The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-06-21

"A lady in New York last week was
struck violently on the mouth by drunk
en- blacksmith whom she met casually
on the street, and who was wholly un.
known TO her. At the stationhouse this
lady, though she had had one of her front
teeth knocked out, and was rendered
almost insensible by the blow of this
drunken rufisn, pleaded for his dis.
charge, because he was working man
and had q family to support. The police
official in charge very properly disregard
h ed the request of the .softhearted woman
and ordered the brute locked up. The
incident: illustrates the unreliability of
women as prosecuting witnesses. The
enormity of the ofense is easily lost sig ght
ofby them in view of its possible punish.
ment. Who is more unfit to be at large
than strong man who, when under the
influence of liquor, cruelty and wantonly
strikes defenseless woman3 Yet it is
hard to convict such brutes on the testi.
mouy of their victims, especially vixen,
as is usually the case, the woman assault.
ted is the cowardly rufhan's wife.
= The Rev. 81. F. Titus, the former
pastor of the Baptist Church st Newton,
Mass, has concluded to try and start q
new church, whose members shall under.
take to live as Jesus Christ lived. Mr..
Titus resigned his pastorate some time
ago to study medicine to better fit himself
for missionary work but his people per-
suaded him to 60 on preaching until q
recent Sunday, when he told them he
should not enter their pulpit again that
he had ceased to be Baptist; that there
was no other church that he could 60 TO-,
since none attempted to live the ideal
life patterned out in the Gospel. and that
he had no choice but to attempt to start
one of his own. He thinks that in the
ideal church, such as he proposes to
found. there should be no tich, no poor ;
that the members should give generously
one to another that they should take
care of each other better than Free Ma.
sons or any similar society, and that
there should be no social distinctions
among them.
1t is stated that seventy Eve Dem.
ocrats from California who attended the
st. Louis convention were more lavish in
their expenditures than any ether organ.
izstion. They reached the scene of ac-
tion several days before the great body
convened. They occupied superb guar.
ters on the ground floor of the Southern
Hotel. and l25 cases of champagne-not
California champagne, either-were con.
ahmed by the Californians and their guests
in two days. Tammany Hall, with $50
on the St. Louis list, spent $50, 900 simply
in railroad fare, hotel bills and music, to
say nothing of the ''open house" luxury.
The county Democracy, with $50 excur.
sionists, spent $4,000. St. Louis is said
to be nearly half million dollars richer
on account of the convention.
Among the Yale men who will re.
ceiye degrees at the coming commence.
ment are four Japanese students. One
of them, who is resident graduate, will
be made doctor of philosophy. Anoth-
er, the son of q Japanese nobleman, now
minister of finance, will graduate from
the law school, is one of the brightest
men in his class, and contestant for the
John A. Porter prize. The most inter.
esting of them is Shinkichi Shegimi, Of
the scientific school. He is a typical
Japanese, four feet tall and weighs ninety
pounds. He came to this conntry with.
out money or friends, driftsd to Yale, wss
taken in charge by President Dwight and
members of the faculty; and now gradu.
ates with honors.
- When Thurman was boy of ten be
had faith in scrap book. But his moth.
er said: "AlIen, I don't think you will
| need that; you will find after little that
you will be depending on your scrap book
altogether and your memory will suffer
Scrap books are easily lost, but when you
have thing once fastened in your mind
| no one can got it away from you." So
the boy fixed UP his mind with scrap book
| facilities and let the books gp. When he
came to the Law, as he says, he could
remember the testimony of City witnesses.
though the cases lasted week and more
On very lengthy case his notes would
be embraced in two foolscap pages.
BY means of recent improvements
made in manp tacture of rifles, as many
as l2O barrels can nov be rolled in an
hour by one machine. They are straigh'
tened cold and bored With corresponding
speed, and even the rifing is done automa'
tically, so that one man tending six ma
chimes can turn out sixty or seventy bar.
rels per day. With the old rifing ma.
chine twenty barrsls wes about the limit
of days work; but the improved ma
chimes attend I'd everything after being
once started, and, when the riaeing is
| completed, ring bell to call the atten'
tion of the workman.
= The largest cotton mill in the world
is in Russia. 1t gives employment to
seven thousand hands.
Cure for siok Headache.
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