The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-02-22

= Pittsburg, Pa, is suffering with the
greatest flood known in that region for
so years.
= Senator Butler is working to get
$4,000 for Charleston harbor, the 500.
600 allowed in the river and harbor bill
being inadequate.
= There has not been n single bank
failure in Japan since the law was en-
acted cutting off the heads Of the cashiers
and directors of the banks that fail
Japan would deal tenderly with Star
REUTERS and State Treasurers.
= Samuel Wragg, the junior member
of the firm of c. T. Lowndes & Co.,
Charleston, died suddenly, Thursday
afternoon, whilst at dinner Heart dis
| ease is supposed to have been the cause
of his death. He was in his 34th year.
= There are about 10000 working
women in Boston whose average pay is
four dollars week, and whose board
costs them an average of three dollars
and half week. This leaves them
twenty.s;x dollars year for clothing and
incidentals.
= A Texas paper describes an 5000
acre ranch in that State entirely devoted
to the breeding of ponies for children.
The breeding stock consists of seven
Shetland stations and forty.Gve mares,
all thorough bred, and 200 small spotted
pony mares. These little ponies range
over the prairies like sheep, and are de.
scribed Us very gentle.
= 1t is reported that the coinage of
the new five.cent nickel coin is to be
suspended at once, the Secret Service
men objecting to the piece because by
guiding it could be made to resemble a
five.dollar gold piece. One side of the
coin is fac simile of the gold piece
mentioned, while the word "cent" does
not appear upon it at all.
Wiggins, the Canadian weather
prophet, has just discovered that he has
erred in his calculations concerning the
March storm. He still maintains that
the storm will occur, but not to such an
alarming extent as previously predicted.
1t will only cover narrow area. His
storm predicted for Feb. 9. did not come
to time owing to miscalculation.
= An extremely affectionate husband
and wife ut Larrabee, Ga, do not mean
to be separated in death. They have
had coffin made wide enough for two
and grave dug to hold it. Their plan
ia that when one dies the other shall i'm
| mediately commit suicide, 80 that their
bodies may be buried at the same time.
while their souls simultaneously enter
eternity.
= One firm at Rock Hill received last
week the largest shipment of riding and
walking cultivators ever brought to this
market-hfty five in number. With the
cuitivator two horses and one man can
easily plough seven acres per day, break
ing up the soil more thoroughly and uni.
formly than the old style Of plough,
while one man and two horses can do the
work of six men and horses.
= Two men in Philadelphia-one an
1rishman and the other Scotchman-
undertook smoking match for $25 the
other day, the conditions being that he
who smoked the greatest number of pipes
in twelve hours would be winner. The
Scotchman was triumphant, stocking
thirty largo pipes full in the specified
time. Only five minute rests were taken.
The lrishman Knocked under on his
twenty-hfth pipe, his mouth being dread.
fully sore. The other suffered no incon.
venience.
Inc people of Spartanburg having
voted large subscription to the building
Of the Greenwood, Laurens and Spartan.
burg Railroad, and finding said road not
coming on as fast as they antici pated.
have concluded that they don't want the
road now as much an they did at frat.
The Spartanburg County commissioners
have been enjoined from collecting the
railroad tax. The order was obtained
Saturday from Judge Witherspoon at
Newberry BY Jno. s. Wilson, ESQ. The
injunction ia only temporary, and the
matter will como up for hearing on
both sides at The spartanburg Court.