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

- Some Indiana Republicans call for
q ticket reading "Grant and Harrison"
The Commercial convention will
| positively meet in New Orleans Decem-
ber 3.
"A bill providing for a general State
registration law has been Introduced in
the Georgia Legislature.
| = The Senate of Georgia defeated, by
vote of "a to IL, 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-called) 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 Conncc-
ticut, and Harris as Rhode Island.
- The next Legislature Of Louisiana
will stand: Senate-Democrats 25; Re-
publicans, IL. HOuse-Democrats. ~:
Republicans, l8; Nationals, Q; Indepen-
dents, 2.
= A correspondent writing to the
Hartford (6urant from Boston, says that
Butler viii hereafter cast his political
fortunes with the Democratic party
| God Forbid
= There lives in Franklin county, N.
o., O man forty-nine years old, who never
heard q sermon preached, never read a
chapter in the Bible, never fired gun
and never saw wli.te 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
on tnan they have been at any time since
the close of the war.
"A larger umber of nenn!a than
| usual are emigrating from tho 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
San Antonio received but 6OO, 900 pounds
of wool, while in 1877 she received
100000. In 1866 there were shipped
from Corpus Christi 600,00O; this year
there will be shipped 6,500,O0O.
| - Three Southern women were dis
charged from the Treasury Department
recently, to be followed, it is said, by all
that remain. This 10 q feature of the
new policy" and is declared by those
who know to have been brought to the
attention Of MIR. Hayes before adoption.
- There was q singular scene at the
Houston, Texas, court house: A negro
named Allen Smith had betrothed him
self to ak 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 invectiyes against the base de-
ceiver.
= The C0urier-Jovnal 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 ca.
timated at $l75, 900, 600, but will doubt
less largely exceed that sum- Probably
5000, 100000 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
wa, in the spring of 1916, when 1t went
as low as four cents per pound. The
highest price for it, during the same
period, was $1.90, in 1864. It 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-
tendent Phillips says there were 1904
buria!s in Elmwood cemetery, and tho
total interments during the epidemic he
estimates at 5000. Seven thousand dol
lars were allowed the City Undertaken.
and an additional claim is under consid.
ton.
= It 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 q
whole county. We do not nrnAnca ths
tramp in this part of the country. and
should not feed or tolerate them.-Gfeu-
phis Appeal.
"A poor Irishman at Rochester owed
rich man some money, and was unable
to pay. The rich man obtained iudg-
ment and an execution, but there was
nothing on which the Sheriff could lew.
The Irishman had two large pigs, but the
law allows man two, and the Sheriff
could Tot take them. The rich man then
bought two little pigs, had them presen-
ted to the Irishman, and thereupon took
his two large ones.
= a better season for sugar throughout
to this date has perhaps never occurred
in Louisiana or any other sugar-raisinp
district in the world. The Weld ia vari.
ously estimated at from one hundred and
sixty thousand to two hundred and fifty
thousand hogsheads. The yield of mo-
iasses will be much less in proportion to
the amount of sugar made than last year
o|.aS &c the superior condition of the
cane and its immU.1 .1ity from injury by
the weather. While the sugar, however
is finer and bette. in quality, the molassea
IS also much improved. .-New Orlean,
Ptcdyune.
: The searchers after Mr.. Stewards
body acknowledge defeat Each clue
that they have followed has led to moth
ing. 1t is not said that they will give up
all effort, but for the present they have
no indications TO go upon, and the hunt
) Is Wild and formless. There seems to be
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