The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-06-20
General News Items.

were badly shocked by lightning ut
Jacksonville, Fla, June :.
1t is estimated that the Egyptian
cotton crop this year will be equivalent
to 100000 American bales.
= In Philadelphia during the month
OF June marriage licenses have been is
sued ut the rate of las per day.
The governor OF Arkansas las
offered the Beers 5000, 900 acres of land
if they will colonize in that State.
= 1t is estimated that the increased
price of cotton this season has left two
hundred million dollars more in the
South.
= The acreage in cotton is more than
million acres greater than last year
rs estimated by Latham Alexander &
Co. New Yoik.
1t isreported that John Il. Mclean,
Of Cincinnati, has sent his personal
check for S25, 900 to Bryan to be used in
the campaign.
= DIR. BroughtOn says there is il di-
vOrce for every twelve marriages in
Georgia and IN even larger ratio in the
city of Atlanta.
= Nearly six million people are
being fed by the worlds charity in the
famine district in India. Rain has fall
len there at last.
| A census cnumcratOr in Philadel-
phln was informed by II woman living
in the Sixth ward with smiles and
pride, that she was the mother Of 81
children.
= The largest number of immigrants
ever received ut an American port in
one day arrived ut New York on May
II. They came in six ships and num-
bercd $3.50.
have been unanimously renominatcd
John Is. Kcsclam, OF New York, holds
the record, having been chosen by ac
clamation sixteen times.
w. -. Bender, who died ut the
College Hill Sanitariuin at Cincinnati,
Ohio, n few days ago, destroyed @43,-
600 worth Of Government bonds before
his relatives could interfere.
The u, $. court Of claims has de-
cidcd in favor Of Admiral Sampson
against Commodore Schlcy, in Snmp-
sons claim for the prize money on ac-
count of the destruction of the Spanish
fleet.
Governor Mount, of Indiana, has
refused to honor tho rcquisition of
Gov. Bcckham, Of Kentucky, for the
return Of w. S. Taylor, holding that
the man could not get fair trial in
Kentucky.
Levi Brisson, of Danville, CT, is
the father OF forty-two children. Ie
isa French Canadian, 72years old, and
weighs 10 pounds. His present wife
is his third. His first wife bore him
six children and his second twenty
five.
Belle Boyd, the famous COnfeder-
ate spy, died at Kilbourne, Wis, June
18th, aged 81. She did good service for
the Confederate army during the war.
After the war she married a Federal
officer named Hardingc. For several
years past she supported herself by
lccturing.
- Out in West Virginia twelve Ital-
ian laborers were found dead in the
woods. A contractor who was build
ing railroad lost provisions from his
store house. The negro cook put rat
poison in flour and meat which was
also stolen. There was some cOnnec-
tion between the stolen meat and the
dead Italians.
= Robert Avery, of Winsted, Conn,
who had his clothes stolen while in
bathing, wandered in the woods ad-
jacent to the stream for two days and
nights. He was shot at and chased by
dogs as Il wild man whenever he ap-
peared, until finally one courageous
man got close enough to hear his story
and bring him some clothing.
= One Of the most remarkable laws
ever passed will soon go into effect in
Winchester, w. Va. The city council
Of that place passed law requiring
every citizen to pour kerosene oil OH
every open pool, and that every open
rain barrel shall have the spigot at the
bottom. The town is infested with
mosquitoes, and the law was enacted
in order to make the place an attrac-
tive resort for summer boardcrs.
= When women go to buy dress in
Japan they tell the shopkecpcr their
age, and if they are married or not,
because there are special designs for
the single and double relations of life
as we'll as for ages. The consequence
of this painful custom is that you can
tell the age of every woman you meet
and know whether she is married, PIC
cisely as though she were labeled.
l = A full bl0oded Jersey COW, owned
by the members of the Oak Island life
saving crew, performed unique feat
near Babylon, L. l., the other day.
! The cow became possessed with de-
sire to return to her home on the main