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

January Is.
~ Virginia spends s12,ooo,ooo annu-
ally for !iGGor.
= An Iowa farmer has a barn one
eighth of mile long.
= The mercantile marine of the entire
world consists Of 81 900 vessels.
- A Springfield, Mass, doctor trained
two horses to chew tobacco.
- The South has q colored voting
population of over q million.
: Galveston, Texas, is fast becoming
the most important city on the Gulf.
- Mrs. Haskell, State Librarian of
Tennessee, is a candidate for reelection.
- Memphian undertook to whip his
wife, and had to be hauled to the hos
pital.
= Holders of Tennessee bonds offer to
compromise on two-thirds Of the face
value.
= The most eminent physicians in
New York make from $40,0 900 tc $4,000
year.
- Mr.. Makepeace, of North Carolina.
raised 604 bushels Of Irish potatoes to
the acre.
- Bob Ingersoll and hell are being
discussed in the same connection all over
Kentucky.
- The Dallas Commercial claims that
Texas exports this year will bring back
50,OOO,O0O.
= Savannah and Charleston are now
in speaking distance by means OF the
telephone.
= The City Bank of Atlanta, which
never had much bottom, has suspended
and closed doors.
"A Virginia girl with the .whooping-
cough drew bean into her windpipe and
died in few moments.
- DIR. Blodgett, u missionary in China.
estimates the number of deaths by fam
inc in North China at 10,000,000.
- About one hundred and fifty of the
present members Of the House of Repre-
scntatiyes have been reelected.
= The bar-keepeIs of Atlanta protest
against the passage OF the Moffet bell
punch law by the Georgia Legislature.
- The decomposed bodies OF cats, dogs
and birds are found in cellars and houses
of Memphis that were closed during the
enidemic
- The quicksilver yield of California
for the current year is estimated at S,OU0
TASKS, probably of the aggregate value
of $250O,000.
- One hundred and seventy one boxes
of unstamped tobacco were found in an
old barn in Granville county, n. c., bv
a revenue officer.
= The stables of horse Railroad
Company of Peoria, ILL.,, was burnt on
the night of the 2lst ult Thirty horses
were roasted alive.
- The number of students in the law
department of the University of Virginia
is greater this session than it has been for
a number of years.
= A colored woman who sat down on
beehive to watch the progress of iire
in Russe!lvillc, left her Gs.t. before the
close of the entertainment.
= Meetings arc being held and the
tobacco. producing counties of Virginia
demanding, not only reduction, but the
abolition of tax on tobacco.
The Alabama Legislature has passed
law allowing its members mileage of
10 cents each way from their respective
court houses, and 81 per diem.
= Boyd, aged twenty y-eight, is the
youngest member of the Georgia Legis-
lature, and Holcome, aged sixty-on and
weighing 2S4, is the oldest and heaviest.
= The Tennessee Historical Society
claims to have Daniel Boone's musket.
the verlfable "Old Betsy"-and the port
folio owned and used by Henry Clay in
the Senate
- The Columbus Enquirer foots up
thirty cotton-gin houses DESTROYED in
Georgia this season. The greater por-
ton al thought to have heen caused i;v
inccndiaries.
- In the forty-second Congress there
were nine negroes; in the fortv-third.
seven; ia the forty fourth, four; in the
forty-fiith, three; in the forty.sixth there
will be one, Bruce, Of Mississippi.
- terrible explosion occurred ut
sullivan Coal Mine, Qnd.,) recently, re-
sulting from the ignition of gas by the
tiame Of lamp. Thirteen men were
Killed outright, and eight or ten woun.
ded.
The Legislature of Georgia elected
as Superior Judges Claiborne Snead.
John l.. Harris, A. M. Speer, Herschel
V. johnson, Thos. G. Lawson, J. w. III.
Underwood, A. H. HansilI. Arthur
Hood and A. s. Erwin.
= The Secretary of the Treasury has
written letter stating that there is ON
hand, for resumption purposes, the sum
OF $l34 ,23l ,S65.06 in coin, and that st
least that amount will be available to
resume specie payments January l, 1879.
- In vote on the question Of re-
moving the State capital from New Or
Leans to Baton Rouge, 10000 Louisian-
ians failed to vote-1S00O of the failures
being in the former city New Orleans
will remain the capital by majority Of
1,648.
- Hon George S. Houston was elected
U. s. Senator from Alabama on the last
day of his Gubernatoral term. He was
elected to the same position in 1865. but
not allowed to take his seat Few men
in the Senate have seen SO much of nnh-
lie life.
= The General Assembly of Alabama
has adopted a memorial to the Congress-
of the United States asking for the BASS.
age of q national quarantine law. which
will give the Federal Government full
control over quarantines in all portions
of the Union. 'l0'''
- The statistics of travel show that
about 10000 Americans go to Europe
annually. Our Consul at Wurtemberp
who has investigated this subject. places
the average stay III Europe at two wears.
and the annual expenditure at over
800, 900, 900. o'e'
- Some time ago there died at Fort
Lincoln, Dakota, Mrs. Noonan. laun-
dress, who turned out to be man. and
the death was duly reported. On Satur-
day Corporal Noonan, husband of the
deceased man-woman, shot and killed
himself Mt Fort Lincoln.
= The report of the Assessors upop the
educational advantages of the inhabi-
tants of sarty. three of the fifty-eight