The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-12
News and Gossip.


: In Harrisburg, Pa, there il a hild
seven years old that cats It's own hair.
= Another party of 200 Mormons ar.
rived in New York last week for the
West. ~ '"'
= JEFF. Davis new book will be sold
only by subscription, and will cost ten
dollars.
= Sixteen lives were lost by the can.
sizing of ferry boat the other dny at
Elgin, Illinois.
= Carlyle's father was n stone. mason
George Eliots n carpenter and Shakcs..
peare's butcher.
= A spark from locomotive DESTROYED
Two thousand les OF cotton recently at
Fort Worth, 1uxas. "
Durlng q storm nj Louisville, Ky.,
on the 2Sth ult., five boys were struck by
lightning and killed.
= An incipient volcano has been dis.
covered OH the fnrm of U. A. Jarnagin,
in Ohio county, Kentucky.
>, = There arc about 4,6OO,OO0 sheep in
Texas, and this number will probably be
increased to 1000, 900 this season.
Charles Stokley, of Batavia, New
York, shot his employer because he re.
iused 10 let In. marry his daughter.
"A railroad ticket issued twenty years
ago, good from Burns to Hornellsvilie. on
the Erie, was recently offered ard accep-
ted for ride.
:, Tho new Capitol at Albany, New
York. has cost the State thirteen millions
OF dollars, and two million dollars is vet
needed to complete it.
- Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New
lork tribune, was married last week TO
Miss Elizabeth Mills, daughter of the
California millionaire.
= The f.ew York Legislature proposes
to fx the rate at which telegraph MESA.
ges may be sent in that State ut fifteen
words for twenty cents.
= The loss of property by the regent
noods IN the Missouri river and is trbu-
taries between Sioux City and Bismarck
is estimated at $2,500,OO0.
= The North Carolina Prohibition
Convention met at Raleigh last week.
-Four hundred and fifty delegates were
present, representing every county in the
- The Sibley Manufacturing Compa.
ny, of Augusta, Ga, has increased it's
capital stock FROM $500, 600 to 81 900, 600.
1t will have 10000 instead of $4,000
spindles, as ut first intended.
= Tho New York Elevated Railroad
Companies are said to be losing money.
Last year the Manhattan Company lost
$50O,O00, and the present deficiency is
estimated to be not less than $3.50 day.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
pany is building ten large passenger en-
gines, which vii! he able to make mile
In less than n minute. The driving
wheels Of these engines measure six and
half feet above the rail, or higher than
tall man with silk hat on.
- resident of Nicholas county, XIV,
who had MI eye put out by an overhang-
ing thorn while riding at night on turn
pike, has sued the turnpike company for
$2o,0 600 damages, on the ground that it
had not exercised reasonable diligence
in not having the thorn-tree removed or
trimmed.
- The Springfield Republican says chat
the Maine prohibitory law, eyon if it has
not stopped drinking, has at least brought
considerable money into the public treas
ury, 81 residents OF Portland having paid
in nearly $4,000 in fines since it went
into force. OF the sum two brothers paid
- In Oregon no man is allowed TO
take drink at public bar without TAX
ing out license, and the newspapers
publish interesting lists from time to
time Of the men who have obtained IL
censes. 1t is q penal offense for saloon
keeper to sell to man unprovided with
q license.
- An attempt WAS made to evict some
tenants at New Palas, Ireland, last week,
but failed because mob of five thousand
persons resisted the execution of the pro-
cess, and threatened the life of the bailiff,
who became frightened and refused TO
point out the houses of the defaulting
tenants.
= Illinois gives the women vote ON
prohibition or license" at the local cleo
tions, and ut Rockford, Que of the most
important places at which women exer-
else this right, the temperance women
organized last week, had carriages to
take voters to the polls and made hot
canvass all election day; but license was
carried by about 1000 majority.
"A Chicago clergyman explained to
the committee of deacons that the widow
was so pretty no man could help flirting
with her, and each of the committee
quietly called round to see if lie told the
truth, and then not one of 'cm dared to
'i'o u AZ '.'eSsh6, viii nei P1SooHt, anu
say the clergyman wasn't right. By
sharp management, even jury of dea-
cons can be handled.
= Of the nine hundred orange groves
in Putnam county, Fla, at least rs per
cent of them are owned by Northern
men, the most of whom went to Florida
with little If any m1ncy to aid them in
starting the business" Most of these
groves are now in fourshing condition.
very few of them perhaps not to exceed
twenty-having mortgage or any pecu
mary claim upon tho u.
Rishep Rergas, cf The Catholic dc
cese of Michigan, forbids all Catholics in
his diocese from originating or participa-
ting in any public picnic EXCURSIONS on
rivers, lakes or railroads on Sunday, or
on holy day, or any other day of the
week. He also forbids the holding of
fairs for the benefit of churches, schools
or charitable institutions, without first
submitting for his approvs! the reasons
therefor in writing.
= DR.. Lyon Playfair, perhaps the
greatest living English authority on
food, said in the debate in the House of
Commons on oleomargarine that, as it
containcd the Same fats as those obtained
from tie cow--minus tho aromatic fats
which curiously enough produced ram
cidity in bad butter9he thought the
sooner it supplanted bad butter the bet
ter. he believed that it would do that,
but he did not think it would supplant
good butter.
= 1t is stated, apparently by authori-