The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-09-18

"A woman who was once remarkable
for her great beauty, died In Atlanta
Sunday from the effects of intemperance.
"A gentleman is about starting an
ostrich rancho near Laredo, Texas.
Ostrich eggs are said to be worth Sl2
each.
The estate of the late Arthur W..
Austin, of Boston, which will eventually
20 to the University of Virginia, will
amount to some 100000.
- Atlanta is to have a grand taber.
nacle for the people who are not regular
church goers to worship in. Senator
Brown subscribes $4,000, and the proba-
BILE cost will be 100000.
- The orange trees 10 Florida are
making an unprecedentedly rapid growth
this season, and the fruit promises to be
unusually bright, 10 fact, there is scarcely
any rusty fruit visible.
- Mr.. Daniel Livingston, of Tampa,
has recently sold his orange grove. situ-
ated on the avenue named for him, to
Mr.. NJ. W. Coleman, of South Carolina,
for the sum of $4,000.
- The State industrial and technical
college for females, to be established at
Columbus, Mississippi, will be the first
institution of the kind ever started un.
der State auspices in America.
Mrs. V. Massey, of Oconee Coun-
ty, is making success by tobacco grow
fng. He has placed on exhibition in
Wslhalla one stalk six feet high contain.
ing twenty full sized leaves, each of
which measured twenty-five inches in
width and thirty.seVen inches in length.
A sentiment of dissatisfaction is
growing up in Memphis against the large
proportion of Judges in Tennessee COM
pared with those of other Southern
States, and several Representatives will
come to the next Legislature from Shell
by County who will advocate redistrlct'
ing Of the judiciary.
= The Birmingham Age calls atten.
tion to strange and disgraceful exhibit
of some Alabama counties. A Lime
stone county editor has been gathering
statistics and shows that in his part of
the State the value of farming imple-
ments is $1,000, while the value of dirks,
pistols, ETC., is S5,587.
One of the curiosities to be exhibi-
ted at the New Orleans exposition from
South Carolina, is palmetto stump
completely petri6ed. 1t was dug up
recently from the sand beach near Mount
Pleasant, and weighs about forty pounds.
1t is solid stone, and the grain of the
palmetto wood is easily discerned. 1t is
regarded by geologists as a remarkable
specimen. since no instance is on record
of palmetto wood being petrifed.
The report of Ben Buffers sudden
death was started in Omaha day or two
ago, and was, we are glad to say, speedily
contradicted by old Ben himself. The
country could i'll afford to lose this great
man at present. When We think of him
and his relation to American politics, we
are reminded of what Napoleon said of
one of his generals-Vandamme: II do
not know what would do without Van.
damme, but if I had two like him, l
would shoot one of them"
COTTON mill men in Atlanta are
gloomy and speak of the outlook as any
thing but encouraging. The situation is
certainly very depressing when goods
cannot be manufactured and sold at the
price of the raw cotton. A mill presi-
dent said to me that very grave mis-
take was made at the meeting of spin
ners st Augusta when the proposition 10
shut down the mills failed. However,
the near future may bring about better
state of things; if not, cotton manufac-
turers in the South, especially the small
er mills, will suffer, if they do not have
to 20 to the wall.-Atanta letter to Macon
Tele0rdph,