The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-08-30

One million dollars IN counterfeit
coin aud notes will be destroyed by the
treasury, department within the next few
days.
The Romans Catholics in the
United States report $3.50 clergy, 1856
churches, and baptised membership of
100000
= A Boston undertaken recently made
q $4,000 coffin for one of the Beacon
street blue stockings. 1t was said to be
the most costly coffin ever finished and
sold in America.
"A citizen of Winnecohne, Wis, has
succeeded in tempering brass, and has
exhibited brass knives and axes that will
cut seasoned hemlock knots without
turning the edge.
During the last twenty four years
2,408 bulls and l,700 horses have been
killed in the bull fights in the City of
Mexico. Two picadores have been killed
by the bulls in that time.
Mrs. Clark, of Ashland, Kentucky,
has just received by mail $25 from zone
who took pocketknife without paying
for it from her grandfather's store up 10
Parksburg, Ohio, some fifty years ago."
Mrs. Mary A. Bell, of New York,
buried her pet dog the other day in
coffin that cost $3.50. The cost of the
burial was not less than $500, not includ.
ing the monument which she intends to
erect.
"A man down in Tennessee, who is.
about to marry the fourth time, is less
than 40 years old, and financier suggests
that if be had Only insured the lives of
each dear departed he might now rank
among millionaires.
"A Massachusetts woman hater offers
TO prove by statistics that seven tenths of
the marriage engagements that are 5ro>
ken are broken by women: that three
widows remarry to one widower, and that
two wives elope to one husband.
During Baptist Association meet
ing near Monticello, Ca, desperate
fight occurred between the Tyles and
Malones. Thirty shots we're fired in one
minute. Two killed and four wounded,
one mortally.
Mrs. SaIlie Hendrix, wife of Simeon
Hendrix of Reidville Township, preaen.
ted her husband on Monday morning last
with q fue set of triplets, weighing six
pounds each, all in good health. Dr..
Westmoreland Of Greer's was the attend.
ant physician.-Spartanburg Herald.
= One of the curiosities found in
Maine is pine tree near Hallowell that
smokes. a column of vapor as large
around as mans arm arises from the
very top Of the tree and extends several
feet in the air. The phenomenon is Of
periodical occurrence, and no one is able
to explain it,.
st. Louis has no less than seventy.
eight Chinese laundries, and pays out
over 100000 annually to Mongolians to
have its washing DONE An effort is
being made by the large laundries in that
city to form pool in order to crush out
The Chinese and other small concerns in
their line of business.
Daniel A. Rudd, a young colored
newspaper man, who spoke at the Cincin.
natl meeting of the Catholic Young Mems
National Union, said that the number of
negroes in this country who are "practi.
cal Roman Catholics" is zoo, 900 at least.
Several negroes have been ordained, and
several bright young colored men are now
studying for the priesthood.
The French national debt is stated
to be the largest in the world-S5, ,000,-
100000; annual interest, $264, ,000, 900.
Thus the interest alone is nearly $780,
0O0,O 900 more than the total wants of the
United States Government. The per
capita tax of the French people is SIS,
perhaps the largest Of any people. The
President receives salary of $4,000 q
year.
- The new settlers in Louisiana, who
are principally from the Western States,
have not, as rule, changed their system.
They do not seem inclined to go into
cotton and sugar aud run in the old
grooves which have kept the State poor.
Corn, hay, fruits, vegetables, live stock,
&c., are the principal products ofthe new
settlements. In such localities the farm
mortgage will be a rarity and the money
lender will have no occupation.