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

"A loaded gun was lying in wagon
which jolted along over road in New
Mexico the other day. The wagon jolted
too hard and the gun went Off Mr.. B.
r. Young with his family was following
in another wagon. The bullet went
through MI. Youngs shoulder, then
through his s"on's hip, then a baby's body
and then lodged in Mrs. Roberts, The
baby is dead and the rest severely hurt,
and nobody to blame for a pure acci-
dent.
An underground lake has been dis
covered three miles from Genesee, Ida
no. twas found by q well-digger. at
a depth of sixteen feet clear, pure lake
water ran ont over tho surface for time,
then settled back to the earth's level.
The most Gu :ious part of it is that fish
were brought to the surface by the over
flow. They have peculiar appearance
and are sightless, indicating that they
are underground fish. The spring has
attracted much attention, and many
farmers in tho vicinity fear that their
farms will drop into the lake.
= The remarkable case of John Lous-
ley, a farmer near South Bend, Ind, is
attracting much attention. Louslay fol-
lows threshine in season, and quit last
September with badly inflamed eye.
1t has panied him continually since. On
Monday an oculist found that grain OF
wheat had lodged in his eye, sprouted,
and in its growth had forced passage
up between the scalp and skull, and had
found an outlet near the apex of the right
eye. The stalk was carefully removed
and transplanted in hotbed, where it is
expected to grow. Lousleyis doing fine
ly.
"A Georgia girl, sixteen year old, IS
in southwest Alabama, wearing male at
tire under peculiar circumstances. ~
man named Bigsby got her to run away
with him from Clay county on promise
of marriage, and they came to Alabama
in wagon. at camp by the waysido
her father, Mr.. Brooks, came upon the
fleeing couple, and while Bigsby enter
| tanned the old man at the door of the tent
O confederate named Carlile helped the
girl rig out in mems clothes. She then
went out the back way, mounted mule
and rode off before the old mans eyes.
Mr.. Brooks didn't know her and is still
searching for his daughter.
Some of the revelations of the cen-
sus will startle q good many people.
| For instance, there are now moro than
half million almond trees actually
bearing in the United States; there are
hundreds of thousands of bearing cocoa
nut trees; there more than quarter OF
a million of olive trees, producing fruit
equal to the best Mediterranean varieties.
There are m ore than halfa million bear
ing banana plants, 100000 lemon trees,
4,OOO, 900 orange trees, and 81 900 pine
apples: and tho value of tropical and
semi-tropical fruits grown under the
American flag is nearly S2O,OOO,0OO.
Some curious items are found in the
list of China's trade statistics. For in
stance, the reports ofexports from 1chang,
large city on the Middle Yang-tse-ki-
ang, contaibs an item Of $1,000 pounds
of tiger bones, valued at nearly $4,000
Only Chinese would think of putting
tiger bones 10 any other use than that oI
fertilizer, but in China tiger bones are
used as medicine. They impart to
the invalid some of the tigers strength
Another item is 5000 pounds Of old deer
horns, worth about s1,70O-another med
icinal agency with whose peculiar prop
critics Western medical science is not vel
acquainted.
- Rockville, small town ten mile.
! from. Murfroesboro, Tenn., was the scene
ofa probably fatal shooting last week
and practical joker is the sufferer
Major R. Pucket has a largo plantation
bell, which mischievious men and boys
have been ringing at night. He announ'
ced that he would shoot the guilty parties
Monday night w. b. Nicely and somt
friends went to the place, and for safcty't
sake, Mr.. Neely was attaching two
hundred yard string to the bell, wher
Mr.. Puckett fired shotgun In the direc
| ton, and Neely's left eye was torn ant
other wounds inflicted, which the physi
| cfaAs think fatal. Mr.. Puckett declare!
that he beard the noise and thought it was
thieves.
"A surprisingly strong biz of evidence
in proof Of a woman's inability to remail
calm in the presence of a mouse was tha
contributed by Bridget Colgan, the ser
| yant girl who is now being treated fo
a broken ankle at the Philadelphia hos
pital. Miss Colgan is , fine strappin!
young daughter OF Erin, who would giv'
most men hard tusslo III trial ofphys
ical strength, and her nerves arc usually
as strong as her muscles. Yet, wher
Bridget was cleaning tho second story
windows of the house where she wa!
employed as chambermaid last week
and she saw mouse run out from unde
the bed, she instantly turned and leapet
into the street below, at the same tim'
screaming ga mouse mouse! Per
haps no more remarkable instance o
this strange fear has been recorded, ant
Miss Bridget's escape with only the in
iuries mentioned is not the least curiou!
part of her Observation-Disclosures Re
cord.
A Boston man claims to have per
fected cotton twine which by the ust
of tar, applied during the preliminary
stages of manufacture, makes a periec
substitute for the hemp binder twine nov
in common use. Heretofore, when tn
the use of cotton foz this purpose ha
been considered, the stretch and othe
| drawbacks have been brought against
until it has come to be thought Out OF TIT
question. BY this new method OF man
ufacture or rather, the application IN an
improved way ofa principle that has beer
long known 10 ropemakers, the oblcc
tions to cotton are said to be entirely
overcome ard twine produced that vii
| work as we'll as that made Of hemp OF
sisal. The same principle applied i
larger ropes is said to produce perfec