The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-15
News Paragraphs.

Two male ostriches in Chicago wait
ing for the Worlds Fair began to fight
Saturday. Two men, who attempted to
separate the birds were so badly hurt by
blows of wings and beaks that they had
to be carried to hospital.
When President Harrison was inau-
gurated there was S94, 100000 in free gold
in the treasury. To-day there is but S3,-
100000. Mr.. Harrison seems to havo
feared that some crank might consider
Uncle Sam too mofa "guch old bug" and
shoot him.
Joseph T. Wilson has just returned
to Lenoir, n. c., from the penitentiary
farms in Northampton county, after SER
wing out a term Of ten years for horse
stealing. He has been drawing federal
pension of S12 per month during his con-
tinement.
"A negro preacher near New Bern, N.
c., has Bible which is 200 years old.
He has refused $500 for it. He says that
he would not part with it for any amount
as 'the old Bible is the best Bible,
with none of these new-fangled kinks in
it,"
"A West Virginia girl, who was
chased by savage bear, climbed tree
and remained in its branches until morn
ing, the bear keeping watch al the while.
at daylight hunter came along and res
cued her from her perilous position by
killing the bear.
= At Parkland, suburb of Louisville
Ky, Saturday, Henry Bealman found
his wife in Charles Cox's room. Bealmau
attacked Cox who stabbed him, inf1icting
O fatal wound. Mrs. Bealman left her
husband as be was dying and with prop
erty he had recently given her secured
bail for Cox and fled with him.
- Several confederate generals have re-
Gently discussed the question: sis
Fear Cowardice?" The predominating
opinion is that fear is not cowardice. The
courageous man conquers fear, the cav
ard yields to it. General Cheatham is
quoted as saying: "The man who says he
goes into battle without fear is all idiot, a
lunatic or liar"
= Governor Carr, of North Carolina,
sent in strong message to the Lcgisla-
ture Monday on the subject of public
roads. He says the present system is a
failure, costs the State millions, and the
people who are required to work the
roads are in many cases not the ones who
derive the benefit, and hence there is
great complaint. There is, he asserts, a
- In a town not one hundred miles
from London there is preached every
year what is known as q drunken SER
by an old, eccentric man, who bequeath-
| ed to the town public house OH condi-
ton that forty shillings be deducted from
| the annual rent and given to 8, minister
| who should preach sermon against the
evils Of intemperance.
= Some big timber has been prepared
at the Camden lumber mills, on Ganley
River, in West Virginia, for the Wnrld's
Fair. One of the pieces is an ash plank
three feet three inches wide, and another
is a poplar plank exactly five teet wide.
Another poplar tree eleven feet in diam
eter is being hewed out to be sent on to
Chicago. It cannot be cut with saw on
account of its tremendous sze 1t is
claimed that the greatest. exhibits of coal
and timber at the Worlds Fair will come
from West Virginia.
= Wade Hampton is getting along in
years and is a cripple, but when he was
in Washington the other day be arranged
for q hunt in the South Carolina jungles
and invited number Of statesmen to
ioin him. Gen. Hampton is one of the
old-school politicians who would rather
be right than be anything from justice
of the peace up to President. Rigid ad :
herence to his old-fashioped ideas of
honor prevented his return to heScnate.
Although Gen. Wade Hampton is nearly
seventy-five years old, he appears to be
in finer health than for long time past.
He rode a restless horse through the
streets of Washington tie other day in a
way to show that he has not lost the
'seat' that made him one of the most
dashing of cavalry commanders.-New
York World.