The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-02-16
News aud GOssip.

News aud Gossip.
= y promising wheat crop in Arkan-
sas.
= Visitors in Florida are indulging in
green pass and strawberries.
The town Of Greenwood derives
$3.50 from barroom licenses this year.
= The most common cause Of poverty
in the South, is the failure TO appreciate
small things.
= Garner up pleasant thoughts in
your mind. for pleasant thoughts make
pleasant lives.
= The careless man and the thief are
equally troublesome. Neither of them
ever leaves anything where he finds it.
= Some men when they go to church
never think Of studying the frescoing on
the ceiling until the collection plate is
being passed around.
A Washington lady has engaged
rooms at Worn..ey's for her dog, and has
its meals served to it rs regularly rs any
other dignitary there.
"A happy life is like neither roar
ing torrent nor stagnnnt pool, but a
placid and crystal stream that flows gent
ly and smoothly along
- If you throw pound Of bread to
the poor the Lord will thiow pound OF
butter into your lap to make what you
have left more palatable.
Mr.. Arthur is in mourning still.
He dresses in deep black, uses letter
paper with broad black margin and
nominatcs Stalwarts to Office
The best men are not those who have
waited for chances, but those who have
taken them besieged tho chance, and
made the chance their servtor.
= AT Christmas eve service in UvNrre
in Spain, pack Of wolves entered the
church, and did not quit it till they had
killed three and seriously wounded five
of the congregation.
"Hang them there. those deep, dark
eyes," is the order Of Texas poet. who,
in the excitement of the moment, forgot
that i'll the Lone Star State the rope is
usually tied n little lower down, with the
knot Just under the left ear.
= Rollin Wellborn, of Fort Gaines,
Ga, whilo standing under n scafiold upon
which n carpenter was at work, left a
sharp pain iii his face, and, looking to
the ground, saw Ratchet that had lust
fallen fro;N the scaffnld and had cut his
nose of close to his face.
= The supreme court of Kansas has
declared to be unconstitutional 90 much
Of the prohibitory law us prcscribes a
punishment for drunkenness, on the
ground that the provision was not ex-
pressed in the title of the bill. 1t also
decides that any person legally in posses
sion of liquor has the right to drink or
give it away.
= a Tennessee gill who found beau
The liked better didn't snap the goldan
sord with the old one by suddenly re-
turning his letters and lock Of hair. She
tent for him, told him how it was, gave
lim S5 in cash and 500 pounds of pea
luts, and took his receipt in full of all
demands. She must have heard of the
Louisville girl who, upon the eve of mar
'iage, had bill for carriage hire of
;S4.02 sent in by discarded lover, which
lad TO be settled before the ceremony
,ould proceed.
= Mrs. Eliza Garfield has been pre-.
ented by a number of Ohio women in
Washington with handsome fire. screen.
The screen is OF glass with the designs
'ainted by hand, then burned in. This
lass part swings in frame of carved
bony, which stands nearly FIVE feet high
nd is about three ft st wide. In the
enter of the glass there is an excellent
icture Of Mr.. Garfield painted from q
opy of the photograph taken for Queen
'ictoria- Above the head is the coat of
rms OF the State of Ohio.
General Simon Cameron not long
go took up large Indian blanket that
ung over chair near him, and said to
correspondent of the Boston Heorld, who
Ias conveniently near: s'This has
ueer history. When was senator
nd General Grant was president q con-
ederate friend of mine had q son whom
o wanted appointed second lieutenant
q tho army. This gentleman and l had
cen friends before war parted us. Grant
id not like to make the appointment,
ut l continually urged it because I had
,ost in the last hours of the session, how
yer, | induced him to send in the name.
think he expected it was TOO late to get
confirmed, but hustled about, got my
emocratic friends to help me, and, ut
ie very last moment, secured his confir-
istion. He is now on the plains, and
'me time ago sent me tue Indian blank
: prize it very highly, and / told
rant its history not long ago. 1t
nused him greatly. The boy is making
good officer, l hear"