The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-04-02

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apartment. Opposite the open fire
place is a singularly fine life: size por.
trait of General Grant. which, at this
time, is invested with pathetic interest.
Everybody recognizes it, and stops to
look at it. The room is never crowded,
and Miss Ceveland's sensible way of be.
coming acquainted with the persous she
will have to associate with for the next
four years is universally commended.
- The rivalry among the raisers of
heavy porkers in Burlington County, n.
j., has been greater this year than ever
before, and three of the leading farmers
of New Hanover Township have been
contending 6ercely for the championship,
which entities the winner to the gold
medal offered by Trenton firm of pork
packers, the winner to hold it for three
years against oil competitors. Joseph
Carter killed his hogs on Saturday last,
and twenty averaged 843 pounds, the
heaviest weighing 1869 pounds. 1t was
considered next to impossible to exceed
this average. But Taylor Cevinney, who
lives near Wrightstown, achieved the
honor of having raised the heaviest lot
on record. Four cf the heaviest weighed
l OPS, 1,035, .055 and 1,079 pounds re-
spectively as they hung on shambles
dressed, and with the remaining sixteen
the average of the twenty was S72 pounds.
The lighlest hog in the lot weighed 739
pounds. These weights are net, after
deductiDg the gambrel and stretcher
The measurement of the large hog was
five feet nine inches from the ear to the
ham, and the girth was seven feet five
inches. They were of the Jersey Red
variety, and were pigged in May, 1883,
so that they were not two years old.
1t has been discovered that Sidney
Hammond, who has been working for
some time past in Chicago, in the West
Side street car barns, is q woman, who,
some three years ago, ran away from her
home in Springfield, Ohio, and donned
male attire. She first found employment
at railroad gravel pit in Marietta.
Later she went to Canton, in the same
State, and worked on a dairy farm and
as driver of supply wagon. Being
admitted to the house as one of the
family, daughter of the owner of the
farm became attached 10 her, and fear
full of discovery she Quilted the place
and came to Chicago. Recently the sus.
picions of her felowworkmen were
aroused and she was arrested. 1t is said
that she has made confession to the
police, and her parents have been noti-
fed.
1t is understood that ]. B. Baird, Of
Atlanta, son.in-law of Senator Colquitt,
of Georgia, will shortly be appointed
chief of the dead letter Office. 1t was
rumored in the postoffice department,
this afternoon, that the resignation of
Mr.. Dallas, the incumbent OF the Office in
question, had been called for by the
postmaster.general. The chiefs of the
other divisions became somewhat alarmed
in anticipation of sharing the same fate.
The postmaster general, however, author:
lied it to be said that Mr.. Dallas had
rendered his resignation in order that he
might engage in private business, and
had insisted on its acceptance, and that
otherwise no change would have been
made in the dead letter office.
"A young physician of Abbeville
County has made an accidental discovery,
which may not be generally accepted by
medical science. He was called to see
charity patient who had pneumonia. He
left small phial of veratrum, to be
taken internally, and liniment, com.
posed of hartshorn, turpentine and chlo-
roform, to be applied externally, promis.
ing to return the next day. On his return
be was grati6ed to find his patient better
and able to sit up, but he complained of
terrible sore throat. On examination,
he found that the patient had taken the
liniment and rubbed with the veratrum.
"A bell boy in a Portland, Me-,
hotel while running up stairs lately with
some loose change in his mouth, stum-
bled and swallowed the whole amount
two twenty-five cent pieces, two dimes
and eight pennies. All the physicians
in town are interesting themselves in the
case, but thus far, apparently, have not
succeeded in convincing the boy that
"the way to resume is to resume"
Peter Dulty, of Ashland, Pa, was
robbed of $4,000 on Sunday morning
while be was at church. He lost 81 800
by the failure of bank some years ago
and has since that time kept all his
money in his house. The thieves took
every cent he had and succeeded in
escaping without leaving any trace.
Some person recently entered the
cemetery al Waxhaw Church in Lancas-
ter County and stole the headstonc mark
ing the grave of Miss Susan Nicely. 1t
is surmised that the thief stole the stone
for profit, as the inscription could be
easily erased and the marble slab put to
some other use.
"A bill has been passed by the
Nevada Assembly imposing fine of $40
on any person who treats another in q
saloon. The bill does not prevent any
number of persons from going into a
saloon and drinking together, but re-
quires that each man shall pay for his
own drink.
To please the family, General
Grants doctors are now employing "the
old woman's medicine" red clover,
although they have not any faith in it.
They are trying it on the basis that it
can do no harm.
- The Boston Traveller finds comfort
in the belief that "the Presidents sisters,
Miss Cleveland and Mrs. Hoyt, are Re-
pubicans," but, if so, they must be Mug.
wumps, since it is positive that neither
of them voted for Blaine.