The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-10-10
News Paragraphs.

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grown in Wilkes county, North Caroli-
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! - An order has been enacted by the
city council of Charlotte, N. c., fining
a minor S25 on being found in saloon.
- A queer worm has made its appear
auce in North Carolina. In color it is a
beautiful yellow, eyes big and black,
a head like that of AL adder, and fashitn
of raising its head in the menacius fash
| ion of snake about to strike.
= Mrs. A. M. Curtiss, a woman OF cul-
ture and beauty, is being sued for eject
ment from apartments rented on State
street, Chicago, because it has been
learned by the lessons that she had negro
| blood in her veins. Suit was begun by
agents for the property, who claim that
| in hiding her antecedents at the time the
| lease of the apartments was given Mrs.
Curtiss acted fraudulsntly.
- The youngest convict in kentucky
is Lon Warren. He burglarized store
near White Hill few months since.
Warren is perhaps the youngest peni-
tentiary subject in kentucky. He is only
fourteen. Two years ago he was tried in
| the Madison circuit court for horse steal
ing, but, on account of his tender years,
was acquitted. He has been natural
thief ever since large enough to walk and
talk.
- They find at Chicago that between
q, 900 and 10000 residents Of the city will
be subjected to the Federal income tax,
and the Government will reap an annual
revenue from them of nearly s., 100000 il
the tax is fully collected. There are said
to be twenty-nine men in the city
worth above S3,000,000 each, forty-on
worth about S2,0OO,0OO each, and one
hundred and thirty-soven plain million
aires.
1t is estimated that the California
vintage this year will amount to not more
than eighteen million gallons, which is
considerably below the average. The
grape crop suffered much from the
drought Of August. In some localities
it dried up the juice, and in others 30 in
creased the sugar that many grapes in
tended to be made into dry wine will
have to be converted into sweet varieties
or distilled into brandy.
"a Young man of Winchester, Ky,
paid visit to young lady with whom
he was in love and while getting out of
his buggy two suspender buttons on his
trousers gave way. To prevent embar-
rassment couple Of matches were sub
stituted for the treacherous buttons and
all went we'll, until, by friction against
the back Of the chair, the matches became
averted, and the young man is not over
his fright yet.
= Nine persons out of every ten with a
cinder or any foreign substance in the
eye will instantly begin to rub the eye
with one hand while hunting for their
handkerchief with the other. They may,
and sometimes do, remove the offending
cinder, but more frequently they rub
until the eye becomes infiamed, bind
handkerchief around the head and 60 to
bed. This is all wrong. The better way
is not to rub the aye with the cinder in it
at all, but rub the other eye as vigorously
as you like.
- There used to be one marriage law
for whites and apother for negroes in
Delaware, and perhaps there is still, for
Delaware changes slowly, and her Con-
stitution still contains the words Stree
white male" or their equivalent. Mar
riage licenses were required of whites,
and a curious bond for the mainte.
tenance of the children that might come of
the union, but nothing ofthe kind was re-
quired Of slaves, and for years after the
abolition Of slavery negroes married
without license.
AT Durham, N. c., Mrs. Bette Tur-
ner, employed negro girl as n1rse.
This nurse has been attending protracted
meetings and decided that she was good
enough to join the church, and 80 last
Sunday was the day appointed for her
baptism. Something happened, however,
that prevented being baptized, and Mrs.
Turner's daughter saw her Sunday hav-
ing on pair of shoes that looked much
like her own, so she went home and IN
vestigated the matter and found not only
her shoes gone but some of her dresses
and other wearing apparel also. Upon
being questioned, it was found that the
girl had stolen them to be baptized III.
At Tampa, Fla, week ago party
of young people went bathing. 1t was
breezy moonlight night. After refresh
ing bath one of the young ladies retired
to her room to dress, when she found
something missing. She dressed hur-
riedly, and on leaving her dressing room
found the missing article Of clothing,
which had blown out the window. The
entire party were hurrying to catch the
train, and having no place to secrete it,
she wadded it into little ball and asked
her escort to carry her handkerchief in bis
pocket. He dropped it in without look
ing at it. The party missed the train and
stopped to lunch by moonlight. While
chatting and eating the young man Lad
occasion to use his handkerchief. All
unsuspecting, he drew out the one that
had been given him and displayed to the
full view Of the crowd-a silk shirt. The
roar of laughter which followed compile
ted his discontinue and quite over
whelmed the lady with confusion.