The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-07-26
News Paragraphs.

= An impecunious debtor in Mecklen-
burg, N. c., mortgaged himself to the
man he owed, and, as he was married
man, his wife joined in signing the docu :
ment.
= Bud Smith, Charles Plotner and Sam
Wilson, notorious bank robbers and out
laws, have been captured near Cherokee
City, I. T. About $25, 900 in greenbacks
was found on the three men.
"A negro who outraged and murdered
nine-year-old white child near Bran
ford, Fla, last Wednesday, was captured
yesterday. He confessed, was taken to
the scene of his crime, and there hanged
and shot to death.
AT Metropolis, ILL.,, Richard Shoe
maker shot and killed Richard Lukens,
Jr., and George Lukens seriously woun-
ded their father, Richard, and then COM
mitted suicide by sending bullet
through his own body. ALI were men Of
the highest social standing A family
feud was the cause of the tragedy.
Some few years ago Richard Thorn
ton, a young man, lived in Denison, Tex.
He was hardly regarded as a man of
prominent future and was given no un-
usual encouragement. He is at present
in Peru, South America, identified with
the building of railroad over the
Andes and is worth million dollars or
over.
= The Caroline Islanders, who are pas.
sionately fond of liquor, but who are in
mortal dread of breaking their necks by
falling from one Of the millions of cliffs
with which their islands abound, believe
that paradise will be land as level as a
floor, where one can get drunk and not
be in constant dread of cracking his
cervical vertebree.
"A pork-packing company in Chicc-
go arrested half-starved man for biting
piece Of pigs foot. It's value was less
than two cents. The man was impris-
oned, and, when released, found that his
invalid wife had become insane and his
helpless little children could nowhere be
found. Had the poor man succeeded in
stealing the entire establishment he
would doubtless have taken rank as an
Operator"
= In pension case on trial at Spring
field, ILL.,, one Benton, alias Hubby, has
$50 witnesses to prove that he was in.
jured at Shiloh, while the Government
has $50 to prove that the man whose PEN
sion he is drawing was killed and buried
at that place, and rs other witnesses, who
will be used to prove that Benton was at
Nashville, Tenn, during the war and
saw no service at all. It will cost the
Government 1000 to secure conviction,
if it succeeds.
- The Sioux war of 1852 had very
trifling origin. An Indian killed COW
belonging to Mormon near Fort Lara
mie. A detachment of soldiers was sent
out to arrest the oulprit, The Indian
camp to which the culprit belonged re-
fused to surrender him, but offered to
pay for the animal killed. The offer was
declined, and the camp fired upon, The
war that followed cost the United States
between Sl5, ,0O0, 900 and $4,000 900. Itwas
pretty dear cow.
= The Rev. T.. M. Morris, recent trav-
ellar in China, says Of that wonderful
people who are refused in this country
the high privileges forced on the negro
"As set-of to opium smoking there is
no Visible drunkenness in the interior Of
China, in the parts at least have visited.
I have not seen drunken man. I have
scarcely seen Chinaman taking anything
stronger than the weakeat of weak tea or
hot water,''
"A remarkable instance of womans
devotion is that of Mrs. William Bohan,
of New York. Instigated by causeless
jealousy her husband gouged ont her
eyes rendering the poor woman stone
blind. He was tried and sentenced to
twenty-slx years in the States prison,
five of which be has served. Mrs. Ro-
han has clung to him with answering
oyalty and is the person who has been
getting up petition to Governor Flo. er
for his pardon,
= Occasional showers of rain have
slightly mitlgated the drought in Ger
not abate and there is general complaint
that the Government had adopted no
adequate measures to relieve the fodder
famine. The upper reaches of the larger
rivers are so low that navigation near
sources has bean abandoned. On the
Upper Elbe, Upper Weser and Uppt
Oder little OF nothing is doing. Smaller
rivers like the Fulda have become mere
brooke.
Many curious and interesting sights
ore seen on the Midway Plaisance this
street of all nations, the Mecca of ali vis-
iters to the Great Worlds Fair, at Chi
cago; but among all Its exhibits the
Panorama of the Swiss Alps' is doubt
less the most highly artistic. To whose
good fortune it has been to go "abroad,"
this panorama awakens old memories,
and to the many who have been less
fortunate this really grand painting is
revelation. It is perfect representation
OF the famed Bernese Oberland, as it
would appear in ell the immensely of re-
ality to sight-saer in the midst Of the
Alps. The illusion is made perfect by
the tr1thfulness of the local color and by
the vigorous and sincere painting Of
such artists as Burnand, Baud-Bovy and
Furet. This superb canvas was painted
in Paris, Franco, for the express pur-
pose of exhibition at the Worlds Fair,
and has received the well-deserve d en-