The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-05-21

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be prohibited by the law of the State.
This is a growing evil. Even in our own
County there are several instances of
girls and boys between the years of
eleven and thirteen running away and
marrying. 1t is to be supposed that no
parent would consent to the marriage of
a mere child. There ought to be pen
atty for ministers or officers of the law
to join in marriage children who are too
young even to know what they are doing,
and in many instances who are under the
age of consent. In the State of Georgia
it is against the law for a clergyman or
officer of the law to perform the marriage
ceremony where the girl is under eighteen
years of age, without the written consent
of her parents. This is wise law and
something of the kind would be a good
thing for South Carolina.-Easley Mes-
senger.
= The Scotch have never a bright,
sunny day, and barely any flowers at all,
yet they are famous as landscape guarden.
ers. They are the most bigoted race,
yet they have produced the most radical
thinkers. They have the most abomina.
BILE climate, yet 60 without breecbes and
never seem to catch cold. They have
barely any fruit, yet are celebrated for
making jams. One would suppose 8
Scotchman had never seen an orange in
his life, yet all the world delights in eat
ing their Dundee marmalade.
= 1t ought to be generally known that
mans hat will serve in most cases as a
temporary life preserver to those in
danger of drowning. When a person
finds himself in the water be should lay
hold of his hat between his hands, keep.
ing the crown close under his chin and
the mouth of the hat under water. The
quantity of air contained in the cavity OF
the hat will keep the head above water
for long time-sometimes for several
hours.
Tie notorious Mormon elder, John
Morgan, boasts that his infamous sect is
receiving large accessions in the South
It is claimed that so many persons are
being converted to Mormonism in East
Tennessee, North Alabama, North Geor-
gia and the Carolinas that parties are
organized to start for Utah almost every
day in the week. Chattanooga seems to
be the rallying point for these recruits
preparatory to there departure to the
West.
- The Kershaw Gazette says: "While
the posse were firing at Sidney Temple,
who attempted to escape arrest on Satur.
day night last, the mans wife came to the
door and said, white man don't you
shoot my OK, whatever you do.' She
acted on the principle that it would be
easy to get another man, but an OK costs
money"
An eminent scholar declares that
not one out of ten knows how to use the
word "quite" correctly. "It is quite
warm" "quite large crowd" and "it
rains quite hard" are expressions used
every day, and yet the word is employed
erroneously in all the above senses.
One of the most remarkable facts
brought out by the oceanic researches
made by the British ship Challenger is
the probability that all oceanic islands
are of volcanic origin; in all the re-
searches made no indications were found
of submerged land over these areas.
When Maud S. trotted a mile in g.
09t she moved forty feet ten and FIVE
sixteenth inches every second. Her or
dinary stride is seventeen feet, but,
assuming it to be twenty feet, each hind
foot would touch the ground at least
twice every second.
A citizen of South Georgia sent a
sample of dried LaConte pears to a deal.
er in New York and asked his opinion of
the fruit. "Send me all you can find at
fifty cents pound and l will take two
tons at that price," was the reply.
On the farm of George Jones, in
Horny County, one night recently,
between sunset and sunrise, there were
over sixty births, embracing nearly every
species of animal life raised on farm,
from baby down to biddy.
= The New Hampshire man who made
will leaving his wife $4,000, provided
she remained unmarried for eight weeks
after his death, may have been joking,
but his widow will never be able to
appreciate the humor invol we'd in the
bequest.
Ca.sius NJ. Clay, of Kentucky, now
nearly one hundred and ten years old, is
still able to attend personally to the busi'
ness of his large estate, and takes keen
interest in current affairs, including poll
tics.
Lizzie GLADDEN., the negro girl at
Abbeville who carries pistol ball in her
brain, shot there by her brother tEo weeks
ago, is doing we'll, and the indications
are that she will recover.
- Belle Boyd, famous as a Confederate
spy, and notorious in many other ways
has opened a school of elocution and
oratnrx at Little Rock. She noW sails