The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-26
News and Gossip.

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Chester county.
Robert Lincoln, Secretary of War,
is being put intraining as q presidential
candidate for 1884 4
Arkansas is crowded with men buy
ing up the timber lands. Thousands. of
acres are sold weekly.
il The acreage in cotton in Kershaw
county is said TO be the largest ever
known 70 have been planted.
The wool trade in Corpus Christi,
Texas, in twenty.three years has grown
from 900 to- zoe, 900 pounds.
| Almost every county in Tennessee
has taken steps for the. improvement of
1.-The public roads, under the new law.
- The negroes ofiwest Tennessee have
l!again taken the Kansas fever, and are
l!leaving by the hundreds almost daily.
/ - The Petersburg (Va.) Butter:dish
factory gives employment to forty-one
lhands and turns out $4,000 dishes every
lIday.
/ = The end of the Texas and Pacific
railway track has been pushed over thir.
lIty miles to the westward of the Colorado
lriyer. ].
"A, Delaware editor, who is 'aisoaa
physician, offers as an inducement to new
subscribers to vaccinate every one who
will take his paper.
There are $4,000 orange trees in
Putnam county, Florida, and about 40, -
900 are now bearing. the product from
which last season was {, SOC, 900.
r. The: new Gar leads q very simple
life. He erises early and breakfasts with
his family, and then puts on his boiler:
iron overcoat and takes walk in the
back yard.
Scene at the White House,: Enter
messenger Conkling has. resigned r,
Enter second enger-a Platt has re-
signed r. President Garfield well, Il
am resigned" -
- An agricultural paper advises farm
ers to "never milk while the COW is eat.
ing" Butitis while the COW is drinking,
evidently, that the city milkman gener-
ally does his milking. {
= Redmond, who is confined in the
Asheyille IN. C.) Jail, is still suffering
very much from his wounds. Three
balls that the physicians could not ex-.
tract are tillltroubling him.
-Itis said that if red oak bark is
kept in. the chicken! trough at all times it
is q sure cure for chicken. cholera. As
the disease is very prevalent at present
its efficacy can be easily tested.
- It is reported that three of the sub :
scribers to the Grant testimonial fund,
namely, Mr.. Thomas Barbour, Mr.. John Z
Hoey and Mr.. E. 81. Sanford, have thus
far declined TO pay up and that the fund
is thus $4,000 short Of the promised
s25O,000.
= After the evidence was in, a Gal
weston judge asked the accused, who
was charged with. stealing watch, if he
had anything more to offer. 81 did. have
an old watch to offer you, Judge, but my
lawyer borrowed it and hasn't brought it
back yet.nas ~
So A gentleman recently provoked
one.armed organ grinder by asking him
if he was 8 survivor of the late war.
"Why, you foolv; exclaimed the irate
musician, don't you see that I sur.
vived? Dol act as though | was killed
in the war;
- fany person willinyent machine
for duplicating California jury that
will return a verdict of murder in the
first degree where the victim is worth
100000 we will guarantee that the in
ventor is likely to go down to posterity
without ever seeing the machine put to a
test.
= Recently number Of Italian work
men were repairing the track near the
Manhattan Beach Hotel, when a few
drops Of rain fell, attended with q single
flash Of lightning. The men at the time
were walking along with their shovels
over their shoulders. AT the flash the
last one in the line fell dead, and the one
in advance shrieked with fear and rolled
over. He was scorched and stunned, but
not seriously hurt. -
Judge Robertson is q man above
the medium size, with a full head of:
grayish;white hair, and large tuft of
goatee upon his chin; he has blush
eyes, regular features, and is man of
considerate, attentive, respectful and re-
markable power of thinking on his feet.
He does not carry q soul, crammed with
hostilities. The great mass of questions
that may arise before him, be will have
to decide as they present themselves to
his reason.
- Stammering, according to NJ. A..
Cheruin, generally originates in q sud.
den nervous shock which the victim of
the affection has received in childhood;
sometimes it is habit which has been
acquired by the practice of initiating
other persons who stammer, or by con-
slant association with stammering mem-
bers of the family. Professor Chervin
resorts to singing, or the use of the ca.
dence for preventing stammering, and
has been very successful. Whipping has
sometimes been resorted to. =
- When Jury was being impaneled
to try q liquor case at Troy, Kansas, last
week, the attorney for the prosecution
promptly objected to a certain juryman.
"What in the world did you challenge
that man fol? asked one who was inter-
ested in the prosecution. why" re.
piled the lawyer, "a man with such face
and nose will never bring in verdict
against man for selling whiskey."
"Well," replied, the other, nyou have put
off one of the strictest chucch members
and most radical temperance men in the
county!"
"A remarkable case of abstinence
from food is reported at Battle Greek,
Mich. Last October, Mrs. Henry In
gram had some teeth pulled, and this
brought on nausea at the stomach and
inability to retain food. The woman is
is still alive, having eaten or drank moth
ing since October. She is nourished by
being bathed in beef tea, milk, ETC.,
which acts by absorption, the quantity
absorbed from these baths being nearlya
quart day. She feels a sort Of hunger,
which is soon allayed by a bath, after
which she feels as if she had eaten. A
bath of water will quench her thirst.