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

- In Harrisburg, IA, there Is child
seven years old that eats its 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 cap.
sizing of a ferry boat the other day at
Elgin, Illinois.
-Carlyle's father was stone mason,
George Eliot's a carpenter and Shakes
peare's butcher.
= A spark from q locomotive destroyed
two thousand bales of cotton recently at
Fort Worth, Texas.
- During storm at Louisville, KY,
on the 2Sth alt., FIVE boys were struck by
lightning and killed.
AN incipient volcano has been dis
covered on the farm of U. A. Jarnagin,
in Ohio county, Kentucky.
- There are about 100000 sheep in
Texas, and this number will probably be
increased to 100000 this season.
= Charles Stokley, of Batavia, New
York, shot his employer because he re-
fused to let him marry his daughter.
"A railroad ticket issued twenty years
ago, good from Burns to Hornellsvile, on
the Erie, was recently offered and accep.
ted for ride.
= The new Capitol at Albany, New
York, has cost the State thirteen millions
of dollars, and two million dollars is yet
needed to complete it.
= Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New
York Tribune, was married last week TO
Miss Elizabeth Mills, daughter of the
California millionaire.
The New York Legislature proposes
to fix the rate at which telegraph MESA
ges may be sent in that State at fifteen
words for twenty cents.
= The loss of property by the recent
floods in the Missouri river and its tribu.
taries between Sioux City and Bismarck
is estimated at S2,500,000.
- The North Carolina Prohibition
Convention met at Raleigh last week.
Four hundred and fifty delegates were
present, representing every county in the
State.
= The Sibley Manufacturing Compa-
ny, of Augusta, Ga, has increased its
capital stock frorl 100000 to 81 900, 900.
1t will have 10000 instead of $4,000
spindles, as at first intended.
- The New York Elevated Railroad
Companies are said to be losing money.
Last year the Manhattan Company lost
$500,000, 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 will be able to make mile
in less than a minute. The driving
wheels Of these engines measure six and
half feet above the rail, or higher than
a tall man with silk hat on.
- A resident of Nicholas county, KY,
who bad an eye put out by al overhang-
ing thorn while riding at night on a turn
pike, has sued the turnpike company for
$4,000 damages, on the ground that it
had not exercised reasonable diligence
in not having the thorn-tree removed or
trimmed.
= The Springfield Republican says that
the Maine prohibitory law, even 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 100000 in fines since it went
into force. Of the sum two brothers paid
$11, ,479.
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 Ii
censes. It is penal offepse for saloon
keeper to sell to man unproyided with
license.
- An attempt was made to evict some
tenants ut 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 elec-
tions and at Rockford, one 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 he told the
truth, and then not one of 'em dared TO
rise up in meeting, with her present, and
say the clergyman wasn't right. BY
sharp management, even q jury of dea-
cons can be handled.
of the nine hundred orange groves
in Putnam county, Fla, at least Is per
cent of them are owned by Northern
men, the most of whom went to Florida
with little if any money to aid them in
starting the "blsiness." Most of these
groves are now in hourishing condition,
very few of them perhaps not to exceed
twenty-having mortgage or any pecu
mary claim upon thea.
- Bishop Borgas, of the Catholic dlo.
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 a 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 approval the reasons
therefor in writing.
- DIR. Lyon Playfair, perhaps the
greatest living English authority on
food, said in the debate in the House of
Commons on oleomargarine that, as it
contained the same fats as those obtained
from the cow-minus the aromatic fats
which curiously enough produced ran.
cidity in bad butter-he thought the
sooner it supplanted bad butter the bet
ter. He believed that it would do that,
but lie did not think it would supplant
good butter.
II 1t is stated, apparently by authori-
ty, that ex-President Hayes intends to
nut himself at the head of the Temper.