The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-23
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- There we're 3,500,OO0 watermel
ons grown on single patch in Geor-
gia.
A pair were married at Newport, r.
L., recently, after an unbroken courtship
of 35 years.
"A prize of forty acres of land is Of
fered to the couple who will be married
in front of the grand stand at the Mich
] igan State Fair.
The area in wheat along tho line of
the Northern Pacific railroad this year is
estimated at 10000, 900 acres against g.
| 100000 last year.
- Have something worthy of exhibi-
ton at your coming agricultural fair
Take your best, and secure the best
premium ifpossible.
= John A. Cuthbert, of Mobile, Ala
bama, is one hundred and two years old,
still practices law, and is the oldest liv'
ing ex.member of Congress.
The fruit and vegetable business
from Florida to the Northern States has
grown from $4,000 boxes in 1874 to $780,.
600 in 1879, and is still increasing.
- Douglas Jerrol said of man who
had proved himself a thorough scoun-
drel: "He would sharpen knife on his
fathers tombstone to kill his mother"
The law of the harvest is to reap more
than you SOW. Sow an act and you reap
habit; SOW habit and you reap char.
acter; SOW character and you reap a
destiny.
= A man is astonishing the people of
Milwaukee by walking on water. He
wears shoes resembling coffius, and
goes three miles an hour at swing.
ing gait.
The Houston Post estimates the
cotton crop of Texas for this year at one
million two hundred and fifty thousand
bales, or one.fourth of the entire crop of
the United States.
- A premium of one cent. per pound
ON beet sugar, made in Massachusetts
this year, will be paid by that State,
provided the quantity does not exceed
100000 pounds.
= Although New York has one hum
dred more or less commodious hotels, it
is very difficult to secure a room at ary
of them at the present time, so great is
the rush of business and pleasure travel.
There is contained in the corn cobs
raised in the United States from 115,-
100000 to 12O,OO0,000 pounds of car.
Donate of potash, which is the third
most valuable article requiredi in agricul'
ture.
- 1t begins to look as if the export
demand for wheat would be largely in
excess of our surplus, taking our crop al
the highest estimate. Should this
prove true, re may look for rise in
breadstuffs.
.aTket New York Cotton says that the
Spanish and French buyers select their
cotton with regard mainly to is COLOR
choosing the whitest as the best, and
paying comparatively little attention to
the fibre.
..a-- On the 9th instant, the National
Cotton Exchange of fAmerica, New Or
leans) issued its official statement of the
United States for the commercial year
ending August 81, 1880. Details as
made out show a total crop of 5,740, l91
bales. .. For the year ending August 81,
1879, the crop aggregated 5,O73,43l
bales.
- Mack Parrow, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, died after sixty-three days of vol:
untary fasting. He believed he had
cancer in his stomach and quit eating.
During the rest of his life he took only
sweetened water occasionally and one
teaspoonful of ice cream. The autopsy
proved that he had been mistaken about
his stomach, his sole trouble being in the
brain.
= The Holyoke (Mass.) Gazette says
It is stated upon excellent authority that
in this neighborhood there'is lady who
has built house out of fund made by
selling rum to her own husband. He is
q drinking man, and 80 his wife struck q
bargain with him that if he would drink
he must agree to buy all his liquor of
her. She thus pocketed the profit, in.
stead of the regular rumsellers.
= Robert MEG of Clay County
Ca, and M. D. Oliver, of Eufula, were
travelling in a buggy together towards the
home Of McGruder last week. They fell
out by the way, it is supposed, on ac-
count Of Oliver having won some money
from McGruder at cards. The result of
the trouble was that McGruder shot
Oliver in the head and killed him in.
stantly, and then shot and killed him;
self. They we're both found in the road
together.
= The clerks in the treasury are pre-.
nar;np some fiftv.eipht thousand checks,
amounting in all to $2,O5O,99O, to pay
the quarterly interest on the 4 per cent.
loan due October 1. The checks range
from. fifty cents to s475,oo0. While the
treasury department will not make
known to whom this quarterly interest is
paid, it is generally understood that it
will go into the capacious pocket of VIM.
81. Vanderbilt, who is known to be
the, possessor Of $47 ,500,0 900 Of 4 per cent.
bonds which yield him an annual in
come of 81, 100000.