The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-06-14

Avoid giving offence, and if you do
offend have the manliness to apologize.
"A. R. Broyles and D. P. Robins, of
Oconee, who were nominated for the
Legislature, have declined.
- Hiss Kate Bishop, an actress in
Australia, wears silver bracelet on the
left arm night and day. Her only sister
locked it there before she b sailed for
America to get married. The ship went
down with all hands, and the key is with
the drowned girl.
Mrs. Jackson has consented to the
removal of the body of her late husband,
General "Stonewall'' Jackson, from its
present resting place in our cemetery to
the Jackson Circle" which is about 100
feet from the present grave. This will
be done that the proposed bronze figure
may mark the grave on that beautiful
circle set apart for Jackson's monument.
The body of General Jackson is in cast
iron casket, and the removal can be &C.
complished without much trouble.
The most picturesque potentate in
Europe is the baby King of Spain, who
has Just cut his first teeth. He is very
large child for his age and has the face Of
an old man. He is to be left entirely to
the care of women until he isl years of
age, when tutor and masters will take
charge of him until he is 16. At that
age he will supersede the Queen Regent
at the head of the Spanish Government.
Poor boy! He will have more glory than
tun in this world.
A gentleman in an adjoining county
SAYS he had colored man building him
a new rail fence. A terrapin happened
elong that way, and the negro seeing a
knot hole in rail that he thought the
terrapin would fill, placed it on its back
in the hole and laid the rail on the fence.
Twelve years later in tearing down the
fence to reset it the terrapin was found
in the knot hole in comparative good
health, seeming not to have suffered much
from his long con6nement.-Gain esuille,
Ga, Eagle.
Several days ago in New York, on
account of q sudden and tremendous glut
in the vegetable market, tons upon tons
of all kinds of vegetables were condemned
to the sea. Even with this overstocked
market and the consequent great reduc.
ton in prices, there we're many people in
the great metropolis who were pot able
to purchase these necessities. Great
crowds of men and women stood on the
wharf when the vegetables were being
loaded for dumping, but the officers were
not allowed to give any of them away, and
hence the people had to leave disappoint'
ed.
= Mexico continues to attract Ameri.
can capital in way to indicate that
previous ventures of the kind have not
been misplaced. Senator Hearst, of
California, has just been down there
making some extensive investments, in
Guiding the purchase of 100000 acres of
land in the State of Vera Cruz to be
devoted to the raising of coffee, sugar
and tobacco. Along With Other Calif0f:
MIA capitalis..s- he has also obtained con-
cessions for building railroad from the
city of Mexico to some point on the Pa
cifc coast.
While at Columbia attending the
State Convention we visited the stables of
the South Carolina Stock Breeders Asso.
citation out at the fair grounds, and found
three of the finest horses that it was ever
our pleasure to look at. One was the
celebrated French stallion Glaneur. He
is beautiful brown horse, with extraor-
dinary style and action. Heis 16} hands
and weighs ,450. Manbrino Rex, anoth.
er horse. is what is called burnt chest
nut stallion. His sire, Manbrino King,
was pronounced by the French Commits
siops to he the "handsomest horse in the
world" He has a faint star in forehead,
four white feet above ankles, foaled June
Sd, 1885, and is indeed real beauty.
Another was bay, which is said to be
the finest colt in the United States, about
two wears old. Mr.. Edwin F. Gary, the
secretary of this association, takes pleas
ure in showing these horses to visitors,
and it will richly repay all lovers of fine
stock to visit these stables when in 20:
lumbia, and right near by is Elmwood
farm, where can be seen some OF the
finest Jersey cattle in the State CAes'
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