The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-06-01
News and Gossip.

NoUe huu OOSSlps
= The frat printed newspaper was q.
sued in England in 1922.
"a yearling, q full sister to the re-.
nowncd racer, Foxhall, sold in Kentucky
the other day for $500.
= In Alabama there are six million
hVe hundred thousand acres of govern
ment land, and eleven million in timber.
= A Boston fashion writer SAYS that n
Woman's character is shown by her cos
tune: If this be true, it is pretty hard
on widows, who generally dress in black.
- An Indiana girl sued a man for
breach of promise, and proved him auch
q, scoundrel that the jury decided that
she ought to pay him something for not
marrying her.
=. Another small dividend is to ba
paid to the freedmen who had money
deposited in the Freedmen's bank. one
OF the monster frauds of the day. Tho
sale of the bank building creates this
dividend. 'n''
= The happiest period Of woman,s
life Is when>sho is making her weddino
garments. The saddest 10 when her hus.
band comes home late at nights and vejls
to har from the front door steps To throw
out handful of keyhoIes of different
sizes. '"o
- The Memphis Aralanchc keeps The
docket oi Judge Lynch's court, and states
that since January /, 16 persons have
oeen hanged by mob law in the South
L. In the North and in the frontier
states. This probably equals the execu.
tions by due process Of law.
= A Rome (Ga.) man is preparing 81
unique directory. 1t will contain the
name, style, whether brunette or blonde.
address. and approximate age of every
young lady in Georgia who has of her
own or as heir expectant property to tho
amount of $4,000 or upward.
= tiayers for the newspapers and
magazine press Of the whole country
were offered at several religious meetinps
IN IN New York City, recently. Thanks!
wonder whether they offered any peti.
tions for delinquent subscribers Those
are the fellows that need them most.
= Mr.. Vennor has modified bis sin;..
ter predictions about the weather th;s
summer, and says the outlook ia somo-
what better; but he can't say much that
Is encouraging for next fail. According
to his best information the cold will mt
IN an unusually early and severe appear
ance.
"A Cincinnati woman visited small.
Pox; patient, despite the protests of her
nusoand. lust TO see what the disease
looked like" She caught the contagion
ana conveyed it to her husband and only
child. Both parents died and the child
survived Hop Nrrsr,ctt,- -,
gratiGed.
The statement comes that Jews in
Russia are marrying at the rate of 15O
couples day in anticipation that by 30
doing. farms will be given them in
America. To begin with, Jews, as
class, would not farm under any circum-
stances, and. furthermore, America is not
giving farms to her own people, much
less foreigners.
- The National Committee of the
Greenback Labor party met in ST. Iouia
on 23rd Of May. Jesse Harper. of iii.
nois, was chairman. Fourteen members
and and twenty. eight proxies were present,
west Virginia was the only State not
represented. 1t was moved and carried
that committee be appointed 10 formu-
late an address to the people, of which
two million copies should be printed.
- A friendly Washington paper pre-.
diets that in q few years the Southern
iarmer Will own barns and meat houses
and that he will no longer keep those
necessary farm appendages in the West
"a consummation devoutly to be wished.
When this is the case the Southern far.
mer will be truly independent and the
south Will speedily become rich, pros.
porous and powerful. We will hear no
more OF Southern outrages" then.
:, Alexander Fl. Stephens is too old
bird to be caught with chaff. Tho
Georga soreheads have been trying for
some time to work up an Independent
boom with Stephens as their Gubernato.
rial candidate, and to ride into power ON
the wave of his popularity. But the old
Commoner" saw their little game. and
blocked it by publishing letter in which
he states that he will run for Governor
II nominated by the organized Democ.
racy; otherwise not.
= a st. Paul, Mimi, special to the
Msw FORK Sun, dated May %, GAYS:
suit has been brought at Winnepee
against Gen. Rosser, Of Confederate cav.
airy fame and late Chief Engineer of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, charging him
with retaining certain plans and pGrofiles
OF the Canada Pacific Road with jnten-
ton to defraud. The police court held
the defendant for trial at the next Ag.
sizes. Bail was fixed ct $4,000, and the
General was released on furnishing it.
II Some scandal has been excited in
Washington by the performance of Pres
ident Arthur's son at the races the other
day. lie appeared ON the quarter-stretch
In costume so loud as to excite remark.
he wore tight fitting pair of pants,
covering tong-like legs, padded on the
side with buckskin, red necktie, la de
dab English plug and an Oscar Wilde
sunhower. The young man did not cre-
ate n, very favorable impression. The
PRESIDENT was also spectator, but came
late and did not see his young hopeful's
performance.
= A dispatch to the New York Sin,
from Rappahannock, Va, dated May 90,
narrates murder committed by Mrs.
Maria Bruce, her victim being her stem.
daughter, aged ten years. She had con.
ceived hatred for the girl because of
the latter's disapproval Of her fathers
second marriage. Entering the house in
a bad humor she seized o poker and beat
the girls head to jelly. She then car
ried the body to cabin in the field and,
pouring kerosene over the clothing. en-.
deavored to burn it. Some neighhors
hastened TO the scene and arrested the
woman.