The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-02-19

= There comes a story from Cleveland,
Ohio, that the private detectives employ.
ed to arrest the recent incendiaries there
shadowed Socialist, who was at last
seen to go into drug store and write
out q prescription which was filled.
The detectives secured it and had il
again made up, the result being color.
lesa mixture. This was applied to door
panel and also to paper. 1t left no stain,
but in half an hour it began to blaze.
This suggested the methods of the man,
who could easily sprinkle his liquid over
a heap of rubbish or on pile OF lumber,
and be two miles away before the fire
would break out. The man was closely
watched with the expectation Of seeing
him in the act, but he took alarm and
left the city.
= Gen. Jason l.. Brown, of Missouri,
called at the Executive Mansion in AL
bany the other day to give the Governor
come pointers about his Cabinet. While
he was waiting In the ante.room he &C.
costed man who had just come into
the room and was glancing over paper.
L suppose you are here on the same er:
rand that am," he remarked. II don't
know" replied the stranger, pleasantly !;
"what errand are you on 2" Il am going
to tell that old chump in there how To o
fix his Cabinet. Maybe you ain't poll.
tician?" mo" returned the stranger,
politely, "I'm the old chump." Gen.
Brown will not be in the next Cabinet.
= A bill has been introduced in the New
Jersey Legislature which specifies that
thereafter any male person who shall
beat, cruise, or whip his wife, some one
slsa's wife, or any female person, shall be
corporally punished by the inAction of
number of lashes, not exceeding thirty,
to be laid upon his bare back by the
sheriff of q County or one of bis depu.
ties, armed with whip of suitable pro.
portions, the whipping to be done only
in the presence Of the officers of the
Court or jail"
= Senator B. F. Jonas, of Louisiana,
after his long talk with Mr. Cleveland,
and just prior to his departure for Wash
lngtnn on Saturday morning last, told q
Louisiana friend, now a resident of New
York, that Senator Thomas F. Bayard
bad determined to accept the secretary
ship of State; and, he added, "that he
was going to make q mistake in doing
it,"
The experiments which were made
In New York and at Baltimore lately
with the germs of yellow fever, cholera
aud smallpox, under the direction of the
secretary OF tho treasury, prove that sui
phuric acid gas is not disnfectant, but
that superheated steam is. Rabbits
which were exposed to rags treated with
the former substance died, while the rags
dlslnfected with the latter proved per.
fectly harmless.
= Mr.. Cleveland told one of his callera
last week that his inaugural address
sould be short, plain and simple. He
has found, he sayo, that whenever he
saye anything in q plain, terse. old fash.
Toned way, the people pick up his phra.
ses ana pass them about as If they were
something new, whereas they may be
very old; 1t illustrates, he thinks, how
far the Republic has drifted from the
a. young lady in New York com.
menced using arsenic about year ago To
oeautify her complexion. The experi.
ment Panned out 10 her complete eatis.
Iaction. She succeeded in securing a
white complexion, but just at that point
the drug began to put In some of its fine
work, and an injudicious dose left the
siliy girl Q corpoe. Perhaps the case will
be warning to others.
"A negro boy living at Mullins had
an old pistol, which he had been snan.
ping at his smaller brothers and siaters.
az ia's ne put It to his own forehead al q
!oee and pulled the trigger. when a ball
Hnen crashing through his brain, pro.
QuctnR instant death - p,s IA. Y, -