The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-30
News and Gossip.

- The...artesian;-- welli-- -at!.. Galveston,
Texas, is 700 feet deep.
- Ninety.two pound turtles are picked
up anywhere on St. Augustine beach,
Florida. gaB
= Three thousand dollars worth of
sheep were killed in Augusta county,
Va, last year by dogs.
- The surplus revenues of the gov.
ernment for the fiscal year..ending June
80 will be s100,0OO,OO0.
The idle should not bc.gclassed
among the living; they are a sort of dead
men that can't be buried.
Texas crop estimates. give eighteen
bushels of wheat to the acre, and better
quality than for twelve years.
- David Wcstfeld, of Ohio. county,
Kentucky, 81 years of age, has 19 chill
dren, 81 grandchildren, II great.graud.
children and Is sons-in- law.
- An invalid wife in Savannah walked
the other day for the first time in 10 years.
She walked far enough to catch her hus-
band kissing the nurse, and the shock
completely cured her rheumatic.
- Every man ought to strive to draw
lessons from what be sees and hears.
Like the bee gathering honey from
the flowers, we should gather wisdom
to all which the mind can light on.
- This world is so large, so full of
good things, aud there are so many ave.
nues to prosperity for every man to
walk in, that no excuse can be given
for being envious of another's success.
- Now, honestly, do you believe the
report that Sarah Bernhardt studied the
air and expression of haIf.crazed women
by going to millinery store and watch
ing them try to select bonnet ?-Boston
Post.
: Secretary Robert Lincoln has three
children, the second being an eight.year.
old son named Abraham" who rides a
bicycle like q professional with the sons
of President Garfield and Attorney.Geu.
McVeagh.
A Chinese merchant '.alluding TO
the use of opium by his countrymen,
said: "The Chinese will get it if it's on
top of the earth. You might as we'll try
to stop your nation from smoking cigars
or drinking liquor"
Agents succeed best in selling the
revised New Testament in cities. In the
country it is said that there are hardly
any sales, as any alteration of the sacred
book is regarded as an awful PROCLAMATION.
The pious women of Wellen, La, chased
an agent out of town.
=. Mr.. Conkling said to friend that
the question of his reelection will soon
be decided, because the developments
which are to come in the bribery case
will either cause the "Half:breeds" to
vote for the "Stalwarts" or seek an ad.
Y World.
- In digging we'll in Brazil at con.
depth the workmen struck some
bones, which proved to be the skeleton
of q man who must have been eight feet
tall. The singular thing about it is that
the dorsall spine was prolonged about
twenty inches, which brings Darwin to
the front again on the tail question.
- The New Orleans Democrat thinks
this years cotton crop will not equal that
of last season; but it will not be less
from any fault of the planters. 1t con.
cludes that the Southern States will
make very large crop of cotton (having
to purchase the usual $2O0 900 900 worth
of supplies), and next winter the rail.
roads and steamboats-why not the
barges also will groan under the vast
weight of our six millions or so of bales
en- route to market.
-"I guess I'll have to hire o clerk"
said Galveston merchant, by the name
of Merritt, to his friend Chrysler. "I
am glad to see that the business boom
has struck you," responded Chrysler.
''It isn't that" replied the merchant
'buty you see l am very popular, and
am asked by my friends to step across
the street and take drink almost every
minute in the day, and as I haven't any.
body to leave in the store have to de.
cline. Ten dollars day won't cover
what have lost by not having clerk"
'I'll tell you what I'll do," said Cbrysler,
up; "hire me as your clerk,
and send mo across the street to drink
with your friends, and I won't charge
you cent for my clerical services. The
application Of Chrysler was put on file
along with those of number of other
leading citizens who had applied
already.
- The New York Herald shows that
the cereal growth of the United States,
in the past decade, was nearly one hun.
dred per cent. The yield of wheat alone
has advanced from 287 100000 to 49,
100000 bushels, gain of 70 per cent,
while the product of Indian corn has
sprung from 76O,OOO,O0O to 1,772, 900 900
bushels, an increase of 1873 per cent.
The enormous productive capacity of
the great West and Northwest is shown
by the fact that seven. tenths of the en-
tire wheat crop of the United States is
grown in the States of Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Cali
fornia and Wisconsin, while the three
States, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri to-
gether produced in lS79-thc year coy-
cred by the census returns-upward of
eight hundred million bushels of corn,
or more than the yield of the entire
country in 1869.
- The Detroit Post says that circus
clown in Virginia took occasion the other
day, at the close of the performance, to
speak plain and very searching words,
which deserve the sober attention of
many more than those who heard them.
In his painted face and mott!ed garments
he said: owe have taken in six hundred
dollars here to-day; more money, ven.
ture to say, than any minister of the
gospel would receive for n whole years
services. A large portion of this money