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

- Il woman vino Has 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 20 be worth S12
each.
= The estate of the late Arthur w.
Austin, of Boston, which will eventually
go to the University of Virginia, will
amount to some 100000.
- Atlanta is to have 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.
Tho orange trees in 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 uu-
der State auspices in America.
= Mr.. s. V. Massey, of Oconee Coun-
ty, is making success by tobacco grow.
ing. He has placed on exhibition in
Walhalla 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 redistrIct.
ing of the judiciary.
- The Birmingham Age calls atten.
siou to arrange and diegraceful exhibit
of some Alabama counties. A Lime.
stone county editor has been gathering
statistics ;eua shows that in his part Of
the State the value of farming imple-
ments is 5000, while the value of dirks,
pistols, ETC., is s5,5S7.
One of the curiosities to be exhibi.
ted at the New Orleans exposition from
South Carolina, is palmetto stump
LII WAS Jug
recently from the sand beach near Mount
Pleasant, and weighs about forty pounds.
1t Is solid stone, and tho grain of the
palmetto wood is easily discerned. It is
regarded by geologists as 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 observation-disclosures II do
not know what would do without Van.
damme, but if had two like him,
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. 4 mill presi.
dent eaid to me that very grave mis-.
take WAS made at the meeting of spin.
ners at Augusta when the proposition 70
shut down the mills failed. However,
the near future may bring about better
state Of thinga IL not, cotton mauufas.
turers In the South, especially the small
er mills, will suffer, If they do not have
to 60 to the wall.-Atldnta letter to Mucon
Telegraph.