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

is 10000.
Virginia's State debt is aummed up
| to $29, ,367 1858. 4s,.,4., os
- Nevada is shipping largely of beef
| cattle this fall and winter.
- A terrible famine prevails at Afaga-
! dor, the deaths averaging 25 daily.
= Two Sher.fs have been killed ct.
Workman, Texas, during the year.
Three sisters living in Dyer County,
Tenn, have given birth to sixty children
- Governor Vance hass Joined the
= Fifty houses in the business portion
of Macon, Mississippi, destroyed by fire.
- Fine oranges at Lake City, Florida,
are plentiful, and sell atEten dollars per
thousand. 1 f4 sifi NJ ,.f.6 4-s.,,,.,l
- The Russian Council of State is
discussing a project for taxing American
cotton imports. q iA9i3lt1t9 e7' i..t
= Gen. Beauregard has been appoint
ed Adjutant General of Louisiana by
Gov. Nichols.
- II ia estimated that every American
boy would consume $50 pounds of candy
per year ifhe had the chance. Z .1i 'Hi
-.E. T.. 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 metin New Orleans, recently.
:. New Orleans proposes to build brick
and iron sheds along the river-front,
capable of storing 100000 bales of cot
tor.
- Tom Cooper, the negro murderer,
was taken from Bainbridge (Ga,) Jail a
second time. and completely riddled with
bullets.
- With a revenue tax amounting to
90 cents a gallon, whisky is selling in
Cincinnati at $l.03, or 13 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-
terbacE.
- The Legislature of Missouri has
been pctitioned by the grand juries of
several Counties to revive the whipping
post in that State 5s,,i iaa eey II
- An express train ON the Central
Vermont Railroad ran into a swollen
creek, killing three persons and seriously
iniiring several others. ~.
Two thousand citizens of New Or.
leans assembled IL mass meeting, week
before last, to express their gratitude Tor
assistance rendered in the lats epidemic.
= The Commissioner of Agricnltnre.
believing that the bamboo plant can be
successfully introduced in this country,
has ordered number of shoots from
Japan. i''s'f' 3'ta! q.
q - The total cotton spindles in the
North are now estimated at about
100000, and in the South at 600, 900,
or total in the whole country of say
10, 0,500, 900. E'i
- The recent election returns from FIVE
Eastern and four Western States show
that the Greenbackers cast COS, 600 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 sl,eculations.
i Stanford Hayes, of Battle Creek,
Michigan. who IS sald to be relative of
the Pre-. dent, 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 ut his post
during the yellow fever epidemic, hes
given her bond as postmistress and is
now in charge of the Office in that city.
: The Postofiice 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
injufe other mail matter.
1t is said that the people Of Bulga-
ria, who arc now debating among them
! selves the question of q ruler and the
details c: o H1w constitution, are think
ing of making Gen. q. S. Grant their
king-pTovided, 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 Nebras-
ka, who nine years ago were pnupers
dependent on the government, are now
living in comfortable dwellings, nearly
every head of family holds land
patent, and the whole tribe ere making
rapid progress toward civilization.
= The ten cotton growing States raise
for expectation annually $16G 0OO,0 600
worth of cotton with naval etoreA. to-!
bacco, peanuts, ETC., enough. to raise the
amount to 100000, ,O00,-320 ,OOO, 900
each for the ten States-an amount suffi-
cient to make them pTosperens and great.
| William II. Delvin has lust heea
| convicted of murder in the first degree
in Cambridge, Mass, on the testimony of
his two little children, seven and eight.
Mrs. Devlin's body was found lying in
her house, fearfulIy cut aud bruised.
while on the bed lay her baby, strangled
to death. Devlin had fed, but he was
coon caught .I13 !.
= at the death of John Wesley in
l761 there were in connection with Meth
( odisul Si2 ministers, lilo circuits. II; mis-.
sion stations and $4,000 membars. Now,
Including the Methodism OF Great, ,Rri.
tain, that of the United States Of eAl,,er.
lea, colonial Methodism, 4 and branch
churches, it is estimated that there ara
not less than 10000 itinerant preachers,
and 10000, 900 adherents.
| IF 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 100000 bushels, while this season
theamount will probably reach SO. 600 600
The total acreage this wear will nrnhahls
reach 6O,U00,000, and the total Weld viii
not be less than J, 900, ,000, 900 bushels.
- Nancy E;ocomb recently died at
bloomington, Indiana, ut the sge of l08
years, Reiore her death nhe relapsed
into second childhood, which was SO
complete q copy of infancy that the old
| woman spoke of herself as baby, DELIGHT
ed in toys, and was dressed and undressed
and rocked to sleep by a daughter 65
years old, herself Q gray-headed grand,
| = 80 gSlE' sfil. ifigL.5ss ~ st{i t5