The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-01-03
News Paragraphs.

News Paragraphs.
"A South Dakota cowboy who plead
ed guilty 10 having two months ago held
up Il mail carrier from whom he took Il
single copper cent was sentenced in the
Federal Court at Omaha to imprison-
ment for lile-that being the penalty in
tlexibly attached by the statute which
provides punishment for this grade of
crime.
The women of church in Newburg,
N. Y, are each pledged to earn one dollar
or more in some extraordinary fashion
the proceeds being required to buy
new carpet for the church. One woman
charges hor husband ten cents for putting
on his collar and necktie and another
bakes bread and goes around selling it.
- An interesting case for the students
of the ways of a woman's heart to ponder
is that of an Oakland, CAL, woman, who,
few months ago, brought suit for di-
vorce, shot her husband in her jealous
rage while the case was pending, nursed
him through the illness that ensued, fell
in love with him all over again, and she
is now living with him happy as dove.
The Rev. DR.. W. w. Parker, of
1lICuLuOHus fo.S piOpdl OilIj
which will be presented in the next
Virginia Legislature, for the suppression
of drunkenness. He proposes to make
drunkenness misdemaanor, the mini
mum punishment OF which shall be thir
ty days in Jail. The bill, it is said, will
meet with considerable support from all
classes.
- The New York Evening Telegram
reports that "there is at Columbia, s. c.,
nearly completed cotton mill which is
to have it's power brought from the canal
by means Of electricity, instead OF the
ment of machinery is the best that has
yet been turned out. The product of the
mill will be cotton duck"
- The horsemanship of tho women to
be seen in the riding schools Of this city,
says the New York Sun, causes derisive
smiles among the Southern aud West
ern women who see it. There nre few
instances of fearless riding by young wo-
mer who have learned to scamper. across
the fields in the country, and who have
jority of women riders are painful to look
at.
= The Rev. DR.. John F. Hillyer, who
died last week in Bolton. Texas, was per-
haps one of the oldest Baptist preachers
in the United States. He had been
preaching for over sixty-three years. he
was born in Warren County, Ca, in
1905, went to Texas in 1847, and was pas
tor Of Baptist church in Galveston for
many years. From 1860 to 1865 he was
professor of mathematics and natural his
toryin Baylor University, Independen co,
Texas.
= The Methodist American University
has received donation of $780, 900 to help
along the work from some gentlem an
whose name is withheld. The announce.
ment of the gift was made on Wednes-
day by Bishop j. F. Hurst Mt a meeting
of tho trustees in Washington, D. G. The
university is already in possession
of site in Washington worth about
S600,OO and this latest gift raises the
total already announced for buildinga and
endowment to about 100000. The Bish.
! ops of the Methodist Episcopal Church
| ed the enterprise provided that $5,000,.
600 shall be invested in buildings and
endowments before the university is
open to students and at least slO,OO0,0 ,00(
as It's full equipments.
= Felix Drew, sharp Mexican half
breed, has succeeded in buncoing the ne.
groes of Birmingham, Ala, out of large
sums of money. He rugged himself nr
in feathers and paint and told the negroes
that he was q great chief of the Indian
them to settle among the Indians, who
were dying out, and to make common
cause against their common enemy, The
| orsn in
negro who brought him ten dollars t.
pay his fare to the territory should have
one hundred acres of land and house,
and the land was full of gold, which
could be had for the digging. The ne
groes raked up all the money they coulc
,and gave it to him. He told them that {
special train would start on given day
but when they went to take it neither
train nor chief appeared, and now
the police are looking for ,this modern
Moses.
= The startling mistake of funeral
sermon preached over the wrong person
occurred 10 this city recently. The good
kind and well-intentioned reverend
doctor made the distressing error oi
and mother Of the family, instead of the
husband and father, whose corpse lay
In the casket few feet from him
while the agonized widow to whose
virtues he was directing the discourse
was compelled to sit in terrible sus
pense and listen to her own funeral
sermon. What must have intensified
her distress and added to the grim com.
plication Of the situation is the fact thai
the lady is member OF the eminent di.
vines church. The preacher painted the
desolation of home without mothe,
and extolled the lady's virtues in 6
manner that, under less painful circum.
stances, must have been some satisfac
tion. A well-known friend of the fam.
lily finally summoned up enough oou'
rage to arise and explain In broken anG
! indistinct accents that the ministe,
should confine his remarks to Mr.. and
not Mrs. Blank. The minister, who
was in the midst of bis discourse, mis-
understood the Interpolation, and, there
fore, continued all Che more intensely
his panegyric. It was now no use try.
ing to stop him, but after the peroratior
he looked into the coffin aud fell back
He had discovered his mistake.-Lot
angeles Erpress.