The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-08-03
News and Gossip.

hey w est, fm., receives about 100
immigrants each month from the West
Indies.
Key West, Fla; has s;xty vessels
aud over 40" moii engaged III the sponge
business.
= a factory Mt Augusta, Ga, has lust
shipped an order Of 5000 bales of goods
to Africa.
= There is many Il man whose tongue
might govern mul,itudes, if he could only
govern his tongue
= A woman's heart is small affair
but it can upset the biggest man that
ever adorned this world.
: There nrc 1000 l,awkers of news.
papers in London, big men, little boys,
old women and young girls.
- The first appearance of cotton as an
article OF commerce was shipment of
OF seven bnles from Charleston, S. c., in
1857.
| OF the / l,23l convicts il the Geor.
gin Pcnitentinry, ,ll4 are negroes; of
thirty women among the number but one
is white.
| "A Chicago butcher has been Gaed
$i0O for knocking out the eyes of cattle
before Strengthening them, in order to
make them tractable lie said that the
Practice WAS common.
= On hin big Dakota farm ex-Presi.
dent Hayes has, i: il said, this year 265
acres of wheat, 275 acres of oats ead ten
acres of miscellaneous crops. From tho
present outlook lie will harvest not far
from 10000 bushels Of grain.
= An arca Of $4,000 acres have been
planted with trees in Kansas under tho
now law relating TO nrboricuture. Ti:o
cotton tree was largely planted ou account
OF its rapid growth, aud 5000 acres were
set with walnut trees. The expectation
is that this will operate, in course of
time, to relieve the climate of its extreme
dryness.
= Sunday afternoon while n Young
man named Julian Boyd was riding
through the woods near Thompson.
Georgia, he was fired upon by men in
ambush and dangerously wounded. On
Monday night another attempt was made
to shoot him as he lay in bed, but the
assassins were driven of. Suspicion was
directed TO three brothcrs named Martin,
whose sister sometime since charged
Boyd with seducing her.
: The cavalry group for the Lincoln
monument will be shipped from Spring.
field, Mass., for Springfield, ILL.,, in few
weeks. This group Is about ten and
one half feet high and weighs $500
pounds. 1t has required about one wear
to do the work. The monument occu.
pies commanding position in the GENE.
terry, standing ninety eight feet in height
from the base. 1t cost Sl3G,550 and
each group $4,000 making tho en-.
tire cost OF the work $206, $50.
"A member of the Maine Legislature
had been counting an Augusta girl all
Winter and had taken her to attend the
session until she was we'll posted in the
rules. On the last day of tho session, as
they came near the peanut stand by the
door, he said to her "Mav offer YOU
my handful of peanuts7" She re-
sponded promptly: 81 move to amend
6y emitting all after the word 'hand.'"
lie biushingly accepted the amendment
and they adopted it unanimously.
- The San Francisco Chronicle relates
that while hunting for deserters from q
ship at Guaymas, a few days ago, the
searchcrs discovered man covered from
head to foot with long, shaggy hair, of a
reddish color. On their approaching
him he commenced TO run, and they
chased him, following him for a distance
OF mile or more to tia beach, where he
jumped from rock 10 rock with the agility
OF chamnis, and was soon lost to sight
behind jutting point. They afterwards
discovered the cave which he inhabits,
the floor being covered with skins, and
entirely on raw fish. Organized efforts
| will he made n canturo b;r,
: About two weeks ago Mr. Smith,
living few miles Of Calhoun, Georgia,
on the Oostanaula River, lost ycarlfng
heifer about three years old, and az It
WAS fine stock made dilligent search, but
could not find it. A few days ago par
ty Of young men fishing on the river we're
attracted by the smell Of a dead carcass,
and upon examining the cause, 10, and
behold, they found monster catfish,
which had swallowed the calf, and the
horns OF the calf becoming entangled in
the fish's gills had drowned the fish.
Tho fish measured exactly twenty three
feet and seven inches in length and was
five feet eight and one.quar.er inches
across tho head, and from tho length of
its whiskers supposed to be one hundred
and seventeen years Old CuMoun (Ga.)
Times.
- Tie kettle is never quite so virtu.
GUS and emphatic as when charging that
the pot has black bottom. When Horr,
OF Michigan, prances in front of the
Clerks desk in tho House, calling down
tHipIecatious upon tho gcrryuluuGerers vi
South Carolina, he makes no reference
to Michigan. There the districting is
such that the minority has no represent
alton whatever. The claim is, with ref
erence to South Carolina, that the mi.
nority is DISTINGUISHING the majority, but
the assertion that all the negro votes of
South Carolina, where the colored popu.
lation outnumben the white, are cast for
Mr.. Horr's compalriots is mere begging
Of the question. In Iowa, Michigan and
Minnesota, legislative dis:ricting has
been such as to prevent the election of
any but Republican Congressman. In
Illinois the Legislature strove for the
Same result 50 far as it was possible. It
is the same story everywhere. Tho par.
! ty In power uses It's advantage to tighten
its grip. The South Carolina Legisla-
ture has done no more than the Legisla-
ture Of Mr.. Horrs State has DONE
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