The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-09
News and Gossip.
- Boston wants Worlds Fair in

1885.
= Ideas are like beard; men do not
have them until they grow up.
- The Georgia Legislature will mes.
in Atlanta on the 18th of July.
- Mr.. Beecher and Professor Swing
endorse the revised New Testament.
A twelve-year.old Jersey COW was
sold in New York recently for $4,000.
Mr. w. w. story's statue of Pres
colt will be unveiled at Bunker Hill,
June II.
- The merchants of Columbus and
Atlanta, Ga, are sending out female
drummers.
Spoons" Butler has nephew who
is sentenced to be hung in Colorado on
the 17th for murder.
- DR.. B. N. Palmer returns to the
Theological Seminary in Columbia, in
place Of DIR. Grardeau, resigned.
- Simon Cameron says that General
Grant is out of politics, and will not be
candidate for President in 1884.
- Mrs. President Garfield, who has
been very i'll, has so much improved an
to be now considered OUT of danger.
- Ex-senator Conkling is said 10 bo
worth between 100000 and 100000.
and ex-senator Platt about $780, 900.
- Butter was first made by the Scyth.
ans and Thracians, and was at first used
as an ointment for baths and medicine.
- Gen. Longstreet's son, Robert Lee
Longstreet, recently declined a Georgia
appointment to cadetship at West
Point.
- Postmaster General James has
stopped star route stealings to the amount
of nearly half million in less than three
months.
"A Portland woman has been arrest.
ed for cruelty beating q three year old
child because he would not say his
prayers.
= Ex-senator Bruce (to'ored), who
was recently appointed Register of the
Treasury, has large number of lady
clerks under him.
= Mrs. Conkling is opposed ~
husbands going back to the
She is anxious that he shall reti,
politics altogether.
A newspaper man in G.
who has been paralyzed all his I
type with his teeth, and makes Af
editorials as he gees along.
- The production of cotton per A.
is greater in North Carolina than III any
State in the Union. Georgia is next ii,
the scale of productiveness.
- The Chinese of New York have
raised $4,000 to prosecute the murderers
of their countryman, Ley Teep, who was
recently killed in barbarous manner in
that city.
= The Protestant Sunday Schools of
Brooklyn, N. Y, had grand parade on
the 25th ult. There was in the proces.
sion 8,741 officers and teachers, and
81 500 children.
- The slave trade is fourishing in
Egypt, where the Viceroy aud his min.
listers are its most jealous supporters.
Eighty thousand is the yearly average
negro expectation.
A party of twenty. Eve or thirty
men broke into the jail at Morganton,
Georgia, and released number Of pris.
oners who were confined for violation Of
the internal revenue laws.
- The old belief that beauty and
brains never 60 together is we'll founded.
Beauty prefers to go with the numbhead
who will pay for carriages and theater
tickets and soda water and ice cream and
such.
- The Comptroller of the State of
Tennessee has been enjoined from exc.
cutting the provisions of the act of the
Legislature, providing for the funding of
the State debt at par and three per cent.
interest.
- Secretary Blaine is informed that
the French delegation to the Yorktown
Centennial will consist of no more than
ten gentlemen, descendants of Lafayette,
De Rnchambeau and other of our allies
in 1881.
- Jefferson Davis has Como to Canada,
in order to be on British soil on the day
that his forthcoming history of the Con-
federacy is published in London, and
thus have the benefit of the English
copyright laws.
= Over six hundred delegates attend
ed the International Convention of
Young Mems Christian Associations,
which met in Cleveland, Ohio, on the
25th ult. The Convention will meet two
years hence at Milwaukee, Wis.
- There is great demand for Ken
tucky horses. Two year old farm horses
of full blood, it is reported, selling at
$500 to $4,000. Colts OF fine racing
stock have been sold for $4,000, and tho
supply is not equal to the demand.
- A cruel miss: "There is my hand ("
he exclaimed, in a moment of courage
and candor, ''and my heart is in it"
She glanced at the empty palm extended
toward her and wickedly replied "Just
as supposed; you've got no heart"
- Mr.. John W. Mackay, the great
Bonanza king, recently received letter
from a man asking him to furnish one
hundred million dollars to buy up all the
goats in the world. The writer hoped in
this manner to secure monopoly of the
kid glove trade.
- Arrangements have been made to
effect the removal of about 10 of the
North Carolina Cherokee Indians to the
Indian Territory. This, it is thought in
the Interior Department, is the first step
toward the removal Of the entire tribe,
numbering about 1000, to that Territory.
- The General Assembly of the
Southern Presbyterian Church met re.
Gently at Staunton, Va, and continued
in session for ten days. The introduc-