The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-04-14
News Paragraphs.

The cotton crop in sight for this sea-
son is s,2s9,1l7 bales.
The Worlds Fair appropriations by
foreign countries. as far as reported, ag-
gregate more than S4,5O0,OOo.
In almost every school of Japan 1t
is the custom one day in autumn to take
the pupils out rabbit hunting.
- An Eskimo village, inhabited. by
from fifty to seveuty-five natives ofthe
frozen regions, will be one of the sights
at the Worlds exposition.
The city council of Elizabeth, N. j.,
has introduced an ordinance to keep
young girls from picnics and balls, un-
less accompanied by parents or guar
dians.
The cocoanut trees of Florida are
due to nuts washed ashore from wreck
cd vessel sixteen years ago. Now the
State furnishes nearly all the cocoanuts
used in the United States.
In New York day or twoago man
"who wouldn't take dare," swallowed
q glass of poison offered him in jest by
his wife, who dared him to drink it. lie
is dead.
The Methodists i1aYe decided to hold
an international camp meeting OF
months duration at the time Of the
Exposition. 1t will be held half the
time at Desplaines and tho other half at
Lake Bluff. Both places are few miles
out from Chicago.
Under 100 of tie wills reported
during last yea. bhe bequests for relig-
ious, educational and charitable purposes
have amounted to about s7,000.O00. In
each of the three psscsdang years: the
amount thus bequeathed was about S5,-
100000.
- The Russian refugees are finding
homes all over the country, and large
numbers of them take up their abode in
New England towns. Nearly six tlsahs-
and have settled in the Connecticut town
of New Haven. 1t is estimated that there
are over swaHty thousand of them in Now
Jersey.
- The biii Which provides for the cree
ton of a public building in all toSlm
where the post-office seceipts are over
50, 600 per annnm, passed the House last,
week, and is now law. The total re-
ceipts of the Dalton post-of1ice wtIrreach
nearly 81 900 per year. This city sheuld
put in her application for public build
ing right away.
Samuel Russell, of Shelton, Conn.,,
has applied for patent for an automatic
shoe-blacking machine. The foot is
thrust into an aperture in the Machine,
and in a twinkling the shoe is daubed
with an even coat of blacking. Then IL
is placed in another opening. A shine is
obtained that would make the most ex
pert bootblack die of envy.
- Jas. Greeplee, n well-known barber,
OF Washington, Pa, has for three wears
been courting Mrs. Monday, ynng
widow. Sunday night he married an
other young woman. Next morning
Mrs. Monday went to the barber shop
and horsewhipped Greenlee. She de-
Glazed ehet he used Sl5 he borrowed from
her in getting married.
On Friday, May Goth, four men and
one woman, Elisha Young, Ike Young,
Holmes Mobile, Alfred Crosby and
Martha Young, WIFI be hanged in the
Jail yard at Chester soY murder. They
are all young and fairly Intelligent look
ing negroes, and they received their SEN
tence with every appearance of indiHer-
eace.
"A Kansas exchange has hit npon a
novel pfsH to keep subscriptions paid up.
Every time ~ delinquent subscriber is
mentioned in this paper his name is in
verted. For example: "roqu roues
and wife are spending q few days in Chi
cago." Every other subscriber under
stands what it means and there is gfaHd
rush to get right sidenp again.
The last issue of the Progressive
Farmer, the official organ of the North
Carolina Alliance, speaks editorially in
words of eulogy of Cleveland and HIS
anti-silver policy, and declares that the
Alliance does not want free coinage OF
silver, rs it does not believe that is the
channel through which financial reform
must come.
= The 1radeSman announces the re-
ceipt of official information that Massa-
chusetts capitalists will begin the ilnme-
diate erection, at Nottingham, Ala, of
cotton mill 10 contain 10000 spiudles and
1000 looms the plant to cost Sl00,oo0.
The Tradesn,an reports that the organi-
zation of several other large cotton mills
is now in progress in the South and their
erection is assured.
= The Gwinaett (Ga.) Herald says:
"Orr's South Carolina rifles had the most
bloody record of any regiment during
the war. 1t lest 334 men killed besides
the wounded. This gallant little State
was the first to withdraw from the
Union and the first to fire upon the
stars and stripes, but her sons most gall
lantly maintained her good name in the
field of carnage"
- The Russian crown and other insig-
MIA known as "the crown jewels" are
valued at $ll,OOO,OOo. The crown it.
selfis worth s5,0Oo,OOO. 1t is profusely
adorned with hundreds Of diamonds.
Besides the diamonds there are set around
the rim fifty four splendid pearls, each
without flaw, a ruby of extraordinary
size and beauty being set as centre
piece. The crown was made by Panzie,
q Geneva ieweler, and was first worn by
| Catherine the Great.
- Sunday schools are probably as old
as Christianity. Eusebius says that the
Apostle Paul regularly taught the scrip
tures and tho doctrines Of tho Church
to Young men and children on the sab.
bath day. 1t is quito likely that to
limited extent at least, Sunday instruc-
ton of children and youth was kept up
through the Middle Ages, but the
greatest impulse given the Snndayschool
excepting tho efforts Of Robert Raikes,
| was Inv the famous Cardinal Borromeo,
who, in Milan, in 1880, organized a syS-
| ION, of Sunday instru 80 and put nn-