The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-09

= An effort made for the happiness of
others lifts us above ourselves.
It is reported that 2.252 women are
engaged in farming in Indiana.
- Only about three per cent of the
cotton belt is occupied by Gotten.
= Out of the half million immigrants
that landed in this country last year,
the south received only $4,000.
- A Chicago man drank four pints of
whiskey to cure the smallpox, but it
killed the man before having q chance at
the disease.
= President Arthur has made five
hundred and thirty nominations TO Office
since ho became President, thirty. five of
which were from New York.
= Gen. Gordon and his brothers, Wal
ter and Eugene, are said to have made
another round million by recent rail.
road deal in the Southeast.
- Woman is asserting herself. In n
revolt in a female. prison ut Montreal, on
Saturday, the police sent to quell it werc
severely handled, and somc OF them will
die.
- The King Of Denmark will act "a
patron Of the forthcoming Congress ON
American Antiquities, nt Copenhagen,
and the Crown Prince rs honorary presi.
dent.
- Synopsizcd opinion by the court
''These defendants are dismissed The
Court finds they stold large amount
to entitle them to respect. Call the next
case"
= Senator Lamar, who was struck by
carriage while crossing the streot in
Washington the other day, has gone
home TO Mississippi to consult his family
physician.
- A Baptist clergyman says that the
man who at baptism does not go deep
enough into tho water to get his pocket
book under has not been dipped enough
to save him.
"A New, York tourist who ate an
alligator beefsteak in Florida didn't get
the taste out of his mouth until hc had
eaten half peck of onions and four
dozen herrings.-Free Press.
Quiet bobbery was kicked up in
the Connecticut Legislature by the intro.
duction ofa bill permitting school COM
mittees to order instruction upon the OF.
feet of Intoxicating beverages.
= Murat Halsted on the Sunday clos.
ing movement in Cincinnati "Fiddle-
sticks. It is all humbug. don't believe
in such hypocrisy. You may close the
front doors, but you cannot stop drinking.
That's all | have got to say about it,"
= The Memphis (Tenn.) appeal claims
for that city the credit ofhaving originn-
ted the war upon the practice of carry
ing concealed weapons nearly ten years
ago, and says that the rigid enforcement of
the law "has nearly eradicated an evil
which was frightful in its consequences"
/. Il. II. Bromely of the New York
Tribune, and Frank Hatton, first assistant
postmaster. general, arc talked of for the
editorship Of the Washington National
Republican, which has been lately boughs
by F:esident Arthur's friends. The pa.
per is now reported to be losing $4,000
month, which accounts for Brady's will
ingness to get rid of it,.
- Professor Packard, of Bowdoin Col.
lege, vouches for the story that Talleyard
detested Aaron Burr, and that when the
latter sent his card requesting an inter
view the French diplomat said: "The
minister of foreign affairs will see Col.
Burr at such an hour, but miniature of
Gen. Hamilton always hangs over his
mantle" Col. Burr did not call.
(, - Augusta Ne,cs: In recent private
letter from Sewer county, Arkansas, the
writer says the State is ~ an alarming
condition, provisions high and scarce,
and negroes threatening to break open
smoke houses and cribs if their wants
are not 'pplied. He also asked the loan
of cnous money to pay his tax, as it
was impossible TO raise the money there.