The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-04-17
amtIersp,t gatelligeueer.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

lIENEhAh NhuS 9O@~N~~As
= Thomas Couture, the celebrated
painter, is dead.
Grasshoppers have made their ap-
pearance in Austin, Nevada.
-Nape county, CAL, produced 2,l0O,-
600 gallons of wine last year.
New potatoes and waterme!ons have
appeared in the Florida markets.
= The birth of q headless child IN
Cooke county, Tenn, is announced.
= Green peas are plentiful in San An
tonic, at eight and half cents per quart.
The Kentucky penitentiary has
1.01O convicts-forty-ive life prisoners:
The sugar crop of Louisiana Will
amount this season to 225, 600 hogsheads.:
1t is estimated that Idaho will add
twenty thousand to its population this
year. "a, +ho;,
appearance at Burlington, Illinois, one
day recently.
confirmed by the Senate as Consul to
W During : 1878 about 5000 Irishmen
left the old country for the United States
and Canada.
The business and financial outlook
in Georgia this year IS more cheerful
than for years past. -. !,
A portion of Mississippi was visited
by a shower OF aligators-some OF them
II inches in length.
Texas has to raise over 50, oVJ,OUO
in taxes each year, of which S2,5OO,OOO
is for railroad subsidies.
"A man convicted Of perjury in Ala
bama was pardoned because of his wlfe,s
services in yellow fever.
= Tomatoes have become a drug IN
the Kew West market. They are solo
for less than the cost of picking.
- The Louisiana Constitutional Con,
yention is composed of 49 Democrats, 50
Republicans and 7 Fusionists and Ma
tionals.
General Sheridan, who has returned
from the plains, regards the fears OF a
general Indian outbreak almost wholly
without foundation. .ooo
il. Milton Turner says 10000 ne
groes have left Kentucky and gone to
kansas. Turner ought to turn over a
new leaf and tell the truth.
- The National Emigration Aid So
ciety in Washington is taking measures
to further the cause of negro immigra-
tion from the South to the West. s.
- The first Speaker of the House OF
Representatives was also Pennsylvania
man. He was F. A. Muhlenberg, and
he was Speaker of the Third Congress
also.
- Provincetown, Massachusetts, was
visited by a severe snow storm on the 4th,
which not only did great damage to ship.
ping, but resulted in the death OF several
- Sitting bull has 100 lodges en-
camped on both sides of the British line,
and as soon as the grass is high enough
intends to attack Fort Buford, Stevenson
and Totten.
An idea of the importance of the
potato crop in Maine may be OBTAINED
from the fact that the farmers in ARGOS
took realize from S105,000 to $4,000
yearly from that crop.
On the 9th of May the National
Medical Association will meet in Atlanta
and continue in session at least four days.
This l. one of the largest medical bodies
in the world, if not the very largest.
- There is no use of the Confederate
Brigadiers trying to starve out Hayes.
The supply of pumpkins laid in by him
ut the agricultural fairs last autumn will
more than last his term Chicago
Times
Quarantine regulations will be en-.
forced at Savannah April 1. Any vessel
coming by the inland route from Florida
or other Southern ports will not be per
mitted to land either passengers or freight
until inspected by the Health Officer.
The New Orleans Pcayune states
that prisoner was lately taken from jail
in Texas by masked men and hung. 1t
was subsequently discovered that the
mob which did the hanging was coin-
posed of the prisoners old associates IN
crime, who killed him to prevent him
from turning States evidence.
The neighborhood of Melissa, Col
lin county, Texas, was visited by ter
rife hailstorm on the night of March 26.
The ground was covered to the depth OF
ten inches and IN drifts to three feet.
The fruit crop is supposed to be entirely
destroyed and the wheat greatly injured.
= During game of base ball on a
farm near Lancaster, Pa, recently a
young man named Frank Bryson threw
te bali playfully at Byron Clark, aged
eighteen, striking him on the neck below
the left ear, and killing him almost in
stantly. An examination showed that
the lads neck had been broken. :,
u In Texas the frontier lines have ad-
/. vanced hundred miles in two years
and an area of 100000 acres of good
lands opened for settlement, reclaimed
from savage rule, the cavotes, buffalo
and Comanches giving place to the far
mer and stock-raiser. Counties are be-
ing organized now in a section which
1.-TWO years ago was 300 miles from any
: court.
The Arkansas Democrat says enough
food is thrown away every year on worth
less dogs in Arkansas to support five
times the number of suffering poor in the
State for the same period. And yet
great many people-doubtiess majority
ARE opposed to any infringement of the
sacred and inalienable rights of the dog
We are queer people.
The Kate Howe was loaded with
cotton at Charleston, and forty-seyer
days afterwards the matches were taker
off at Liverpool, cat crawled cut from
between two cotton bales, with its heac
hattened and one leg twisted over it:
: back. 1t had lived all that time withou
food or water, but in few Gays was ap
pareptly all right again.
It was at dusk Friday afternoon
A young man with a black mustach'
and blue seal ring stood on the side
walk of certain Louisville street ant
attempted handkerchief Irritation with
a pretty girl in store across the way
She timidly answered his ardent signals
and, screwing up his courage, he crossed
over and entered the store. Once in the