The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-04-05

Professor Garner has already mas
tered 200 words of the monkey language
and he thinks that there are not more
than twenty more.
- The President of San Domingo is
progressive, but he is not up to the full
standard of the civilized thief. He rob-
bed bank OF only $4,000, and didn't
get away with that. He meant we'll, how
ever, and after few more lessons from
his Anglo-SaXon models he may BECOME
no m mean robber after all.
- In speaking of the oldest locomotive
being exhibited al the Worlds Fair, the
Greenwood correspondent of the Abbe-
Vile Press and Banner aptly suggests that
the first engineer in America and the old
est living one in the world be given
prominent place in thc exhibit. His
name il Joe Hatton, aged 90 years, and
he lives at Greenwood,
The New York World has under.
taken to raise the debt on DR.. Talmage's
Brooklyn tabernacle by popular SUBJ
scription. It has already collected over
$4,000, and the daily receipts are aver
aging over 5000 per day. The World in
sists that it would be disgrace to New
York as well as to Brooklyn to allow
Chicago to capture the most popular
preacher of the last decade. 1t now be-
gins to look as ii DR.. Talmage will remain
in Brooklyn.
The senior general of the highest
rank left among the confederate generals
is Lieutenant General James Longstreet.
He was commissioned in October, 1862,
and General Jackson was commissioned
at the same time. The other surviving
lieutenant generals are Jubal Early,
Stephen Lee, Wade Hampton, all oom=
missioned in la64i Simon Ruckper, Joe
w. Wheeler and John B. Gordon, all
commissioned in 1866,
- A dispatch from Augusta, ILL.,, says
that four miles northwest of that place, a
few days ago, William Allen bored q
well on his farm, going 10 depth of II
feet. At that depth suddenly tho entire
bottom fell out, carrying all but about 5
feet of the walls with it. At the bottom
of the deep hole thus formed co.?ld be
seen swift rushing stream. All efforts
to fill up this hole have proved futile, the
rushing current carrying away every
thing thrown into it.
The Rock Hill Herald says that Hall
White, body servant of DR.. w. ]. White
during and before the war, writes to the
doctor from Liberia that he is prospering
in that tarrof country. He has coffee
farm of 3,000 trees and two sons have ad-
jaoent farms of 1000 trees each. He has
been there six years and is satisfied, ex-
cept that the natives are constantly en-
gagged in warfare. Hall went through
the late war and was faithful ser
want to his master under all circumstan-
ces.
- Mohammets injunction against the
use of ardent spirits is so well obeyed
even at this late day that it is an e1-
tremely rare sight to see a drunken
Mussulman. A lady who has been
making a tour of Egypt says that dnring
long stay in Cairo none of her party
saw an intoxicated man. she says that
she asked her dragoman if be ever under
any provocation INDUCED in strong
drink, and he answered eff my wife
were dying and the doctor ordered her
to take brandy and she died with that
brandy in her stomach God would not
receive her in Heaven" Pauls doo-
trine of little wine for the stomach's
sake has no place in the Koran code Of
ethics.
Somewhat of sensation has been
made in Washington over the appear
auce of Scott Harrison, of Kansas City,
Mo-, brother of ex- President Harrison,
as an applicant for Office at the hands Of
President Cleveland. He wants to be
surveyor Of the port of Kanses City. The
Kansas City Times says of him: "Polit-
ically he has been the black sheep of tie
Harrison family, for he has voted the
Democratic ticket all his life, except, Of
course, when his brother was a can
didate for the Presidency. He never
asked his party for an Office, and during
his brothers four years stay in tha
White House he sought no political hon.
or. Mr.. Harrison has been In the
real estate business in Kansas City
many years, but never took more
than passive interest in matters politir
cal.
- The executors of Patrick Henrlter
filed their accounts with the registrar of
wills in Philadelphia last week. Hem
ritter died on the 5th of March and his
household effects were appraised at ~
and at auction they brought SIS cents more
than the appraisement. The finding OF
$50 in the deoeased's room, led the ex-
ecutors to "trip things up Under the
carpet they discovered the. old mans
notes for large sum. Tearing open
feather bed, S137 in cash was found. A
brick, closing stove pipe hole in the
yard, was removed and from the cavity
was extracted an old umbrella from the
folds of Which fell five bank books,
showing deposits amounting to $l4,9l5.
Ilcnritcl also owned real estate valued ut
$4,000, and his possessions will be divi-
ded among three grandchildren subject
10 beGnests aggregating $4,000.