The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-06
News and Gossip.
: The Mississippi is falling.


The consumption of mutton again
sleaoiiy increases throughout the coun.
try
a needed increase &C eAn ..c~ c,.-L.
Is To be made in the Pension Office newt
year. "'-s'
= Moody and Sankey have been asked
to spend year in evangelistic work in
! London. :"
= Shad aud red horse are being caupbt
IN the Pee Dee above Cheraw in large
a large number of Englishmen are
i,mmigraling to the bluegrass region Of
Kentucky.
- The Acts passed by the last I,ep;s.
lature will make II volume OF seven bIn.
dred pages.
:. The high strung dogs of Kentucky
are ieeding on tender mutton in the blue
grass counties.
Congress has appropriated $3.50
10 AID in the erection of n monument 10
President Garfield. ~
- One farmer in Collins county. Tex
Is counting Oh thirty bushels Of wheat
- "N'O Wild SCHSOU.
- South Florida is literally swarminp
with land seekers and capitalists, where
'hey are investing large amounts.
- a Kentucky farmer near Owinps.
vile, who attempted to murder a neigh.
Dor succeeded in killing little girl.
- Eleven men were killed and several
wounded wounded oy The explosion Of a powder
other day. '"0
=, = More money is coming into the
Texas State Treasury from the sale of
school lands than from taxes and ali
other sources.
= Only one woman in fifty can carry
an umbrella SO IA to protect her bnct
Ii she has 1t over her ears she is perfect.
ly satisfied Free Press 1850
- Nearly every day from 100 to $50
persons pass through Chattanooga, going
West. They are from Western North
Carolina and Southern Tennessee.
- A bill is now before the Virginia
Legislature to allow the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company to increase
its capital stock, under the provisions Of
its charter.
= Every one in this world has bis mr.
nor share of trouble and trials. LET ua
then try as much as we are abl, not to
increase the burden of any by ms much
as the weight of a straw.
: The indications are that Mason will
eventually be pardoned. Petitions ask.
ing ior his pardon are flooding in to the
tresldcnt from Legislatures, societies and
CltiZnna N
- This .s tie question which AIormons
ask our Congre.sn.en "uoN do Won
know it's bad 10 have q dozen wives?
You haven't tried it. We have" That
may be regarded rs clincher.
Elridge Cain, colored, of AbbeviIle.
formerly member of the Radical Leg
isiature, has originated "cotton chop
per-" which is said to be very simple and
effective, possessing decided merits.
= Col. Pat. Calhoun, formerly of mi.
State, and his brother, have or9aniyed .
company and purchased 10000 ncres of
land near Greenvilie. Miss which thew
rent to colored people in patches at 100
pounds cotton or $40 cash an acre. pur.
chasing all supplies.
An item to sausage-eaters from the
Louisville Courier. Journal: ga man who
detected q piece of bark in his sausage
visited the butcher shop to know what
iiaa become of The rest OF the dog The
butcher was so affected that he could give
him only part Of the tale"
Mr.. w. D. Graydon, farmer of
Butler county, Ala, made last season
from one acre of ground $50 gallons Of
molasses. besides putting sonic Of the
cane or the market, saving 3,O08 stalks
tor seed and reserving about one thou.
SAND stalks for consumption by his fami-
=. Elder Morgan, Presbyterian Elder
OF the Mormon Church for VIRGINIA
North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, AL.
ALBANIA and Mississippi, left Chattanoopa.
Tenn, March 22d, for Utah with f00
converts, gathered in the above States.
AT Nashville he was Joined by so or rs
more.
In Duval county, Florida, dwells a
poiygamist with three wives. A negro
deemed it o duty to prosecute him, and
ate. gathering the requisite proof started
for the court house to make O complaint.
lie had gone only few miles when The
polygamous husband overlook and shot
him.
= Senator Jonas says, from q rough
calculation made by him, the land sub.
merged along the Lower Mississippi pro.
| duced in 1880 total of 700, ,063 bales of
cotton; which at the ordinary price, $45
per bale, amounts to $33,752,2 ,2SS, over
double the sum asked by friends for the
construction of permanent system of
levees.
- a boy who always refused to eat
oatmeal, in spite of his mothers urginps
that 1t was o strengthening diet, sud-
denly surprised her one morning by en-.
ting liberal plateful and calling for
more. Upon his mother asking for an
explanation, he replied: ~ am bound
to eat oatmeal until am strong enough
to whip Johnny Scott"
= Miss Emma Brothers, the North
Carolina young lady who recently left
| her home and was found dead next
morning in the bottom of creek, was q
victim of somnambulism. There was no
imaginable cause for suicide, and the
fact that she was in the habit of sleep
walking, and went away in her night
dress and bare feet, forbids the theory.
= Gen. Clay Green, who once was
Minister to Spain. aud who now is
planter at Bolivar, Miss, tells q ST. Louis
reporter that the floods will cause thou
sands of persons to emigrate permanent
y from the Mississippi bottom lands.