The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-08-19
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
= Common sulphur is the best remedy
for yermin on fowls.

last week.
= Jay Gould has made over S1l, ,00O,.
600 in his stock operations during the
past twelve months.
- Republicans will hold 5000 or 1000
meetings in Indiana between now and
election day, in October.
\ -Thesun's rays, localized through the
glass of round water-bottle ut Alyth,
Scotland, set fire to house.
- Administer Shrincr's Indian Yer
mifugc according to the directions. In
the morning is the best time to take it.
- Lynn, Mass. has pear-tree that is
covered on one side with ripening fruit,
while the opposite side is covered with
blossoms.
"A Berks County, Pa, hen laid nest
full of eggs in the forks Of a tree, twelve
feet from the ground, where she Matched
the eggs out.
- It is stated that Mrs. Don. Came
ron effected the reconciliation between
her husband and Senator Blaine at the
White Sulphur.
Senator Bruce and his wife arc at
Saratoga at stylish house kept by col.
ored people for the better class of people
of their own color
- James Prescott, blacksmith, while
shoeing horse, near Oakvillc, Ont, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
The horse was also killed.
49, Congressman Berws of California,
writes to the Democratic 3.,ational Com.
mittee that the outlook now is that Han
cock will carry California.
"A Reading, Pa, man only sixty.live
years old has been married three times,
and the father of eleven pair of twins.
He has forty-one children in all.
= Berry Bradforth, at Clnch County,
Ca, was found dead at his plow.handle
recently. He is the third brother that
has died suddenly at the plow.
= A snake was killed on the farm of
w. II. Williams, Gwinnett, County, Ga,
which had two feet with five toes, the
feet being shaped like those of 4 lizard.
= After recent shower at Kokomo,
Ind, the ground was found covered with
fish, all Of which were alive and Hopping
about. They were the size of minnows.
- The St. Paul & Pacific elevator at
Minneapolis has been seriously damaged
f, by a peculiar worm that pcrlorates the
boards and lets the wheat down as if run
ming through seive.
-Ephram Allen was shot dead bya
Britain ranger when on his way to Sack
ett's Harbor to join the army in 1913. In
exhuming the boby recently the bullet
that killed him was found.
"A Kentucky chicken that lived five
days and was hatched on the farm of
Colonel j. W. Reynolds, had four legs.
In walking the legs were all kept in mo-
ton, and it was as lively chicken as
ever scratched dirt.
George II. Guldin, in Amity, Town
ship, Pa, carries his leg iu splints from
trying to catch a frog. While pursuing
the frog revolvcrin his breeches pocket
was accidentally discharged, the ball en-.
tcring the leg.
"A we'll near Brandon, VT, forty.two
feet deep, freezes solid in the winter, and
furnishes ice for family the year round
while 100 rods away, in gravel pit, is a
spot which never freezes, and which
sends up a cloud of steam.
= The population of Connecticut is
626,0S7, an increase of SS,633 over the
census of 1870, which the Hartford Times
regards IS very satisfactory showing.
Maine, with about the same population,
shows an increase of only 10000 in the
past ten years.
A colored man who voted the Dem
ocratic ticket was stabbed by colorcd
Republican at Lexington, Ky. In at
tempting to make an arrest the marshal
was assaulted, and general melee en-
sued, in which two colored men were
shot and several seriously cut.
"A sea captain residing in Portland,
Me-, now over fifty years of age, has nev-
er as yet had an opportunity to vote for
President, as he has always been to sea
in some foreign country at the time of
election: but he says he will cast his mai
den vote for Hancock and English.
- When John Keeton, Cumberland
County, KY, man, saw q swarm of bees
in the woods with nothing to catch them
in he was sorrowful. He adopted the
first mode inwardly suggested Of him,
slipped off bis pants, and soon had the
bees hived in the legs, and so carried
them home.
"A little four-year-old of Des Moines,
Iowa, finding revolver in one of the
the bedrooms took it up and killed his
baby sister, two years of age. The same
day Cincinnati boy aged eleven also
found pistol in drawer and playfully
pointed it at his cousin, a girl of nine,
and killed her.
Judge Henry Hilton and Mrs. 4.
I. Stewart, in administering the estate
of the late a. T. Stewart, have set aside
100000, to be devoted to building,
equipping end furnishing a collegiate
building, where it is intended to educate
both sexes for charge LEGS than one
hundred dollars year.
-Mrs.J. V. Alexander, of Big Sandy,
Texas, found that her fourteen month
old infant fretted unless it was placed on
the dining room floor daily to play.
Staying behind the door and unusual
time she looked for it, and Mortified to
see the child patting very large black
snake upon the head and dividing its
bread with it, and the reptile showingits
appreciation by wagging its tail. The
snake came into the room from hole in
the floor.
The headquarters of the Socialists
in this country are now at Detroit,
Michigan. They assert that they con-
troll 100000 votes, and that they have
political organizations in New York,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New Jersey Penn
sylvania, Delaware, MARYLAND, West
Virginia Ohio, Indiana, Illinois N1ichi-
gan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas,
Colorado, Louisiana, Texas and Caliior-
MIA.
"A prisoner on life sentence in the
New Bedford (Alass.) prison has always
been desperate, dangerous man, ready
for rebellion at any hour One day in
June party of strangers came to the
institution. One was an old gentleman,
the other ladies, and two of the ladies
had small children. The guide took one
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