The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-08-04
News and Gossip.

= The British troops in Irc!au,. ;,u:.
Der 10000 men.
The Chinese physicians receive no
fee until the patient is cured.
Ninety million boxes of sugar
coated pills were swallowed in this coIin-
try last year.
An average Of two thousand postal
cards reach the Dead Letter Office each
day because posted without any address
- The water in Sandy River, Chester
county. ceased to run on Saturday, the
YIN July, for the first time since August.
1915, the celebrated dry year.
- Two men have shot and killed poar
ralatka, Fla. fifty alligators the past
and half feet in length. The hide
teeth and tallow are preserved.
= The other night lightning struck
thomas b. Clarkson's house at Railway,
New York, badly damaging it, and tax
ing, OIL piece of Orville Campbell's ear
without further injury to his person.
:. What is the meaning of oack.
Giter - asked a gentleman at q Sunday
Schoo! examination. This was a puzzler.
1t went down the class until it came to a
simple urchin, who said: Perhaps it's
flca."
= 4 shower Of t0ads is reported ~
have fallen day or two ago near Della
ware City. The reptiles appeared after
violent storm. They vary from half
an inch to an inch in length, and are
very numerous.
Conkling aud Platt have been pro.
NOTED once moro to the dignity of private
citizens. If they will in future behave
IN manner becoming to this position,
ihcy may in time regain the respect they
nave lost by their diversion in politics.
a youngstcr was sent by his parent
TO take letter to the postoflice and nav
tho postage on it. The boy returned
highly elated, and said Father, seed
lot OF men putting letters in a little
place, and when no one wss looking. !
slipped yours in for nothing"
The fountains of free ice water in
New York arc now three in number
one at the postofIice, second where
FIVE Points used to be, and the third at
the southern end of Union Square. Tive
tons OF Ice are consumed daily in cooling
- Here ID a good one from Secretary
Window: "When l was at the White
House an hour or two ago, they were
setting up new apparatus designed to
cool the atmosphere. l asked Swain
how cool the room could be made. and
he said: AS cool as you please L
asked him if he thought a room could be
made so cool that office seekers would
keep out of it, and he replied that he
thought it might. Then asked him to
send me over half dozen machines to
be set up in my office here | am afraid
they would do very little good, however
nothing seems to chill or discourage an
ofice-seeker"
= The South can raise 8 wn mest
and bread quite as cheai.,y as it can bnv
them from the West or North. With ;ts
genial climate and fertile soil it is an
agriculture! anomaly that it should hayo
to obtain corn and wheat from foreign
markets, and with its millions of acres of
pasturage AMI forest it should count its
stock farms by the thousand and be able
to supply its planters and farmers with
All kinds of meats. Such system would
De based on common-sense principles and
might be happily supplemented by q
rational culture of cotton, which under
these circumstances would pay far better
than the monster crops which make great
figures on paper, but leave few dollars in
the planters pockets at the end of the
year."
The abundance of Confederate
money during the late war is easily nc.
counted Tor, if statement said to hayo
bee. been made recently by Hon. Robert
Toombs to a newspaper interviewer NAV
DE accepted as true. He is quoted Of
saying that "Mr. Memminger, the Con.
federafe Secretary of the Treasury, was
of an economical turn, and used to hire
coiored men 10 print the Confederate
money, and instead of paying them for
their labor he gave them the use of the
presses at night to print for themselves
There were many slipshod ways i'm the
management of the Confederate finan.
cial and other departments, but this story
attributed to Mr.. Toombs is too bald to
be taken without several degrees Of