The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-07-19
1t is stated the receipts of the bar at
the Grand Pacific Hotel at Chicago
during Convention week reached $4,000
8 day.

LII Ii 5Lateu tue TeC6lpIS OF GQ6 Oar at
the Grand Pacific Hotel at Chicago
during Convention week reached $4,000
a day.
= Four figs taken from a tree in
Cherokee, California, weighed one pound
and seven ounces, one of them weighing
eight ounces.
AT Sandwich, Ill.,, yesterday, David
Clark and his wife were found hanging
in corn crib on Cages farm, both dead.
They left paper, signed by each, saying
that they died for each other. Clark was
80 years old, and had been employed by
Gage a few months. He came from
Streator, and had been married two years.
1t is reported that Mr.. Herman
Oelrichs is engaged 10 be married to
Miss Teresa Fair, eldest daughter of Elk.
Senator Fair, of California. Miss Fair
came East with her mother this spring.
She will one day come into a great for.
tune, as when Mrs. Fair got the divorce
decree from her husband he dealt with
her as no other repudiated husband ever
dealt by wife. He gave her of his own
free will over $4,000 and, it is said,
that, with all the millions he retained, he
is yet a miserable man. and is longing to
be reconciled to his offended wife.
About ago a syndicate of New
Workers set outa thousand acres of land
in Florida as an experiment in growing
tobacco. Two kinds of Havana, Suma-
ira, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Con.
necticut and the old Florida broad leaf
tobacco were planted; all of which have
grown luxuriantly, and it is expected
will average from 600 to 1900 pounds
per acre. There are now only about
5000 acres in Florida under cultivation
in tobacco, but if success shall crown
the preseut experiment great increase
in acreage may be expected in few
years.
The St. Louis Globe. Democrat
says: "The hardest man in beating up
the doctrine of evolution is Rev. DR..
Adams. He protests totally against the
first Adam being a monkey. This leads
q Boston paper to say that the Adamses
lave always been sensitive on that point,
and a touchy set anyway. 1t is matter
of pride with them, while with the rest
of us it doesn't matter so much whether
we came from Adam or monkey, 80
long as we are far enough off from the
starting point. 1t puzzles a plain man
to know how opinion or prejudice is going
to affect this question. We shall have
to accept the ancestry that investigation
offers US, whether such as We should
select or not"
"A balloon, which ascended from the
Common ats o'clock last evening, de.
scended in the harbor off Point Shirley.
The occupants were submerged, and for
three miles or more we're dragged through
the water at a rapid pace by the balloon,
which was impelled by strong gale.
They were sighted by the steam yacht
Rose NJ, and the latter, after steam
chase succeeded in overtaking the bal.
loonists and making fast the drag rope
to her capstan. After much trouble the
party were taken aboard and all were
safely brought to this city. The journey
was most perilous one, and the escape
of the excnrsionists from death was
miraculous. Boston Exchange.
The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger, writing on Juyl 2,
says: "The great event of to day is
unquestionably the enormous semi annn-
al and quarterly payments Of dividends
and interest. It is estimated that these
amount to from $75 100000 to S85, ,O00 900
due in this city. This is large increase
on the amountpaid out last Jnly. The
railroad disbursements of interest and
dividends amount to about $60,000, 900,
and the Federal Government pays out
over $9,0O0,000, and to these should be
added the payments by miscellaneous
corporations, the banks, and the State
and municipal governments. To thous.
ands of men and woman these payments
mean the receipt of their only income.
To smaller number they mean sur
plus as we'll as livelihood. How large
this surplus is in the aggregate it is, of
course, impossible to estimate, but it
undoubtedly amounts to very large sum
that will seek investment. In view of
the almost unprecedented stagnation
existing in Wall street, it does not seem
likely that much of this surplus will be
used in stock speculation.
There died last week near town a