The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-02-05
During the ]aat year $50 medicines
were patented.


-Of every million people in the'world
eight hundred are blind.
To criticise enviously is to injure
yousself more than the one criticised.
- There is a great deal of preaching
done that the devil is very we'll pleased
with.
= Ninety thousand COWS, it is calcu.
lated, have to be MIXED twice day to
supply London alone.
= You have only to say that woman
is pretty to hear some one else in the
crowd say: eyes, but she hasn't much
sense."
Good country roads, like good
schools, make drawing card for the
immigrant. By the way, good roads are
a great help to good schools. = :.
George Carson, of Pennington, Oco.
nee County, Ga, in his attempt to lift five
silver dollars with his tongue recently,
was 80 unfortunate as to have the ton
dollar slip down his throat. Failing to
extract it, at supper, after a few mouth
fuls, down went the dollar.
= Mrs. Ruth Phelps Of Venice, Mich.
tried "e7ery rheumatism cure known to
the world" and still her arm refused to
be comfortable. The other day the doc
tor cut out big darning needle, and now
the arm is all right. She does nos re.
member how the needle hecameimbedded.
- Saturday morning Gath ult., while
the workmen for the Georgia, Carolina
and Northern were putting up the third
span of the iron bridge across Savannah
river, the scafolding which was support.
ing it gave way, and the whole structure
was plunged into swift running water;
which WAS from ten to fifteen fosi deep.
= Wallace Ashley, 8 colored man liv.
ing in -Four Mile Township, reports that
he is turning white. Caucasian spots as
large as dimes have appeared on his
limbs. Ashley attributes this change
of his Ethiop skin to the fact that he has
always cherished the white mans princi-
ples.-BarnaueN People.
A man who has been keeping the
run of the crimes reported in the news
papers says that there we're 4,290 mur.
ders in the United States last year. It
is probable that his count is TOO large,
but the record is & portentious one, even
ifa considerable allowance be made for
mistakes. 1t is evidently time that q
way be devised for executing the law by
executing the murderers.
.s-One of the most fourishing of the
associations Of women in st. Louis, and
one of the youngest as we'll, is the Socie.
.ty of the Daughters of the Confederacy.
The Society has been formed to assist in
the building. .of home for Ex Confeder.
ate Soldiers, project that was put on
foot some time ago by the Missouri His
torical Society.
= There will be introduced in the
New York legislature this week q. bill
drawn by ex.Corporation Counsel Beck.
man to compel men to vote. It is about
the same bill that was introduced last
year, but 80 late in the session that it
was considered advisable to lay it over.
The man who is entitled to a vote and
doesn't cast one is to be fined $25 if Mr.
Beekman's bill becomes a law.
IA cattle dealer from the Indian
Territory purchased last week of Mrs.
King, of Corpus Christi, the Texas
cattle queen, Is, 900 two-year-old steers
for $4,000. This is probably the largest
order filled in Texas at any one time. for
cattle, and the King rancho is said to be
the second largest in the world. 1t is
taxed at 100000, including 100000
horses and cattle. Mrs. King owns sew.
eral others in other portions of Texas.
Mr.. John M. Miller, Georgia's ia
nous melon king, died at Stone Mountain
few days ago. IAN Atlanta paper, in a
touching tribute to Mr.. Miller's many
merits, says "The melons he raised un.
der the shadow of the big mountain ex.
.celled in size and flavor even those pro-
duced on the Baker County plantation of
the late Primus Jones'" It is further
stated that 'sMr. Miller's melons took the
prize at numerous fairs, and some of them
were so large that a ring made By cutting
slice out of the middle of the melon
could easily slip over mans shoulders" +"
= Secretary Window completed his
speech at splendid banquet and dropped
to his chair dead man. Yesterday Mr..
Petty of Gsfney's, fell dead while engag-
ed in his usual business and without q
warning that the end had come. Such
things happen somewhere every day and
we soon forget them, although We should
not. It would be we'll for every man to
impress upon himself and accustom him.
self to the feeling that the sword is.hapg-
ing close above him and may fall at any
moment Of the day or uight.-GreenviNs
News.
- The Carolina National Bank found
itselfiu peculiar predicament yesterday,
owing to mistake as to time, by which
under the impression that Friday night
was Saturday night, the time lock of the
vault was fixed for Monday morning, and
as consequence neither books, cash, SO.
curities or anything else could be gotten
out. The other banks hearing of the Cir
cumstance offered any assistance neces.
sary, but the bank, by the aid of the days
deposits and other resources outside of the