The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-10-18
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.
This years cotton crop is the lar.

This years cotton crop is the lar:
gest one ever grown in the United States.
The centre of population Of the
United States is near Louisville, Ky. 81 z z
- The most valuable pearls in the
United States are said to be found in the
limestone streams of Kentucky. S:
= More than half the cheese now con-.
sumed in Great Britain is produced in
the United States and Canada. Z q
Europe hes about $4,000, 900 I'm
wheat, with little higher average yield
per acre than the United States. -
= It is estimated that the annual egg,
product of this country is ;451 1000, 600, ,.or:
about forty Eve eggs to each fowl. s
Toronto, Canada, with 10000 In
habitants, has no Sunday paper, on
open saloon, nor street cars on the Sab
bath.
The Indians cultivated 227, ,265 acres
of land last year. They own over ], ,000,-ls
600 sheep, 40,471 swine III, ,407 cattle
and 35S, 1884 horses and mules. ssss s;Ss
A man Of IS and woman of!7SI
were remarked the other day in Philas:
delphia, after having been divorced fifty
years. Verify, this is year ofre union:
The largest guns now used ap:,
shipboard are calculated to penetrate:
thirty. six inches of iron, ten to twenty
of granite, and seventy five feet of earth,
= Peaches have been selling for ten:
cents a bushel in Barry county, KANSAS
vet they continue to rot on the fruit
stands in the large cities, at about ten cents
each. ;ssES5s
= Four men were convicted in@ tile;
Court of Buffalo, N, Y. for aiding and
abetting. prize fight between two women
One of the women and three of the men:
were sent to prison. :is3ss s3s4s
= The heavy disbursement made durs;
ing the past week from the United
States Treasury, amounts to the snug;
little sum of SIS, 100000. There is hope
for that surplus, yet.
The latest returns of the various!
branches of the international Sunday:
School union make the number of Sunday
school teachers in the world to be ., ,504 ;-s
61S and the scholars i, $50, ,26T rs
The whole wheat crop of. Minnesota
and Dakota, now harvested, appears tos
fall at least 36 900, 900 bushels belows.hyss
yield of last year, and not less than
25,OOO,OOO bushels below the yield of thu
proceeding year. Sla
The fine barn and stables of VIA
Samuel Jef1ries, of Union County, wereS
entirely consumed by. fire last Saturday
night, together with eleven mules, twos.
horses, two fine milch cows and a:large
quantity Of other personal property II,
&C. The New York Evening Post says::s
aSome one wrote to Horace Greeleysin;;#
quiring if guanoswas good to put aons
potatoes. he said it might do for, those
whose tastes had become vitiated with ];
tobacco and rum, but he preferred gravy
and butter." !;
49, Rubies have kept on steadily rising
in favor and value for the last ten years.
a stone of eight or nine carats is noWiSI
worth from twenty thousand dollars tot
thirty thousand dollars. a diamond 3ofls,
that weight would not cost more than
three Thousand dollars. ei:ssSs
Senator Blair may be considered sas
philanthropist by proxy. 1t: he as sas3s
liberal with his own funds as he is with
the government money, he will ShaveSa3I
monument yet. His latest positiontolE
whittle down the surplus is to- pay Eng.lI
land sSOO,000,00 for Canada. s.3i.sI s.sI
Sailors believe religiously that the:
frigate birds can start at daybreak with
the trade winds from the coast of Africa!
and roost the same night upon theSI
American shore. Whether or not this!iss|
q fact has not yet been conclusiYelys
determined, but it is certain that the
bird is the swiftest of winged creatures
and is able to fly, under fayoring condi>a
ton, 200 miles en- hour.
English antiquarian biologists areg
enchanted at present with g live toad :
found ia the course of railway excayasS.
tions at Greenock. The toad is tron1g
10000 to 10000 years old, as the stratum
of clay in which it was found certainly
dates from the glacial period. It's mouth: !:
is sealed up. It breathes slightly through:
the nostrils, and though the eyes areS
quite expressive it does not seem 70 see.s!
IT is currently reported in heneighs5
borhood of Gafney City, that 9 young
man by the name of Pennington, found
a not full of gold coins buried in the
ground not far from Mountain in thef
Upper corner of Union County. Ass
evidences Of this, pieces of the soapstones
not have been exhibited. Some of the
people believe he found some money 81
while Others do not believe that there ,iss
any truth in the report.
= Three months ago NJ. 81. Wi som of
Marquette, Mich, was shot, the bali
passing clear through his neck, tearing
ont portion Of the vertebra aud causing
complete paralysis of the body below: the
neck. The doctors don't know what To-
make of him. He can't feel pins stuJsss
any where in his body, but retains bis,
flesh and his appetite, and can talk and;
read. His flesh below the neck is de.
scribed as "white as alabaster and nerve
less as sponge" s-.a;;s7:ss;
While the train on the Florida;
Southern, which was returning to Palatkal
with party from Tavares, was coming;
out to Micanopy Junction on Wednes;?
day night, the engine struck 9 black
object which at first the engineer thought
to be man. When the engine hadbeen;
stopped an investigation proved ut to :be
an alligator twelve feet tyo inches long.
The engine struck the saurian just back
of his head. almost severing the head
from the body.-Savannak Neacs.
- a toad has been found in England
which is puzzling the scientists. He
was discovered some scores OF yards
under the earth's surface, imbedded in
CLAW. His limbs were perfectly limp,
| and he was stone blind. The local
sayants could not guess its age accurate
| IL. but reckoned it somewhere between
10000 and 10000 years. This toad was
tired Of living in the days before Adam
got tired OF living alone in Eden, and 1t
is lust possible he heard the rain come
down during the food. s:;;a
- Yesterday prominent New York
lawyer arrived in Washington for 9
consultation with. an attorney of this
city regarding some patent cases. Dur.
1 ing the conversation match to light 9
I cioar was lacking. and the Washingtonian