The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-07-31

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living.
"A. Georgia msn had to sell his last
COW to pay the expense of q lawsuit about
aome chickens.
At bear and bull fight st San Die.
20, the bear had everything his own way
aud three bulls were killed.
= The Georgia watermelon trus. was
of short duration and succeeded in siuk-
ing over $40, 900 for the farmers Of lower
Georgia.
- The Rev. Joseph Cook, Of Boston,
deliberately declares that in the city of
New York there are not more than 5000
Protestant Christians
DIR. Pepper, provost of the Univer.
sity of Pennsylvania, gets $4,000 year
salary, and gives the college S10,O 900 a
year from his own pocket.
Several petitions have been present.
ed to the United States Senate praying
for an amendment to the constitution
acknowledging God and the Christian re-
ligion.
1t is easv enough to tell on Sunday
who belong to the church and who to
the world out it is not so easy to distin-
guish Church members during the
week.
= Experts now place the actual wealth
of the United States at SCI ,450, ,000,0 600.
This ia said to be greater than the entire
wealth of the world one hundred and fifty
years ago.
- There are FIVE thousand insane peo.
pie in the city of New York, and experts
on insanity say that the ratio of lunatics
is increasing much faster than that of the
population.
= The census will not disclose the fact,
but twice as many young men and young
women between the ages of eighteen and
twenty. eight are obliged to wear glasses
as wore them ten years ago.
President Harrison has dismissed
Hawkins, the colored coachman who has.
driven the White House carriage
twenty-five years without al accident.
and employed a white raan in his
place.
= The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph esti-
mates that "the South has paid larger
part of her State debt during the last ten
years than any other sectior-more than
fourth of the total of $107, 7,O0O, ,000---s
but her debt is still far the largest"
: Edison is said to be at work on his
far sighted machine, which he hopes to
have perfect in time for the Worlds Fair
in 1892. BY its aid, the inventor says it
will be possible for man in New York
to see the features of a friend in Boston.
"A funeral vas in progress in Hick-
ing Grove Church, near Dashville, Mo-, ,
the other day, when Lightning struck
barbed-wire fence to which many horses
were tied. Twenty.one were Knocked to
the ground, and four killed.
- There are now four State tickets in
the field in Alabama-Democratic, Re-
publican, Prohibition and Greenback.3
The outcome is fraught with grave un-st
certainty. since the Democrats have lad
family fight that is difficult to recon-
cile. s.
= During the eighty.seven years end. &
ing in 1887 Missouri, according to the
United States Signal Service, lost S94,.
325,000 By tornadoes. There were 156
of these storms in the State during that
time. Missouri is "the banner tornado
State"
"A remarkable clock has just been set
up in the municipal library of Rouen,
France. A single winding keeps it run
ming for fourteen years. 1t vas constructs
ed in 1902 underwent alterations in 1876;
was bought by the city of Rouen in 1888,
and has been recently repaired and get
going.
DR.. John Fl. Douglas, of New York,
who was General Grants physician in his
lest illness, is dying in New York hos.
pital in poverty. The ak months atten-
dance on General Grant broke down his
health and destroyed his practice and he
has spent all Of the 1900 fee and 5000
legacy he received vainly trying to regain
his health.
"A man named Roth, who worked at
the Scales Mound, near Galena, Illinois,
was attacked by progressive paralysis two
months ago, which incapacitated him from
work and also made it impossible for him
to eat. After a week OF fasting he was
brought to the county Asylum on the
23rd of May, and there fingered for fifty
three days without food, finally dying last
Wednesday.
= The new postal cards, which will
shortly be printed are of two sizes--an
idea of the postmaster general-the big.
ger ones, which have twice the area of
the present postal cards, being intended
for business communications that cannot
very we'll be crowded and. for other pur-
poses demanding space. Both kinds
have in the right hand upper corner, in.
stead of the representation of stamp, a
small portrait of Gen. Grant.
A Mexican parrot which has just
died in New York at the oge of 26 spoke
French and English, as we'll as Spanish,
with noticeable huency. She sang Eng.
lish aud Spanish sentimental songs. Her
favorite ditty was, "How Can We Ever
Meet as Strangers ?" This she could sing
all through, without skipping word or
making false note. She could call by
name every member of large family
and every article of food on the table
that she saw and desired.
= Iu letter to the Farmers of North
Carolina Senator Vance, in speaking of
making the Farmers Alliance political
organization, says "In the South it could
only destroy the Democratic party and
leave in undisputed control that other
party which is the author and upholder
of the evils by which we are afflicted"
Oh that these words may be heard and
needed throughout the South How
much are such words needed-words of
counsel and of warning-at this particu.
lar juncturc.
- The present condition of the wheat
crop in northern Minnesota auG North
Dakota is the best, with thu possible ex.
ception of 1856, that it has been in ten
years. Special reports from three hun.
dred points covering the large wheatpro.
ducing Counties in Northern Minnesota
and North Dakota indicate that all the
wheat will grade No. l Hard and No. l.
Northern. These counties last year
shipped over g., 100000 bushels. If the
present outlook continues, this years crop
can hardly be less than 100,0O0,000, and
it is estimated as high as LIS, 100000. :
- In an Omaha Church, recently, Sam
Jones shouted: 'Is there man present
who neverspoke Cross word to his wife 2"
The silence was becoming oppressive.
People looked here and there. Every