The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-09-22
News and Gossip.
The Georgia Pacific Road is graded
out about fifteen miles from Atlanta.

I The Georgia Pacific Road is graded
out about fifteen miles from Atlanta.
A passenger car goes out on the
Augusta and Knoxville Railroad every
afternoon.
- iiewn crossties are being shipped
North from alonc the line of the Florida
Southern Railroad. Florida is shipping
timber for nearly every new railroad on N
| the Continent
The lady visitors Mt Saratoga are
accused of playing poker, in which thew
make their pin money fly, and it ia said
that some Of the worst scrapes that mar.
RED women get into is trying to account
for their lack of jewels to their husbands.
! Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin. has
presented his son with two hundred and
fifty square miles Of land in the St
/ Croix Valley, north Of Hudson. Wiscon
sin. The price paid 10y Mr.. Sawyer was
one dollar an acre, or $3.50 900 for the
W. olc vast tract.
= The virginia Part, an Alexandria
paper, owned and edited by colored men
mas come out for the Democratic State
ticket because it cannot approve of the
dishonest financial methods Advocated
by Malone. These colorcd men have
set all example which some white Re.
publicans in very high places might find
it worth while to study.
- The timber of Arkansas. like that
OF tennessee, il attracting attention.
About one-tenth Of the State is covered
with the yellow pine, which attains an
enormous size. Seventy different kinds
OF timber grow in this State, amoug
them several varieties of oak, the black
walnut cherry bois dare, holly, maple.
cedar, beech, poplar, cypress, hickory
and ash
a company has been formed for the
purpose OF building belt line OF rail
around Atlanta. This road will connect
All the roads with each other, and the
through freight cars that cumber White
haii street crossing will be transferred
outside of town. The capital of the
company is all subscribed. the charter
has passed the Legislature, and the work
will be commenced at once.
~ Marietta Journui.: Southern Urls
will and do work. Our factories are full
OF industrious, nice girls. Our homes.
stores, shops, dressmaking and military
establishments, and, yea, even in the
corn and cotton fields, busy, bright and
pure girls work and make money. And
when they get married they will make
good wives, too. They deserve great
deal more credit than is accorded them.
- San Antonio, Texas, is to have one
OF the grandest hotels in the United
States. Col. Ed Wickcs hns the matter
III hand, and Jay Gould aud G.. p. Hun.
iington arc down for $4,000 each to be
increased to 100000 each if necessary.
1t will be known (so it is now thought)
as the Great Southern Hotel, and it will
be the halfway house between the CITY
OF Mexico and New York, as we'll AZ be-
tween San Francisco and New York.
All the money necessary to build n
mammoth structure can be had at
once
= The Fish Commissioners of Blaine
have adopted the plan of marking sal
mon to obtain the data with regard to
the development and migra'ions Of these
fish. Several hundred salmon lately set
Tree IN the Pencbscot River have been
labelled with metal tags, the number on
each being recorded. The commission
ers ask that whoever catches labelled
salmon In any waters of the State will
forward to them the fish, for which thew
Will pay an extra price, or else forward
the label and whatever they know of the
fish that wore it.
= A company of Knoxville men have
organiz,d the Winters Gap Railway
Company, and claim that they intend to
build road from the proposed line of
the Knoxville and Cincinnati Southern
Railway through Winters Gap, in Wal.
den's vicinity. The company was or.
ganized to Choke orr the project of the
Oakdale IRON Works to build narrow
gauge road through Winters Gap, and
they have enjoined the latter company
from proceeding with the WORK. The
new company IL composed of the owners
of the Coal Greek Mines.
= The affair between Miss Nellie Haz.
eltine, the noted ST. Louis belle, and
John Amweg, chorus singer in an opera
company, has been settled. Amwee
brought an action for damages against
w. B. Hazeltine, Jr., and Fredrick w.
Paramorc, respectively brother aud affi-
anced husband Of the girl, for having
enticed him into n room and assaulted
him in order to make him say that his
story of having won her love was lie.
He subsequently produced love letters,
sentimentally inscribed pictures, and
other proofs that she had either fallen
desperately in love with him or was
turning him into a diversion. Her
father has now settled the case out of
court, by paying Amweg $500, besides
81 900 counsel fees"
= About fourteen miles from Live
Oak, Fla, there lives woman with
strange family. One day while she was
out walking huge alligator attack.
ed and pursued her for some distance,
frightening her much. Subsequently she
gave birth to twins, both males. They
were perfect child.en down to their
waists and complete alligators below,
tail and all. There are short webbed
feet and legs at the lower portion of the
abdomen like alligators They crawl
with their hands, dragging themselves
about just as an alligator does They
make squealing inarticuate noise.
The mother has had large trough or
tank filed with wafer, in which she
keeps them, and they live pretty nearly
all the time in it. They feed and eat
regular and seem to be doing we'll, and
are apparently happy. They are now
about II or 10y years old. Comparatively
few outside the immediate neighborhood
know of it. The mother has refused
large offers of money for their exhibi-
tion.-Aferidian (Miss.) Mercury.
= The old employees in Chicago
iron fount.y had quit work on strike,
and their places were iilled by new men