The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-07-09
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: Bengal has lately had sixty earth:


= Bengal has lately had sixty earth
quake shocks of more or less severity
- The cotton acreage of North Caroli.S
ma averages little more than one millions
acres. This year there is falling of of
two per cent. s.sss
= Straight streets are unknown in
China. They are purposely made crook
ed to confuse Satan, as the Chinese be-.
lieve the devil travels in q stright line. M
- The Rev. Frank L.. Stevens, 9 bril-
liant young student of the Yale divinity
school, has been driven insane by
Lieutenant Totten's theory that the world
will come to an end in 1900.
= Thirty-six "wet" Counties Of Geor.5
gia have one convict to every $50 people,.
One hundred and one "drya Counties in
the same State have one convict to every
1920 people.
- The Rev. Sam Jones says: The
membership of Church is divided intosi
four separate and distinct classes. Thsa
first will pray but won't psy; the'seconds
will pay but won't pray the third WORT
either pay or pray; the fourth are the few.
who both pay and pray :'S:
1t is said there is a tract of Forest
trees in southern Oregon embracing about
10000 square miles, which, cut and solds
at $40 per 1000 feet, would pay our ma
tionat debt twice over. Tits estimated
that the amount of merchantable timber
standing will reach 4oo,Oo0,00o.0 600 feet
= Capt. J. @. Boyd owns q fifteen
months old heifer that has never, ,calyed, B.
but is giving half gallon Of milk every
day. The mother Of the: :heifer also gave,
milk before calving. Captain Boyd bs
lieves the animal will give s gallon sors
more of milk in q few week Grse1galss
Ncws. S.
The political revolution INK ansass
becomes easy of explanation when q: % ls; s5
considered that twenty two newspa g !,
the State are edited by women: And;
this enumeration does not embrace the
many wives Of editors who write editofi
al as we'll ss society matters rStheire
husbands journals. Ss.,; ss;
- Japan's Emperor has decreed that
every man who provokes duel OF accepts
a challenge shall pay aheayy fine and .li1s,
serve from six months to two years. M ,14s
the galleys. The taunting Of 9 man sfor; t.;s I
refusal to fight when challenged will be-
regarded as slander, and will be so treats
ed by the courts.
1t is expected that the Grady Meme
rial Hospital in Atlanta will be completed.
by the lst Of next December. So@fa
$4,000 has been subscribed to the fund
for it's erection and there remains an
amount of about SIS, 900 still to be raised
This is the best monument that could Ebes'
reared to Grady. ss'
The bottom aeems to have dropped;
out of cotton. It il reported that the;
acreage in the trsns-M Mississippi country
will show an increase Of 10 r3cent, and
the crop prospects are better all over thss h.'
cotton country than they we're this time, g,
last year. If We make another cfQp ssS s
large as last year cotton will sell sforg g5s g
cents per pound by January l.
= The grip, which has been such ]. ass IS
scourge in this country and in Europe
APPEARS to have been peculiarly destrnc:s
tive of life in China, and greatly puzzled
the doctors Of the Flowery Kingdom
The Chinese thought that an evil spirit;
was at work and beat drums and IgongsS
in the streets of the cities to driyefit off.
= George Washington knew the yaldeS
Of newspaper advertising. In 9 reproduce
tion in a fac simile of its first nnmber;;
printed 11S years ago, the Baltimore
American displays half column '.ead by
the father of his country announcing that:
he had bought 10000 acres Of land which
he divided into homesteads and Was ready.
to place upon the market. George Wass q q
great man, but he had an eye to business:
Squire James Ritter; believed TO hs;
the largest man in the South, died at Elm;
Springs, Ark, last week. Ritter was seY-:
enty years old and weighed $40 pounds
BE had his coffin made two years age, and
for two seasons used it as granery: lt3
was made of walnut and held twenty:tHos
bushels of wheat. Twelve men acted as
pail bearers, and it took four strong ropes;
to lower the coffin into the grave.
"A man at Jansen, Fla, will realize
SO 900 this year from an acre of pinear-z
Piles, while Major Ryals, of Chatham
County, Ga, has truck farm Of 125 acres
near Savannah, which yields him s10O.S
600 year. His chief crop is Irish pots:
toes, of which he has 80 acres. In addi.'
tion he raised cabbages, tomatoes, beans,
cucumbers, onions and other small vege-
tables. His income from onions is 500
an acre.
"A little oblong steel box opening
with combination lock, passed through
the Chicago custom house the other:
morning, consigned to an Illinois watch
company. This Insignificant looking az
fair contained diamonds and rubies by:
the hundred, that we're for settinga for
atches. The value Of the stonesEwas
placed at sl5O,OoO and the duty on them
was small fortune. The goods were