The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-01-23

throw open their homes to them. They
are all quartered tonight in private resi-
dences in Columbia. The firemen fought
the flames for two hours and half before
they e1tinguished the fire. The build
ing was insured for s27, 900 and the furni-
ture for 81. 500.
- During the years Immediately pre-
ceding the civil war, 81 900 was common
price for healthy young negro man.
Georgia has GENT twenty-one carloads
Of provisions and fuel to Nebraska, be-
sides personal contributions from differ
ent parts of the State.
- The Atlantic steamers which make
the voyage now in seven days or under
burn from 200 to 300 tons of coal daily,
making this item of expense over 81, 500
every twenty-four hours.
- Columbia, s. c., will send delega
ton of representative men to the north,
with power to guarantee exemption for
ten years from local taxation any and all
manufacturing plants that may be estab-
lished in that city.
- The depot at Kershaw, in this State,
was struck by lightning one day last
week and set on fire. The depot and
contents together with four cars loaded
with merchandise were destroyed entail
ing loss of $1,000.
- The nest of an ourang-outang taken
from tree at Borneo has lPtely been
placed in the Natural History Museum
at Berlin. The nest measures four and
one-halt feet long and one foot to two and
one-half feet wide. by about seven inches 8
high. It is made of 20 to Is branches
locked and twined together.
Encouragement to autograph hunters
is given by writer who tells of an enter
prising collector who, away back in his
college days, wrote to Queen Victoria for
her autograph, inclosipg 25 cents in paper
money. He waited three months and then
wrote again, asking tor either the auto
graph or the return OF the quarter. He
got the autograph.
GA we'll known Washington horse
man." says the Columbus Enquirer-Sun,
"has discovered fact in natural history
which may not be generally known. 1t
is that all four-footed beasts, in making
the first movement in walking, running
or any sort of forward motion, always
employ the left hind leg as starter
Several of the theatre managers of
Carthage, No., are preparing a bill which
they will ask the Legislature to pass,
making it misdelneanor for ladies at
tending theatres to wear hats of size
sufficient to obliterate the view Of the
stage from one or more persons. The
bill is being prepared in good faith and
it's passage is to be demanded.
Among recent patents is one issued
for burglar alarm particularly adapted
for use in connection with safe, which
Is inclosed in movable case provided
with electrical contacts, the electric cir
cult including an alarm and connection
with an electrically operated mechanism
for opening huid-containing case,
whereby the room in which the safe is
located will be filled with noxious vapors,
In which person cannot live.
An old gentleman who lives in Cobb
county, Ga, thought he would participate
in little fun, and also enjoy little COM
fort. He was the possessor Of fine tree
that grew near his home. So one morn
ing, bright and early, he took up the old
house cat, hid her under his coat and
4 went to the said tree, and taking the cat
by the tail made her scratch the bark,
then leaving some cat hairs on the tree,
home he goes to tell the boys near by that
there is fine coon up tree near there.
The axes were soon sharp, the tree soon
L.
basking in the warmth Of good fire.
The boys got no coon.
- In his message to the West Virginia
Legislature on Wednesday Governor
McCorkle said: Speaking as one who
mature Judgment is that the use of money
in elections in any shape must be vigor-
ously arrested by the men who love their
country, >r this generation will surely
see the beginning of the end of the true
republican idea Of government.
I recommend that the present penalty for
the sale of vote at a. election be done
away with and that in lieu thereof there
shall be substituted the disfranchisement
and ineligibility to odce Of voter found
guilty Of selling his vote"
"A pamphlet has just been published
at Berlin by a theologian-M. Baxter
which was written with considerable
erudition, and is being widely read. The
author predicts that the end of the world
will occur on April %, 1908. "From now
until then," be says, 1--WE will go through
another fearful and bitterly contested
war, in 1897, which all the great European
nations will participate in; in 1899 new
Napoleon will make his rise, as the King
Of the Greek States and Syria; in 1904 q
terrible earthquake will shake the very
foundation of our planet. On March II,
1908, on Thursday, ct 8 o'clock p. m.
(Jerusalem time,) and at hour 33 min
utes p. m. Berlin time,) will take place
the ascension to heaven Of the ia, 600
elected, blessed ones, who shall not die."
These prophecies have called forth con-
siderable emotion "over the Rhine"
M. de Lapparent, the eminent pro-
fessor of geology at the Institute of Paris,
in q paper read before the Scientific
Catholic Congress expressed the opinion
that all mountains will vanish offthe face
of the earth In course of time. He de-
clared that if the actual forces at work
upon our globe retain their preseut in
tensity, in four and half million years
all inequalities ofsurface will be levelled.
He instanced as striking example the
reduction of the Ardennes, which were
once chain Of the Alps, but which had
already shrunk to their present dimen-
sions at the outset of the Tertiary epoch.
The Alps, he said. exemplifed the youth,
the Pyrenees the maturity, and the
mountains Provence of the declining
years of mountain ranges, while the CEN
tral plateau cf France was typical of their
death and dissolution.
We somehow incline to the free
coinage of silver. If it requires very
high protective tariff, or periodical
issue of bonds to keep up the gold reserve,
it would be lust as we'll to coin the silver.
It is believed that the sharp and ingeni-
GUS artisans are now coming American
silver dollars down in Mexico. These
dollars have the requisite amount OF sill
YER and are therefore, not counterfeit.
No Mexican law is violated and our
Government cannot punish mon for
making silver dollars on the other side
of the line. The temptation to buy silver
at so to 60 cents an ounce and coin it into
a good dollar, is too great to be resisted.
We do not state this as fact, but 1T ls be-
lieyed that a thriving business is done
down in Mexico in coming American
dollars.-CarolinG Spartan.
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