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

-.Texasis seven times as large as Ohio,
and good deal safer.
A forty pound meteor killed sheep
near Little Rock, Ark.
A North Carolinian has caught
perfectly black feld-hare.
The most ancient paper in Arkan.
sas is but thirteen years old.
- Cistern water in Corpus Christi,
Tex, 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 Colquit
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 to taxation.
One farmer in Norfork county, Va,
has raised and shipped 10000 barrels of
potatoes this season.
The cholera, or something very like
it, has appeared in Iowa, and there is an
increased demand for coffins.
= VIM. N. Hunt, of Company 81, 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-
lina, dogs cost the State sS,OOO,OOO an
nually.
- Malarial fever prevails along the
Hudson. 1t is 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 twen-
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
erty in that State, and on that 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 q fine of fifty dollars.
Several counterfeit half dollar pieces
we're passed at Abbeville, S. c., lest
week. They were very well executed,
but were easily detected by their weight
and ring
Twelve millions of dollars are in
vested in Coney Island Improvements.
Ten years ago $4,000 would have bought
the whole island. About S2,000,000
more will be dropped there this year.
Let $500 dog bite ffty-cent man
and the howl in the neighborhood is ter
rife; but let q fve-cent dog bite and kill
q $50 sheep and not howl, dot ripple,
stirs the breeze-itis right !-North Gcor-
gia Citizen.
- Gen. Joseph Johnston, since his re-
turn to his home in Virginia, says that
one years experience in the House of
Representatives has thoroughly disgusted
him with politics, and when his term ex-
pires he intends to retire to private
life.
- 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 hell 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 has sold wool for
$43.1S-making S145.1S-and has thirty
sheep and lambs left. The cost of keep
ing has not exceeded $25.
- Several ladies in Kentucky have
signifed their intention of running for
State Librarian before the next Legisla-
lature. Mrs. Cornelia Bush, the pres
ent incumbent, will also be candidate,
and it will be "woman's fight" entirely
an promises to be an exceedingly inter-
esting one.
"A singular thing has just occurred
in Berrien county, quite near the Brooks
line, and not far from Little river. The
earth has sunk in to the depth of about
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the tallest pines. The sink is almost cir
cular in form and is about one hundred
feet in diameter. 1t is said to be WON
derful hole, and many persons are visit
ing it out of curiosity.-Quitman Ga.)
Free Press.
- Bristol is perhaps the only city in
the world with two Mayors, two city gov
ernments, police, &C., and that is taxed
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
crime in Virginia, goes to the pavement
on the other side of tie street and talks
defantly to the officer on the opposite side,
who has warrant for his arrest. A stum-
BILE or a too bold disposition will some-
times, however, bring him to grief
Norfolk Tirginian.