The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-05-31

- Keep your promise to the letter, be
prompt and exact, and it will save much
trouble and care through life, and win
for you the respect and trust of your
friends.
"A Texan, in order to have some
sport with "tenderfoot," recently order.
ed him to dance. The stranger refused,
and knocking the cowboy down, took his
gun away, and then compelled him to
dance until he tainted from exhaustion.
-"Is that a tornado7" inquired a
gentleman of friend last evening, as
they sat in the library smoking their
after dinner cigars. swell, not exact
ly," replied the host, as the roaring
increased in fury; "that is only my wife
blowing up the girl for not telling you to
wipe your feet before you came into the
psrlor."
"A horse in Baltimore grew so hun
cry that he climbed up fight of stairs
in house to obtain bag of oats that had
been stored there. After his lunch, the
animal thrust his head through window,
carrying away the sash, and was discov-
cred cody surveying the situation. With
difficulty he was gotten down to the
street.
- To work and live only for ones sell
will by no means promote happiness. On
the contrary, it is source of intense
misery. The secret of many q joyless
life, which has gone out into bitterness,
suicide OF insanity, may be found in the
selfshness which dominated it from its
beginning to its close. To live in love j.
to live in everlasting youth.
= Mrs. Cleveland's tastes in jewelry
are very simple. Although she owns a
number of rings she rarely wears any
except her wedding ring. A favorite or
nament on dress occasion is beautiful
diamond star, which was one Of her we'd
ding gifts.
- The Waterbury american says that
the present dressmaker's device of bal
loon shoulders was denounced as long
ago as the time of Ezekiel, that prophet
having uttered the solemn warning:
"Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the
woman that sew pillows to all armholes. !"
The doubling can verify this curse by
turning to Ezekiel; xiii, Is. The old He-
brew prophets, by the way, were very
severe critics of women's fashions. In a
famous passage Isaiah denounced the
fashionable women of his day, with their
tinkling ornaments around their feet,
their earrings, noserings, chains, brace
lets, mantles, wimples, crisping pins and
other elegant trifles; which 60 to show
that women haven't changed much since
that period. But if Isaiah disapproved
of these women, it is pretty certain that
they just as strongly disapproved of him.
"A special from Harrodsburg, KY,
says: "Mr. Colon Jones, of Franklin
County, is here to file in the Mercer
County circuit clerks Office the pardon
recently granted by Governor Brown to
Lewis Hawkins, who killed Brandy
Craig in Salvisa in 1868. During the civ
il war, in 1862, Lewis Hawkins, who was
an avowed Southern sympathizer, was at
tackled on the road between his home and
Salvisa by FIVE home guards, among
whom was Craig. Hawkins was shot
through the lungs, severely beaten and
left for dead. He was soon after taken
home and properly cared for and event.
ually recovered. He never met any Of
his assailants until 1868, when he happen
ed to be in Salvisa on business, and there
saw Craig sitting on an empty dry goods
box, and, drawing his pistol, shot him to
death without word of warning. That
night he managed to escape from
his guard and went to Texas, where
he has ever since resided unmolested.