The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-12-05
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

one miles to vote.
- The business of the cotton aud
woollen mills of the East is improving.
Some Indiana Republicans call for
q ticket reading Grant and Harrison"
- The Commercial convention will
positively meet in New Orleans Decem-
Der 8.
"A bill providing for general State
registration law has been introduced in
the Georgia Legislature.
- The Senate of Georgia defeated, by
a vote of "a to II, bill making seven
per cent. the legal rate of interest.
= Col. Claiborne, of Pointe Coupee
parish, La, has made fifty thousand
pounds of sugar from thirty acres of
cane.
= The faithful body (so-callcd) servant
of the Hon. Alexander II. Stephens, is
reported as being richer man than his
master.
Gen. Hancock won the sword at the
New York Cathedral fair, the votes be-
ing: Hancock, 634; Newton. 624; Jos.
E. Johnston, SIS.
There are 226 counties in Texas; of
these Tom Green and Crockett are as
large as Massachusetts,, Pecos as Connec-
ticut, and Harris as Rhode Island.
The next Legislature of Louisiana
will stand: Senate-Democrats, 25; Re-
publicans, IL. House-Democrats. 72;
Republicans, 1S; Nationals, 2; Indepen-
dents, 2.
= A correspondent writing to the
Hartford Courant from Boston, says that
Butler will hereafter cast his political
fortunes with the Democratic party
God forbidl
There lives in Franklin county, n.
c., a man forty-nine years old, who never
heard sermon preached, never read a
chapter in the Bible, never fired gun
and never saw white man married.
In joint convention Of the Senate
and House of Alabama on the 9th ult.,
Governor Houston was elected to the
United States Senate by an almost unan-
imous vote, there being but two votes
cast against him.
The editor of Republican paper
in Michigan opposed the candidate of
his party for county clerk, for which he
was set upon by his late associates and
tarred and feathered.
Notwithstanding the low price of
cotton, it is stated that the working peo-
pie of Southwest Georgia, both white
and black, are, as general thing, better
off than they have been at any time since
the close of the war.
"A larger number of people than
usual are emigrating from the mountains
of East Tennessee. They breed there
like bees, and the exodus that has con-
tinued for years does not thin out the
population to any great extent.
Sheep husbandry in Western Texas
has grown at marvellous rate. In 1866
San Antonio received but 100000 pounds
of wool, while in 1877 she received
100000. In 1866 there were shipped
from Corpus Christi 100000; this year
there will be shipped 6,5O0,0O0.
Three Southern women were dis
charged from the Treasury Department
recently, to be followed, it is said, by all
that remain. This is feature of the
"new policy" and is declared by those
who know to have been brought to the
attention of Mr.. Hayes before adoption.
There was a singular scene at the
Houston, Texas, court house: A negro
named Allen Smith had betrothed HIM
self to six different damsels, all of whom
were in waiting to be espoused. After
considerable parlance, but one was chosen
and welded, and the residue INDUCED in
bitter invectives against the base de-
ceiver.
The Couricr-Journal says that not
less than $4,000 people were swept away
by the yellow fever plague of the past
season, while the direct and indirect
losses in money and trade have been es-
timated at 75000,000 but will doubt
less largely exceed that sum- Probably
S2OO,OOO,O00 would hardly cover those
losses.
- An exchange notes the fact that the
lowest price at which cotton has sold in
this country during the last fifty years
was in the spring of 1S45, when it went
as low as four cents per pound. The
highest price for it, during the same
period, was S1.90, in 1864. 1t sold as
| high as ffty-two cents, however, for good
money, in 1866.
That large per cent. of the yellow
fever deaths in Memphis were never re-
ported is shown by the fact that Superin-
burials in Elmwood cemetery, and the
total interments during the epidemic he
estimates at 6,000. Seven thousand dol
lars were allowed the City Undertaken,
and an additional claim is under consid-
tion.
= If the people of the South do not
organize against the tramp nuisance the
organized tramps will take the country
One hundred desperate vagabonds can
capture any county seat, commit any and
all kinds of outrages and terrorize 6
whole county. We do not produce the
tramp in this part of the country, anc
should not feed or tolerate them.-lfem
phis appeal.
A poor Irishman at Rochester owed
a rich man some money, and was unable
to pay. The rich man obtained judg
ment and an execution, but there was
, nothing on which the Sheriff could levy
The Irishman had two large pigs, but thu
law allows a man two, and the Sheriff
could not take them. The rich man ther
bought two little pigs, had them presen
ted to the Irishman, and thereupon tool
: his two large ones.
A better season for sugar Throughout
! to this date has perhaps never occurred
in Louisiana or any other sugar-raisinl
district in the world. The yield is vari
ously estimated at from one hundred ant
sixty thousand to two hundred and fft.
thousand hogsheads. The yield of mo
lasses will be much less in proportion t
the amount of sugar made than last yeal
: owing to the superior condition of tn
cane and its immunity from injury b
the weather. While the sugar, however
( is finer and better in quality, the molasse
is also much Impoverished Orlcon
!. Picayune.
7 The searchers after Mr.. Stewart
i body acknowledge defeat. Each clu
! that they have followed has led to moth