The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-05-31
News Items.

- Fifteen millions Of barrels Of beer
were consumed in this country last year
ri the cost 10 the consumer uf S4SO,0O0,.
600
In Savannah on Friday last col
ored washerwoman's fourteen months
baby fell into tub of water and was
drowned.
= The Supreme Court of Kentucky
has decided that i. wife may recover
money lost b. her husband ct gambling.
That is more than the husband can DO
for himself.
"A conductor of Western freight
train was killed on Friday last by being
smothered in wheat, which was upset
from car that was thrown from the
track BY riding over cow.
= Senator Hampton has been any
thing but idle since the adjournment of
Congress. He has killed no less than
nine bears and numerous smaller game
on his Mississippi plantation.
= A colored man in the employ of
Mr.. Thos. J. Josey, in kershaw County,
aged one hundred and ten years, hoed
last year one half acre of cotton per
day, and picked eighty pounds in gather
ing time.
= The Pope has given permission to
Archbishop Spaulding for the erection
of Catholic university in the United
States, which will probably DE at Mil
waukee, and for which S2,000,000 have
already henu subscrihp1
A peach tree with blood red leaves
has been presented to All editor at Co.
rinth, Miss. 1t is stated that the first
tree of this variety grew on the battle
field Of Baker Creek on the spot satu.
rated with the blood of General Tighl.
man.
: Johnson G.. Whitaker, the colorcd
cadet who acquired notoriety three years
ago in connection with charge of hav-
ing mutilated his ears while ut West
Point, is now filling a professors chair
in the Avery Institute at Charleston,
S. c.
= A man in Illinois has brought suit
for divorce because his wife allowed him
to 60 to work mornings with no other
breakfast than cod liver oil, and had
bought piano, which she did not know
how to play and had not the means to
pay for
= The New Orleans PRESBYTERIAN
Synod has adopted report that the
marriage of man with the sister of his
deceased wife is not prohibited by the
divine law; 4; that blood relationship con-
tinues, but that affinity by marriage ter
inmates with the rupture of the tic by
death.
= Mr.. Henry G. Davis, Jr., of Fair.
field County, stands fifth in the gradual.
ing class at the West Point Military
Academy. Mr.. david D. Gaillard, also
of Fairfield County, now in the second
class, stands among the first. Fairfield
is proud of the record of her two ren-c
sentatiYes at the National Academy.
= Some weeks ago a woman eloped
from Portland with young man. Her
husband took it calmly, and did not try
to find her. Monday he received letter
from her, dated at Boston, in which she
said: So far, God has blessed us with
health, but John has no regular work
yet"
-, N" PeaCueS IeCelVeQ IN New
York from Florida of the "Chineso
Peentoo" variety, although small and of
POO. flavor, brought $3.50 per dozen.
hot,house peaches sold the SAME day in
the broadway stores at 81 TO 50 q piece.
The first cherries received there from
North Carolina brought so cents per
1t is proposed to send q canal from
the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. tbence
across the valley of Moses and the
Plains of Asdralon to the Mediterranean
at Acre, converting the Dead Sea into a
living lake, make Jerusalem a seanort
IN fnlhllIient of the prophecy of Zacha.
riah, and bring Gilead and Damascus
into communication with civilization.
Mr.. D. Rawl, of Batesburp. has in.
vented cottonpicker on which he has
optained letters patent. The Edgefield
Mon,for says: at is an ingenious piece
OF mechanism, and if it is not a success
1t will come as near to it as any vet in.
vented. 1t is his intention to have q
machine on exhibition at Louisville du.
ring the Exposition"
- The members of the Second Pres.
byterian Church, colored, of AbbevilIe
held congregational meeting on Sab.
bath afternoon, the Goth instant, and
denounced in the strongest terms the
Gharge made against their pastor. the
rev. r. W. Williams. namely, that he
ADVISED the women of his congregation
not to hire themselves as nurses.
a paper steamboat has been bu;,t
at Lanslngburg, N. Y. for q Pittsbnrn
company. Its length is twenty feet +
mas seating capacity for twenty-five per.
sons, and carrying capacity of tbirtv
tons. The sheating is o solid bodv -
paper three.eighths of an inch thick
ouilet from revolver fred at the sheet.
ing from a distance of only four feet
neither Penetrated nor abraded it.
= The exact facts about Gn,te,,,,
bones ere that they are now lying set ~.
ed IN two wooden trays, similar fo tbo.o
ID which housewives make bread. Theu
are as bright as ivory, and the hasS
anatomist of the Medical Museum u 90 ua
they Will make the finest skeleton in tIs
institution when strung up. He saus
that o perfectly uniform skull Ia a sro.t
rarity. Out OF the 1900 examined dnrs
ing the trial only one perfect one wa.
The Rev. D. w. .Frazior. coloraa .e
l; E;a,rneid' is going to Africa as a mis-.
s!onay. Eo;as!y,a a meeting was held at the
81 Hi,heiH III. dan institute last week on the eve
S,.aa 3, ms "a departure: lr He delivered an ad.
aaess on Tho Hope of Africa" Frazier
Wa,tg W1s EVACUATED at Howard University in
W. msnlngton, and his record while there
hu Mas tSo commented ia upon in flattering terms