The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-12-26
GENERAL NEWSaITEMS.

= mississippi is to have Il new State
capitol to cost SS33, 900.
= Cotton receipts to date arc
over half million bales ahead Of last
years record.
= The Rogers Locomotive Works at
Paterson,.N. j., will most likely be re-
-:cvc, 10 Birmingham, Ala, 10 be in
the center Of the coal and iron region.
"A carload Of evaporatcd eggs was
lately shipped from Missouri city to
ina soiA countries oi A.:sl:a. '!Eu
value OF the car was s14, 900 when ready
ship.
Tho proposition for the cOnstruc-
tion of Il floating machine shop for the
use Of the squadr0ns in various parts
of the world is receiving earnest atten-
tion.
: The corn belt by reason of tho tro-
p'cal character Of tho past summer has
been moved north easily by 200 miles
this year, and good corn has been raised
where it is not looked upon rs u relia-
BILE crop to plant.
= The poor and the pensioners we
arc to have with us forever. The
House committee on appropria
tions report that $l44,OO0,O0O will be
necessary this year to pay the grand
army of pensioners.
= Sam Small, sclf-nppointed evan
gelist, went down to Havana and got
into trouble. He was charged with
fraud. A compromise was made by the
nf xx,Iiol, In So f1 u, II
and never set foot on it again.
= Train robbers rifled the mail car
on the Cotton Belt railway, near Tex
nrlSana, Texas. JOHN N. Dennis, postal
Clerk, was badly wounded in the head.
1t is not known what amount of mon
ey they got from the registered pack
ages. 1t was bold, well-planned rob-
berry.
= Among the inmates Of the insane
asylum at Yankton, s. d., is Frank
SIS oman, n former merchant Of Red
field. Mr.. Susscman was Democrat
| but ut tho recent election voted for
Mckinley. He repented Immediately
and brooded over the matter until he
became insane.
= Tho boundary line between the
United..States and Mexico has recently
been resurveyed and marked by stone
monuments in the form of obelisks,
located about five miles apart. The
| shafts are ten feet high, four feet
square ut tho base and two feet at tho
top, and stand on foundations five feet
square.
- Alabama is proposing to annex
that portion Of west Florida which ex-
tends south Of Alabama, and between
that State and the gulf. The people
of west Florida are said to be favorable
to the change, and the Alabama legis-
laturc has appointed committee to
bring the matter before the Florida
authorities.
| When sick Chinaman consults
doctor he expects the prescribed medi-
cine to take effect ut once. Conse-
qucntly most Of the medical practition-
ers give theirpatients, for dose, some
red-hot mixture, such as tincture Of
cayenne, which makes the invalids
feel as if tOrchlight professions were
coursing down thei. throats.
= That Senate customs rarely change
is shown by tho two old fashioned snuff
boxes in that chamber. They are rs
carefully filled to-day rs in the days
when it WAS fashion to "snutf." Few
of the present members use the boxes,
though occasionally one of the older
Southern members will go up. take
pinch" and calmly await the sne.ze.
Judge H. j. Ewing, of Cleveland,
is drawing up for presentation to the
next Ohio Legislature bill to prohibit
foot ball playing. He has son in col
lege whose knee cap has been knocked
loose in foot ball match. and as the
boy will not heed his command to keep
out of the game the Judge proposes to
invoke the aid of the Legislators.
Even the birds are not forgotten
ut Christmastide by the Swedish peas
antry. At the door of every farmers
house is erected pole, to the top of
which is bound large, full shcaf of
grain. There is not q peasant in oil
Sweden who will sit down with his
children to Christmas dinner until
he has first raised aloft a Christmas
dinner for the little birds that live in
the cold and snow without.
An ingenious Austrian inventor
has just patented speaking clock,
which he claims will be Of the greatest
value to persons of forgetful and irreg-
ular habits. In place of tho usual
striking attachment is a phonograph,
which can be set to speak sentence at
any time desired, thus becoming an un-
failing reminder to its owner of the
duties of each successive hour. Th5re
is no mechanical difficulty in the way
of charging this moral time piece with