The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-08-09
News Paragraphs.

In New York City 36,17 men
are reported idle in fifty-seYen different
trades.
In Utah under new law it takes
only three-fourths of jury to make q
verdict.
"A delegate from Georgia to the con-
ference of rational psychology at Chicago
last week claimed that be possessed ten
senses.
"A hat made Of and trimmed With
shucks is curiosity on exhibition in
Tuscaloosa, Ala. It is the work Of Miss
Mary Ryan.
There were sixty-three deaths from
cholera infantum In Newark, N. j., du-
ring the past week, raising the death rate
to 1858 per thousand.
- Lemuel Stevenson, for twenty years
a clown with Barnum's and other
circuses, has connected himself with the
Salvation Army at Springfield, Mo.
Three Louisiana girls propose to
make the journey to the Worlds Fair in
a wagon drawn by an OK. There is no
wager attached, the girls desiring
only to go in that way for the novelty of it.
Lepers are becoming so numerous
in Louisiana that the people of that State
want the federal government to set apart
an island for them and undertake their
care. Unless this is done, the terrible
soourge will spread to other States.
At Council Bluffs, Iowa, the other
night an unknown man walked into
prayer meeting, and drawing a revolver,
ordered the entire congregation to throw
up their hands. The brother, who was
praying at the time, grappled with the
robber and put him to flight.
Ho1 u n Dro,1k odifor ~ tho PoSJ-
road Gazette, In lecture before the AS
sociation Of Civil Engineers OF Cornell
University, estimated that the annual
loss from railroad accidents in the United
States, due to The destruction of railroad
property and the compensation for deaths
and INJURIES and leaving out entirely de-
struction OF merchandise, reaches over
$4,000, 900.
- At Lopgview, on the Richmond &
Danville railroad, a passenger train struck
q negro and hurled him against Mr..
Minis, the engineer Of freight train,
who was oiling his engine that was side
tracked. The negro was killed and En-
gineer Minis was 30 seriously injured
that he was put on the passenger train
and carried to Atlanta and another man
put on his engine.
- A writer in New York paper
probably Florida tourist who delights in
the alligator undergraduates gloomily
upon the future Of the Florida Alligator.
He thinks the species ls doomed to speedy
determination unless something shall be
done to stop their slaughter. 1t is esti-
mated that over 2.500,000 Of them have
been killed in the last dozen years or 30.
The alligator grows very slowly, but he
grows as long as he lives, and 1t Is said
kIok 30 ok
old.
Two women in Yates County, New
York, have petitioned Governor Flower
for permission to wear trousers to facili-
tate their farm work, and the code Of
New York has been ransacked to find the
law on the subject. Some Common
wealths deny absolutely this much-to-be-
desired privilege to the sex. Missouri
compromises. In that State q written
permission from the Governor entities
woman to wear with impunity a mans
dress outside of cities Of 10, 900 inhabitants
or over.
A. large number Of farmers in Ohio
are feeding their wheat to hogs rather
than sell it at the low prices now ruling.
Hogs are quoted at from 25 to 81 a hun
dred, according to grade, and it ia esti-
mated that bushe1 Of wheat properly
ground and prepared, and fed with lit
tie other feed to give variety, will put
from fifteen to twenty pounds of flesh on
healthy hog, This being the case the
farmer can easily realize 81 bushel for
his wheat and save the trouble Of hauling
it to market.
- Time brings abcut.strange changes,
Seventeen years ago r. B. Carpenter was
a Circuit Judge in South Carolina, riding
behind thousand dollar span OF horses.
A few years later he drove an ancient
mule attached to ramshacle buggy
through the streets of Columbia. Now
he is president of the California State
Senate, legal adviser to railroads and
their magnates, gathering in legitimately
twenty-five thousand 8 year.-DarIington
People.
The demorilazation caused by the
pension craze Is illustrated by recent
incident in Boston. The New York Ma
ton says that business man, well-to-do
in purse and vigorous In body, who al
ready carried a considerable amount of
life insurance, applied for $4,000 more.
The medical examiner found nothing
whatever to indicate any disease, past or
present, and the Investigation was almost
concluded when the doctor asked the
question, "Have you ever been PEN
sioner 2" Thereupon the applicant stam-
mered and at last owned up that he was
drawing a pension of twelve dollars
month. The company refused to grant
him Insurance., on the ground that man
who had perjured himself to get twelve
dollars month from the federal treasury
was quite capable Of cheating an insu-
rance COMPANY If he cot the chance.