The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-10-22
All Sorts of ParagrapllS.

- The value of the timber in Ffss.
no County, California, is estimated al
$9G 100000.
Prettiest Mems and Boys Suits you Can
find very cheap at G. F. Jones & Co.'S.
- This is great year for girl babies
Governor Pattison, Of Pennsylvania
has just had daughter added to the ex.
ecutive household.
- It is estimated that the big oil-well
recently struck near Pittsburgh, Is pro-
| ducing $1,000 barrels day. It's daily pro.
duct is worth S4,500.
We advise everybody in need of Cloth
ing to go to c. F. Jones q Co.'S, it will cost
you nothing to look. You will be sur
prised to see how much cheaper they are
selling than other houses.
- A woman runs locomotive on the
Cairo and Kanawha Valley Railroad in
time Notwithstanding the impulse she
must have to hold up her train at every
crossing.
A big stock of Clothing to select from
and very lowest prices, at O. F. Jones u
Co.'S.
= Bob Smith, son of Captain John T.
Bowden, Ca, picked FOL pounds of COT
at sun down, stopped at noon thirty-five
minutes. He was timed one hour and
picked ninety pounds.
Don't pay big prices for Clothing, but
60 to c. F. Jones & Co's., where they are
selling cheap.
of the entire human race, 500, 900, 900
are well clothed, that is, they wear gar
ments of some kind; 200, ,000, 900 habit
uolly 60 naked, and roc, 600, 900 only cover
parts of the body; 500,O0O,O0O live in
houses, 7OO,O0O,00O in huts and caves,
and 250,OOO,oO0 virtually have no shell
ter.
Twenty years ago the 9Th Of this
month, fire in Chicago burned over g. 100
acres, destroying II ,45O buildings valued,
with their contents at Sl90,000 900 and rem
der 6S, 500 people homeless. The insurance
companies were liable for S96, $50, ,72I in
damages, of which about one-half was
paid and fifty-seven companies failed In
consequence.
A French company has been form
ed to insure the farmers crops against loss
by frosts.- Pretty much every conceiya-
BILE risk is now insured except the risk q
politician runs in his scramble for office.
Here Is fine field for some enterpristng
capitalist. just think of the business such
company could do In South Carolina
about election times
- Levi M. Bates, who fell from boat
and was drowned at Bristol, VT, on Tues
day, was one of the best insured men Of
this country. He had S65, 600 accident in
surance and 1914 900 life insurance that now
is due to his family. The insurance COM
panies say that his death is one of the
hardest on them that has occurred for q
long time.
= Bishop Turner, of the African Meth
odist Church, has sailed for the mission
fields of his Church in Western Africa.
Just before sailing he said: II am still
agitating the African colonization plan
and for line of steamers to carry the
colored people from this country back to
Africa. It is the hope Of our people and
their chance to make great and iDdepen-
dent nation" !!
"A drunken man at Wilmington, Del,
was struck by o railroad train, his left
arm cut off, his upper jaw broken, and
several teeth knocked out, and, though
he wandered about for two hours after
ward, he'knew nothing of his mishap un-
til friend told him Of it. This leads an
exchange to declare that, after all, there is
no drug like old whiskey for deadening
pain during surgical operations.
Superintendent Walter Steel, of the
Carpenter Steel Works, Reading, Pa,
has solved an important commercial
problem by discovering how to amalga-
mate aluminium and steel SO as to manu-
facture edge tools as sharp as the Damas-
Gene blade Of early history. The process
of merging the aluminium with the iron,
the latter Of which can't be worked under
the intense heat required to melt the FORM
er, is secret.
- Mrs. Martha Floyd, of Spring Place,
Ga, mention of whose age has been made,
is peculiar old lady. She is now one
hundred years old, never saw steam en-
gine in her life, does not believe in the
existence of supreme being and will
not 60 near church, is the widow OF
soldier of 1872, draws pension and has
several hundred dollars hid away or bu-
ried in the ground and will not tell any
one where It is. She lives alone and will
not have nurse to attend her-is truly
curiosity.
- A barber who keeps shop in LAM
beth recently pertormeda rash but clever
feat. The shop was full Of customers,
and one of them was undergoing the oper-
alton Of shaving, when it was noticed that
the barber had his eyes closed, though he
still kept passing the razor over the face
of his visitor. After some time, and when
the operation was finished, what was the
surprise of those in the shop to hear the
barber exclaim, "Oh, no not yet; ;" at the
same time opening his eyes. 1t then be-
came evident that be was fast asleep and
had shaved a man while In that con-
dition. He explained that he had been
up the two previous nights, and that
would account for his sleepiness, but that
practice in shaving had so grown upon
him that he was even able to perform his
duty while asleep.