The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-12-01
News and Gossip.


= Twenty churches in New York uso
lhe revised version Of the New .Testa.
meut
- The fund for the Garfield Professor.
$l7,7l0. :"
Marvin, the multitudinously- mar.
ried, Is making shne, ia tho Virginia
pepitcntiary.
= The mania of the future, eays
financial writer, is not likely to be gold
but diamonds.
= Four hundred people are employed
III the Philadelphia mint !saud all are
making money.
John Merriman, the well.known
fertilizer manufacturer, die.l in Baltimore
on the 10Th instant.
= Georgia has forty cotton mills. and
they pay from eight to twenty. five ner
cent. net on the money invested.
-" love men," said Queen Christine
Of Sweden, mot because they are men.
hut because they are not women"
= Whisky will rob many little child
OF Christmas presents. Santa Claus
never visits the rum-drinker's hoyel,
= Within the past eighteen months
over twelve hundred miles of railroad
hnve been built in Texas and Louisiana.
= II is we'll to point out that the man
who goes about solely to kill time should
confine himself strickly to his own time.
- 1t is stated that DR.. Bliss has
charged the comfortable little sum NJ
$4,000 for his services to The late Presi.
dent.
New Orleans has six women TO
every five men. This i. said to be n
greater excess than in any other city in
the Union.
Chicago woman has just given
birth to her twenty second child Chi
cago women seem to think there's going
10 be another war:
Money often leads men ns,rav.
but hound dog ia more avaricious He
will follow scent.
- The spectacle of an entire family
dying OF starvation in Texas is not an
assuring one for people who are seeking
Western Eldorado.
= On arriving ut Wilmington. N. O..
forcpaugh's circus disbanded. The me.
naagerie was sent direct to Forcpaugh's
winter quarters in Philadelphia.
= Some men, when they 70 20 church.
never think of studying tho .fescoing on
the ceiling, OF the ediiice III. il tho collec.
ton plate is being passed around.
hotel on the European plan has
Asiatic laundrymen, African walters.
and Is North American CLERK with n
South American diamond in hia sbirt
front.
= The London QUARTERLY Reviey has n
criticism Of the new version of the Nav,
Testament, which charges that II ia fnll
Of errors and not near SO accurate ns tba
old version.
If our Washington reports are cor.
rect the cotton yield in the South will be
iu'iy forty per cent. short. The crop is
!undeniably short and prices will GO up
beyond expectancy THE season.
= A professor of French in an Alba
ny school recently asked pupil what
was the gender Of Academy. The i'm.
usually bright pupil responded that Il
depended on whether it was male or
female academy.
= Colonel William Cameron. the Gov.
ernor elect of Virginia, is one of tho
youngest, if not, indeed, the younqeat
man who has ever been elevated to the
guoernntorial chair in the State. He is
only about 3S years old.
No danger Of Confederate bonds
running short. They can be engraved
aud printed for about cent apiece, and
several men have gone into il for living,
Bring on your market and the bonds will
be there.-Detroit Free Prcss.
"A Treasury Department official at
Wa nj 'gton states that bills arerepatippr
in I'm ,unt 100000 have been received
at The Department for mourning decora-
tions on the public buildings throughout
the country in memory of the late b.es;.
dent.
= The Russian army has been strength.
ened by the addition of pack of trained
hounds attached to each company who
accompany the sentries on picket duty.
They are also used as dispatch bearers.
and prove hard messengers TO catch when
sent stealing through the woods ut NIGHT.
Mr.. F. Theodore Walton, whose bet
ting exploits in England gained him
fnme and money, has arrived in New
York. He admits winning $465 900
during the racing season, $4,000 OF
which was won on three races of Foxhall.
He was called the American plunger, a
term formerly applied to the Marquis of
Hastings, who during his career on the
turf was equally reckless.
= Word was sent by Mr.. H. n de.
feated candidate, to married lady. who
was supposed to have changed the ex.
pected vote of her husband on election
day, to the opposite party, to the follow
ing effect: go and tell Mrs. - that /
will send her, by The first opportunity, q
vices" $50 and tcll Mr.. II" was
the reply, "to send them along at once.
Don't forget to tell him taaf want o
new, pair-not pair tha, lis wife has
half worn out"
= Corn loses one-fifth by drying and
wheat one.fourteenth. From This the
estimate is made that it is more profit
able for farmers to sell unshelled corn in
the fall for 75 cents, than at 81 bushel
in the following summer; and that
wheat at 1925 in December, is equal TO
$3.50 in the succeeding Jnne. In the
case of potatoes-taking those that rot
and are otherwise lost with the shrink
age, there is but little doubt that between
October and June the loss to the owner
who holds them is not less than 33 per
cent.
"A witty druggist, on cold night
last winter, was woke by a terrible rap