The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-19
News and Gossip.

Charlotte's cotton receipts this season
have been 51,667, an increase sof 1858
over last year.
-Abram Sebring, of Gratiot county,
Mich, says he has the cape to the over
coat worn by Jefferson Davis at the time
of Davis capture.
Says the Chicago Tribune, a Repub.
licau paper: "Mahone has ceased to hold
this great Republic up by the tail. 1t
was not an edifying spectacle"
1t is found that the foreign born
residents of Massachusetts, produce more
criminals than the natives, but that the
natives plan crimes more deliberately.
- Gen. Robert Patterson, of Fhiladel-
phia, is ninety years old: He and Gen.
Harney, who is eighty.one, are the only
surviving Generals of the Mexican war.
- Postmaster General James has in-
.roduced reform in the manner of open.
ing and marking Of proposals previous
to their going to the contract Office, which
will prevent certain class of frauds.
-Philadelphis Times: "Ex.Senator
Dorsey says that ex.Second Assistant
Postmaster General Brady is scoundrel.
This is not news neither is it news that
Dorsey helped him to be scoundrel."
- Robertson YVES twelve years Judge,
always ran ahead of his ticket in his dis.
trict, is man of ability and sterling in.
tegrity, but he would not wear the chains
of ,Conkling, and that is all that is the
When Buffalo street-car conductor
was told by lawyer that he had fallen
heir to d legacysofs 100000, the man
simplyiasked the loan of five cents to- buy
a cigar with. He wanted to find out il
the lawyer was lying to him.. ,,.ys
Colorado poetry: ''The evening for
her bath of dew is partially undressed ;
The sun behind abobtail flush is setting
in the west. The planets light the heav.
ems with the fash of their CIGARS. The
sky has put its night shirt on, and but
toned it with stars.
Chairman Jewell, of the Republican
National Committee, has.issued 3 circular
inviting expressions of opinion from Re.
publicans throughout the country in re-.
gard to the best method or rules 70 be
adopted for electing delegates to their
national convention in 1884.
- The New Hampshire courts have
discovered that church=propertyciu that
State is not exempt from taxation,by the
constitution, sand it. will faccordingly be
assessed andTtaxed. sAsimilar moHs will
Be made. it is said, in New York and
other Northern States, which expect to
derive considerable revenue from this
source.
- Ex-Governor Seymour, of New
York. it is said, has written an earnest
|,letter to a democratic Senator, urging
the confirmation of Judge Robertson,
speaking highly of his character and ca.
liabilities, and saying that his appoint
ment will emancipate aud purify politics
.sby breaking up q tyrannical machines
misrale in! this State"
ta A company composed of charitably
disposed persons has been formed III New
York, under the title of the Metropolitan
Coffee House Company, with capita! of
500, 900, for the purpose of supplying
nourishing food and Notwithstanding
drinks at:low prices. 1T is expected that
the enterprise, when fairly established;
will be self:supporting, and perhaps pay
small dividend.
The best way to keep turkeys from
straying away from home is to keep the
hens untilthey are three or -four years
old. Tbesold ones ass more aptto return
home at might. The gentlemen who
vouches for the above says he was induc'
ed to raise turkeys because of the ravages
of grasshoppers on his farm. He says
a good, large flock Turkeys will effectu.l
ally rid farm Of hoppers and many
other insects.
"A beautiful aud touching little sight
occurred on Sunday before last at the
Statesburg Episcopal Church. A gen.
tleman who was there and saw it, says:
THAT while Governor Manning was
kneeling at the chancel, receiring the
Sacrament of the Lords Supper, little
bird few from the loft and lit.upon his
b,ck and quietly remained there until the
G ,vernor arose, when it returned to its
perch I"
The forthcoming May crop aud stock
reports of the Ohio State Board of Ag-
ricultnre, will be valuable and reliable
document. The information is based on
estimates made by about / 900 correspon--
dents in nearly all the townships of the.
Slate, mostly practical farmers. The
figures show that only 19 per cent. of last
years crop, or l 1873, 800 bushels of wheat,
are still in the hands of the producers,
and that the probable yield of the State
this year will be about 44,S95,6 ,653 bush.
els, or IS per cent. of last years tine
crop.
- The following is told of we'll.
known "beauty lady," who is happy in
the possession of little girl about FIVE
wears old almost as pretty as her mother:
Not long ago an elderly, eminently re-.
spectacle gentleman made an afternoon
call, and, as elderly gentlemen often do,
he took up the child and kissed her.
"You must not do that" said the child,
struggling, ~ am a respectable married
woman" "What do you mean, my
dear p .askedathe. STANDARDIZATION.
"Oh, that's what mamma always says
when gentlemen kiss her," replied the
artless infant London Cuckoo.
The Lancaster Ledge, says: "The re-
port reaches US of = brutal assault. COM
mitted upon a young white boy in the
the Waxhaws, on Friday last, upon the
place of Mr.. Cole Blake, by negro man.
It appears that Mr.. Blake, and his brother,
fifteen years old, had had some previous
difficulty with the negro, who worked
upon B!ake's place, but the difficulty, as
supposed, had been amicably settled.
On Friday last tbesnegro came upon the,
boy in the field and whipped him unmer-
cifully, leaving him for dead. The negro
left for distant parts closely pursued by
body Of enraged citizens.
OF the 100000, 900 acres of culti-
vable land in the United States, only liz
per cent. are used. The 1856, 1853, ,320
bushels OF wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye,
buckwheat and potatoes raised last year
were produced on .1O5, ,ss3,605 acres, and
the cultivation is in most cases careless.