The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-01-02
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

.hT. u. htSSell lOuDp VIII, tney say,
J arrange General Grants accounts of his
travels.
The number of oyster catclicrs, boat
men and openers in Virginia is put down
at 10000.
= The tide of immigration to Texas
from Germany is heavier this year than
ever before.
= The information comes from Boston
that plain rum is the only drink affected
by Congressman this season.
Jesse Pomeroy, the notorious boy
murderer, Of Boston, is said to be losing
his mind and failing in health.
= Mr.. Wallace McGee, who was re-
Gently married in Carroll county, Va,
had at the time 104 grandchildren.
- Rev. James Hodgson, Adventist, of
Petersburg, Virginia, says the world will
come to an en-. on the 5th of January.
- The North Carolina Legislature
meets January s. On the 22d of Jan
uary they elect United States Senator.
"A curiosity can be seen at Syracuse,
n. Y. 1t is live cat with six feet, each
forepaw having two well formed and per-
feet feet.
Gen. Joe Hooker is 64 years old,
well, hearty, and possessed of a supreme
aversion for his army associates, Gems.
Grant and Sherman.
- Jefferson Davis book of memoirs is
to be published next spring simultane-
ously in New York and London, with a
French edition in Paris.
"A prisoner arraigned at the bar of
the New Castle, Va, court knocked the
Judge over with his fist and felled the
clerk with brick bat.
- The registers show that in fifteen
months the Richmond bars have sold
1887 1906 alcoholic, and 3,093,523 malt
drinks; total tax, s55,650.6l.
There are S24 places in the good
city of New Orleans where the down
trodden and oppressed citizen may walk
in and take "sugar in his'n."
- Adam johnson, colored Liberian
apostle, has been arrested at Mallard
Creek, N. c., for swindling an old negro
out of STA and the title deeds to his
farm.
If George P. Marsh holds out until
next March he will have served the
country as minister to Italy seventeen
years, and will have drawn for his servi-
ces 100000.
- Alabama is burdcned with land
purchased BY the State at tax sales. In
one county the State has thus got posses
sion of 10000 acres-nearly one-third
of the county.
Mrs. J. D. Mcintyre, of Pender
county, n. c., aged twenty-four, has just
presented her lord with son, his twenty
fourth child. He is eighty, and she is
his fourth wife,
= Mr.. Halsted says it is no secret
among Grants intimate friends that he
would rather be made field marshal with
a salary Of $4,000, and retired on half
pay, than to run for the presidency /.
again. =
VIM. Jefferson, who was hung at
Warrenton, N. c., on the 18th December,
admitted to the commission of eight
rapes, one murder, several attempts at
murder, besides numerous house burn
ings and burglarics.
1t is said that Lieut.. Flipper, the
only colored cadet who has been grAdua-
ted from West Point, has decided to
write or authorize book describing the
hardships which he had to endure there
on account of his color.
Cedar Keys ships annually $4,000
pounds of fish, bringing into the city
about $4,000. In addition to those
shipped on ice, immense quantities are
salted and sold to parties in the interior,
increasing the income to about S25, 900.
"A band of thirty gypsies visited
Crawfordville, Ga, recently, and the
women drove thriving business by tell
ing fortunes to negroes. The chief at
fractions held out to the negro men were
that they we're all told they would have
white wives.
- A thousand men are from the Con-
cho to the Red River in Texas bunting
buffalo. 1t is claimed that this little
army has been of great advantage to the
State in driving back the Indians and
allowing the tide of white emigrants to
follow close in their wake.
- Negro slavery in the South was
abolished by the war, but what will wipe
out Democratic slavery in the North?
The shareholders lost the commercial
control of the Southern blacks, but they
still retain mastery of the Northern
Democrats. The Hills and Gordons and
| Whitthornes and Huntons crack their
whips in the halls of Congress, and the
VOORHEES, and Thurmans and Woods and
Co1es and Springers feel Of their collars
and apologize for the noise.-&. Louis
Globe Democrat.
During the session at Richmond,
Va, last month of the Grand Lodge of
Good Tcmplars, an interesting incident
occurred. A speaker alluded to the mel
ancholy end of the lamented Edgar
Allen Poe, which brought out DR.. Moran,
who attended Poe in his last sickness in
Baltimore. He refuted and rebuked the
slander that he died under the influence
of either opium or liquor, and stated that
after he became rational, for many days
before his death, he could not be persua-
ded to take either stimulants or opiates
to allay his nervous excitement. He
died in his sober senses, true penitent
of the past.
- Baltimore is growing in Importance
as a grain port, the receipts of -four for
the year ending the 30th of September
aulOuuLluS W fIO,AA1 uiiIIelo, anu VI
grain to 30639.654 bushels, an increase
of about one-fifth in both items over the
year before. The wheat traffic shows the
greatest gain, from 100000 bushels in
1877 to 9,375, ,233 bushels this year, while
the corn receipts were some 5000, 600 less
than year ago, owing to the refusal of
the Baltimore and Ohio line to compete
with the very low rates offered by other
trunk lines.
= If the new year be not begun with
fresh activity in trade and industry, the
lowest point of business depression hav-
ing passed and better times being at hand,
it will not be because We, the citizens of
the United States, have not encouraged
one another with this belief, nor because
the belief was without apparent founda-
ton. Capital is gaining courage, new
enterprises are projected, increased con-