The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-02

60. r. Holland, prominent colored
man in Arkansas, continues to vigorously
advocate his scheme of colonizing the
negroes in New Mexico. he claims that
the people of the South "work fifteen
months in the year." raising cotton to
exchange fer bread and meat, and then
do not get half enough. he says that
when the negroes leave the Southern
States good class of whites will move
in. Even if white immigrants failed to
come, be thinks that it would be more
profitable to let the country grow up in
grass, 80 the people would raise stock and
fertilize and reclaim their worn out lands.
1t will be seen that the esteemed colored
brother is little wild.
"A Boston statistician says that 81
will buy as much of the necessaries OF
life to-day, as sl.50 in 1875, Sl.S2 in
1866, 81 cents in 1S45, and Sl.19 in 1925,
In other words, the purchasing power OF
81 is nineteen per cent greater than it
was in 1855. A dollar will buy more
to-day than in most previous periods in
the history of the nation.
Neal Dow declares that there are
grown.up men in the State of Main e
WHO never have seen grogshop or 8
drunken man but there is nothing re-
markable about this. There are grown
up people in the State of Maine who
never see anything, aud there is a strong
suspicion that Neal Dow is one of them.
Ed. Bundy, the negro hotel waiter
of Spartauburg who shot and killed
Annie Hickman, a white woman of
disreputable character, in March last, has
been convicted of murder and sentenced
to be hanged August 9Th. The case will
go to the Supreme Court.
= On Thursday Shade Stallings, aged
nineteen years, youngest son of Joseph
Stallings. q prominent planter OF Aiken
Coun ty was drowned while fishing in the
stream of his fathers mill. The sheating
gave way some distance above him and
the escaping water engulfed him in its
flood
= Little girl from Chicago-"Our fam
ily is more aristocratic family than
yours" Little girl from Boston-"No,
it isn't. - mother can boast of her
forefathers .or the past two centuries" I"
Little girl from Chicago -"Oh, that is
nothing. My mother can boast of four
husbands in the last two years"
- Many negroes are ashamed of being
black, and they object to being called
negroes because the word "negro"-orig-
iually from the Latin word niger, means
"black." It has been the weakest point
in the negro's mental make up, since he
became q freeman.
About $500 saloon-keepers in
Chicago pay license fee of $500 each,
producing the enormous revenue of
81, 900. This ought to 80 long way
toward supporting the municipal govern
ment.
The railroad system of Japan has
attained length of 225>miles, and is
increasing steadily. 1t has been mainly
built by the Japanese government with
native capital. The business results up
to the prerent time have given no cause
for dissatisfaction.
Anew color is called "four o'clock"
If it's the color of mans nose as he
goes meandering home about four o'clock
in the morning, it must be mighty
brilliant shade of red.
= An epicurean doctor says that in
order to obtain the full flavor of butter
the bread upon which it is spread should
be introduced into the mouth with the
buttered surface downward.