The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-23

An immigration society was organ.
lied in Barnwell last week.
= Hon. w. D. Evans has withdrawn
from the race for Governor.
= Babies are cared for in a special
room in the new Congregational Church,
at Middeboro, Mass, while their parents
attend the service.
"A monument to Mary Washington,
the mother of the "Father of His Coun-
try" has been dedicated at Fredericks-
burg, Va, during the past week.
The recent fire among the tenement
houses in the south end of Boston is sup
posed to have burned forty-three chill
dren to death. The little ones lost their
way in the dense smoke and were tramp
led upon by the crowd.
Twenty years ago W. A. Van Sickle,
of New Brunswick, N. j., lost watch in
field at that place, and last Friday
colored man unearthed 1t. After being
soaked in oil the timepiece was found to
be in fairly good condition.
Doughtery, Ca, has negro who
makes q business of catching rattle
snakes for their buttons, of which he
has a great quantity. He has killed
more than a hundred Of tho venomous
reptiles, but was never snakebitten.
"A Kentucky sheriff was taking a
convicted prisoner to Jail when tho man
begged piteously to be allowed to 60 back
and kiss wife. The sheriff was touched
by-his pleading and returned with him
to the courthouse, where the man made q
dash for rear window, jumped out and
escaped.
The colonists of New England posted
the names of drunkards up in ale houses
and punished the keepers that sold them
liquor. Drunkards were sometimes
obliged to wear the letter I'D" about
their necks, and other offences were pun
ished by suspending letter, or picture
or a halter about their necks.
Mrs. r. L. Anderson, of Ocala, Fla,
had curiosity in her flower garden Sat-
urday that was beauty. It was natu-
raj bouquet formed on q single stem of a
rose bush, on which were thirty-two
white roses, and when those opened it
made perfect hand bouquet 80 SYM
metrical in shape that It appeared
as though 1t was the handiwork Of flo
rist.
= The London Missionary Society has
built new missionary ship, a handsome
vessel, with large, airy cabins, to cruise
in the Pacific and carry missionaries to
the heathen of the Islands. Twelve
white and thirty colored missionaries are
accommodated on board, and suitable
chapel arrangements can be made on
deck or between. 1t is called John Will
liams, after the missionary vino was
killed and eaten at the New Hebrides.
= New York State has taken another
great stride by passing law requiring
the attendance Of children at school. In
New York, in future, every child under
and from 5 to- IA must attend school all
the. year, from IL to IA at least eighty
days and all the school year unless en-
ployed, and from IA to 16 achild must at
tend school, unless in regular employ
ment. A fine is levied on employers as
well as parents for an infraction of this
law.
= Gen. Dabney II. Mowry, in his re-
Gently published "Recollections of a Vir-
giuian," says that when Col. John G.
Haskell's arm was so shattered that am
putation at the shoulder was necessary
the surgeon was about to administer
chloroform when Haskell said: "Stop,
doctor! You have very little chloroform
since the enemy has declared 1t contra
band ofwar Is it not 80 ?" "Yes, Colo
nell" "Then keep it for some poor
soldier who needs it. can do without
itD