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

from II to Miss Cleveland receives
those persons who desire 10 call upon her
without encoun,ering the crush Of Satur-
day. AS i, is extremely quiet and infor-
NAL the gay and noisy people keep away.
Cards are handed 10 the usher, who
escorts visitors to the door of the glass
screen separating the main hall from the
corridor communicating with the east
room, the green. red and blue rooms.
Here another usher takes the card, reads
the name, inquiries how it is pronounced
and if there is party, how the names
belong, and he then shows visitors into
the red room. lie taps on the door as
he enters so that Miss Cleveland knows
some one is about 10 enter. She is par.
tcular to get the names right-a point
of good breeding not always attended TO
even in good society. OF her power Of
entertaining easily and gracefully there
| is no question She is very unaffected
aud has an excellent and cultivated voice
in speaking. Besides, she has great
amount OF well arranged information,
and can meet people on their own ground.
She remains standing and her guests are
not invited to sit. Perhaps if they did
they would find things 40 pleasant and
social they would stay too long. The
red room is beautiful and home like
apartment. Opposite the open fire
place is q singnlarly fine life size Por-
trait of General Grant. which, at this
time, is invested with Il pathetic interest.
Every body recognizes it, and stops to
look at it, The room is never crowded,
| and Miss Cleveland's sensible way of be-
coming acquainted with the persons 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 thee Of the leading farmers
o. New Hanover Township have been
contending fercely for ito 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 all 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 ef the heaviest weighed
/ OPS, l,035, l. .055 and l,079 pounds re-
spectively as they hung on shambles
dressed, and with the remaining sixteen
the average of the twenty was S72 pounds.
The Iigh,est hog in the lot weighed 739
pounds. These weights are net, after
deducting the gambrel and stre,cher.
The measurement of the large hog was
five feet nine inches from the ear to the
ham, and the girth WAS seven feet five
in Of ol
variety, and were pigged in May, 1888,
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 woman, who,
some three years ago. ran away from her
home in Springfield, Ohio, aud 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 dairy inrm and
as driver of II supply wagon. icing
admitted to the house as one Of the
family, daughter of the owner of the
farm became attached TO her, and fear
full of discovery she quilted the place
and came to Chicago. Recently the sus.
picions of her fellow workmen were
aroused aud 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. It was
runlored 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 il 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-
| so'oio', w oe aPPiieu eALernRliy, prOml6-
ing to return the next day. On his return
he was gratified to find his patient better
and able to sit up, but he complained of
terrible sore thrort. On examination,
he found that the patient had taken the
liniment and rubbed with the verstrum.
"A bell boy in Portland, Me-,
hotel while running ilp stairs lately with
some loose change in his mouth, STUN
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 he was at church. He lost 81. 500
by the failure Of bank some years aro
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 headstone mark.
Ing the grave of Miss Susan Nicely. L
"a surm. .sed that the thief stole the stone
for profit, as the inscription could be
easily erased and the marble slab put to
some other use.
| - bill has been passed by the
Nevada Assembly imposing a fine Of 500
on any person who treats another in a
saloon. The bill does not prevent anv
| number of persons from onino ;nto