The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-03-31

and State officials, fleeing before him.
Alter getting out of the crowd three po-
licelnen knocked him down and landed
him in Jail. He was recently discharged
from the asylum as cured, but will be re-
turned.
News Paragraphs.
= Col. w. c. Utsey, of 96, accidentally
shot off his right leg last week and will he
a'cripple for life.
= DR.. w G. Fisher, Columbia's next
mayor, is nearly so years old, and bach
elor.
Owing to the failure OF railroads to
pay their taxes, the Greenville graded
schools will have to close a month ear
lier.
"A gold brick was recently shipped
to San Francisco from Yuma, CAL, the
value of which was estimated at between
5000 and 100000. 1t weighed over 349
pounds.
Prof. Colin, of Cornsll, told his stu
dents the other day that the man who
sells his vote for money is more to be
respected than the man who stays away
from the polls and does not vote ct all.
"A Presbyterian church in Lancaster
Pa, gives medal to every person who
does not miss a church or Sunday
School service during che year. Last
year the sexton carried off all the hon.
ors.
They have the right kind girls up in
Nebraska, says an exchange. at Sorto-
ria young lady won't dance with o
young man unles he belongs to the AL
lance, and the tripping of the light fan
tastic has got to be done on the Ocala
platform.
= All The orthodox Jewish papers are
opposed to the idea Of changing the day
Of worship in the synagogue from Satur-
day to Sunday. The proposition is sus
tanned by several of the organs of Re-
formed Judaism, which are strongly in
favor of the holding of Sunday services.
: A little South Carolina girl, only 10
years old, Miss Bertha Visanski, is
making quite furore in New York City
as pianist She led the National OBJ
servatory Orchestra at the Madison
Square Concert last week. Colum bia is
Miss Bertha's home.
- Wade Hampton was millionaire or
very nearly one before the war, but OF
late years fortune has frowned on him.
It is pleasant to learn, therefore, that he
has become interested in Mexican sil-
yer mine in one vein of which there is
100000 in sight, while tho other veins
not yet opened promise good returns.
"A curious and profitable business
has grown up in the Maine woods about
the saw mills, in the utilizing of the i'm
mense quantities of sawdust by COM
preston. Thousands of toi.s of sawdust
are pressed into compact blocks and
bales, and, in this form is finding a
ready market for kindling and fuel in the
Eastern cities.
: An old hunter and frontiersman,
named George Darling, reports the dis
covery of long-abandoned village in
Mexico. Several brick buildings still
remain, and the surroundings show it
must at one time have been a large town.
The ruins are situated near the ancient
city Of Temoseche, in the midst Of the
Sierra Madre Mountains.
- On fashion able night at the theatre
in New York, from $75,000,000 to $780,
100000 gleam from the boxes ofthe As
tors and Vanderbilts in the form Of gilt
tering jewels. Old Mrs. Astor, the lead
er of the ultra fashionables, is described
by the New York World as covering her
neck and shoulders with diamonds esti-
mated at 100000, and sitting smiling
like bride in the gaslight.
One of the hottest regions in the
Uui!ed States is along the line of the
Southern Pacific Railroad in Arizona.
At Bagdad, in that Territory, tho ther-
mometer has been known to stand as
high as 140 in the shade for days in sue
cession. The ticket agent at Bagdad says
hof 1,oh hoc Of a
l28 on The cool side of the depot building
at midnight.
= It is estimated that the increase in
rabbits in Australia during the last three
years is about 100000. The experts
state that 99,000,0O0 acres are now infes-
ted with the plaques. In the dry country
the rabbits have takon to eating wood,
particularly the tender bark of the scrub
vegetation. BY so doing they destroy q
large means of keeping the sheep alive IN
long periods of drought.
An interesting experiment is being
made on some of the engines of the great
Eastern Railway Company to test the
advantages of oil as fuel in the ordinary
locomotives. Several of the engineers
have been supplied with oil tanks, and
the firemen have the option of using the
oil or the coal as they think fit. Expe-
rience has shown that the men prefer the
oil. 1t requires less stoking and produces
a steadier body of steam.
- The amendments to the Federal con-
stitution introduced by Representative
Grain, of Texas, changing the dates for
the meeting of Congress and the inaugu-
ration of the President are being COM
mented on very favorably. They pro-
vide that the terms of congressman shall
begin Dec, 81, q little les than two months
after the election, and that the President
shall be inaugurated April 80. A new
congress, therefore, would meet on Jan. l.
"A Kansas man comes to the front
with an exhibit of gall which easily pia-
ces him at the head Of his fellows He
wants divorce from his wife because
she refuses and fails to support him. The
couple was married seven years ago, and
the poor woman for years carried the
burden of the family. Two years ago
she tired of working for her husband,
who is large, healthy, able-bodied man.
Kansas ought to experiment with the
Delaware whipping-post.
In Russia sunfower stalks gathered
from the fields and dried in piles have en-
tirely replaced frewood in fact, these
stalks are preferred even to pine wood,
producing quick and hot flame tlre.
About 1000 pounds of such frewood are
gathered from an acre Of land, thus ad-
ding n great boon to a district where
wood is scarce. Sunhower shells are al
so used for heating purposes, not only in
private residences, but IN the large fac
tories just well They ere burned in
ovens especially prepared for their con-
sumption.
The recent wet and cold weather has
increased the death rate in Texas cattle.
The winter killed many thousands and
spring brought only increased hardship,
due to lack of grass. The stock inter-
ests of Southern Texas has been dismal
for year. Many stock men have rented
pastures in the Indian Territory, and Co.
900 COWS will be shipped there during
the next sixty days. Only those finan-
cially interested express sorrow over
this state of affairs. Others hold that
cattle-raising is curse to the State, as it
keeps out farmers, and say they would
like to see the present difficulties extend
over the next three years. Then mill
lions of acres now devoted to cattle-rais-
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