The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-02-07
News Paragraphs.

One Of the few places in this country
where the curfew bell is yet rung is
Fayetteville, N. c. The village has been
settled more than two centuries and the
practice has never lapsed. Indeed. so
quiet and undisturbed by the outside
world has this community remained that
the curfew has there almost its original
significance, and 1t is considered good
time for all good folk to be indoors when
itssummons is heard. The village has
among other Southern towns IN thls res
pect.
~ Miss Lizzie Newhouse, a highly cul-
tured young lady of %, committed sui
eide at her home in Culpepper, Va, last
week by blowing her brains out with a
pistol. She left q note explaining the
cause of her rash act. She had, she said,
been engaged to Mr.. A. P. Hill, of that
county, 8 nephew of the Gen. A. P. Hill,
of Confederate fame. The engagement,
however, was broken off at the lady's
own request. Her lover moved West.
ACQUIRED a competency and married. The
fact that she had destroyed her own hap
piness brooded upon the mind Of Miss
Newhouse and caused her to take her
life.
Meehan's Monthly says that sweet
potato has been evolved in Florida, which
grows in the form Of bush, and has
no tendency to run and spread over the
ground, as the common sweet potato vine
does. It says that this variety can be
cultivated with much less work than can
the ordinary kind, as it is not necessary
to &c about through the field to raise the
vines from the ground to prevent their
roofing, and thus taking away the
strength of the central plant. 1t also
has the advantage of being much easier to
weed.
The sensation Of the state dinner at
Washington Thursday evening was the
presence Of the wife of the Chinese min
lister. A Chinese woman has never be-
fore broken bread in the White House.
Minister Yang Yu and his wife, says an
account, were among the early arrivals,
accom- panied by the Mexican minister
and Nine. Romero. The Chinese minis
ter was handsomely arrayed in fine silks
trim med with ermine and his wife, who
is young and has rather pleasing face,
was gotten up most gorgeously in court
costume. Her robe was richly embroi-
dered and was just long enough to show
her tiny white feet. Her face was rouged
and she had on long earrings, many fin
ger rings and bracelets. On her head she
wore curious shaped cap, trimmed on
| the side with scarlet flowers aud leaves,
that protruded like horns, and long
streamers fell to her waist. She was
very much excited over the attention be-
slowed upon her, and looked around Gu
riously at the rest of the guests. When
dinner was announced she took the arm
of her escort the same as the other ladies,
but with her face very grave and solemn
and followed to the table.
- It appears that wives are still looked
upon in England, at least in parts OF the
country, as goods and chattels, to be dis
posed Of at the will of their lords and
masters. The Sheffield Telegraph of re-
cent date has an amusing account Of the
sale of wife by an iron worker of Mars
borough to miner whom she liked bet
presence of the parties directly interest
ed, the wife's parents and couple Of
friends. Tho separation between hus-
band and wife had been by mutual con-
sent, but the husband thought he was en-
titled to some recompense for the loss OF
his wife's services and set the price at
8 pounds. The wife thought that this
was too much and the miner averred that
he was not prepared to pay over 20 shil-
lipgs, which he thought sufficient
price. After good deal Of haggling the
husband offered to take 2 pounds, but
this was not acceptable to the purchaser
and they finally compromised on 80 shil-
lings. a formal agreement was then
written out, duly signed and delivered,
and the wife went off with her new own
er.
| In 1854 Col. A. NJ. Benson, of Boston
Mass, escaped with seven comrades
fIom the Confederate prison at Colum bia,
s. c., and came to the mountains, where
they divided and attempted to pass
through to the Union army. Col. Ben.
son one cold, snowy night slept in the
barn Of Mr.. J. 81. Greenlee, where he
was discovered by colored man, Mark
Greenlee. Mark found out who he was
and instead Of reporting him to his mas
ter, kept Col. Benson in the barn and
furnished him with food and water fol
eight days, when be procured pilot to
take the Colonel through the mountains
Mark has often felt the generosity OF the
man he befriended, but until Saturday
has never seen him since they parted III
1864. The Colonel, who came up on the
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago
Railroad, saw Uncle Mark at the depot
and made himself known, and when he
| left on the Richmond and Danville train,
which he did in few minutes, Mark
was gazing at roll OF money which Col.
Benson left in his hand as he said good
bye. Col. Benson was lieutenant colonel
of regiment of Union soldiers.