The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-11-20

Georgia, has 0een lying IN tno DanR VI
Scotland.
The bed of the Feather River in
California, which is being laid bare, will
yield from S1O,00o,00O to $15,000,000 of
gold if the ground proves as rich as that
which has been worked.
+-Ifa woman were as careful select
ing husband to match her disposition
as she is in selecting a dress to match her
complexion, there would be fewer un.
happy marriages than there are:
- A Connecticut boy is famous just
now, because he has tin whistle one
and half inches in diameter and several
inches long in his stomach. he swallow
lowed the toy while playing on it.
= The death rate among the Indians
who aim to live like white people is three
times that of those who continue to live
semi-wild life. The Pawnee Tribe has
lost more men by lung troubles in the
last ten years than they lost in battle
during the previous thirty.
- Mrs. Elizabeth Bell of Spartanburg
County is 80 years old. Not wishing to
be idle this fall she went to the cotton
field and picked 400 pounds. Meantime
she knit five pairs of socks. If there is
another woman over fourscore years who
can beat her, we would like to hear from
her.
Africa has now at work within her
borders 10 American, - British and IL
Continental missionary societies. There
are more than 700 ordained missionaries
and more than 1000 native preachers.
It is estimated that there are, both white
and native, about 1000 communicants
and 100000 adherents.
- MIR. r. J. Willis, of Troup County,
Ga, boasts prolific SOW. She is large
Guinea and Berkshire cross. On May Il,
1889, she gave Mr.. Willis eleven pigs on
February I, 1890, she gave him fourteen
pigs, and on October 27, 1890, she gave
him twelve more, making thirty. seven
pigs in seventeen months.
"Prince" Russell Harrison told a
St. Paul Globe man the other day that
nobody could rightfully lay blame for
the Republican defeat upon "pa's Ad-
ministration." He said that the "poor,
deluded farmers of the West" did not
understand the Mckinley bill, but
| would come to it in another two years.
- A man owned a FIVE foot strip OF
land in New York city and quarreled
with the owner of the adjoining property
| over the price of it. He then built two
houses on the strip, which vas block
long. The houses are four stories high,
and but three feet wide inside, but have
deep bow windows which are utilized for
rooms.
= Wyoming has the only female COM
pany of regular State militia in the
United States. The company was organ
lied to celebrate tie date of Wyoming's
Statehood, and met with such approval
that it was decided to make the orgapi-
zation permanent; and the young ladies
were mustered into the regular service Of
| the State.
Recently, at the close of the cele-
bration of 8 Buddhist festival in the pro-
vince of SEE -Chuen. China, number Of
organized mobs attacked several Christian
villages, burning the buildings and loot.
ing their contents. Twenty native con-
yerts to Christianity were killed during
the disturbance and their bodies thrown
into the Yang.tse King River.
Il terrible conaagration occurred al
Winslow, town of Pike County, Indi.
ana, last Friday morning. The whole
town had been wiped out of existence
The houses we're all frame structures, and
the fire spread with such rapidity that all
the efforts of the people to extinguish it
proved unYailing. Not house is left
standing and 400 people are left without
| homes.
- Mrs. L. A. Norman, of Decatur, Ill.
while in Terre Haute, was informed thai
letter awaited her at the postofice, anl
upon calling for it she was informed thai
the missive had been delivered to q lady
of similar name residing in that city
Curiosity prompted her to call upon thii
Mrs. Norman, and the ladies made the
unwelcome discovery that each hal
married Milton A. Norman. BE wa'
arrested.
= Col. A. K. Mcclure, of the Philadel
phia TIMES, in speech at the Southern
Exposition in Montgomery. Ala, declar
ed that the recent election, by which 6
majority of the Northern and Southern
members of Congress were of the same
political faith, meant national peace
he said the verdict for peace could moi
be set aside unless the dominent party BY
excesses gave excuses therefor.