The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-17

- Charleston ships 100000 kegs OF
beer yearly.
642,024 tons.
= Over 1000 liens have already been
filed in the Clerks Office in Barnwell.
- Forty-five persons have been burned
to death in North Carolina during the
past three months.
- A man at Ozark, Ala, has been
fined SIS and sent to Jail for swearing in
the presence of ladies.
The Emperor of Brazil has been on
the throne for fifty years. He was
crowned at six years of age.
Sow sunfower seeds in the spring
around tumble down sheds, or any un.
seemly spots that you wish to hide.
After they are well up and have received
one hoeing, they will need absolutely no
attention. The seeds ara excellent for
poultry, both for increasing the produc.
ton of eggs and the brilliancy Of their
plumage.
General Gar6eld'ssmother is as:type
of the northern Ohio pioneer! mother,
and has not yet forgotten the lessons OF
thrift and economy taught her in early
life by necessity. In the hurry and bus
tie of the morning on the way to Wash
ington, the porter forgot to extinguish
the lamps in the car, and they burned at
full head long after daylight. AT last
the lighted lamps attracted ths old lady's
attention, when she said to the President.
elect: "James, put out those lamps. It's
no use wasting the oil when it is doing
no good" General Garfield called the
porter's attention to the matter, and the
waste of Illuminating fluid was stopped
Immediately.
- Garfield kissed his mother. That
was the point of the inaugural which
will stick in every home of-the fifty mil
lions. "Yes," said an old friend of Gar
fields, yesterday, she is dramatic. He
gave that little turn, knowing how it
would touch every man who ever had a
mother and every woman who ever had
or expects toghaye a. son.. He is.the
ablest President in the art Of putting
things, since Lincoln. He. conceives
everything with regard TO its effect upon
the popular mind. He is intensely am
bilious and destitute of moral principles,
but he has something most as good, the
wisdom to know that in this nation mar
to stand we'll before the people has got to
be moral, religious and safe. ."-Spring-
field Republican.
- George Arnold, of Hill County,
Texas, while in Dallas on private business
a year ago, was bitten by 8 mad dog
which ran past him in the street. He
had the wound cauterized aud returned
to his farm, but he could not shake off
the conviction that the poison was
in his system and that he must eventual.
ly die Of it. About a forth ight ago he
had strange sensations. which he at once
concluded were the premonitory symp-
toms of hydrophobia. His home was
isolated and practically out of the reach
Tof assistance in- case of sudden outbreak
of the disease, and he determined to put
himself beyondrth theapossibility of harm!
ing his wife and children before the mad
ness seized him. So he took strong
chain, went into the woods and chained
himself to.a-tree, secured the fastening
with pa'lock and dthrew away the key.
He then wrote letter to his wife telling
her the dreadful. story and begging her
to believe that is was love for her and his
children which nerved him to meet death
alone. Two days afterward his body was
found still chained to the tree, and near
by was the letter. There WAS every evi.
dence that the man had died in agony.
Teeth aud nails, had been torn out in
his struggles to escape, his clothing was
torn off, his body laccrated, and tho
ground was dug up around the tree as
far as the chain would permit. In view
of the possibility that this tale contains
not word oftruth, it is aa we'll not to