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

| - LOCuStS Hdfc uaue tueI[ apPcaIauCC
in Howard 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 War,
is being put in training as presidential
candidate for 1884.
- Arkansas is crowded with men buy
ing up the timber lands. Thousands Of
acres are sold weekly.
- The acreage in cotton in kershaw
county is said 10 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.) Butterdish
factory gives employment to forty.one
hands and turns out $4,000 dishes every
day.
- The end of the Texas and Pacific
railway track has been pushed over thir-
ty miles to the westward of the Colorado
river
"A Delaware editor, who is also
physician, offers as an inducement to new
subscribers to vaccinate every one who
will take his paper.
- There are $4,000 orange trees in
Putnam county, Florida, and about 40,-
600 are now bearing, the product from
which last season was G,500,000.
The new Car leads very simple
life. He rises early and breakfasts with
his family, and then puts on his boiler.
iron overcoat and takes a walk in the
back yard.
Scene at the White House: Enter
messenger" Conkling has. resigned !"
Enter second messenger-"Platt has re-
signedp President Garfield-"Well,
am resigned"
An agricultural paper advises farm-
ers to "never milk while the COW is eat
ing" Butt is while the cow is drinking,
evidently, that the city milkman gener.
ally does his milking.
= Redmond, who is confined in the
Asheville IN. C.) Jail, is still suffering
very much from his wounds. Three
balls that the physicians could not ex-
tract are still troubling him.
- 1t is said that if red oak bark is
kept in the chicken trough at all times it
is sure cure for chicken cholera. AS
the disease is very prevalent at present
its efficacy can be easily tested.
- It is reported that three of the sub.
scribers to the Grant testimonial fund,
namely, Mr.. Thomas Barbour, Mr.. John
Hoey and MIR. E. S. Sanford, have thus
far declined to pay up and that the fund
is thus $4,000 short of the promised
s250,000.
- After the evidence was in, Gal
weston Judge asked the accused, who
was charged with stealing watch, if he
had anything more to offer. II did have
an old watch to offer you, Judge, but my
lawyer borrowed it and hasn't brought it
back YET"
"A gentleman recently provoked
one.armed organ grinder by asking him
if he was survivor of the late war.
"Why, you foolw exclaimed the irate
musician, don't you see that / sur.
vived? Do I act as though was killed
in the war;"
- If any person will invent a machine
for duplicating a California jury that
will return verdict of murder in the
first degree where the victim is worth
100000 we will guarantee that the in.
ventor is likely to 60 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
fash of lightning. The men at the time
were walking along with their shoyels
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 man above
the medium size, with full head of
grayish-white hair, and a large tuft of
goatee upon his chin. He has blush
eyes, regular features, and is 4 man OF
considerate, attentive, respectful and re-
markable power of thinking on his feet.
He does not carry a soul crammed with
hostilities. The great mass of questions
that may arise before him, be will have
to decide as they present themselves to
his reason.
Stammering, according to N. 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 stammering, and
has been very successful. Whipping has
sometimes been resorted to.
- When jury vas being impaneled
to try liquor case at Troy. Kansas, last
week, the attorney for the prosecution
promptly oDJected 10 certain Juryman.
"What in the world did you challenge
that man for?" asked one who was inter-
ested in the prosecution. "Why," re-
piled the lawyer, "a man with such a face
and nose will never bring in verdict
against man for selling whskey."
"Well," replied the other, "you have put
off one of the strictest church members
and most radical temperance men in the
countyr'
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,