The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-02-20
as big as the State of Roode Island and
has on it 1000 horses, $4,000 cattle and
l3O 900 sheep.

as big as the State of Roode Island and
has on it 1000 horses, 5000 cattle and
l3O, 900 sheep.
- People will persist in eating frozen
oranges in Florida, and every day or TWO
death from this cause is announced.
= Some land in New York city has
been sold for $4,000, 900 per acre. The
highest in London is S5,000,O 900 per acre.
"A woman of fifty has just boen adj
Judged insane because she has married
man of twenty. But. strangely enough,
the mans sanity has not been questioned.
Swiss firms have entered into con-
tract with the Japanese war office to sup
ply sufficient number OF watches Tor
one to be given to every soldier who has
served in the campaign when the N1ikado
reviews his victorious troops at the close
take the place Of war moda.s, are to cost
Sl.50 apiece.
Adams, a thriving town in Massa-
'chusetts, is trying brave experiment.
A church and parsonage have been built
there with billiard room, bowling alley
and gymnasium attached. The argument
is that since boys will play or indulge in
athletic sports somewhere, it is better
they should do so under the protecting
shadow of the Church.
:. All heroes do not wear uniforms,
and some Of the bravest of them arc too
Young to vote. That twelvc-year-old
West Virginia school-boy who was found
frozen to death with his arms clasped
about his ten-year-old sister the other
day was hero of the truest sort. For he
had taken his own coat off and wrapped
his sister in it in the vain effort to save
her life at the expense of his own.
= The problem OF "hard times" will be
solved when the workingmon Of America
boycott the saloon, and stop drinking
liquor. About $500, 100000 a year goes
into the saloon from the hard-earned
wages of workmen. This money, turned
into the channels Of industry and COM
merce, would bring comfort and happi-
ness and plenty to millions of house
holds.
- Abby Smith, the oldeat woman in
Connecticut, died Sunday near Norwich,
age lib years. For more than 100 ears
she had worked in country homesteSds,
faithful house hand, who toiled as hard
as ever woman could. It was not until
she was ITO years old that she ceased to be
able to support herself and do all her
household duties and was a sprightly,
clean built, cherry faced, helpful old
lady, who by turns trotted into one house
and then another among the neigbbors,' y
"jest ter bel 'em on with the work."
On an average, according to the
statistics Of life insurance companies, the
man who drinks, even moderately, cuts
thirteen years OFT his life, that being the
difference between the average age at.
tanned BY drinkers and total abstainers
This does not take into account the loss
of efficiency, time, character, influence
health and happiness during the lifetime
shortened by thirteen years. And ye,
with the knowledge Of this deterioration
and this shortening, men deliberately
take up habit by N cans of which they
| go on to death. Surely life has its enig
mas.
- The ostrich farms of South Africs
are very curious and interesting places
| The equipments are generally very sim.
pie and mex pensive and the crop is found
| to be very profitable. The first require
| ment of IN ostrich farm is 'camp" OF
pasture for the birds, and these vary ir
| size from 5000 to 5000 acres. Such s
camp generally holds comfortably abou
300 ostriches. The camp must always be
good pasture ground, and here the birds
| remain for the entire year, except wher
they are brought together once every
four months to be plucked.
- General Montgomery Corse died a
Alexandria, Va, on February 11th, from
old age and general debility. He wa:
born in Alexandria in 1916 and served al
through the Mexican war as captain o
| an Alexandria company. When the
civil war broke out he was made Colone
of the 18th Virginia regiment. He wa.
afterwards promoted to be brigadier gen
eral in connection with the 18th, 26th, 30th
and 32d regiment of the army of Northern
Virginia, and served gallantly. He was
q prominent member of Robert f. Let
camp of Confederate veterans Of Alexan'
dria.
II. Tillotson, o well known salooI
keeper of Chesterton. Ind, ia preparing
for the ministry. For the last two weeks
the Rev Robert L. Jones, noted evan.
gelist of Boston, has been holding reviva
services in the Methodist Church al
Chesterton and getting converts from al
classes, among them Ira TillotsCn. After
his conversion he walked out Of his sa
loon and said he had quit the saloon bus
| mess forever and would devote the res
OF his days TO reclalmlng tne YlctlInS o.
the rum curse. Tillotson is about 81
years old, we'll educated, of fprepossessing
appearance and single.
"A farmer by the name of Brannon
about eight miles from Spartanburg
,nade up his mind at the beginning o.
| 1894 that he would devote every Saturday
to marketing eggs and butter. He start
| ed in with forty-eight hens and two milct
COWS. Sometimes he gave only half {
Saturday to selling these products
During the year his hens brought in 81;
and his butter S96, making total of SILL
He supplied his own table with these
articles and sold what the family did no
use. He was a one-horse farmer anc
made six bales of cotton, which brough
him in about $3.50.