The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-08-21
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All Sorts of Paragraphs.
- Kentucky made 100000 bushels
of wheat this season, 100000 bushels
more than any previous crop.
Three thousand gallons of black
berry wine was manufactured in Ander.
sonville, Tenn, this season.
- 1t is charged that the Republican
managers are colonizing West Virginia
with negroes from Washington.
= It is said that MIR. Beecher controls
5000 Brooklyn votes, and thai all Of
them will be cast for Cleveland
Smalls, the congressman from the
black district, favors the nomination of
State ticket and fight all along the
line in this State.
| - Orange peel is now said to be COL
lected, dried in ovens, and sold for kind
ling fires. 1t burns readily and with
great ierceness, and is safer than kero-
sene.
- Of the three hundred voters com.
prising the Cleveland and Hendricks
Club that was organized at Whitewater,
Wis, the other day, eighty.ive hitherto
acted with the Republican party.
- The Washington monument, at
Washington city, is now complete, ready
for the roof, which will be IS feet high,
making the monument sos feet high,
and the highest work of man in the
world.
The friends of Col. J. Fl. Evins
will be pleased to learn that he is i'm
proving very much at Wankesha, Wis.
cousin. His condition is so much better
that Mrs. Evins returned to her home in
Spartanburg last week.
- Miss Woodrow, daughter of DR..
James Woodrow, of Columbia S. c.,
most estimable and accomplished young
lady, has gone all the way to China to
marry young man, who is successful
missionary in that distant country.
- An Ohio farmer washes mis- apple
trees every Spring and Fall with strong
lye that will float an egg, and finds it to
be a sure death to the borers. He claims
that he has not lost a tree since begin.
ming this practice, although he had lost
several previously.
Twelve thousand head of cattle,
the largest consignment under the con-
troll of one man ever sent over the San
Francisco Road from Missouri, were
shipped recently. 1t required twenty
three trains of twenty.one cars each TO
cousign the lot to market.
- DR.. Wilson, an English ph ysician,
has been counting the hairs Of mans
head. On square inch of scalp he
found l ,O66 hairs, and from measurements
estimates that the entire head must have
| 1920. He thinks that some heads
ight have 100000 hairs.
The mortality of the globe, as given
by continental journal, which has
made the computation, is as follows:
Per minute. g.; per diem, $780,. and
per annum, 35,639,S35, whereas the
births are 36, 1872, 900 per annum, 100000
per diem and 70 per minute.
A corduroy road has been discover
ed in Lincolnshire, England, at depth
of seven feet below the surface. 1t lies
beneath a Roman road, and is therefore
much older than 1000 years. Biologists
say that its timbers, which are of oak,
we're laid down 10000 years ago.
Gen. Grant has contracted with the
managers of the Century to contribute to
their periodical twenty articles on the
principal battles of the war, for which
he is to receive the snug sum of $4,000.
This is good, honest, legitimate work,
and the General should be encouraged.
- North Carolina has received 81 ,O00,-
900 from persons who have invested in
her mineral lands since she made her
display of mineral resources at the fair
at Boston last fall. North Carolina ex.
pended SIT 900 for the exhibit, and as a
return for her sagacity has received ST.
600, 1000.
- Alas that the real rights of women
should be so slow of recognition. In
Macon, Ga, a wife has just been fined 81
for disciplining her husband with bed
slat, the Justice regarding it probably as
case of malicious injury to furniture.
In London only a few days earlier
magistrate sent young woman to prison
for thrashing her husband who had COM
planned about the coffee.
= A revolution in the match making
industry may be expected. The Russian
Department of Commerce and Manufac.
lures has recently awarded patent to
the inventor of means of so impregna-
ting wood with liquid that, when dried,
it lights with slight friction, and can
be used several times over, thus securing,
according to the inventor, an economy OF
at least seventy.fve per cent.
- An improved locomotive construct
ed at the shops of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad under the supervision of Mr..
George S. Strong, it is claimed, will
draw train on the New York division
at the rate of eighty miles an hour.
The engine weighs 100000 pounds, and
will develop q power of 1,400 or 1900
horse power. The boiler is of steel, and
will stand pressure of 100 pounds to
the square inch.
- The revision of the Old Testament,
which, it was hoped, would be out this
year, will probably net make its appear.
ancs before early in 1885. The eighty
fifth and last session of the English Re.
vision Committee has been held, but
months must intervene before the COM
plete work can be given to the public.
Nothing is positively known Of any
changes made in the old version, the re.
visers on both sides of the Atlantic hav.
ing kept their pledge of secrecy.
- The New York World says that
between the prohibition ticket drawing
from the Republicans and the German
desertions from the same party there is
fighting chance for the Democrats in
Kansas. Hayes majority was $4,000 !;
St. Johns (Rep.) in '7S, 10000; Gar.
fields Al 900, and in 1882 Click (Dem.)
had majority over the Republicans of
5000, the Greenback vote being 2l,0O0.
The Democratic and greenback vote has
steadily increased since 1876 and the
Republican steadily diminished.