The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-07-28
News and Gossip.


= The executors of Lord Beaconsfield
report his estate worth 100000.
= Southern Texas is to be travcrsed
by a network of narrow-gaugc railroads.
= In Cincinnati, there were twenty.
seven deaths fr0ui sunstroke OH the 18th
inst
- Six lines of railroad now enter
Denver, and three more are soon TO be
added.
= There are over 10000 children in
the public schools of ST. Louis who are
studying German.
;, = The first cargo Of fruit direct from
Inc west Indies since the war arrived at
Richmond, Va, last week.
The strawberry growers of a single
county in Maryland realized over 500
ooo this year ON their crops.
The potato crop of tn. United
States will, it is believed, reach 125. 600.
| 600 bushels this year, valued at sion
10000.
= The average English aud American
brain is said to weigh 45.7 ounces, against
French, 44.6; German, fl; Italian, n;
Negro, 405.
a Philadelphia man, being slapped
in the face by his WIFE turned white
with rage, stood still for moment as
though irrcsolute, and th.r, procuring u
gun from az adjoining room, committed
suicide.
= There arc IL ,068 factories in New
York city, employing 262,459 people. of
whom l33.998 are men, 63,482 women
and G5,373 children. Most of this ysst
army is combined in Il demand for Sat.
urday half holidays.
= II the Prcsiden: RECEIVERS, Guiteau
can only be punished by eight years i'm
prls,onmcnt. A lawyer suggests that each
oi the boarding house keepers whom he
mas swndled make complaint against
nm, thus insuriDg his lodgment in iails
throughout the country for the remainder
of his life.
- a woman belonging to the sect
called Perlectionists undertook to run
herself to death at Dallas. Texas. She
got the idea from @ Scriptural passage
about running the race to the end"
that II she run till she diei she would
go direct to Heaven. She could not kill
herself by pedestranism, however, and
resorted to drowning instead
= The new prohibitory liquor law is
not working smoothly in Kansas. Juries
nave refused to convict parties of violat-
ing the law even upon The clearest eyi
dence Of guilt The authorities of one
town having acted in direct opposition
to the law, some of the more earnest
advocates Of the law want the Governor
10 call the militia to enforce it,
= The Governor of Texas, in rcspoud.
ing to the request OF Governor Foster to
have day of thanksgiving and jubilee
for the recovery of the President, apollo.
gizcs, for his long delay, and says: III do
not deem it consistent with my position
rs Governor to issue proclamation di-
rectlng religious services where church
and State are or TO be kept separate in
their functions"
u Two persons, DIR. Howic and
Mrs; Stewart, arrived at Niagara Falls
on the 9th instant. Next day they yisi-
ted the Falls together. They had regis
tered as man and wife. The result of
their guilty amours was that they dclib
erately leaped into the rapids, and thus
passed into the eternal world. HOWE
wrote to his wife begging her forgiveness.
Mrs. S. was 80 and the Doctor was 70
= father-in-law of n. L. Olson. aged
70 years, had his left ear cut entirely of
6y plowshare recently. He was un-
hltchlng mule team from q plow and
had them nearly loose when the mules
started, and in his endcavor to check
them he was thrown 20 the ground and :
the plow ran over him, cutting off his
ear and making ~ ugly scalp wound on
the back OF the head The attending
physician has the ear preserved in alco.
Greenlenf, near Fort Gibson, Kan
sas, i'll the Cherokee Nation, II point
about so miles west of Fort Smith. was
recently the scene of horrible tragedy.
The Creek and Cherokee Indians were
! having barbecue, preliminary to nomi
mating their candidate for the ensuing
election next month. Whiskey flowed
freely. Two full-blooded Indians, Bill
Lovctt and Deer Track, became drunk,
and in their frenzy made an onslaught
on some of the party. Seven men were
killed and mortaily wounded. The mur.
derers are at large, and no efforts arc
being made to arrest them.
- The Spanish government has issued
decree allowing Jews to return to that
country, from which they were brutally
expelled and banished in 1892. The
| concession has been secured by the in
tervention of an influential Jew at Con-
stantinople, who suggested to the Spanish
minister that his fellow .countrymeu, who
were receiving such bad treatment in
Russia, Germany and eastern Europe,
| might be again received into Spain.
where they achieved such PROSPERITY
during the middle ages. Sixty thousand
Jewish refugees have arrived in Turkey.
| and it is proposed to have these continue
| their exodus to Spain, the country which
Tor seven centuries was the only part of
Europe where they were free from perse-
cution and their rights were respected.
! Their subsequent treatment during the
fifteenth century is one of the darkest
b!ots in Spanish history.
= The Knoxville, (Tenn.,) Dispatch,
i'll speaking Of the message of sympathy
sent by Governor Hagood for the State
of South Carolina to Secretary Blaine
on the Sd OF July, utters the following
words: Noble utterances. They will
rise in history They will form diaden
upon the brow Of the Palmetto State.
They will bespeak her praises long, long
shall have passed away. It is an imper-
ishable boon to transmit to future gem
erations: Express the indignation of
the State at the attempted assassination
of tho President, and convey to Mrs.
Garfield her profound sympathy We
take off our hat to South Carolina. We