The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-12-19
GENERAL NEWS sutrNARY.

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to $29, 1867 1858. i,asl
-. Nevada is shipping largely of beef
| cattle this fall and winter.
| - A terrible famine prevails at Blaga-
| dor, the deaths averaging 25 daily.
- Two Sheriffs have been Killed at +,
WORKMAN. Texas, during the year.
Three sisters living in Dyer County,
Tenn, have given birth to sixty children.
Governor Vance has Joined the
| Second Presbyterian Church of Raleigh.
Fifty houses ia the business portion
of Macon, Mississippi, destroyed by fire.
- Fine oranges at Lake City, Florida,
are plentiful, and sell at ten dollars per
| thousand. e 3 eilt .n 1i..b .DsGuoh
- The Russian Council of State 10
discussing project for taxing American
cotton imports. i.lltE A3 oiN
- Gen. Beanregard has been appoint
ed Adjutant General of Louisiana by
Gov. Nichols.
III is estimated that every American
boy would consume 320 pounds Of candy
i per year ifhe had the chance. i tai
-.E. l.. White, former)..- of Alexan-
dria, Va, has been appointed American
Consul at Ponce, Porto Rico.
- Gen. F'itzhugh Lee was elected
President of the Commercial Go vention
which metiin New Orleans, recently.
and iron sheds along the river-front,
capable of storing 100000 bales of cot
ton.
Tom Cooper, the negro murderer,
was taken from Bainbridge (Ga) Jail o
second times and completely riddled with
bullets.
- With revenue tax amounting to
90 cents q gallon, whisky is selling in
Cincinnati at $l.03, or l3 cents above the
revenue.
- The exact time of the death of
Christ was Friday, April 8, A. d. 33, &C.
cording to the calculations of Prof. Lut-
terbacE. l3.5-
The Legislature of Missouri has
been petitioned By tho grand juries of
several counties to revive the whipping
post in / hat State u il,e ss1N o.
- An express train on the Central
Vermont Railroad ran into a swollen
creek, killing three persons and seriously
injuring several others. niA
Two thousand citizens of New Or
leans assembled in mass meeting. week
! hefnre lest, 20 express their gratitude for
assistance rendered in the late epidemic.
- The Commissioner of Agriculture,
believing that the bamboo plant can be
successfully introduced in this country,
has ordered number Of shoots from
Japan.
- The total cotton spindles in the
North are now estimated at about
100000, and in the South at 100000,
or a total in the whole. country of say
| lO,5O0,0oO. 'Ar
= The recent election returns from FIVE
| Eastern and four Western States show
that the Greenbackers cast 605 900 votes,
the Democrats 100000 and the Repub-
licans l,761, 900.
- Gen. Grants brother, Orvil, has
been discharged from the New jersey
lunatic asylum, though not entirely re-
covered from the hallucination that he is
engaged in great speculations.
= Stanford Hayes, of Battle Creek,
Michigan, who is said 10 be relative of
the President, is in Jail for obtaining
horse without even going through the
formality of an electoral commission
- Mrs. Il. A. Thompson, widow of the
Memphis postmaster who died Mt his post
: during the yellow fever epidemic, has
given her bond as postmistress aud is
now in charge of the Office in that city.
- The Postoffice Department. now PRO-
vides tin envelopes for sending by mail
needles or any other pointed and sharp
articles, which would be likely to pro-
trude through paper envelopes, and thus
| injure other mail matter.
IL is said that the people of Bulga-
ria, who are now debating among them
selves the question of ruler an6 the
details of new constitution, are think
ing of making Gen. u. s. Grant their
king-provided, Of course, he will accept.
William Lewis, brother of ex-
United States Senator Lewis, of Virginia,
was drowned Monday while crossing the
Shenandoah river at Port Republic in a
buggy. Ex-senator Lewis was himself
crossing the river in skiff at the time.
| = The Winnebago Indians in Nebrns-
dependent on the government, are now
living in comfortable dwellings, nearly
every head of family holds o land
patent, and the whole tribe are making
rapid progress toward civilization.
= The ten ectton growing States raise
for expectation annually $780, 0,O00, 600
worth of cotton with naval stores, to-
bacco, peanuts, ETC., enough to raise the
amount to 100000, 600 SEC, 600, 600
each for the ten States-an amount suffi-
cient to make them prosperous and great
- William Fl. Delvin has just been
convicted OF murder in the first degree.
in Cambridge, Mass, on the testimony cf
his two little children, seven and eight.
Mrs. Devlin's body was found lying in
her house, fearfully cut and bruised,
while on the bed lay her baby, strangled
to death. Devlin had fed, but helIswas
soon caught. sjiay,.
= AT the death OF John Wesley in
I761 there were in connection with Meth
odism 312 ministers, LIS circuits, I6 mis-
sion stations and 10000 :.s5 ,LL1.s. Syoyy
including! the Meth0dism of Great Bril-
tain, that of the United States Of Amer
tica. colonial Metholism i and branch
churches, it is estimated that there are
not less than 10000 itinerant preachers.
and Is, 900, 600 adherents. g,s5,5. t.'
I - i cotton is king in the South. corn
may justly put in claim to the title in
other portions Of the country. The
amount of corn exported in 1858 was
only 10000 bushels, while this season
theamount viii probably reach Sc. .n0n n0n
iio total acreage this year will probably
reach $4,000, 600, and tn .sotal WELD viii
not be less than ! 5000 200 bushels.
- Nancy Slocomb recently died at
Bloomington, Indiana, at the age OF 1o8
| years. Before her death she reIapsed
into second childhood, whica vae so
complete q copy of infancy TINT the old
woman spoke of herself IA s:-.ss,y. DELIGHT
led in toys, and was dressed and uradressad
and rocked to sleep by. q dauehter 6S
mother. s.. e g g ( ~.
tGt-TyA angular feature In the snap,.,;s,,