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

= The population of Richmond, Va,
is 10000.
-virginia'u State debt is summed up
to S29, 1867 ,658.
Nevada is shipping largely of beef
cattle this fall and winter.
"A terrible famine prevails at Maga-
dor, the deaths averaging 25 daily.
= Two Sheriffs have been killed at
Wortham, Texas, during the year.
- Three sisters living in Dyer County,
Tenn, have given birth to sixty children
- Governor Vance has joined tho
Second Presbyterian Church of Raleigh.
- Fifty houses in the business portion
of Macon, Mississippi, destroyed by fire.
- Fine oranges at Lake City, Florida,
are plentiful, and sell at ten dollars per
thousand. t..,
- The Russian Council of State is
discussing project for taxing American
cotton imports.
Gen. Beauregard has been appoint
ed Adjutant General of Louisiana by
Gov. Nichols.
- 1t is estimated that every American
boy would consume 800 pounds of candy
per year ifhe had the chance.
e e. White, formerly Of Alexan-
dria, Va, has been appointed American
Consul at Ponce, Porto Rico.
- Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was elected
President of the Commercial Convention
which met in New Orleans, recently.
New Orleans proposes to build brick
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 a
second time. and completely riddled with
bullets.
- With revenue tax amounting to
90 cents a gallon, whisky is selling in
Cincinnati at S1.03, or l3 cents above the
revenue.
The exact time of the death of
Christ was Friday, April 8, A. d. 33, ac-
cording to the calculations of Prof. Lut-
terback.
= The Legislature of Missouri has
been petitioned by the grand juries of
post in that State
- An express train on the Central
Vermont Railroad ran into swollen
creek, killing three persons and seriously
injuring several others.
Two thousand citizens of New Or
leans assembled in mass meeting, week
before last, to 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 q number of shoots from
Japan.
= The total cotton spindles in the
| North are now estimated at about
$500 900, and in the South at 100000,
or total in the whole country of say
10,500,0o0.
- The recent election returns from FIVE
Eastern and four Western States show
that the Greenbackers cast COS, 900 votes,
the Democrats 100000 and the Repub-
licans 1,761 900.
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 speculatious.
= Stanford Hayes, of Battle Creek,
Michigan, who is said to be relative of
the President, is in Jail for obtaining
horse without even going through the
formality of an electoral commission.
- Mrs. r. A. Thompson, widow of the
Memphis postmaster who died at his post
during the yellow fever epidemic, has
given her bond as postmstress and 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
iniure other mail matter.
= 1t is said that the people of Bulga-
ria, who are now debating among them
selves the question of ruler and the
details of new constitution, are think
ing of making Gen. U. S. Grant their
king-provided, of course, he will accept.
- William Lewis, a 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 skif at the time.
- The Winnebago Indians in Nebras-
ka, who nine years ago were paupers
dependent on the government, are now
living in comfortable dwellings, nearly
every head of a family holds land
patent, and the whole tribe are making
rapid progress toward civilization.
- The ten cotton growing States raise
for expectation annually S16O,OO0,0OO
worth of cotton with naval stores, to-
bacco, peanuts, etc., enough to raise the
amount to 100000, ,00O-S20, 900, 900
each for the ten States-an amount suffi-
cient to make them prosperous and great.
- William II. Delvin has just been
! convicted of murder in the first degree
l in Cambridge, Mass, on the testimony of
his two little children, seven and eight.
: Mrs. Devlin's body was found lying in
7 her house, fearfully cut and bruised,
while on the bed lay her baby, strangled
} to death. Devlin had fed, but he was
: soon caught -.
e At the death of John Wesley in
: 1761 there were in connection with Meth
8 odism 312 ministers, lis circuits, 16 mis-
). sion stations and $4,000 members. Now,
j including the Methodism of Great Bri-
e tain, that of the United States of Amer
: ica, colonial Methodism and branch
d churches, it is estimated that there are
not less than 10000 itinerant preachers,
: and 100000 adherents.
r If cotton is king in the South, corn
j may Justly put in claim to the title in
s other portions of the country. The
: amount of corn exported in 1868 was
e only 100000 bushels, while this season
n the amount will probably reach IS, ,00O, 900
!. The total acreage this year will probably
a reach 5O,OOO,OC6, and the total yield will
d not be less than 1900, 10000 bushels.
: Nancy Slocomb recently died at
Bloomington, Indiana, at the age of lO3
years. Before her death she relapsed
It into second childhood, which was so
r complete copy Of infancy that the old
+ woman spoke Of herself as baby, delight,