The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-09-11
VOL. XV---NO. 8.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

= William II. Vanderbilt employs
27,7O6 men.
Kinston, N. c., claims man and
wife 11S and 1O4 years old respectively.
- Beef sells in Wilmington, N. c.,
for one and half to two cents per pound.
- The Macon, Ga, gamblers are re-
quired to pay a license tax of $500 a
month.
- New gold mines are constantly be-
ing found and opened around Washing
ton, Ga.
= Pike county, Ga, has twelve.year
old boy that weighs 375 pounds, and is
gaining FIVE pounds every month.
There are 500 Confederate soldiers
buried in Magnolia cemetery, Charleston.
A monument will be erected to their
memory.
- Miss Lucy Horton has entered suit
for $4,000 against John II. Morgan, son
Ex-senator Morgan, of Alabama, for breach
of promise.
Two hundred gallons of wine were
made from one grape vine last year on
Mr.. Rutland's place on the Wittelacoo-
che hver, Fla.
= The celebrated Kennedy cattle
rancho, Texas, on the Rio Grande, has
been purchased by an English COM
pany for S950,OO0.
- Miss Susan Grant, of Searcy county,
Arkansas, gave birth to twins and killed
them, for which she gets four years in
the State prison.
= AS means of making the Illinois
State Fair more than ordinary attractive
it is proposed that the Legislature shall
hold "mock session for fun" on the
ground.
= An old lady who had been confined
to her bed for many years in Richmond,
Va, by rheumatic gout was suddenly re.
stored to health and arose from her bed
and walked.
There are now in Texas over 5,000,-
900 sheep. Last year over 100000
pounds of wool were shipped out of the
state, besides large quantities that were
manufactured.
James Bullock, of Walton county,
Ga, while hoeing in o cotton field, found
concealed in stump $4,000 in gold
and silver and pile of greenbacks. The
paper money had rotted.
During the past year no fewer than
300, ,00, 900 acres of government land have
been taken up or sold to settlers. 1t is
estimated that about half a million peo-
pie have settled on these lands.
= A sawfish was landed at Galveston,
Texas, few days ago which measured
over fourteen feet in length. 1t was
taken in seine. This species of fish is
the most formidable enemy of the whale.
- In Paris thirty-fye years ago stores
of all kinds were open on Sunday morn
ing. Now all large establishments are
closed, and only few of the smaller are
open. In Italy, too, labor is more
restricted on Sunday than formerly.
- At Decater, Alabama, last Wedncs-
day, B. F. DeGrafenreid, an old citizen
Of that place, had dispute with COL
ored woman about washing, and coming
to blows, she threw him down and
choked him, so that he soon afterwards
died.
Thus far at Memphis, 23S negroes
have had yellow fever. OF these but "a
died. There have been 293 white cases
and of these lis died. The deduction
from his would seem to be that the
negroes can take the disease very readily,
but it is not by great deal as fatal as
among the whites.
- In Montague, Texas, last Friday,
Charles Harris was executed in the pres
ence of FIVE thousand pesons, for the
murder of his brother in January, 1877.
He was convicted on his on confes-
sion. He was firm to the last, and the
drop fell while the assemblage sang
"Sweet Bye-and.Bye."
1t is difficult to believe that a multi
tude of people, equal in number to one
fourth the population of the United States,
have recently been destroyed by famine
in China. Yet such is the statement
that comes on the authority of MIR. For
rest, the English consul at Tientsin:
Nor has the terrible visitation yet passed
away.
Ex-senator Corbin, ofSouth Carolina,
has returned to Washington from Colora-
do. He pronounces the story without
foundation that while he was visiting in
DenveriSlO 900 worth of bogus gold bricks
we're palmed off upon him. No transac.
ton of the kind was attempted, and
nothing occurred upon which to found
such story.
The commissioner of internal reve-
nue. reports that the tax on the matches
produced revenue during the last fiscal
wear of three and quarter million dol
lars-an increase over any previous year.
From fve-eights t. three-fourths of the
price of matches is -ue to the tax. we
import no matches now, but are export
ing them to q large extent.
= Some person, with plenty of spare
time on hand, has made the follow
ing calculation as to the weight
and bulk in bullion of the national
debt: Two billion two hundred mil.
lions of silver dollars weigh 13,2OO,0OO
pounds avoirdupois, or $500 tons. TO
transportit by railway would require 10y
freight trains of II cars each. 1t would
fill 100 rooms 10 feet wide, 20 feet long
90. - Atlanta, Georgia, special says re-
liable report has been received here to
the effect that various Mormon congrega-
tions in North Georgia are arranging Tor
an immediate exodus to Utah. a great
many native Mormons will 60. The
movement creates some excitement in
the country, but the Saints are deter.
mined and the field will be abandoned
for awhile.
= The Orange FLA Reporter says that
over 5000 acres in that country have
been planted in sweet potatoes. AT a
Weld of 100 bushels per acre, 100000
bushels will be produced: This potato
has been utilized successfully in SO many
important interests Of late, that it is be-
coming much more valuable crop than
has ever before been contemplated.
First, they, when boiled, make the best
food for fattening hogs or cattle; second,
no better food for fattening chickens and
turkeys; third no better food for horses,
COWS, etc.
Dalton (Ga.) Headlight: We learn
that the parties implicated in the killing
of the Mormon elder have had bond