The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-10-24
VOLUME XXXvI---NO. IS.


EermanJ wants to grow cotton to |
supply her own factories.
Nashville, Tenn. is dissatisfied |
with the census returns, and is to take
II recount at its own expense.
One hundred and thirteen new
cases OF yellow fever have been Off
crazy reported i'll Havana since Octo- !
Der 1st.
= For successfully defending his ear
and killing train robbcr Express
Messenger Z. Il. Baxter has been given
$1,000 by the Adams Express Company.
A new express company, ii is re-
ported, will soon enter the field in the
South, and, it is said, will be Il compel
itor OF the Southern. The details of
the plan have not been announced.
- Sophie Jones, an old colorcd wo-
man employed by the government in
Lincoln's time, dicu last week in Wash
ington. She once found half million
dollars in waste basket and returned
the sheets of notes to Treasurer Spin
ner. For her honesty she was given
life tenure of office.
= farmer in Southern Missouri re-
Gently received some garden seeds from
the department of agriculture in an
official envelope, on the outside of
which was printed the usual warming:
! Penalty for private use, $780," He
Immediately sent them back, with n
letter to the effect that he had not used
one of them and was not subject TO
any fine.
| 9 Nearly thirty years ago Jones
Silverman. farmer, living near
Springfield, Ohio, was swindled out of
$1,000 by sharpers while on train near
| Valparaiso, Ind. The criminals cs
capped aud ere long one of the three
died. The other two drtted to the
klOndike year or two ago, became
rich, and have just returned to The
States. They hunted up Mr.. Silverman,
paid him the 81 500 and gave him 81 900
more by way of interest OH the forced
| loan.
| certain clergyman, when peach
ing extemporaneously, touched on the
subject Of miracles. Some people, he
said, had difficulty III accepting the
miracle stories of the Bible, rs, for
example, the story of the speech that
Balaams ass made to his master.
Looking solemnly ut the congregation
the preacher hammered in his cOntcn-
tion with the remark: "Why did not
God make an ass to spcak-Hc made
| me to speak,
- The police officials of Salina, Kan,
were made the victims Of n scnselcss
hoax one dayslast week, when stran-
ger called Mt headquarters, and related
circumstantial story of how he had
been robbed of $40 bill. Every
policeman in town was furnished with
description of the alleged thief, and
n whole day was spent in looking for
him before it dawned upon any Of the
sleuths that there is no such thing as a
$40 bill. BY that time the joker had
disappeared from Salina.
- Michigan board Of health report
for the last week of August showed the
existence Of typhoid fever at 90 differ
| ent places in that State. An inyesti-
CATION as to the cause of q number of
cases of typhoid fever which have ap-
peared recently in Newark, N. j., show
ed that the majority of the cases had
occurred among employees of tho Clark
thread mills, all of whom drank water
from driven wells on the grounds of
the company. An examination showed
that the water contained very large
number of bacilli. Water from the
city was run in to replace the well
water.
= According to the latest. figures the
money expended on the common school
system of the United States is equal to
the combined outlay for public educa-
tlon in Great Britain, France and Ger
many. The average monthly wages OF
the men teachers i'll America in 1887 -9S
was S45.1G, and of the women $3S. As.
1 In that year of the 099,103 teachers
employed only one third were men.
Twenty -one per cent. of the total poDu-
lation and seventy per cent. Of the
pupils of school age were registered in
schools.
= -Four young women have organized
unique plan Of working their way
through the University of Chicsgo.
They will become hairdrcssers to the
women students of the University. The
nriginatOrs of the project are unwilling
TO have their names mentioned. The
young women arc dependent upon
their own resources to earn money suf-
ficicnt to defray their expenses. Most
OF the three thousand girl students at
the University have been in the habit
of visiting hair dressing establishments
in the city. The 1uar;ette decided
that they will apply for tie trade. At
first they will visit the rooms Of the
students, but little later it is planned
to fit up shop on the campus.
Denver, Colorado, dispatch, Octo-
Der IA: A. huge brown mountain eagle
made an attempt to carry of a small
h0U from tha COurt boucn lovv,