The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-11-15

- Georgia's Legislature, by q vote OF
SO to %, has passed bill forbidding the
sale of cigarettes.
"A kiss comes high in Massachusetts
under certain conditions. A member OF
the Senior class of Harvard University
recently kissed pretty maid who was
showing him a suite of rooms that he
proposed renting. She complained to her
mistress. He was fined three hundred
dollars.
When Mr.. s. G. Cook lost lawsuit
the other day in Brooklyn he spoke of
suicide. His wife suggeted sthat he did
not have the nerve, whereupon Mr..
Cook blazed away and showed that the
lady was mistaken. The suicide was once
a millionaire.
- Nearly all the States have laws for
bidding the carrying OF concealed Tea-
pons.. With every epidemic of murder
GUS crankdom there is a demand that
such laws shall be enforced, but they are
not. Hundreds Of men carry pistols,
and very seldom is a person punished
for such misdemeanor. If every man
or boy caught with revolver In his
pocket were punished as the law pre-
scribed, good many tragedies might be
ayerted.
- The trial of Sheriff A. j. McLendon,
of Memphis, charged with failure to per-
form his duty in preventing the lynch
ing of the negro who was taken from the
county jail by mob few weeks ago,
came to an abrupt termination Tuesday.
Out of 500 men who were examined only
one Juror was secured.
"A movement has been started at
Lexington, Va, having for its object the
raising of 81, 900 with which to provide
window in the Presbyterian church Of
that town to the memory of General
Stonewall Jackson. The great general
was a member Of this church. There
are doubtless many persons out
| side of Virginia who will take great
pleasure in contributing to this memori-
al to devout Christian and brilliant SOL
dier.
- "Insects and weeds from all parts of
the civilized world ale being introduced
into the United States at rapid rate" !"
laments the Milling World. "Accord-
| ing to one account the fearful black Wee
vii of South America has been brought
now scattered all over the country, it is
feared. Among the wheat pests Of late
introduction is the Russian thistle,
~" m1ooiJ Se"0SoAoN S'S
west"
The Boston Advertiser says: "The
circumstances that dying man confess
es to have. com mitted, many years pre-
viously, g particular murder for which
another man was hanged, is by no means
conclusive proof, though many people
imagine it to be 80, that an innocent life
was in that instance sacrificed under
forms of law. There are q great many
such stories, some recorded in lawyers
professional books, more OF them float
| ing around in country newspapers and
verbal tradition. They are always pop
ular with folks who have morbid fancy
for sympathizing with everyone who is
| or has been subjected b legal trial for
capital crime. It is very common
thing for persons of certain class, who
crave notoriety and reputation for mag
nanimity, to confess 10 crimes of which
they were never guilty. More than one
such crank has offered to give himself up
as Jack the Ripper Several such have
declared that they committed the Bor-
den murders. In the cases just men
toned there was some little courage re-
auired to declare, on ones dying bed,
that be long ago committed murder
for which some other man suffered death.
It is probable that at least 80 in 100 such
self-accusing people are guilty Of moth
ing worse than lying"