The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-16
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draw salaries Of 81 900 each.
- Many farm laborers are going from
Tennessee to Texas to pick cotton.
People do not like to acknowledge
that they are poor except to book agents.
- A calf with three horns astonished
the natives of New Iberia parish, Louisi.
ana.
The sugar crop of Fort Bend county,
Texas, will average two hogsheads per
acre.
- Ripe tomatoes will remove ink and
other stains from white cloth and from
the hands.
- Men show their character in moth.
Ing more clearly than by what they think
laughable.
= A Texas dog was born without q
tail, and he will sit right down beside an
old kettle.
= The State Treasury of North Car
olina received last year s7,432 IS from
marriage licenses.
- Africa has 10000 Protestant con-
verts, the result of the efforts of thirty
three missionary societies.
= Notwithstanding the ravages of
worms, there is as much cotton in Texas
as can be taken care of.
= Young oranges are splitting badly
in the Florida groves. One grower ex.
poets to lose 10000 oranges.
One hundred and forty duels have
been fought in France since Jan. !.
There were no death out of a possible
2S0.
- The Philadelphia News thinks it
strange that the man who first invented
sleep did not extend the invention to
babies.
A familiar instance of color-blind-
ness is that of man taking brown silk
umbrella and leaving green gingham
in its place.
- An old lady says she hears every
day of civil engineers, and wonders if
there is no one to say civil word for
conductors.
Senator Lamar has so far recovered
his health that he expects to take the
stump in Mississippi before the Presiden-
tial election.
The best is the cheapest. Buy Shri-
ner's Indian Vermifuge, as it is guaran-
teed to destroy and expel worms-the
child's greatest enemy.
- DR.. Tanner, in a sort ofstage fright,
broke down in an attempt to make an
off hand address at an Ohio agricultural
fair few days since.
"A medical student says that he has
never been able to discover the bone Of
contention, and desires to know if it is
not near the jaw bone.
The census gives Philadelphia pop
ulation ofS47 ,542. The city and the vi.
cinity inclosed by diameter of thirty
two miles has 1,O39, ,259 inhabitants.
"A correspondent in Kaufman coun-
ty, Texas, writes that 500 acres of cotton
in that county will not yield FIVE bales,
owing to the ravages of the boil worm.
1t is given out on good authority
that Judge Key did not pay his two per
cent. assessment before leaving his late
Office It ought to be stopped out of his
salary.
R. P. Davis, practicing lawyer at
Monroe, Ga, has invented a cotton.press,
which, it is claimed, will compress bale
of cotton into one-half the ordinary d.
mensions.
= Whoever looks for friend without
imperfections will never find what he
seeks. We love ourselves with all our
faults, and we ought to love our friends
in like manner.
The business card of q New York
house announces that they manufacture
"every requisite for commercial travel
ers." We would like to see the whole
sale price list for cheek.
Several newspapers of the South tell
of cases Of poisoning from eating water
melons and pumpkins which were raised
in cotton patches were Paris green had
been used to kill boil worms. :.
"Ssm, why don't you talk to your
master, and tell him to lay up treasures
in Heaven?" whats the use of him
laying up treasures up dar?" replied
Sam. "He never see um again."
- From what is known of Republican
thieving, it is safe to say when Democrats
have access to the books of the Treasury,
it will be plainly shown one half of the
war debt represented what had been sto-
len.
- "That is what call finished SER
mon," said lady to her husband, us
they wended their way from church.
"Yes," was the reply with a yawn, "but,
do you know, 1 thought it never would
be-"
A correspondent, writing from Evans,
Sharkey county. Miss, says: There are
lots of colored Democrats here, in spite
of all the Republicans say to the contrary,
and they viii be heard from on election
day."
- The "rebel" Democracy nominated
Mcclellan in 1864, Seymour in 1868,
Greeley in 1872 Tiden in 1876 and Han.
cock in 1880. No wonder the intelligent
North is alarmed at the action of these
traitors.
- Forty.Five colored delegates occu-
pied seats in the Democratic county con-
vention at Banwell, S. c., each name rep.
resenting twenty-five colored Democats,
making total of /, 1875 Democratic voters
in the county.
They were at dinner party, and
he remarked that he supposed she was
fond of ethnology. She said sha was,
but she was not very we'll, and the doctor
had told her not to eat anything for
desert but oranges.
"Hold on dar," said a colored man,
hailing an acquaintance. "Does yer
cross de street ebery time yer sees me ter
keep frum payin' dat bill?" "No, I
doesn't" "lNhat fur, den? ?" ITO keep
from being axed fur it,"
- Chief Ouray is dead, but Sitting
Bulls years seem to be long in the land
out of which he was wheeled. 1t is
very discouraging fact to note that onlyth
good Indians die young. The bad ones
are reserved to keep society lively in the
West.
= Grant and Conkling are going
to meet at indianapolis soon to start the
enthusiasm for Garfield in Indiana.
They will meet with the prestige of the
Chicago Convention to sustain their ef-
fort-the prestige of the Two Great De-
feated.
-"Is this NV train ?" asked q ira,