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

- There comes q, story from cleveland,
Ohio, that the private detectives employ.
ed to arrest the recent incendiaries there
shadowed a Socialist, who was at last
seen to go into drug store and write
out prescription which was filled.
The detective, secured it and had il
again made up, the result being color.
less mixture. This was applied to door
panel and also to paper. Itleft 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
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
some pointers about his Cabinet. While
he was waiting in the ante-room he &C.
costed a man who had just come into
the room and vas glancing over paper.
II suppose you are here on the same er:
rand that am," he remarked. 81 don't
know" replied the stranger, pleasantly ;
"what erraud are you on :" lam going
to toll that old chump in there how to
fix his Cabinet. Maybe you amt poll.
tician" NO." returned the stranger,
politely, "I'm the old chump." Gen.
Brown will not be in the next Cabinet.
- bill has been introduced in the New
Jersey Legislature which specifies that
thereafter any male person who shall
beat, bruise, or whip his wife, some one
else's wife, or any female person, shall be
corporally punished by the inaiction of
number of lashes, not exceeding thirty,
to be laid upon his bare back by the
sheriff of 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
ingron on Saturday morning last, told
Louisiana friend, now resident of New
York, that Senator Thomas F. Bsyard
bad determined to accept the secretary
ship of State; and, he added, "that he
Was going to make mistake in doing
it."
- The experiments which we're made
in New York and at Baltimore lately
with the germs of yellow fever, cholera
aud smallpox, under the direction of the
secretary Of the treasury, prove that sui
phuric acid gas is not disinfectant, but
that superheated steam is. Rabbits
which were exposed to rags treated with
the former substance died, while the rags
disinfected with the latter proved per-
fectly harmless.
=. Mr.. Cleveland told one Of his callers
last week that his inaugural address
would be short, plain and simple. He
has found, he says, that whenever he
says anything in plain, terse, old fash
ioned way, the people pick up his phra'
ses and 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
moorings of the fathers.
"A young lady in New York COM
menced using arsenic about year ago to
beautify her complexion. The expert
ment panned out 10 her complete satis'
faction. She succeeded in securing
white complexion, but just at that point
work, and an injudicious dose left the
silly girl corpse. Perhaps the case will
be warning to others.
"A negro boy living at Mullins had
an old pistol, which he had been snap
ping at his smaller brothers and sisters.
At last be put it to his own forehead az q
joke and pulled the trigger, when ball
when crashing through his brain, pro-
ducing instant death.-Pee. Dee Inder.