The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-09-27
News Paragraphs.

- Nail-driying contests for women
competitors are leading feature at
county fairs and social gatherings in Mis-
souri, just now.
Matt Oliver, of Lexington, KY, IL
years old, is the latest musical prodigy.
The lad plays on violin, mandolin, piano
and the guitar, and is astonishing the ma
tives.
In Germany, when the vote of the
iury stands six against six, the prisoner
is acquitted. A vote Of seven against five
leaves the decision to the Court, and in
vote of eight against four the prisoner is
convicted.
Next Monday the Worlds Fair
commissioners will consider the ques-
ton of keeping open the Fair until the
LIST of January. The cold weather would
interfere with many interesting features,
but it is probable that the winter e4hibi-
ton would draw very we'll.
-Lobach, town of two hundred in
habitants in Pennsv' -ania, will be sold
at auction to-day. Lands, cottages, ho-
tells, factories and everything will be
Knocked % down to the highest bidder.
The town has been owned by one family
J
be sold to settle the estate.
In Detroit the city authorities are
issuing bonds in as small denominations
as 1926 in order to induce the people
of the smallest means to invest their
monev in them. The result is that the
city is getting the benefit Of the contents
of the stockings, and money is rapidly
returning to its regular business channels
there.
- In Yineyille, N. J., there is an epi-
demic of the hiccoughs. One man was
attacked by it and for three weeks his
life was in danger; another was IN bed
six days before the attack could be STOP
ped. DR.. Atkins is lying critically i'll
with the same malady, while man who
was taken down with it last We'd
nesday has been given up by his physi-
clans.
Susan B. Anthony: declares that she
was impelled to remain an old maid by
noticing, as she strolled through New
England graveyard years ago, the con-
stantiy recurring inscription: "Sacred to
the memory of A, relict of the late T..
She then and there took mental IRON
clad oath to remain forever unmarried
rather than have her existence recorded
for future generations simply as the
"relict" of some man.
ST. Louis has woman architect and
builder, the wife Of Louis j. Silva, and
there is now standing in that city thirty
five dwelling houses erected after plans
designed and drawn by her. Her hus-
band is large holder Of real estate, and
her work has been done in his interest.
She began with frame cottages that sold
for So, 500 each, and then turned her at
tention to the erection Of BRICK buildings,
varying in cost from $4,000 to $14, 900. She
personally superintends the building op-
eratiOns.
- A correspondent of the Rock bridge,
Va, Nel0s says that at Timber Ridge, IN
that county, q hole has been discovered,
which the people OF the neighborhood
thinks reaches all The way through the
earth to China. Great numbers of locusts
have been observed pouring out Of the
hole, and this serves to confirm them in
their belief. A person. who lives in the
neigh borhood, has sounded the hole with
a bullet and a spool of thread, which is
supposed to be 300 yards long, and he
found no bottom, so, probably, there is
none. The correspondent suggests that
lit would be we'll for the president to
place guard at the hole and keep back
paupers and scoundrels from China, and
If our government intends to enforce the
exclusion act, I think the cheapest and
quickest way would be to put them in
this hole and let them 20 home. They
can supply themselves with parachute,
and ali of them going the same
way, there will be no danger OF col
liSion.