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

about run Its course at Tampa, Fla.
= In Western North Carolina walnut
trees are selling Tor 500 apiece us they
stand i'll the woods.
- The apple crop of four counties in
Virginia this year brought in $oS0,OO0,
and left enough for pies ut home
= 1t is charged that the newly elect
ed millionaire senator of Montana.
Mr.. CLARKE, paid SinD,O00 for his sent in
the senate.
= 1t is said that the number of de
pOsitOrs in banks of the United States
has increased in 1899 to 13,l53,SI4 from
G,10S,071, in 1898.
Vice President Hobart leaves n
fortune OF one I" two million dollars.
His life was insured to the amount of
three hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars.
A church i'll Newark, n. Y, In 5
appointed young ladies rs ushcrs, and
the papers say Ii" congregation is
growing rapidly. The ushcrs are
changed every few weeks.
= At the Masonic observance on De
ccmbcr 14th. the one hundrcdth ami
vcrsary of Washington's death, Presi-
dent Mckinley has promised to deliver
an address at Mt. NcrnOn-thc tomb OF
Washington.
: The leather market is advancing
and the national convention of shoe
manufacturers recently recommended
an advance Of - cent. per pair on
shoes. This is an advance of 80 cents
per 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
nyIr ID
course, be elected President.
- It is reported that Il messenger on
the Norfolk and Carolina road has
disappeared with an express package
containing S55,000. 1t is said that he
stepped from the train with the pack
age and neither of them have been
heard Of since.
= The Supreme Court of Ohio has de-
ciued that IL will brqueathing sum
Of money to Il Methodist missionary
society is invalid because the wit
nesscs, who acknowledged their sig
natures. did not know that they were
witnessing will when they signed it.
= Congress convcncs 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 a sprinkling OF anti-eXpansiOn-
lists.
- At Wilmington, Del, eighty seven
sewing needles have been removed
from tho body of young girl who
came to this country about two months
ago. 1t is supposed she swallowed
these when child and that their pres
ence in her stomach retarded her
growth.
II. w. Davis, of Peoria, ILL.,, now 72
years old, noted bicyclist, who has
tances, and has ridden 10000 miles
since his 6lst birthday, is erecting for
himself in a cemetery at Peoria a mon
ument, the shaft of which bears Il
carved representation of q bicycle.
- A masked mob Of IS men attacked
the jail ut COvingtOn, Ga, with the
view of lynching IL white man charged
with attempted assault upon 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 i'll trouble.
The other promoters have turned HIM
ont in the cold, and he is kicking lus-
tily. His enemies have had him put
under bond for trial OH charge of fc-
loniously. breaking and entering the
Black Diamond office i'll Dover, Ky,
and taking thercfrOm letters and pa
pcrs belonging to other persons.
:, Ex-senator John II. Reagan, the
sole survivor Of Jefferson Davis cabi-
net. and tho orator ut 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 at the head Of the Texas State rniI-
way commission. He was born in
all the way to his present home.
The Kew. DR.. Robert Lowery. Il
prominent Baptist minister and author
of many religious hymns. died at mis-
home in Plainticld, n. j. lie was %
years old. IT,. l.owery was the com
poser Of the well known hymn "Shall
We Meet Beyond the River" and many
Others equally popular. During his
career as Il clergyman he had been
pastor of the Blo0mingdalc Baptist
church, in New York, and of the Han
son Place Baptist church, in brooklyn.
- William Nycc, farmer, near
Portland, o., discovered an eagle and
a hen hawk i'll il fierce battle and took
him through. the hand, and he was at
the mercy of the bird until some Of
his family came to his aid and captured
the two feathcrcd cOmbatants. The
eagle measured four feet two inches
from tip to tip of wing, and the hawk
measured three feet.
Ezra Wilkinson, an eccentric resident
of Sharon, Mo-, has Just completed the
construction of Il four story brick
dwelling for himself under ground
The roof of the house is on II level
:, CIV
turc stands in an excavation 40 feet
deep, lined with stone and ccmcnt-the
house walls being separated from
those of the pit by Il four feet area
way. Wilkinson lives in constant
dread of cyclones. and he designed his
novel dwelling with IL view to making
it wind proof. 1t is said to have cost
him 100000.
Department Roll OF WIlitcfleld School
for November.