The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-02-15
News Paragraphs.

chasing the devil out Of New York Sam
Jones says it reminds him OF the way his
dog ran hog out of Georgia corn field.
The dog ran on ahead.
-Sciatiea and lumbsgo readily yield
TO Salvation Oil. A few applications
will produce the desired result Try it.
25 cts.
Mrs. Picket, widow of the Confeder-
ate general, who won lasting fame at
Gettysburg, is in Washington endeavor-
ing to have her son appointed as pay
master in the army, with. the rank'and
pay of cavalry major.
- Among the exhibits at the Worlds
Fair will be a pack of cards which was
captured from Chief Geronimo, of the
Apaches, and which are made from hui
man skin. If such skin games as this are
to be resorted to what will our European
guests think of US?
Mrs. Virginia Thompson, e1-post-
mistress of Louisville, says that women
are peculiarly fitted to conduct postoffices
and that this fitness ought to be recog-
nized. "There are enough other offices
for the men," she says, and all Of her sex
will agree with her.
"A little Washington boy, writing
composition on the zebra the other day,
was requested to describe the animal and
to mention what it was useful for. After
deep reflection he wrote: "The zebra
is like horse, only striped. 1t is chiefly
used to illustrate the letter q.
1t used to be said of Gen. Hayes that
he was scr:mping in his economy, but
this is now explained by the statement
that be paid off after he became President
large obligation, $4,000, he incurred
through the misfortune Of another, and
which he felt bound more in honor than
by law to meet
Immigrants and returning voyagers
find in Ayers sarsaparilla q cure for
eruptions, boils, pimples, eczema, ETC.,
whether resulting from sea.diet and life
on ship-board, or from any other cause.
It's value as tonic and alternative medi.
cine cannot be overestimated.
Mrs. Nancy Phillips, Of North Caro-
lima, nearly eighty-two years ofage, put.
in the loom and wove fifteen yards Of
cloth from the 18th to the Goth of January,
which embraced the very coldest days.
Her loom was in an open house with only
one fireplace. This is wonderful record
for one of her age.
But little remains of the old prison.
| pen at Andersonville. There are only q
few half-rotted posts LETT to mark the.
line of the stockade, and few low earth
works where the gates were. Some OF
the wells and tunnels dug by prisoners
who hoped TO escape thereby are also TO
be seen. The Or ounds are now the.
property OF the Grand Army of the Re-
| public.
Don't waste time, money, and health.
trying every new medicine you may see.
advertised in the papers. lfthe cause OF
your trouble is in the blood, liver, stom:
ach, or kidneys, take Ayers sarssparilla
at once, and be sure of cure. Take no
other.
As q. A. Lewis, Sr., was fixing some
thing about his well, near Howardsville,
Albemarle county, Virginia, few days
ago, he slipped, and was precipitated TO
the bottom of the well, which is said to-
be seventy-fve feet deep. He fell Into
fifteen feet of water, and soon rose and
climbed up to where he could support
himself until his friends made arrange
ments to get him out.
= This is the way Georgia editor de-
scribes the advantages Of his town: "Our
town is really one of the best in the
State. We have two grocery stores, one
Baptist church and the hope of Metho-
dist, one grist mill, one water tank, which
SUGGESTS a railroad one postofice and
sixty applicants for the postpaastership.7
Some of these days we'll have con-
cressman, as we already have the 'still.N
1t is computed that all the locomo-
tiyes in the United States would, if cou-.
pied together, make train three hum
dred miles long. The passenger cars
would make another train of about the
same length, and if all the cars OF every
variety in the country were coupled De-
hind the engines the result would Dc 8
train lust about seven thousand miles
long.
"A remarkable case of faith cure is
reported from Columbia, s. G. Mrs.
Tut who has been paralyzed for IS years
and had not walked step in that time
and whose case the physicians have long
since given up as incurable is reported, q
few days ago, to have arisen from her
bed and walked in obedience, she says,
to a voice saying to her "Arise and
walk.n Mrs. Tut says that the recovery
of the use of her limbs is in answer to
nrayer. and that her faith in Gods won
drous healing power has never nag
eed during all the Is years of her pros
tration. -.
ON recent Sunday DR.. John Hall,
of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church,
New York, asked his people for their an
nual contribution to the mission work
of their Church in that city, and although
the day was stormy and less number
than usual was present, slO,5oO was
handed in. "It is such gifts as these"
saws the Tribune, (which does more than
conventions to convince the laboring
man that the church is more than So
cial club, and that it does really care for
him"
"A horse not only sheds tears under
emotion of grief, but in moments Of sud-
den or intolerable anguish utters most
melancholy cry. In one of Cooper's In
dian novels dramatic use is made OF the
scream of wounded horse, and Lord
Erskine, in speech made in the House
of Lords upon the bill for enforcing hu-
manity towards animals, noticed this re-
markable fact. An eyewitness relates
the following: ''On the advance to the
heights of Alma battery of artillery Del
came exposed to the fire ofa conceaiel
Russian battery, andi in the course OF 8
few minutes it was nearly destryed, men
and horses killed and wounded, guns
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