The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-03-21
General News Items.

institutions, and yet Il woman starved
|" uei'tn on the streets the other day.
The United States Monetary Lea
que will meet ut Kansas Ci... ON tbc
same day the national democratic con
vention does, and will probably act in
concert with the convention in spirit if
not i'll formal acts.
"A Florida correspondent writes
the American Agiiculturst that hr now
frequently makes $1,000 worth orlct-
tucc on an acre of swamp land Thought
Il lew years ago to be worthless for
growing anything valuable.
= The souvenir badge of the Con-
fedcratc Reunion at Louisville. Nav
80 to Juno ;, will be Il crlluloil cantrrn
with the profile of Winnie Davis,
daughter OF the Confcdcracy. on the
one side and the Winnie Davis rose on
the other.
An agricultural expert ventures To
prophcsy that before the twentieth
century reaches middle age farming in
England will be mostly carried on hy
syndicates. Ills conclusion il that the
lnDour's dislike to the soil is rooted
ana permanent, and that the only way
10 get on will br by cultiyating large
areas and making free use of ma
chincry.
The Court and the ministers of
UniontOwn, Pa, has started Il crusade
against profanity and blaspl,cmy ON
the streets and IL number of arrests
nave been made. Among those locked
up the other night was IL woman. who
was arrested while indulging in Il flow
OF profanity on Main street The
Court has instructed the cunstablcs
to clean out the bar rooms where
ribald blasphcmy in rampant.
In Il divorce case in Kentucky,
brought by tho husband against his
wife on the ground that she was Il
habitual drunkard, Judge Storey re-
fused to grant the divorce because the
evidence showed that the husband had
been married before and had entered
into the second marriage within four
months of the death Of his first wife,
and in so doing he had been guilty of a
want OF ordinary care.
Louisvile's appropriation of SEQ
600 for the coming Confcdcrte Veter-
ans Reunion will now be wholly in tho
Charge of those conducting .he ire
partitions for the meeting, as voucher
was approved last Tuesday night by
both boards paying to Mr.. AttilIa Cox, rs
treasurer, tho amount in one sum, to
be expended by him and lis associates,
without let or hindrancc by the general
council. A report Of expenditures will,
OF course, be made.
1T is Spartanburg man, MIR. L.
NJ. Workman, who advocated "dcath
to drunkards," as moral reform to bo
adopted by some political party; but
DIR. w. Dunkin Mckim, Of Chicago,
has gono him one better. He holds
that society would be greatly improved
if the commonwealth would kill off it's
criminals Of high and low degree and
execute all cripplcs, panpcrs, idiots,
lmbecilcs-mOral and mental.
Sunday night while walking along
Lincoln street near tho new trcstle of
the SeahoaTi Air Line, Mr.. Eads, one
of tho trestle f0remcn, was attacked
by some four-lcgged animal. Mr.. Eads
kicked the animal off, but it returned
to the attack with the viciousness Of q
wildcat. Dir. Eads defended himself
rs best he could, backing away MS fast
as possible. Finally he stepped on a
long iron trcstlo bolt. He kicked the
animal away and as he did SD picked
up the bolt, meeting the renewed Mt.
tack with heavy blow which killc
the animal. He then struck a match
and found that he had been battling
in the dark with m extraordinarily
large muskrat. Where it came from
can only be a matter of conjecture
The State, March 13.
In one of tho remote counties of
the Panhandle Of Texas two lawyers
were trying case before justice of
the peace. 1t was sixty miles as the
crow flies to the nearest law book and
the attorneys differed, Of course, rs to
the law upon the main issue in tho
case. They were trying the case with
out the intervention of jury and his
Honor, who conducted gambling
house in connection with his hotel,
saloon and livery stable, was in doubt
as to what his decision ought to be.
Finally hitler, tho plaintiffs counsel,
offered to bet Hoover, the defendants
attorney, ten dollars that he was right.
Hoover did not happen to have that
much of tho circulating medium con-
cealed ::55out his person and was natu-
rally at a loss how to parry this forciblo
argument. The Court waited few
moments for Hoover and finally said: !
"Weii, Mr. Hoover, the Court has
waited long enough. Miller's PROPOSE
tion seems to be fair one, and since
you don't put up will decide this case