The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-09-13
All Sorts OF Paragraphs.

"A 400 pound saw fish, 16 feet long,
has been recently caught on Florida guilt
coast.
- A handsome statue is 10 be erected
over the grave of General Stonewall jack
son, at Lexington, Va.
= NJ. A., Mill, has growing on his
place in Orlando. Fla, gourd vine
which measures 1872 feet in length.
- The Southern States have 19l cot.
ton factories, q more than all Of New
England-leaving out Massachusetts,.
- The attendance at the Louisville
Exposition for the first month, which
closed last week, was little ovor 15O,-
900.
- II il said. by those who profess 10
know, that William II. Vanderbilt has
given three million dollars in charities
within few years
= Boston has more taxable property
than the entire State of Missouri, or else
the assessors and Taxpayers in Missouri
do some tall lying.
| = Wilson, Y. c., has not only female
barber, but female blacksmith, and a
postmislress, and living one mile from
town is a female shoemaker.
| COY Nouiu is HdVlUB uu SOU,UUU
tomb built to retire to when he "shuffies
of this mortal coil" But the worms will
feast an his marrow ell the same
= North Carolina has two of the lar.
gest vineyards east Of the Rocky noun.
tains. The grapes raised are coming
into great demand even outside of the
State.
- Blind Tom now lives in New York.
and music has become mania with him.
he IL taken every morning to Steinway
Hall, where he practices for hours on a
piano.
Josiah T. Wall, Florida's colored
ex. congressman, now farming in Ala
chua county, will realize between 81 900
and $4,000 net from his vegetable crop
this year.
- Two thousand Smiths met in New
Jersey the other day. A Brown, who
had got among them by mistake, barely
escaped with his life. The Jonesees
staid away.
"A water drinking match occurred at
the Iron Springs. near Iuka, last week,
between Mr.. John Hays, of Memphis.
and drummer. The drummer won
drinking TWO and half gallons.
= A man boarded train at Ogden,
Utah, Sunday night, and covering eight
passengers and two train men with his
revolver, robbed them of their watches
and money and made his escape.
= The golden spike which ia to be
driven on the last rail of the completed
Northern Pacific Road will be gently
persuaded into it's cavity by q sledge
made of silver, with nm ebony handle.
Leonard Ulum and Mary Gathrop
were recently married in Tyler county.
Ohio. After hilarious wedding feast
Ullum bade his friends good night, picked
up his hat, and left the house, and has
not been seen since.
Mr.. Surrency, living few miles
from Waldo, last week, killed thirty rat
tlesnakes at one killing, the largest
being iive feet aud eight inches in length,
and the shortest two feet. This is
vouched for by the Waldo advertiser.
- Those who have been figuring on
the wheat crop say that there ia q shortage
in this seasons crop in this country of
seventy million bushels. There is
plenty Of wheat, however, to furnish
bread for ali, but the price may be lit
tie higher.
= An apple tree in Mercer county
KY. is believed to be ninety years old,
and has not failed to bear fruit every
season for sixty years. Five feet from
the ground 1t measures around the trunk
ten feet nine inches, and is believed to
be the largest apple tree in the world.
= In Fairfield, AIeine, ia mannfacto-
ry of ready made building go. which is said
to be the largest in the world. 1t turns
out dwellings in many sizes and shapes,
as boots and shoes are turned out In other
parts of New England. The capabilities
OF the factory range from shanty to
$4,000 hotel, with every room fronting
towards the sea.
= Ii lady Who creates 6 sensation ct
fashionable summer resort is happy,
then Mrs. Rich, handsome California
bride, ct present ct Saratoga, ought to be
happy. She has little black and tan
dog that cost her $400, and she has
adorned it with O pair of earrings worth
$4,000 and gold collar with emeralds
worth $4,000. She is the talk of the
town.
John G. Flynn, Cincinnati news.
boy, 22 years old, sold out his stand on
Thursday and started for Denver 70 en-
gage in the hotel business. Young
Flynn has been newsboy for thirteen
ySaAeS Notiu, WHICH tltuc uo udS UCCuClus
lated $4,000. His profits ranged from
$5 to $l2 day, and his money was reg
ularly deposited in bank. He lived at
the Bethel, where he paid regular rates
for board and lodging. =, s
= Judge Black wss told one day that
he had more friends among the Republi.
cans than among the Democrats, and
that he ought to Join the former. He
retorted, saying that "the Republicans
were good fellows; he would like to
belong to them, and there was only one
thing in the way. ''If," he said, there
was no hereafter, I would join the Re.
publican party at once. Nothing deters
| me but the fear of hell"
= Besides being remarkable for its
name Buncombe county, N. c., is cole
brated for it's crops of cabtages (single
heads weighing as much as 20 pounds, it
is alleged), watermelons, apples and rat.
tlesnakes. The vivid correspondent of
the Augusta Chronicle says Its natives
seldom die, and that in travelling all
over its mountains he saw but one grave
that of q man who was accidentally
killed at the age of70 years.
= Judge Rogers, of Kingston, Tenn,
was In hurry to impanel the jury, and
thoughtlessly selected 13 from the num-
Der in the court room. The law requires
| q small child to draw the names from n