The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-12-12
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.


are estimated ut 5000, 900 900 n year.
A piece OF property OH Whitehall
street Atlanta was sold few day, ago
ut public outcry for $2,57l AZ per front
foot.
Eight hundred boys from MI parts
oi tic United States met in Washing
ton on December 1st to form the Na-
tional Anti-Cigarctte League.
In Evansville, lntliana, there is
one chapter of tho u. i. G. and the
members have contributed $3.50 to tho
Jefferson Davis monument fund.
= The post Office department. shows
n deficit of only $685., 1888, and despite
the constantly developing and incrcas-
ing service. is wcll-nigh sclf-sustain-
ing.
= President Mckinley has declared
his opposition to the Cumpallcrc Bill
which seeks to cut down the represcn-
tation OF the Southern States in Con-
gress.
= Brooklyn, N. y, is going to have
the biggest hotel in tho world-a twen-
ty-thrce story shack with l,c00 rooms
and apartments to accommodate $50
families.
= There is talk of burning John Glib
son at the stake at Ashland, XIV. He
has been caught. Gibson is tho man
who killed his daughter by running a
red hot poker down her throat.
= Maj. Page, of Binghamton, N. v,
whose ago is 81, height "a inches.
weight 40 pounds, was recently married
to Miss Mary Nickel, whose ngc is %,
height q feet and weight 1GS pounds.
Surgeon General Sternbcrg reports
that from May until September, 1893,
10000 eases of typhoid fever appeared
among the troops encampcd within the
United States. 1t takes long time tc
know tho truth.
= Nathaniel Wells, n celebrated
chemisl. died in Washington ID. c.,
at the age of 107 years. IIc had been
around the world 2l times. His rules
for long life were: "Say your prayers
keep checrful; eat heartily, and take Il
bath daily"
- A lnnntic who escaped from the
Wisconsin asylum during his freedom
stood the civil service examination and
passed at the head of the list for an
early appointment when his identity
was discovered, and he was returned to
the asylum.
A father and stepmother have
been sent to the penitentiary in North
Carolina, the father for twelve wears
and the stepmother for six years, for
putting four of the brutal fathers chill
dren by his first wife into an outhousc
to die of neglect and disease.
A Chicago dispatch to the Phil
adelphia Record says: Mrs. Rowe,
of Atlanta, has notified the Chicago
Woman's Club that if the Northern
clubs persist in rccognizicg colorcd
women in club work it will cause the
break up of the National Federation of
Women's Clubs, as the Southern wo-
men will not recognize the colorcd
race.
-"But, of course, q rich man can
take nothing with him when he leaves
the EARTH" said the tall passenger,
"Well, l don't know about that" re-
marked the little man at the end of the
seat. GA Columbus capitalist who
died suddenly last week left his safc
locked and they hnl to gct n convict
from the penitentiary to open it. 1t
looks very much as if the dead man
took the combination with him."
= Senator Tillman came to the SEN
ate Inst Monday with most beautiful
long hair. 1t curled down. upon his
ears and made him look like n second
ratio actor. Yesterday his hair had been
cut tonormal length. The trouble was
that his superabundance of hirsuteness
created so much talk that he could not
stand the pressure. "And besides" :"
says Senator Tillmnn, "when your hair
is short you don't have to brush it go
often."- Washington Post.
= The Oskaloosa (Kan.) Indepen-
dent recently reported former citizen,
Or. w. Il. Ridgeway, as dead at To-
peka, whereupon the man wrote and
said: III went home and told my wife
"as.dcad. and produced 10 copy of
your paper in proof. While she is q
good woman and all that, she thinks
your paper lied. And she showed the
courage of her convictions by making
me carry in n lot of coal and water.
So, Mr.. Editor, may say that an, not
dead, but am mad"
= a veteran railroad engineer says:
III may sound strange to you, but
am heap more nervous when am
travelling as passenger than when Pm
at the throttle. l don't know what's
going on in the cab and l want to.
Every time hear whistle my impulse
ls to go out there and run the engine
myself. In fact the only time ever
am anxious is when am in apasscnger
coach. suppose feel about the same
way a man does who has driven live
ly horse for years and once in awhile