The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-09-15
News and Gossip.

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= The Ohio State Fair made profit
Of $4,000.
= George Petit, of Caldwell county.
Ky, has cut 10000 pounds of hay.
: There are $1,000 1ras. bands in the
United States. No wonder the insane
asylums are crowded
: A mastodop tooth, weighing six and
n half pounds, has Lcen found in the
Kentucky River, near Marion.
= The Richmond State SAYS that water
! Is scarcer than milk in that city, and the
milkmen are forced to bring in the pure
quill.
= There are 225 Indians still remain.
ing, in South Florida. They are peaceful
and hold friendly relations with the
white settlers.
a Liberal is defined by Il Virginian
~ n man who is willing to get office in
any way he can Have we anv Libcr.
ais hercabOuts?
= y little daughter Of George Darfow.
saloon keeper at North Adams Mass,
drank from her fathers bottle the other
day, and died in few hours.
= The chair in which John Hancock
sat when he attached that l,nndiome sip
nature TO the Declaration of Indepeld
ence, now stands in ST. Paul. Church at
Norfolk, Va.
- 1t Is reported that the order Of
"Mollie Maguires," under various names,
is being reorganized in the PENNSYLVANIA
coal regions. Great trouble is apprc.
hended from its revival.
= DIR. Bliss's bulletins nrc good for
something after ALL Six thousand dol.
lars i'll single day is reported as having
been picked from pockets of people read,
ing street bulletins III Washington.
= Gilbert Hankins, wealthy farmer.
who has resided near Iowa City for many
years, committed suicide because Of the
failure of his crops from floods last
Spring and drought i'll the Summer.
= The accounts from the peanut sec.
ton in Virginia are discouraging. That
crop has been damaged very badly by
the drought. This is bad news for the
members of the Georgia Legislature.
= AT least five hundred persons are
now securing Stone River, in ButIer
ford county, Tennessee, for musseIs Weld
ing pearls. The range of value in pearls
which have been found is 80 cents to s25.
y New York girl has married
Zulu Prince. However, if the Prince
retains his native costume she will have
the best of most girls who marry foreign
titles. The Mondays washing will be
lighter.
- f. n. Welch, of Bristol, II. l., had
diamond worth 81 900 snatchcd from his
shirt front at Hartford during the races.
- few days later he received n letter
offering to return the Jewel FOR n cash
consideration Of $450.
= The New York Republican State
Convention will meet in New York city
Wednesday, October 5tb, for he purpose
of nominating State ticket A great
many Half Breeds" will be surprised to
lind that Conkling is still alive.
- The Mexican Minister at Washing
ton gays that General Grant is SO popular
in Mexico that the people there would be
glad to have him reside permanently in
their midst. a great many people in
this country would be equally glad.
= a mammoth tree cut down in Lewis
county, Kentucky. recently, and believed
to be 800 years old, produced 3S 1862 feet
OF lumber and twenty-five cords of fire.
wood. 1t was sixteen feet in diameter
and hundred and twenty feet high.
A fund of about $4,000 is now
available under the will of the late John
McKeegan, Of Charleston, to commence
the rebuilding of the once stately Catho-
Tic Cathedral of St. Johns and st. Fin
bars, which has been in ruins since the
great fire in 1861. The original edifice
cost $4,000.
= A few days since loud noise was
heard in the mountains, on the West
side OF the Bitter Root, in Montana, the
report resembling the firing of cannon
and reverberations. 1t was caused by
the falling Of q high peak, and was dis
tinctly heard for several miles. Thou.
sands of tons of rock came down in the
grand crash.
= The law OF Alabama in regard to
the collection of vital statistics, passed
by the last Legislature, mas mad pecu.
liar effect upon the negro female popula.
ton. They believe that the mother of
every illegitimate child will be taken up
and sent to the coal mines, and infanti-
cldes which have occurred in North Ala
bama are believed to have been caused
by this belief.
-, " - N'AiuASyj luo llCu yOuuS Iuau Oh
Bloomington, ILL.,, who recently married
Il beautiful young lady of that city, and
on the day following the nuptials was
sued tor breach of promise and $4,000
by Miss Farley, to whom he had plight
cd his troth in the mellow days of Octo-
Der, 1880, has returned from his wedding
trip and soothed the lacerated feelings Of
the bcreaved young woman by paying
her Sc, 900 cash.
: Every housewife declares war to the
spider, but what are her injuries from
the industrious spinner compared to the
woes of the Japanese surveyor, for the
Scientific american asserts that in that
country the trees bordering the HIGHWAYS
swarm with spiders, which spin their
webs everywhere, interfering with the
laying of telegraph wires and covering
alike earth, posts, insulators, trees and
conducting wires. Men are employed
with bamboo brushes to sweey the wires
continually, but the spiders are so indus.
trious that they usually get the best of it.
! = The selection of New York City as
the pisce of meeting for the next New
YORK Republican Convention is accepted
in all quarters as proof that the Stalwarts
intend to make fight in the Convention.
and have chosen the battle ground to
suit themselves. The New York Times
and Tribune are extremely solemn Oh
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