The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-26
News and Gossip.

III !1owaru county, Arkansas, by the
million.
= The prospect is good for harvesting
the largest crop of oats ever produced in
Chester county.
= Robert Lincoln, Secretary of WIZ.
is being put in training as presidential
candidate for 1884.
= Arkansas is crowded with men buv.
ing up the timber lands. Thousands of
acres are sold weekly.
= The acreage IN cotton in Kershuw
county is eaid TO be the largest ever
known to have been planted.
~ = The wool trade in Corpus Christi,
Texas, in twenty-three years has grown
from 5000 to 100000 pounds.
= Almost every county in Tennessee
has taken steps for the Improvement of
the public roads, under the new law.
= The negroes of west Tennessee have
again taken the Kansas fever. and are
leaving by the hundreds almost daily.
= The Petersburg (Va.) Butter.dish
factory gives employment to forty one
hands and turns out $4,000 dishes every
day.
- The end of the Texas and Pacific
railway trek has been pushed over thir.
ty miles to the westward Of the Colorado
river.
"A Delaware editor, who is also II
physician, offers as an inducement to ney.
subscribers to vaccinate every one who
will take his paper.
= There are $4,000 orange trees il,
Putnam county, Florida, and about 40.
Oo0 are now bearing, the product from
which last season was G,500,000.
= The new Gear leads very simple
life. He rises early and breakfasts will,
his family, and then puts on his boiler.
iron overcoat and takes walk in the
back yard.
= Scene at the White House: Enter
messenger Conkling has. resigned p
Enter second messenger ."Platt has re.
signed p President Garfield" |
am resigned"
AN agricultural paper advises farm.
ers to never milk while the COW is eat.
Ing" But it is while the COW is drinking.
evidently, that the city milkman gener.
ally does his milking.
= Redmond, who is confined in the
Asheyille IN. C.) Jail, is still suffering
very much from his wounds. Three
balls that the physicians could not ex.
tract are still troubling him.
- It is said that if red out s,s.I Is
Kept in the chicken trough at all times IL
Is sure euro for chicken cholera. AS
the disease is very prevalent ut present
its efficacy can 5e easily sested.
= 1t is reported that three of the sub
sorlbers to the Grant testimonial fund.
namely, Dir. Thomas Barbour, Mr.. John
Hoey and cdr. E. S. Sanford, have thus
far declined to pay up aud that the fund
IL thus $4,000 short of the promised
$25O,0O0.
= After the evidence was in, n Gal.
weston Judge asked the accused, who
was charged with stealing watch. if le
had anything more to offer. ri did ha :,
On old watch to offer you, Judge, but nv
lawyer borrowed it and hasn't brought Il
back yet"
- A gentleman recently provoked a
one.armed organ grinder by asking him
II he was survivor of the late war.
"Why, you fool" exclaimed the irate
musician, don't you see that / sur-
vived2 Do | act as though was killed
in the war;"
- If any person will invent machine
for duplicating q California Jury that
VIII return q veroict of murder in the
tirst degree where the victim is worth
100000 we will guarantee that the In.
ventor is likely to go down to posterity
without ever seeing the machine put to
test.
= Recently number of italian work.
men were repairing the track near tho
Manhattan Beach Hotel, when few
drops of rain fell, attended with a single
flash of lightning. The men at tho time
were walking along with their shovels
over their shoulders. At the flash the
last one in the line fell dead, and the one
in advance shrieked with fear and rolled
over. He was scorched and stunned, but
not seriously hurt.
= Judge Robertson is a man above
the medium size, with q full head of
grayish-white hair, and large tuft of
goatee upon his chin. He has blush
eyes. regular features, and is man OF
cnnsiderate, attentive, respectful and re-
markablc power of thinking on his feet.
Ho does not carry soul crammed with
hostilities. The great mass of questions
tnat may arise before him, he will have
to decide as they present themselves to
his reason.
- Stammeriug, according to NJ. A.
Cheruin, generally originates in sud-
den nervous shock which the victim of
the affection has received in childhood;
sometimes it is habit which has been
acquired by the practice of initiating
other persons who stammer, or by con-
slant association with stammering mem.
bers of the family. Professor Chervin
resorts to singing, or the use of the ca
dence for preventing stammeriDg, and
has been very successful. Whipping has
sometimes been resorted to.
= When jury was :,eing ilIpaneled
to try liquor case at Troy, Kanoas, last
week, the attorney for the prosecution
promptly objected to g certain juryman.
What in the world did you challenge
that man eor 2" asked oGo who wss inter
ested in the prosecution. "Why," re-
pied the lawyer, "a man with such face
and nose will never bring in verdict
against man for selling whiskey."
well" replied the other, "yor have put
off one of the strictest church members
and most radical temperance men in the
conntyW
a remarkable case of abstinence
from food is reported at Battle Greek,
Mich. Last October, Mrs. Henry In
gram had some teeth pulled, and this
brought on nausea at the stomach and
inability to retain food. The woman is
is still alive, having eaten or drank moth
ing since October. She is nourished by
being bathed in beef tea, milk, etc,
which acts by absorption, the quantity
absorbed from these baths being nearly
quart day. She feels q sort of hunger,
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