The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-05-04
News and Gossip,

:. The "boy preacher" Harrison bea
made 1900 converts in Cincinnati.
= Darwin, the we'll known author and
go called scientist, died in London on
2lst April. :"
- A Louisiana man is establishing an
| alligator farm. The hides and oil are in
demand. :"
| = 1t Is estimated that moro than 2OO
0oO cattle will be driven North frcm
Texas this spring.
I There are 285 persons or firms in
washington prosecuting claims before
| the Pension Bureau.
- A lady in Blakely, Ga, runs -ab.
bits away from her garden pea patch by
sprinkling guano on the pea vines.
James Gordon Bennett gave ball
10 Paris recently that cost him aboue
81 200. The dancers tarried until 6
The Kentucky Legislature hes an.
propriated $4,000 to continue the svaten,
OF stocking the streams Of the State with
choice food fishes.
A great majority of the limited
States Consuls are fools. ;udoine fron,
their contributions to official IiteIaiura
-iHet0 York SIN.
Altogether, the country ia coming
round to the belief that Mr. Blaine WA
not 30 Dad G Secretary of State, while
the less said of his successor the better.
Mr.. Hunt made an excellent secra.
taay Of the Navy. During his term OF
oifice not naval battle was lost. and tho
old flag was insulted in but seven foreign
ports.
:. he late cold weather killed out nil
1ne cotton planted in several counties in
Mlssissippi md Arkansas, necessitatinp
replanting and setting the farmers back
about two weeke.
- President Arthur announced last
fall that he would carry out Garfield's
Pollcy President Arthu. is q man of
hiH word He HAS carried !. cut and
buried it. Utica (N ~ Observer.
:, The Griffin (Ga.) Ners fears that
unless more corn IL raised in Georgia wa
shall be obliged TO import whiskey.
Whereupon the Athens Banner sugpests
that this may be the reason why 10 many
corn.
Mr.. scoyillo's application to Cor.
gress for pay for services rendered in the
defense OF the Presidents murderer was
not exactly unexpected. It requires no
more mo, nerve than was required of Doctor
Bliss when he set his igures for services
at $4,000.
= MacIean, the man who shot at
queen Victoria, was tried two weeks ago
for high treason, and acquitted on the
ground of insanity The deliberation 9of
the jury occupied but FIVE minutes. He
Will DO detained in custody during her
Mnjesty's pleasure
- The municipal election was held in
Santa Rosa, California, on "Wednesday
OF last week and the Democrats swept
the field. The Democratic ticket was
headed: mo more Chinese immigra.
ttion-Rebuke the veto" Many Repub.
i'cans voted against their party.
- The New York Tribune says Mr..
| ker, Mr.. Melton's latest assistant, was
attacked by Bourbon bulldog gang in
C"arleston, and the wi::dows of the
house he occupied broken. The pro.
prietor Of House, the Pavilion Hotel,
publishes card denying any such oc.
| currence.
Prof. Vennor, in reply to Inquiries
as to the Significance of the recent auro.
ra, predicts that the approaching sum
mer will be cold and wet over very con.
siderable portion of the Continent,
South and West. He would not be sur.
prised should each month for the remain
der OF the year bring frosts.
:. They had been engaged to be mar.
ried fifteen years and still he had not
mustered up resolution enough to mage
the happy day. One evening he called
in particularly spoony frame of mind
aud asked her to sing him something
| tender and touching, something that
would "move" him. She sat down at the
piano and sang: Darling, am growing
old"
= An old topper complained 10 doctor
that the ardent failed to exhilarate his
spirits. The doctor, knowing the inor.
dinate nature Of his appetite, told him he
had better try aquaforiis A short timo
afterwards he was surprised by another
| visit from the individual, who told him
| the aquafortis did very we'll at first, but
it was moi strong enough. II say, doc.
tor" said he, "don't you think q little
aqua ffiies would about SIX it?"
i
1. = In the course of his remarks in the
House of Representatives the other day
on British tyrany in Ireland, Mr. Robin
son, Of New York, concluded by saying:
"When came here I found the Amcfi,
can eagle drugged and drowsy, her blood
poisoned with political pygmis. her
| wings wet with the mildew Of monarchy,
| and her beak filed With Lowell garbage.
reused her from her ignoble alumber,.I
| brushed the dew frcn her magnificent
pinions, gave her voice to the music Of
| freedom, and sent her with her magnif-
cent wing to fan the tempest and soar to
the sum-"
= Martin r. Delaney, the black man
who once ran for lieutenant Governor
Of this State, has been lectnring in Bal.
timore: He advised colored men to cut
loose from both parties and to organize
for selt-protection. Democratic, he said,
were their enemies aud Republicans their
friends when the colored people vere
freed, but now it is impossible to tell
friend from foe. de told them to never
vote for Republican or Democfat uii.
less they would be directly benefited,
but rather to waste thsir votes by eastliIg
them for scme old man of their own race
as sacrifice to principle.
"A South Carolina farmer, writing to
the Columbia Register, demonstrates the
difference of good aud bad culture, by
showing that, on land of the same faftilf.
ty, an Intelligent farmer raised so bushels
of corn to the acre, while thriftless man