The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-09-21
al Sorts OF Paragraphs.
= A fig tree at Micanopy, Fla, bears
fifty bushels Of figs every year.

fifty bushels of figs every year.
- Wife. beaters are given q lob on tie
chaingang in Georgia-one year for each
chasiisement.
A scientific chemical compound that
gives health and strength is Browns
Iron Bitters.
The very best iron preparation, and
the one having the largest sale, is Browns
Iron Bitters.
Georgla's melon crop is estimated
to have been 6.500,000, of which $780,
600 were marketed.
= After all, the coachman and the
sc.cr haze something IL coEamon-they
are both pretty apt to succeed ii they
handle their lines we'll.
care you dead, Tim 2" said an
irish father to his son, who had fallen
down we'll. "Not dead, father, but
spacheless," came up from the depth.
= During the first eight months Of the
year 284,966 foreign immigrants have
landed at New York. Of this number
rs per cent went West.
= The cotton crop is short, compare.
lively speaking, but the surplus from
last year is said to be large. We doubt
If holding for better prices will pay.
= Lost, somewhere between sunrise
sud sunset, two golden hours. each set
with sixty diamond minutes. No reward
is offered, because they are gone forever.
The German carp sent TO Florida by
the Fish Commission does not thrive in
the everglades. The Alligators scare
them to death and the turtles eat them.
= Capt. Webb's sister became insane
when she heard of his death at Niagara
Falls, and since then she he's been found
drowned in the river at Lady Smith.
Natal.
-"You don't know how glad am to
see you, Clara, dear" ooh, yes, do"
replied Clara dear; "Johnny told me
that he heard you say you would rather
| die than see me-"
= Mother-"Now, Gerty, be a good
girl, and give Aunt Julia q kiss and saw
good. night" Gerty-"No, no il kiss
her shell box my ears, like she did pa
pas last night"
- Robert Z. Lee, the youngest son of
General Lee, has declined the Democrat
ic nomination for the Legislature in
Virginia, saying that he mas no taste for
politics.
woman" says Mr.. Eastman, sis q
problem" So she is; and though
problem we can never hopo to solve, it is
one we shall never, never be willing to
give up.
1t is claimed that tho first street
| letter.bOxes ever used in this country
were put up in Boston in 1868, the first
collection being made ON the End of
August, that year, at noon.
A long. g.haired hermit has been dis.
covered in the New Hampshire woods.
| He does not know his own name. It ia
likely he is the sole survivor of the
Greenback party.
A cement is going the rounds
| that the Texas cotton crop instead of
! reaching 800, 900 bales, as the prospect
at frat indicated viii now hardly rise to
| 100000 bales.
A mining company have sunk q
shaft near Cold Springs, Greene County,
Tenn, to the depth Of six feet in q rock,
and have struck large vein of silver
that pays at that depth $94.7l per ton.
Since it has become popular for
girls to attend base ball matches they
have picked up enough of the talk Of
the game to speak of those lovers who
60 away at night at reasonable hour as
short stops.
"What side of the street do YOU
live on, Mrs. Kipple7" asked q counsel
| cross examining witneas, "On either
side. II You go one way, it's on the
right side; if you go the other way, it's
= The presidential canvass in Ken.
| tucky will be made on platform calling
for whiskey for snakebites only, and o
law will be passed forbidding the killing
of snakes under the direst penalties.
The Macon police arrested negro
recently, who had nearly q peck of kun
germ or coniuring charms on his person.
They were composed of little bags of
frogs liver, snakes skin, &c. They were
| to prevent sickness and all harm.
"A certain little Pharisee, who was
praying for his big brother, had q good
deal Of human nature in him. even if
be was only six years old. He PRAYED
% Lord, bless brother Bill, and make
him as good boy as am"
= Warner Bailey, colored man of
Augusta, Ga, is creating quite sensa.
ZION by his Aquatic gyrations and diving
feats. He catches fish by diving for
them, and gives regular exhibitions,
which are attended by large numbers OF
citizens.
= New England is badly damaged by
long drouth. In many localities the
farmers have been compelled to take
their cows from the pastures and feed
them upon winter hay. In consequence
the price of milk in many places has
been raised. NJ
= The BAY EG- Of the Yankee girl of
the are small, tapering, and beautifully
chapel, her II as beautiful as the ~,
and she Is without her her form is a
+, and her figure excitesl I of surprise
and hankering to --her.
| = The latest returns from Java saw
thHi 81, 900 people lost their lives by the
recent earthquake and volcanic distur.
Dances. All communication is cut of.
however, by the succession of vast banks
raised in the ocean in the approaches to
the ruined district.
"A Jacksonville merchant has Just
shipped North two hundred boxes of
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