The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-06-07
News Paragraphs.


- Mrs. Jefferson Davis intends to make
Richmond her future home.
- The Mazarin Bible, one of the first
printed in metal type, has just been sold
Tor S24,75O.
- The United States is the first nation
in the worlds history to have three cities
Of over 1000, 900 each.
- There are 10000 acres ofwatermelons
in Georgia that will soon be ready for
shipment to the North.
Kentucky leads the Southern States
in the production of tobacco, with crop
of 22l $3.50, 900 pounds.
Mrs. James Pierce, of Wanatch, Ind,
owns Bible which is said to have been
used at the marriage of Pocahontas.
Walter Shaw, the condemned mur-
derer in the Houston, Tex, Jail is writing
novel,
"A Dallas man advertises for wife.
AS an inducement to girls he offers to
take the girl who will have him to the
worlds fair on bridal tour.
If the rain-makers ever succeed they
will be in position to blackmail picnic
parties and political rallies, to say nothing
of the great "graft" they will have on
election day.
- A sixteen-year-old negro boy living
in Milan county, Texas, was born with
only one eye, there being no trace of
another. His body is covered with
growth of small hairs resem bling wool.
An Alabama man is said to be hard
at work on flying machine, which he
fN q
worlds fair closes. His friends say it
will be big success.
Some wild honey was found in tree
in the Longsville neighhorhood, Lancas-
ter county, last Saturday by party Of
ate any of it were badly poisoned, so much
so that some of them had to be carried
home.
- Admission, Ala, possibly has the
youngest girl in the United States who is
actually engaged to be married. She is
only seven years old, and herself, her
mother and the young man have entered
into the compact, which is to be ratified
when she is fourteen.
Mammoth Spring, Ark, which is
said to be the largest spring in the world, i,
is seventy feet deep with diameter of
uodTly AVO loot. SiAty y-ufo tuouSduo ioct
of water gush forth every minute pro-
ducing thousand horse power, about
third Of which is utilized by two large in
dustries.
Among tho many "freaks'' offered
for exhibition at the Worlds Fair is
hen that always walks backwards, a
Shetland pony that is so small that her
shoes are made from 500 gold pieces, a
<t,of ho2 hv
Washington, an Indiana prodigy, aged
years, who can recite "Thanatopsis,"
and garment 400 years old.
The Arabian woman who Is about to
contract second marriage goes to the
grave of her late husband and prays that
he will not be offended on account of her
second nuptials. AS sort of propitiatory
offering she pours on his interment clear,
goats skins. After this recognition on
her part of respect regarding her first
connub bial relation, she goes her way, ap-
parently Telling ''allowed" to arrange for
the second wedding.
B. F. Perry, of Greenville, is one of
the great lights of REFORM" and his SER
vices have been Of great advantage to the
success of the followers Of the Governor.
Times have changed since the last cam
paign, however, and Ben Perry has
changed W ith them. He is now at war
with the Administration, having failed to
get lucrative Office, and charges that the
people are bam mboozled by ring of ar
togant political tricksters, with head
quarters at Columbia. In card to the
Greenville Democrat ribald "reform"
paper, he declares that the ring does ex-
ist and that it has marked the following
members of the party for slaughter:
"Ihe Hon. G. w. Shell, mem ber of Con-
gress from Fourth District; Hugh L.
Farley, Adjutant and Inspector General,
the Hon. w. j. Talbert, member of Con-
gress from the Second District; the Hon.
D. A. Townsend, Attorney General of the
State Col. Caughman, Fish Commission
er of South Carolina, myself and divers
others are sought to be read out of the
Reform ranks, simply because our judg-
ment, our consciences and our views of
the public interest will not allow US to
follow blindly the behests of these self
constituted leaders. But the game will
not work. We are made of sterner stuff
than that. We are the champions and
defenders of the people, and will not
down at the bidding of any ring rule
crowd" ."-Rock Hill Herald.