The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-12-18
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

- over nifty new hrmS have COM
menced business in Atlanta, Ga, this
year.
- The market at Jacksonville, Fla, is
supplied with green peas, okra and Gu
cumbers.
"A negro man in Scottsboro (Ala.)
drug store bit ten-penny nail in two for
q nickel and some candy.
1t Is q good thing to make sacri.
fee for friend, and it is also q good
thing to conceal the effort made in max
ing the sacrifice.
$50 ends my TAIL" as the bee said
to the boy, at the same time giving him
practical illustration of how he con-
Quoted business.
- Mrs. Lincoln writes that she ex-
poets to be at Washington the coming
winter. but it is stated that her son Rob-
ert, now in Chicago, will not permit it on
account of the shock it would be to her
mental health, which is still none of the
strongest.
An Irish clergyman's daughter, aged
u, said to her father that certain conse-
quential person was "a baste." Sharp pa
rental reproof being promptly admins.
tered, miss retorted that papa had used
that very expression himself in last Sun.
days service. Certainly not" said the
reverend papa, with much emphasis
ooh, but you did," persisted miss. ~
heard you say that she that exalteth him
self shall be baste.'"
-Generel Gordon, of Georgia, was
asked by correspondent if he ever saw
the bayonet used in the war. He replied
that he only saw one man killed by 8
bayonet in battle, and that was at the
night attack on Fort Stedman, when the
sentinel bayoneted and assailant. At
Gettysburg, when the advance of the two
armies ran on each other, on the lst of
July, he saw two opposing standard.
bearers rapping each other over the head
with their flag poles.
Charleston Nercs and Courier: The fol-
lowing information is furnished US for
publication: "Rev. D. K. LaFar, for
merly pastor ofZion Presbyterian Church
in Calhoun street, has retired from the
building with his numerous friends and
supporters, who have already organized
themselves into separate religious body
The church is of the Presbyterian order,
strictly conservative, to be presided over
by pastor, elders and deacons, all chos-
en- by the meR1bers of the church, and to
continue their supervision over the
church as long as they are acceptable to
the majority of its members. The main
principle on which this church is found
ed is the right of the governed to govern
themselves, their right to choose whomso-
ever they please to be their pastor, their
elders and deacons without dictation,
without controversy"
- That the confagration that Is to con-
sumo the world has begun is believed by
many residents of Reading, Pa. While
some gentlemen were shooting on the
farm of Henry Miller, near that city, one
of the party killed a partridge, which fell
in an adjacent field. To the surprise of
the gentleman his dog refused to fetch
the bird, and he went for it himself; but
at the spot where the bird had fallen he
suddenly sank several feet in bed of fire
and ashes. The burning track is q square
in length and half square in width.
Miller says the fire began burning about
three weeks ago, and travels several feet
day. 1t emits no smoke excepting now
and then when turf of grass is being
consumed, or when trees are burning, but
the heat is intense. The fire has extend
ed into green wheat field, which is
gradually being destroyed. The roots of
oak trees burn off, and some trees two
feet and half in diameter have fallen
over.
The distillers would not have made
and barrelled II, ,s92, ,62l gallons of whis-
key and other such frey potables dur
ing last year, if they had not had an in
telligent confidence in their ability to
find customers at paying prices. 1t Is
slight relief to know that 15, ,00O, 600 gal
Ions or so were sent across the seas to
fire the brains and gnaw the stomachs Of
the effete despots and their subjects; but,
even with this deduction, there was left
on hand the enormous quantity Of 56, $685.
600 gallons (round numbers) of whiskey
and its congeners for home consumption.
Even if all Americans took their liquor
straight-which they don't-and if the
average price of drink was ten cents
which, we are informed, is not the fact
tho gurgling of the last swallow of this
colossal potation down the free and equal
American throat will represent an ex-
penditure of between S341, 100000 and
S455. 900, 900, according to the size Of the
average bar drink. And the distilleries
are still at work.
- As showing the durability OF TIM
Der the fact is cited that the piles of q
bridge built by Trajan were found, after
having been driven some 1000 years, to
be petrifed four inches: The rest Of the
wood being in its ordinary condition.
The elm piles under the piers of London
bridge have been in use more than 700
years, and are not yet materially decayed,
and beneath the foundation of Savory
place. London, oak, elm, beech, and
chestnut piles and planks were foundin
state of perfect preservation, after having
been there for $50 years. Again, while
taking down the old walls of Tunbridge
Castle, Kent, England, there was found
in the middle Of thick stone wall a
timber curb which had been enclosed
for 700 years; and some timber of an old
bridge was discovered while digging for
the foundations of a house at Windsor
which must have been placed there prior
To the wear 1896,