The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-10-08
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ALI Sorts of Paragraphs.
- A syndicate has offered to buy the
Washington monument for q shot tow
er.
- Montana claims to have sold already
this year so, 900 head of cattle at an aver
age net price of $50.
- The negroes oftho United States now
pay taxes on 1854 100000 worth of prop
erty.
- Immense foclls of crows have ex-
terminate the grasshopper pest i'll parts of
California.
By a recent legislative enactment
Georgia physicians who indulge in intoX-
icants are disqualified from practice.
The coyetous person lives as if tho
world was made altogether for him, and
not he fer the world; to take in every-
thing and part with nothing.
The Savannah river is at a very low
ebb. The season just passed has been re-
markably dry. Better that way than
what it was in September, 1885.
DR.. jacob, the specialist in diseases
of women and children, says that the
baby ofto-day has much better chance
of life than the baby Of fifty years ago.
A Lewiston, (Me.) man thrashed his
son for using his fathers wooden leg as
baseball bat, which was erlinently cor
rect, or the chap might have felt at lib
erty to take the sound limb next time.
Mr.. Gould's doctor says the only
thing that will relieve his debility is
.idleness. The debility Of lots other men,
financially speaking, would probably
benefit by Mr. Gould's taking the dose.
"A dispatch from Montana. dated the
3rd inst, says: 1t has been showing and
drifting incessantly for the last forty-eight
hours. There are three feet of snow on
a level. Business is practically at stand
still.
The Arizona Territorial Legislature
at its last session passed an Act exempt
ing all land used in tho cultivation Of
sugar beets, as we'll as the plant and ma
chinery employed in the manufacture Of
domestic sugar, from taxation for ten
years.
= The newest patent given 10 wo-
man has been for improveme ent in steam
boilers and furnaces. Another woman
has recently invented an appliance de-
signed for teaching the value of coins.
A third has patented new kind ofhorse
shoe.
AT Huntsville, Ala, Professor Renfo,
a white teacher in colored normal in-
stitute, attempted to chastise Ebenezer
Kahn, colored pupil. Kahn seized a
three-inch steel chisel and imbedded it
into Renfo's brain, killing him,instantly.
Kahn is under arrest.
In Colleton case Judge IZlar has
decided that South Carolipian, married
in this State and divorced and remarked
in another State, cannot have the validity
of his second marriage recognized in
South Carolina if he returns to his home,
and that the children are illegitimate.
- Tacoma, WASH, is after the democrat
ic convention, and has sent committee
east to present its claims. It offers to
transport the delegates free OF charge on
four big palace-car trains starting from
Portland, New York, Washington and
Jacksonville, and piclling,up the delegates
as they sweep along tho continent.
- The burning of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad elevator, at Baltimore,
last Sunday, delayed the train carrying
the Baltimore baseball club, which had
an engagement to play at Wehawken n.
j., that afternoon. The train, however,
mado up lost time, making the extraordi-
two minutes.
- One man who always uses both knife
and fork in carrying food to his mouth,
was asked one day by an acquaintance
why he did so, replied: "Im a busy
man. God has given me two hands.
Shall leb one rest idle while the other
is working? No. IN all for division of
laboI. eat my food in half the timc,"
- President Harrison thinks that Cuba
would be worth 100000, 900 to the United
States, and it is said that he is making
negotiations for its purchase. These ne
gotiations, so rumor has it arc being con-
Quoted without Blaine's assistance. Is it
possible that President Harrison is ell
deayoring to givo the country the impress
sion that he has head Of his own?
= Miss Gertrude Potter, of Chicago is
building up quite q reputation rs ma
trimonial expert, having been married
three times, and not near 90, either. She
is beautiful and rich; and by means of
divorce and an illegal marriage with a
minor, romance with a newsboy, and
other sensations, she has made decided
hit, even in Chicago.
- Spartanlourg not only leads the whole
State IL the manufacture OF cotton, bua
she can also claim the champion cotton
picker. Pierce Pool, q white boy living
near Campton, picked out 4id pounds The
other day, when there was no dow u
dampness to increase the weight OF the
lint. This is record breaking year, but
that is record that vii! probably stand.
Erlennloyer says that children born
Of women addicted to the morphine habit
are practically morphine caters from birth
During tho first few days OF lilc, unless
morphine IS given 10 them, thoy are very
apt 10 suffer collapse and this condition
niay end in death, tho child being too
weak to Withstand the violent Symptoms
which are similar TO those which follow
the sudden Withdrawal of the drug III
adult opium eaters.
- "If the skies should rain silver, and
if silYer dollars should be heaped up in
the valleys SO that those who arc making
such al ado about moro money could FIJI
their sacks and baskets, and could cart it
aWay with them, it would, under our un-
equal tariff system, soon find its way
bacl. TO the present custodians OF tho
wealth of the country, leaving the tax
ridden farmer as poor as eyer.'-He'uy
Watterson.
- Mrs. Alicia L. Henderson, OF Now
York has had fifteen husbands and she
is only forty-fivo years old. Tho fact Of
her fifteenth matrimonial ycnturo is re-
called by her recent sentence to term of
three months in Jail for abusing Helen
Dennis, the daughter of her fourteenth
husband. Her matrimonial record is a
remarkable ono. Born in Havana, OF
Spanish parents, she was educated at !
Paris, and there first married, but she got
tho majority Of her husbands i'll this
All. except her present huS- |