The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-11-29
General News Items.

I'm Western North Carolina walnut
trees are selling for 500 apiece as they
stand in the woods.
The apple crop of fonr. counties IN
Virginia this year brought in $3.50, 600,
and left enough for pies at home.
1t is charged that the newly elect
ed millionaire senator OF Montana,
Mr.. Clarke, paid s4OO,O 900 for his seat III
the senate.
-Itis said that the number of de-
nositors in banks Of the United States
has increasedin in 1899 to 13, 1854 from
G,7OS,971, in 1898.
yice-President Hobart leaves q
fortune of one to two million dollars:
His life was insured to the amount OF
three hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars.
A church in Newark. N. y, has
appointed young ladies as ushers, and
the papers say the congregation is
growing rapidly. The ushers are
changed every few weeks.
At the Masonic observance on De-
cember 14th, the one hundredth ami
yersary of Washington's death, Presl-
dent Mckinley has promised to deliver
an address at Mt. Vernon-the tomb OF
Washington.
The leather market is advancing
ond the national convention OF shoe
manufacturers recently recommended
an M advance of 25 cent. per pair on
shoes. This is an advance Of so cents
Der pair since August Sth.
CONGRESSMAN Benton, of Missouri,
predicts that Col. Bryan will carry the
entire South, nearly every State west
of the Missouri River, and probably
New York and Indiana, and will, OF
course, be elected President.
1t is reported that a messenger on
the Norfolk and Carolina road has
disappeared with an express package
containing S55,000. It's said that ne
stcpped from the train with the pack
ace and neither Of them have been
heard of since.
- The Supreme Court of Ohio has de-
cided that will bcqueathing sum
of money to Methodist missionary
society is invalid because the Wit
nesses, who acknowledged their sig
natures. did not know that they were
witnessing will when they signed it.
Congress convcnes on Dec. 4th.
Since the 4th of March Mckinley has
carried the fortunes of the country in
his vest pocket. The Congress will
not change his policy, as Senate and
House are overwhelmingly Republican
with sprinkling of anti-expansion-
lists.
At Wilmington, Del, eightyseven
sewing needles have been removed
from the body of young girl who
came to this country about two months
ago. 1t is supposed she swallowed
these when a child and that their pres
ence in her stomach retarded her
growth.
IT. w. Davis, of Peoria, ILL.,, now 7S
years old, a noted bicyclist, who has
won several medals for riding long dls-
tances, and has ridden 10000 miles
since his 61st birthday, is erecting Tor
himself in q cemetery at Peoria mon
ument, the shaft OF which pears Il
carved representation of a bicycle.
"A masked mob of IS men attacked
the Jail at Covington, Ga, with the
view of lynching white man charged
with attempted assault upon q white
woman. The sheriff with his deputies
were guarding the Jail and fired upon
| the mob who retrcated, carrying away
some of their wounded companions.
Col. A. E. Boone, protector OF the
Black Diamond dream, is III trouble.
The other promoters have turned him
out in the cold, and he is kicking lus-
| tily. His enemies have had him put
under bond for trial on charge OF fc-
| loniously breaking and entering the
Black Diamond office i'll Dover, Ky,
and taking thercfrom letters and pa
pers belonging to other persons.
Ex-senator John II. Reagan, the
sole survivor OF Jefferson Davis cabl-
net. and the orator at the recent un-
yelling Of the Davis statute at Rich
mond, is 81 years old, but is still IN
good health and active in politics. He
is ut the head of the Texas State rail
way commission. He was born IN
Tennessee. and, as Il mere lad, walked
all the way to his present home.
The Rev. DR.. Robert Lowery, a
prominent Baptist minister and author
of many religious hymns, died at his
home in plainhcld, Nd. He WAS i;
years old. Dir. Lowcry was the com,
poser of the well known hymn "Sliall
We Meet Beyond the River and many
others equally popular. During his
career as Il clergyman he had been
pastor of the Bloomingdalc Baptlst
church, in New York, and OF the Ian
son Place Baptist church, i'll Brooklyn.
William Nyce, Il farmer, near
Portland, O., discovered an eagle allt
IL hen hawk in Il fierce BATTLE and took
IL hand in the fight. The eagle clawcd
him through the hand, and he was at
the mercy of the bird until some OF
his family came to his aidan captured
the two fcatIcrcd combatants: INC
eagle measured four feet two inches
from tip to tip of wing, and the hawk
measured three feet.
Ezra Wilkinson, ;ln eccentric rcsidr,t
OF Sharon, Mo-, has lust completed tllt
construction Of :; four story brick
dwelling for himself under grollnd
The roof of the house l3 on lcvc
with the street. and the whole stlnc-
turc stands in ;n excavation ~ lccl
deep, lincd with stoneandcc'lcnt-tElf
house walls being separated from
those of thc pit By Il foui. Feet AREA
way. Wilkinson lives III constant
dread of cyclones. and lc designed hls
novel dwelling witIla view 10 making
it wind proof. 1t is said to have cost
him 100000.
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