The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-10-03
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

| for Georgia and Florida.
The public debt was reduced six
and half millions during the month of
August.
- Texas has in operation 3,256 miles
of railroad, and work progressing on
several new lines.
Alex. H. Stephens health is again
feeble, owing to his unusual exertious in
his political canvass.
- The explosion of a coal-oil lamp
in Weatherford, Texas, the other cay,
destroyed $50, 900 worth of property.
One hundred English immigrants
arrived in Galveston few days since, on
the steamship Rio Grande, bound fo-
Western Texas.
In the past seven months emigra-
tion to the United States has increased
9,O7 over the emigration for the same
period of 1877.
Gen. 10 Johnston is opposed in his
race for Congress in the Richmond (Va.)
District by Col. w. w. Newman, a
Greenbacker.
The abolition of slavery in Cuba is
being earnestly discussed in that island,
and it is thought that it will soon be an
accomplished fact.
Miss Styles, daughter CT Col. Carsy
W. Styles, is preparing lecture on "The
Georgia Cracker" which she will deliver
during the coming season.
West Virginia finances are in fine
condition, with $50, 600 surplus in the
State treasury, and the school fund $780,
| 900 larger than ever before.
- In San Antonio a negro was found
lying dead within six feet of the business
end Of mule. The jury found no diff
Guilty in coming to verdict.
- In consequence of the Princess
Alice disaster the whole question of the
navigation of the Thames is to be cor
sidered by an official committee.
There are over $4,000 Touring mills
in the United States, giving employment
to $4,000 men. These mills turn out an
nually 50,000,00O barrels of -four.
Bill Langley, the Texan desperate,
has been sentenced to be hanged. He
thanked the Judge and jury for their
courtesy and invited them to be present.
at the execution.
! - Minnesota farmers report that two
acres of sun flowers will furnish a FAMILY
in fuel through long winter, the woody
stalks and oil from the seeds making ex-
cellent fires.
The railroads of Alabama shipped
from her coal mines in 1875, 1889 tons;
in 1876, 1896; in 1877, 102, $40; in 1878
thus far, l72, 2,1S2, and they are expected
to reach over 100000.
Mobile county can show q Jersey
COW that has dropped four sound, we'll
developed calves in eleven months. She
is now four years and three months old,
and has had five calves.
- Mr.. Fred. R. Simmons, of Pamela,
Va, was in his room bathing in small
tub, when he had an attack of epilepsy,
and his head became jammed in the tub
so that he was drowned.
The marble alone in the late A. T.
Stewards burial vault under the Memo
rial church, Long Island, will cost S4O,-
900. Thirty-seven skilled men have been
employed in the carvings for year.
! The dying request of Col. J. Law
renee Jones, Kentucky lawyer of con-
siderable eminence, was that no funeral
sermon be preached over his remains and
no resolutions passed by the bar.
= The native bishop of Hayti has re-
Gently preached in Westminster Abbey
the first recorded instance where COL
ored divine has been listened to within
the walls of that venerable place of wor-
ship.
The Radicals of Atlanta, taking
advantage of the dissentions that exist
in the ranks of the local Democracy
there, are seriously contemplating put
ting q Radical municipal ticket in the
field.
Can these be very hard times, can a
country be very "hard up" which con-
sumes 5O,OO0,0OO gallons of whiskey,
100000 barrels of beer, and 2,000,-
100000 cigars in single year?-Bufaio
Express.
= The aggregate value of taxable
property in Georgia is s226, 1,71S,
against $235, ,619, $50, showing decrease
of more than S10,OOO,OC0. The five
largest counties are Fulton, Chatham,
Richmond, Bibb and Muscogee in the
order named.
- Anarchy is beginning to appear
throughout Turkey. Despite the British
effort to give the Sultan semblance of
power, the people and the army have lost
faith in the national authority, and be-
lieve that what remains of the Empire
is fastening to disruption.
At Minneapolis, Minnesota, Presi-
dent Hayes auctioned off Bible, presen-
ted by Union soldier as his only posses
sion, to be sold for the benefit of some
Confederate soldier suffering from yellow
fever. The Bible was bought by q Miss
Case for 500.
Speaker Randall is sure that the
Democrats will have at least thirty ma
iority in the next House, and that the
chances are good for even more than that.
He also believes they will carry Pennsyl-
vania, as they have the best opportunity
in the world for doing it.
An Augusta dentist has invented
an exceedingly ingenious and useful lit.
tie turbine wheel to DE used in dental
work. 1t is hardly larger than silver
dollar, but when the water is turned on
will give drill or other dental instru-
ment 1900 revolutions minute.
"A man in Hart county had twenty
seven children, and he and his wife are
still alive, hearty and we'll. There are
dozen counties near the Air Line railroad
in Georgia that could raise boys enough
in the next twenty years to whip any
country on earth, except the United
States.-HartweN (Ga.) Sun.
- We were shown yesterday beauti-
frl specimen of homemade silk, the same
bein the product of lot of worms be-
longing to Miss jamie Prichard, of Ham,
ilton, Harris county. Miss Prichard has
a hundred thousand silk worms, and she
has succeeded most admirably in securing
from them full yield of silk. The
specimen shown lis will equal in richness
of color and firmness of texture the finest
specimens from those sections which
make silk culture q specialty. Columbus