The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-05-25
News and Gossip.

= James Wick. the well.known seeds.
man, of Rochester, N. Y, is dead, aged
GA year.
= 100000 bales of cotton and 10000
hogaheads Of sugar Is the estimated loss
OF the recent food in Louisiana.
= The State Senate of Tennessee has
agreed to fund the State debt at 60 cents
on the dollar by vote of IA to II.
| = Atlanta, Ga, IS now employing eix
phyaicians oil tho time, going from house
70 house, giving the people free vaccina.
= A young Frenchmau, of Hamilton.
Ga:' spends his time catching butterflies.
Which he sells to parties in New York.
Philadelphia and Boston at five cents q
piece.
A Columbia letter says: at il ru.
mofed that John Mellow, who killed
hevenue Officer Brayton in Pickens
county about year ago, was accidentally
Filled in Arkansas last week."
- The people of the burnt district In
michigan have not been idle tiuce tho
fires. Thousands of neat, Comfortable
houses are being built, and hundreds of
ceres which were covered with thick un.
derbrush before the fire are now green
with wheat and other crops.
-: A new church is to be built in New
| York, which will possess manv novel
features. In the frat place, it will be
free from debt, for gentleman who do.
| clines TO let his name be known navs
the entire cost-Sl00.00O. Attached 10
the church there will be day school. n
cooking school and kitchen garden.
| =, AS he nears the time fixed for his
death. the assassin Gui.eau is living moro
bountifully, albeit in Jail, than ever be.
fore. His appeti is capacious. since
his daily bread is found to consist Of
from one and half 10 two pounds OF
beef, nine eggs, fifteen to eighteen sliceo
OF bread, besides fried potatoes, cofIoe
and fruit.
= at the meeting OF the General Con.
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South on Tuesday the Committee
on k,evisals submitted report recon.
mending that chapter be inserted in
tho Discipline to prohibit engaging in
promiscuous dancing either in private or
at public exhibitions or visiting theatre.
opera or circus.
a Chicago firm has hired afason.
the soldier who tried to assassinnte Gui.
teau, as salesman in their store for one
year, at salary of 81 800, after he 10
pardoned from prison. AS salesman.
Mason being inexperienced, would owl
gently not be much of success. but as
an advertising card he would probably
be worth $1,000 for year or two.
Several pnlpits at Poughkeepsie on
Sunday were filed by meu,bers of the
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Con.
terence, in session there. Bishop Moore
preached at the Presbyterian Church.
During his remarks he said that he had
preached for fifty years; that his mother
bought him out of slavery; that she was
professor of religion for eighty.two
years, and died aged l12.
= The largest stock raiser in the Iyni.
ted States is w. B. Todhunter. of Texaa
He branded 5000 calves last spriup. and
has already mirketed 5000 beeves this
season. He has 10000 head of stock
cattle, aud owns more than 100000 acres
OF land. Mr.. Todhunter owns loo bulls
and 800 saddle-horses; employs fiffv
men, and puts up $500 tons of hay TO
guard against hard winters.
One Cincinnati saloon -keeper has
resorted to novel scheme in order 10
evade the Sunday liquor law. Sunday
last ne had all his doors securely locked,
put customers were supplied with key
to the front door as they approached aha
place. Unlocking the door themselyes
they passed in and locked it after them.
AS the keys accumulated within they
were pissed back TO the man on the oui.
side, and another lot Of customers made
use of tho,a.
= Between Thursday's sunset and Fri.
day noon the Fish Commissioners sent
from Washington 100000 shad and
2oOO,0O0 herring to Austin, Texas TO bo
placed in the Colorado River; 800, GOO
shad 10 Farmville, Va, to stock the Ap.
mock. and 100000 to Harper's Ferry for
the. Upper Potomac. The work OF The
entire season will probably embrace t6e
distribution of about 100000 sbad,
besides innumerable herring.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Presidents Mansion at Washington ia fine
enough for King to live in, q bill has
been introduced in Congress by Mr..
morrill, appropriating $500, 900 to erect
en- extension which shall be of equal and
similar exterior as the present structure,
Gnd en- connected Herewith by corridor.
800 SASoeSA ~ COLllllbSlOu, CQl8I9tlQH
of the President and Secretary of tho
treasury and Interior, under whose
| direction the expenditure is to ba made
| and the work conducted.
The '"ritans," New York society
to which only gentlemen of position and
OF stature not below six feet two inches
are eligible, now numbers about 100
members. largely representative of our
Oldest and best known American families.
Seventy-threo Titaus sat down together
at the recent annual dinner Of the socie.
ty. The tallest measured six feet six
| inches: There were dozen generals and
coioneis among them, as many promi.
nent physicians aud q long list Of dis.
tinguished lawyers and business men.
= The New York Tribune of the nth
Inst. says: SEX Governor D. III, Cham.
berlain and his wife will sail for Europe
in the steamship "Servia" to-day. They
will go almost directly to Paris for tnedi.
cal treatment. The Governors saaiadies,
which have noy become so serious, date
back to his anxious and exhaustine pub.
lie duties in South Caroliua In 1876.
| The nervous troubles which were then
developed now threaten paralysis. and
his physicians have prescribed q wear OF
absolute rest and treatment, which will
be spent within easy reach of Paris es q
medical resort. With due care and treat.
| .nent he is promised complete restoration