The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-22

There is talk of making Governor
Northen, of Georgia, the successor of Mr..
Colquitt in the United States Senate.
Governor Northen is one of the most pop
ular men in Georgia.
The value which men place on their
lives and the relative worth of an Amer
lean over men of other countries is we'll
shown by the following statistics: Of
the Sl2, 1000, 100000 of life insurance writ
ton in the world $500, 900, 900 is placed in
the United States. Between the years
1880 and 1890 there was $500, ,000, ,0Q1 new
life insurance written in this country and
butsl 900, 100000 in the whole British En-
pire.
- Mrs. Philander Pool, q lady of Padu-
cab, Ky, sent two pairs Of homemade
yarn suspenders to Washington city. One
pair was consigned to Grover Cleveland
and the other to John &. Carlisle. Mrs.
Pool is staunch dem mocrat, and made and
sent the susponders to perhaps the two
greatest exponents of the democratic
principles as slight token of her admi-
ration and regard. The suspenders are
handsomely and substantially made and
will no doubt be greatly priced by the re-
cipients.
= London, according to report, is q
pretty bad place. More than one.third
Of all the crimes Of the country is said to
be committed within its limits. $4,000
of it's inhabitants are annually arrested as
drunk and disorderly, and it has on the
average $4,000 people annually taken into
custody by the police. Its common
lodging houses shelter about $1,000 per-
sons.
- The Worlds Fair grounds and build
ings are to have combined water ca
pacity of 00,000,000 gallons day. They
are already equipped with 25 miles of wa
ter mains and 291 hydrants. They have
also three steam fire engines, four chem
ical engines, a ladder truck, water tower,
40 horse carts, 26,750 feet OF hose, 1850
hand fire extinguishers, $500 fire pals,
steam fire boat, IS firemen, $50 alarm
boxes, $50 patrol telephones, 500 guards
and complete electric light and sewerage
systems.
- Mary Belle Freeley says that the
emblem for the Worlds Fair Woman's
building should be an apple, and she
adds "But for Eve the men would be to
this day, suppose idle, naked, sunburn-
ed loafers, like Adam, no better than the
beasts, the serpents, and the insects. But
she courageously took the apple, rescued
the world from sloth, Indifference and
stupidity and lifted the human race to a
level little lower than the angels"
Good for Mary Belle! Put the apple
right there, and let it be Bellehower.
Mr.. Cleveland has only one name
sake old enough to hold Office, and that
young man is Grover Cleveland Bridgers,
Of Halifax County, North Carolina, "a
years Of age. Some twenty-four years ago
the young mans uncle, Col Martin, went
to Buffalo to receive treatment at a hos
pital, and met Grover Cleveland, an
obscure young lawyer. Col Martin
thought Cleveland was the "smartest'
man he had ever seen, and went back
and had his sisters child named for him.
say ing at the time that "Grover Cleveland
will be President of the United States
some day." Grover Cleveland Bridgers,
it is understood, will ask for a fourth
class post office in this County, urging
his claims that he was the first child to
M nam a6 for (,rOvar G1ova11OI