The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-02
News and Gossip.
A Flemingsburg, KY, dentist ex-
tracted 300 teeth in one day.

NEWS anu UOSSlps
"A Flemingsburg, KY, dentist ex-
tracted 800 teeth in one day.
- Army worms are troubling the wheat
in some sections Of Kentucky.
= A railroad is projected from Monroe,
roe, North Carolina, to Newberry, South
Carolina.
- Fine veins of the richest copper orc
is being developed in q number Of coun.
ties in Virginia.
- Up to this date twenty-five counties
in North Carolina have declined to grant
retail liquor licenses.
- Ex-senator Thurman ia coming to
the front as the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Ohio.
Jesse Cassity, a Bath county, KY,
widower with six children, has married
a girl thirteen years old.
Seven hundred dollars per letter is
what Uncle Sans mail costs on one Of
the Star Routes in New Mexico This
ia what the contractors call building up
the country"
- A couple of fellows who were pretty
thoroughly soaked with whiskey got into
the gutter. After houndering about for
few minutes, one Of them said: "Jim,
let's go to another house, this hotel
leaks"
- Assemblyman George II. Williams,
the only colored man in the Ohio Legis-
lature, has fallen heir to $4,000, and
will retire from business and politics and
devote himself to history that he is
writing.
- A dispatch trem Kansas says that
the measures taken to discourage emf
grants from going to that State on &C.
count of the new temperance law have
failed, aud that immigration is larger
| than ever before.
- A dispatch from Waco, Texas, says
that solid mountain Of fine red, brown
ard white sandstone has been discovered
near Reagan, OIL the Texas and Pacific
Railroad. Experts pronounce the stone
to be equal to any in America.
- -Four noblemen of distinguished
families in the Austrian Empire and one
editor, now hunting and fishing in Flor.
ida, are to visit Minnesota and Dakota
in June, to study in the system and econ
omy of American wheat raising.
- The Illinois House of Representa-
tives has passed bill prohibiting all
railroads in that State from changing
their rates of freight without giving sixty
days notice of the change, by posting
the change in every station along the
line, under heavy penalties.
"A New York physician of extensive
practice has been affecting many cures
of his lady patients complaining Of lame
backs by prescribing slippers and WOODEN
stockings for week, to be followed BY
wearing low, broad heels to their shoes,
in place of the high French heels that
had caused their ailments.
- Southern cotton mills have made
money while their Northern rivals were
being satisfied at holding their own.
After such experience perhaps the South
will turn her hand to other industries,
the raw material Of which she has in
abundance. There would be more money
in it than in politics, and more honor,
too.-M Y. Herald.
- The hangman who bungled the e1-
ecution of the Nihisists at St. Petersburg
had primed himself for the task by swal.
lowing too much brandy. He was, in
fact, drunk when he oficiated at the glib
bat uo ,roo \ al vile, GounoS -,
for his services, but this did not add any
impressiveness to the remembrance of
spectacle which excited the horror of all
who witnessed it.
- Once three of the ablest Senators
we ever had-W Webster, Clay aud CAL
houn-set out to destroy President.
At the end of q prolonged struggle the
"triumviate" gained considerable expe-
rience, but Andrew Jackson won the
FIGHT and became the strongest President
with the people that had been known.
Mr.. Conkling is neither Webster,
Clay or Calhoun.
"A volume of smoke rises constantly
from the midst Of densely wooded mo-
rass in Wakulla county, Fla, and has for
at least fifty years been mystery to the
people of that region. The spot is five
miles from the nearest point to which
any person has ever penetrated. The
negroes believe it is an entrance to hell,
and regard it with awe. Some of the
whites accept the theory of a volcano.
Judge White, of Tallahassee lately or
gauized an expedition to explore the
swamp, but failed to make way in the
tangle of rank growth.
- Friends of the Administration say
that it has been determined to have all
Administration party. pure and simple,
not only in New York, but in Pennsyl.
vania, Indiana, Illinois, and all other
States where it has been the custom for
senatorial bosses to run the machine. II
the senatorial bosses choose to fall into
line, well and good. They will be taken
care of according to their deserts. But
the Federal patronage in every State is
to be used to strengthen the Administra-
ton, and not to advance the interests of
any leaders or factions or cliques.
- United States Senator Thomas C.
Platt, who yesterday resigned his posi-.
ton, Was born in Owego, Tioga county,
this State, in 1888. Very few people,
however, would at sight of him think
he is forty. eight years old. Mr. Platt is
a very rich man, his large interests being
in the great lumber regions of Michigan.
In early life, especially while be was a
student in Yale College, be was very
frail, but his business had much to do
with restoring his health. While Mr..
Plat is known among business men as
practical person, who pulls wires, ma
nipulates machinery, and know the inch
es in political or business boom, he hos
q circle of good fellows near him who
are very fond of him. 1t may be inter
esting for Mr. Blaine to learn that on
one occasion, when VIM. Walter Phelps
was asked to name the best fellow he
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