The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-07-05

An OcOnee county farmer Gathered
over eight bushels of turnip seed from Ito
tops.
- It has been demonstrated this sum-
mer that lightning strikes moving
trains, and strikes twice in the same place.
Near Brenham, Tex, man "played
ghost" and endeavored to frighten friend.
The friend had pistol and now the
"ghost" is laid up for repairs, with bull
let in his leg.
A North Carolina man offers to wa
GER that he can walk to the Worlds Fair
and is ready to start whenever he can find
a competitor. He is to make the trip in
thirty days.
Mrs. Cleveland and Ruth have gone
TO Gray Gables, Mass, to spend the sum-
mer. and the President will join them
next month to remain until the last OF Au-
gust.
"A little girl In Marshall county, Ala
bama. wandered off from home and was
found peacefully sleeping in the woods,
with her head pillowed near q large rat
tlesnake which had not harmed her.
After q recent terrific hail storm in
Southeast Georgia the farmers in some
sections gathered wagon loads of the hail
stones and hauled them home, to be used
for ice. On the line of the South Bound
railroad it is reported the hail stones
were piled up to waste deep in the ditch
eS.
= A steamboat has been fitted up as a
gambling hell at Memphis and now
nightly pursues her course up and down
the river, equally removed from Arkan-
sas and Tennessee. Her decks and cabin
are ablaze with electric lights and the
tiger may be hunted on any kind OF cloth.
she seems to have the call on the authors
ties of both States up to date.
The yearling thoroughbreds from
the famous Belle Meade Stud OF Tennes-
see, the joint property OF Gen. w. IL.
Jackson and Mr.. Richard Croker, were
sold at Tattersails, New York, Monday
evening. fifty.eight head bringing $79, 400,
an average of $l,369 each. Michael F.
Dwyer was the heaviest purchaser, pay
ing S24,7 700 for ten head.
-T.J. Edwards, of Worth county,
Ca, lost fine mich COW under strange
circumstances. Her horns were very
crooked. and from the position in which
She was found afterward it is supposed
that in paving at the flies, which are
troublesome, she hung her foot to her
horns, and died before she was discover
ed.
An Australian inventor has just per-
fected method of blowing with the he!p
of dynamite. The explosive is used in
very small quantities. and there ia IN ap-
paratus for touching it off underground.
Fhe result of this is to thoroughly disin-
tecrate the soil. It is asserted that there
Is no possibly ofaserious explosion, and
that owing to the small quantity OF dyna-
mite used the cost is very little, while the
resulting benefit is enormous.
- Mistaken ambition Is now spelling
too many good .ditchers and delivers and
to make poor politicians and professl on
al men. It is putting too many, IN the
pulpit who could serve the Lord much
better planting the mild-eyed potato, OF
harvesting the useful hoop pole. 1t IS
causing too many young ladies to rush
into literature instead of the laundry, to
become "poets of passion" instead of au-
thors Of pie.
- The Gould estate is said to have in
creased in value about So, 100000 since the
death of Jay Gould. The other day II
was said that it had decreased exactly
this amount in value. George Gould is
said to be the equal of his father in the
ulHLL6E VI SulOWu oOatAAEs
of stock that is held as family estate, IN
which all the heirs participate, is $50 ,OOO-
600 of Western Union, SIS, 900, 900 of Man
haitian, and S25, 900, 900 Of Missouri Pacific
The Baptists and Methodists of Chi
cago still keep up the fight against opon-
ing the Worlds Fair on Sunday. Ihe
Rev. P. S. Hanson, Baptist, makes the
following complimentary illusions to
Chief Justice Fuller, appropos OF his re-
cent decision in favor Of Sunday open,
ing: IT can imagine personal devil
squatting like black toad at the bar o!
Justice itself and debating the decision OF
the Court, and then, after the Judgment
had been pronounced, slapping the Judge
on the shoulder and saying: 'Welldone,
could not have written that better my
SELF"
Miss Louise Bates of Brooklyn, Is
timid and rather nervous girl. She turns
pale with horror going up in an elevator,
but let her 60 up among the clouds 10 q
parachute and when she is about two
miles up cut herself loose from the bal
loon and come flying through the air to
the ground, just hanging on to the oes.
ket, then Miss Bates is ct home, ana Is
comfortable and happy. She Is consider
ed the most fearless woman aeronaut IN
the country. She has made the parachute
drop $50 times and as many balloon as
censions.