The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-04-10
ITEMs--zDI7oRIA1 AND OTHERWISE.

- Ten ladies have just graduated as doctors
of medicine in a New York College.
Galveston, Texas, reports $4,000 fire,
where the parties were fully insured.
= Abbeville is fitting up public library,
and has elected officers of the association.
-qCarswell, the temperance lecturer, is
drawing crowded houses in North Carolina
Atlanta, Ga, exempts cotton, wool and
iron factories from taxation for fifteen years.
- The city of New York consumes daily
one hundred and four million gallons of water.
- According to the latest estimate the total
population of the globe is ], 1,377 100000 souls.
= The Southern Baptist Convention will
hold its next session at Mobile, Ala, beginning
on the 9th of May.
Hon. James Brooks has started on short
tour in the South, with the hope of obtaining
relief from his malady.
= The Supreme Court of the United States
has decided that the bills of the Bank of the
State of South Carolina, both old and new, are
not receivable for taxes.
- A writer in the Pail Mall Gazette has been
figuring up the debts of the world, and comes
to the conclusion that the aggregate indebted
ness of all nations reaches the respectable total
of $21 900, ,O0O,0O at an annual interest rate Of
44 per cent
= Any information of the whereabouts OF
Alexander Forsythe, from Scotland, who, it is
supposed, settled either in North or South
Carolina about forty years ago, will be gladly
received by his nephew, John Forsythe,
Greensboro, n. G.
- The Knoxville and Charleston Railroad,
one of the delinquent railroads in Tennessee,
was offered for sale at Knoxville last week, and
bought in for 100000 by the State, there being
no other bidder. This is the western end Of
the Blue Ridge Railroad.
- The Massachusetts Legislature, which
refused to expunge from their journal the vote
of censure against Senator Sumner for his bat
tle-hag resolution, refused to consider a resolu-
tion censuring those Congressmen who voted
themselves increased salaries
= The telegraph has reported the death in
Mobile, Alabama, of DR.. Josiah G. Mott. DIR.
Mott was a native of South Carolina, and was
brother Of Prof Henry Jupius Mott, Of the
South Carolina College lie was eminent rs
physician and well known as writer.
= The Baltimore Gazette states that the
average of three hundred and ifty-seven esti-
mates of the present cotton crop, is three mill
lions seven hundred and sixty-four thousand
eight hundred and eighty bales. These esti-
mates were made in response to prize offered
for the one which came nearest the actual facts.
Other calculations place the crop at three mil
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it is thought that the total will not exceed
three millions FIVE hundred thousand. Very
little guess-work is more uncertain, however,
than that annually expended on this important
crop.
"A correspondent of the Southern Home,
Charlotte, n. C.,) who has lately visited Shell
| by, in Cleveland County, states that there is
not single criminal in the County Jail, and
the court does not hold more than three or
four days in the week. This fact, he says, will
not seem strange, when it is known that there
is but one grog-shop in Shelby, and the Repre-
sentatives from that County had law passed
at the session of the Legislature which has
just closed, entirely prohibiting the sale of
ardent spirits within the town and for a certain
distance without the corporation.
= There seems to be but little reason to
doubt that the dreadful disaster to the steamer
Atlantic was the result of ignorance or care
lessness. The harbor at Halifax is one of the
finest in the world, but its entrance is guarded
by lace-work of reefs and rocks which are
regarded with constant apprehensions by mari
ners. The captain of tne Atlantic seems to
have exercised no discretion, but to have blum
dered on through the darkness, uncertain of
the bearings until his vessel ran violently and
fatally on shore. The short supply of coal is
inexcusable. It could not have happened on
a wel-regulated line of steamers without some
serious detention, which did not occur in the
case of the Atlantic. One of the English line
of steamers has never lost ship.