The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-06-29
News and Gossip.

her Penitentiary.
! =, Gar6eld's biography is selling in
England at the rate Of 1000 month.
= Tennessee has 1900 acres rnim.
proved land, most Of which is covered
with fine timber.
- President Artbur's mail Averages
600 letters day, and of these not one in
twenty ever reaches him.
| - A statement by the Kansas Board
of Agriculture places the winter wheat
acreage at ono million and half acres.
:. The drinking places In New York
set In one street, would extend seventeen
miles; those in London soventy.threo
miles. '0
Thirty-three out of the hirty.eipht
states ask for appropriations for the i'm.
provement of rivers and harbors, real
and imaginary.
= Mark Twain is of opiEion that any
gifted person ought to learn English in
80 hours. French in 80 days, and Ger
man in 80 years.
- An exchange thinks no shares par
30 well as plow-shares. This may be
correct, but most people who hold plow-
shares would be willing to trade them off
for bank shares.
- Orlando Jackson has brought suit
against the louisiana Lottery Company
for $l78, 900, alleging he has spent $50.
600 within the past four years in tho
purchase Of tickets.
:. The late James Wick, Rochester
scotsman, ga, away $4,000 a year.
Alter the grasshopper Invasion in Kan.
sns, he gave $25, 900 worth of seeds to the
sufferers Of that State.
an Iowa man has just paid $4,000
for kissing. his servant girl, and she
wasn't much of e. servant cir! either; u. 0
wages of sin are good deal higher than
miniaters' salaries this year.
- One of South Georgia's most popu.
10. society ladies, resident of Lowndes
county, has cleared this season on an
acre and q half truck farm over $3.50.
she superintends its cultivation in per.
son.
- Mr. Brand has been Speaker of the
British House of Commons for nine
years, at salary of $4,000 O year and
q pleasant. residence within the precincts
OF Westminster, looking out upon the
riyer.
:. On the outskirts Of Little Rock,
ARK, they have a genuine case of lep-
rosy The victim is negro. His skin
is turning from black IL murky. white,
and his flesh is dropping off in spots from
his body.
- Cornelius Vanderbilt, il son of Viii.
liam H., blooms in his youth as q hu.
man:tarian theoretically and benefactor
practically. He has been giving his
pocket money to summer SANITARY 40.
ciety near New York.
:, The Texas Supreme Court has given
decision in the long pending suit Of the
Grigsoy neirs, TO recover about three
thousand acres of land In and near Dali
las; The decision is In favor of the heirs,
and gives them property valued at nearly
$2,O00,0O0.
Us there such thing rs luck p"
asks correspondent. There is. For
instance, if you go home at 2 o'clock in
the morning, after promising your wife
to DO in early, and find her asleep, and
don't tumble over any chairs, that's luck,
but it isn't to be depended on.
= A Boston widow married All Euelish
clergyman, o few years ago. and gave
him outright holf her fortune of $500
tO0. He at once retired from the min
istry, became drunken spendthrift and
gamester, ano abused his wife 80 much
that she has sued for divorce.
= An amendment lics been introduced
in the Senate to the bill! ploy;ding for tho
settlement of claims for property de.
stroyed by Confederate cruisers, which
provides that foreign claimants must
prove that they wero never in the service
of or gave mid and comfort to the Con.
federate Government.
= Gambetta is an old bachelor. and
that fact detracts from his popularity
among the middle and lower class in
France Exchange. Some people are
always finding fault. Now, there was
Brigham Young. He wasn't bachelor.
and yet there were people who were
always crying out ag inst him because he
wasn't.
The Philadelphia Record says ru-
NOR is afloat that Mr.. Dallas Saunders, o
we'll known Democrat, of that city, has
gone over to the Republican, party. Mr.
Saunders recently assisted in The prosecu-
ton of the South Carolina election off,
GERS before Judge Bond, for which
service, it is said, he received 81, 500,
although all the efforts to convict were
unsuccessful.
= Three respectable girls-Allie Mills,
aged fourteen years, Mary Oglie, aged II,
and Mary Jones, aged 12-committed
! suicide, in Danville, Ill.,, on the morning
of the 22nd of June, by taking arsenic.
| Allie Mills gave rs her reason that her
sister lived with shameless woman,
Mary Oglie's reason was she was an
orphan, and Mary Jones took the drug
because the others did.
- A sad young man, after taking 9
meal at New York coffee house, after
much searching in his pockets, produced
a 81 greenback from his watch fob, ant
with q sigh said "Here she goes" After
his. departure the note was examined
and on IKE back appeared, written in &
fine hand: "Save your salary; don'
gamble; never play at faro-bank. The
last of a fortune of $4,000"
= There has been an extraordinar
outburst of sun spots within the last two
days. Last week huge spot, resam.
bling in its general appearance and it
position upon the disk the great spot tina
accompanied the magnetic storm of April
crept slowly around the eastern edge o
the sun and advanced with the revolution
of the orb, until on Monday IL was vel
situated for observation. Between Sun
day and Monday swarm of small spott
broke out like an eruption UPON th = sum-
face in the neighborhood of the large