The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-13
1TEMs.-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.
: Flour costs $50 barrel in Texas.

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close the 9th of March:
= Sixteen ex-Confederate army officers hold
positians on the Union Pacific Railroad.
= At Reading, Pennsylvania, last week,
child was choked to death by grain of coffee.
= truly good legislator of Georgia has
introduced bill making profane swearing
penal offence
"A Louisville merchant wants the contract
to supply Brigham Youngs family with Grape
and bombazine when he dies.
- In some parts of Lincoln County, Missou-
ri, farmers are hauling water and ice ten miles
for cooking and other purposes.
= Lace window shades, with large mono
gram of the owner worked in the centre, is the
latest form of obtrusive vulgarity.
Since the Arkansas Legislature forbade
the carrying of concealed weapons, the citizens
don't take the trouble to conceal them.
| = The estimate is made that since and in
cluding the Chicago fire, the United States has
lost over $500, 100000 by great fires in the vari-
Gus cities.
= Mississippi has two female editors-Miss
Piney w. Forsythe, of the Liberty Advocate,
and Mrs. Sallie Ada Vance, of the Lexington
| Advertiser.
Every person on the staff of the London
Times has held his place nine years, while some
have been connected with the paper twenty
two years.
= A promising young man, Alonzo l..
Adams, while delirous, threw himself from the
porch of house in Raleigh, N. c., on Thurs
day and was killed.
. There is no doubt, says the Atlanta Her
aid, that there will be $50 900 expended, di-
rectly or indirectly, in Georgia this year for
commercial manures.
- A man in Kentucky has been married
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the same minister, in the same house, TO tour
sisters of the same family.
Mr.. Hardgrove, formerly of Nelson Coun-
tv, Virginia, killed himself, his wife and child,
in Washington, yesterday. Cause-lnsanlty,
from pecuniary losses sustained during the
war;
= Among the saddest episodes in the late
storm in Minnesota, according to Western
paper, was the freezing of the hands, nose,
forehead, everything except the cheek-of
| life assurance agent.
- One of the boilers at Woods Rolling
Mills, Philadelphia, exploded. A fragment
entering the Albion Print Works, three hum
dred feet distant killed two boys. Nine per-
sons in all were killed.
= The verdict of Michigan jury in case
in which the defendant was charged with hav-
ing disturbed religious meetings, was, Not
Guilty, but the Court is recommended to advise
the prisoner not to 60 there any more"
Everybody (says the Tallahassee Flor'dian)
is going in heavy on cotton; planters are getting
large advances; nearly every laborer's crop IS
mortgaged in advance, and if the caterpillar
should come. prepare for general bankruptcy.
- General William Malone, or Fighting
Malone" of the Confederate service, has been
quite i'll, but is convalescent. Vigorous in war,
he is equally energetic in times of peace, hav-
ing earned the title of the Little Railroad
Giant of Virginia"
= The Supreme Court of this State has re-
fused the petition for mandamus in the Blue
Ridge scrip matter This puts the quietus on
the most gigantic swindle ever perpetrated IN
South Carolina, and effects saving of nearly
two millions of dollars.
The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, a leading
paper, sensibly concludes that "the whites OF
the Southern States must gradually settle the
so-called labor question by going to work
themselves, and they are now getting into that
wholesome way very fast"
- About seven thousand acres are cleared OF
timber each weekday in this country. or the
annual crop, seventy-fve millions OF dollars
worth goes to fuel, and twice as much to fenc-
ing. The locomotives in the country, consume
not less than seven hundred thousand cords
year. =,
Ex-Governor Geary died very suddenly at
Harrisburg on Saturday morning last. He had
lust returned from New York, on the evening
previous, in apparently good health: He was
breakfastng with his family, and while in the
act of helping his little son, his head fell back,
and before his wife could reach him he died.
- According to the bill for the admission of
Colorado as q State, the Territory contains
seven millions of acres of public land, subject
to cultivation, has immense deposits of iron
ore. water power unequalled in the Union,
and is larger than New England, with Ohio
added. Its voting population is twenty thou
sand; it has no debt, and levied no taxes last
year. :,
= AS there are one hundred and sixty mil
ions of people, in the United States and in
Europe whose commercial and other interests
and associations are closely blended together, q
proposition is under consideration at Washing.
ton for the establishment of an international
coinage of silver. which will have equal value
everywhere in the civilized countries OF the
world.
- The Columbia Caroltnidn learns from q
correspondent that on Saturday last, at Shell
ton, on the Spartanburg and Union Railroad,
Chas Oglesby, in attempting to get on the
train made mis-step and falling, was dragged
to the trestle beyond the station, when he fell
through distance of forty feet, striking a
piece of timber below, causing death in about
an hour.
- A letter from Chicago states that the
farmers throughout Michigan, Illinois, Missou-
ri, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota are banding
themselves together in oppc sition to the rail-
road monopolies, which hold such high rates
of freight that they cannot send their products
of grain to the seaboard and Eastern markets,
and they are consequently compelled to burn
the corn and wheat for fuel.
A correspondent of the New York IT,
bune, signing himself "Philanthropist" asks
the following, viz: "Can you not impress upon
the average female male 1nd dlssies the 3 pe m n'
lighted match, or otherwise, they would, at
once, tumble upon the floor, and roll vigorously
to and fro, screaming ad Hbitum the while for
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