The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-09-08
News and Gossip.

1t is very clear that the Republicans
are seriously alarmed about Ohio.
The New Enrk ?imcy continues aI
mucl, length to expose the star route
frauds.
= The,whitc.voters of Virginia mum.
her 10000, aud .he colorcd about H..
600.
The. best prayers are. .hosc which
you try to answer yourself after you have
uttered them
An infant eleven month, old died
in New York from having its ears ear.
I pierced for rings.
/ Whitaker, the colored cadet want,
TO exhibit his ears on the lecture plal.
form for $4,000 season.
| Prisoner, have YOU ever been con.
victcd." No youflIonor; have always
employed first class lawyers"
six first came from China, and the
Chinese still have many important 60.
crets connected with il unknown To Fin.
ropeans.
Prof. Parkhursl 1uicts the fear, of
the timld by telling them that the new
comet will not come within 80 UUo 0no
miles Of the earth
: Atlanta is to have n big cotton OK.
position. But the biggest cotton cxpo.
sition is at Long Branch when tho Ecw
York bellies disrobc for a swim.
= The majority against prohibition in
North Carolina, according to Governor
Jnrvls's proclamation, was 1902, The
vote standing 4S,06i for prohibition. and
l64, ,l33 against it.
: DR.. Taylor, of New York. on being
asked what punishment he would devise
| Tor the assassin Guiteau, replied: al
| would take him into the streets of Wash.
ington, shoot him in the same place ,hc
PRESIDENT was shot, and then turn him
over to the Presidents physicians
H.. a real estate operation worth men.
tloning was the sale in New York laat
week OF 10000 acres of woodland. situate
IN the mountains Of Georgia, to a party
OF English capitalists, for $50 700. The
buyers OF the property are now in New
aork Tor the purpose Of purchasing
800, 900 more of these lands.
= Louis Walker, maker Of pyro.
tcchnics at ST. Louis, Mo-, became con.
vinced that the Presidents death would
rum his business He, therefore, walked
OUT on dyke, put charge Of dynamite
on his breast aud touched it Off The
explosion shook the neighborhood and
dug out the heshy portions of Walter,
body, leaving q shell composed of The
back bone and ribs.
= Apalachicola, Fla, has a poprll
tion OF only about 1000, but it contains
hs large mills with a capacity for over
20o 900 feet of lumber day, and fleet
OF nearly fifty vessels engaged in tho
sponge. and fishing trades. Only two
mills nave been running this last year,
Sa: q, ,990, 900 feet of lumber and timber
have been shipped, and the sponge, fish
and oyster trade has amounted to over
100000.
- recent European publication con-
cerning the Jews estimates their number
throughout the world at about 6,1OO 900.
Only 100000 Of the race are to be found
III Asia, 100000 in Africa, 300 900 in
America and 10000 in Australia. The
great majority of the race-more than
5000, ,00O-liye in Europe. Roumania
contains far larger number of Jews in
proportion to its population than any
other European country.
- The widow OF Speaker Kerr. of In
diana, IS quoted as declaring that she has
frequently heard President Garfield saw
IN the presence of her husband and
friends that he would not live to more
than forty-fve or fifty years. She thinks
he was superstitious in this respect, and
states that Mr.. Kerr would frequently
laugh at his fears and tell him he would
1--we to be an old man. At this the Gen
eral would shake his head solemnly and
say, No, won't, Kerr; tell you l
shall not live many years"
= The Food and Health saws the water.
melon contains about 95 per cent. of the
pirest water and n trace of the purest
sugar. and nothing has yet been discov-
cred that furnishes SO perfect and speedy
cure Tor Summer complaint as water
melon and nothing else. Even when
diarrhna has been kept up by continued
eating of ordinary food until the disease
has become chronic, this delicious bev.
eragc-for it is little more-watermelon.
takon freely two or three times q day,
has again and again been known to work
wonders, and to "cure" when al! The
usual remedies had failed.
= Miners ut Ashley, Pa, near Wilkes
| OutiC, W uuN0 ulSCOVCTeQ 81 yOl1u
mass Of rock, in which appear cd clear
ly defined human shape OF giant pIcpor-
tions. All the limbs, muscles and linea-
ments arc apparent. The rock is about
l6 feet in length, 10 in breadth and about
s in thickness. The dimensions of the
human frame are gigantic, measuring -
feet in length and feet across the chest.
Across the breast is the impression of
! huge shield about 1 feet i'm circum ference
while the right hand clutches the broken
and butt end Of large cutlass or sword.
The rock was taken out whole, and is
now in possession of Mr. McCauly, at
Ashley.
= Mr.. S. III. Richardson, of Gilbert &
Brega, commission merchants, of Chica-
go, has been making thorough and sys.
.ematic inquiry into the condition of the
cotton crop. He received, the latter part
of the week, telegraphic advice from
about sixty correspondents, stationed at
different points in the South, and they
ere published in the 7g:cs F-ou. The
data at his command Mr.. Richardson
estimates that the entire crop of 1881
will not exceed 100000, or 100000
bales below that Of last pear. In this he
is sustained by the views of cotton ex-
perts in the producing regions, though
the Mobile Board of Trade estimates the
yield at 100000.
= The United States Commissioner of
Agriculture, Or. George B. Loring, writes
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