Brent it fell into the possession OF his
sister, Miss c. D. Brent, Of Washington.
D. c., who is now at Bedford Springs,
and who herself kindly told the Lynch
burg Ntps, of last Thursday, all about
tho relic.
MANUMIssIoN OF SLAVES IN CUDA.-
A commercial house in New York has