The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-10-30
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

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GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
- Ex-senator Patterson, of "South
Carolina" is running Baltimore horse
car line.
= North Carolina owes S27,0O0,000
and owns only S127 100000 of property
with which to pay it.
The Court House bell is tolled at
Salem, North Carolina, when trial is
on hand before magistrate.
= Twenty.fve hundred emigrants en-
barked at the close of last month from
Genoa for the United States.
The Southern cotton this year is
much finer than has heretofore been
raised. Buyers say it is tip top.
Georgia has made provision for her
crippled soldiers. They are to receive
sixty dollars year for FIVE years.
Property left for educational purposes
by William Hulme of England, valued in
1851 at 5000, is now estimated at from ST.
500, 900 to S3 100000.
"A noted and successful cotton mer-
chant predicts that if frosts be postponed
until November the crop will be not less
than 5,5O0,OOO bales.
A prize fight between an unarmed
man and dog is reported at New Alba
ny, Ind, and both contestants used their
teeth, and the dog was whipped.
DIR. J. L. Ensor, late Superinten-
dent of the South Carolina Lunatic Asy-
lum, has received an appointment sSur-
geon in the United States Army.
- Gen. Walker, who is to superintend
the United States census of 1880, esti
mates that the population will be be-
tween forty-six and forty-seven millions.
- There will be five Sundays in next
February, and those of us who are fortu-
nate enough to live forty years longer
may see another February of five Sum
days.
An active Northerner who settled
at Richmond Bath, in Richmond County,
Ca, has sold in the Augusta market, du-
ring the season, s39 worth of grapes from
a single vine.
One of the largest wool growers in
Pennsylvania says that the red hills of
the Carolinas and Georgia are vastly
better for raising sheep than any part Of
Pennsylvania.
The Colleges at Due West have
opened with very encouraging prospects.
Eighty pupils answered to the first roll
call in the Female College and thirty-fve
in Erskine College.
Uncle Jumbo was caught with
stolen chicken hid in his hat, and when
asked how it came there he replied:
"Fore de Lord, boss, that fowl must have
crawled up my breeches leg"
= Love is like river-if the current
be obstructed it will seek some other
channel. It is not unfrequently the case
that the kisses and attentions bestowed
on the child of six years, are intended for
the sister of sixteen.
An editor having read in another
paper that there is tobacco, which, if a
man smoke or chew it, "will make him
forget that he owes dollar in the world"
innocently concludes that many of his
subscribers have been furnished with the
article.
- The Rev. William Mckay, after
reading several notices from his pulpit in
the Methodist church at Geneva, Ind,
said there was another matter as to which
he desired to inform his congregation.
His wife had eloped with Mr.. Hatton, a
neighbor.
= Investigations made by Northern
newspaper reporters have put beyond all
dispute the question as to the ability of
the negro to sneeze. 1t seems that his
nasal possibilities are about equal to
those Of the white man, and that perhaps,
he is the bigger sneezer of the two.
In Ocean, India, rats have become
so numerous that q committee of State
has been appointed to devise means for
their determination. They destroy every
means of human subsistence, and have
spread terror through the country. Sure
ly there are no cats in that country.
"A workman on q railroad at Flor
ence, Italy, was run over and killed. His
sweetheart laid her self on the track to
die in the same manner, but the train
only injured an arm, which was subse-
quently amputated. Still determined on
suicide, she tore off the bandage and bled
to death.
= The following from Georgia paper
raises a question as to which is the c:ole
dangerous end of the mule. One of
them in the lower end Of Gordon County,
a few days ago, got Mr.. Reuben Jones'
finger in his mouth and refused to letgo.
After he had kept his unfortunate cap
tive in misery for half an hour he gave
one quick jerk and literally pulled the
flesh of the finger from the bone.
- Statistics show that the inhabitants
of New Jersey who are in the State pris-
on have better health and longer life
than those who are out of prison.
| Whether this is due to the strong con-
stitutions of the convicts, or to their
forced observation of the laws of health
is not shown by the figures. But, from
either standpoint, the facts are signif-
cant.
= The plague of wild beasts and
snakes in India is extraordinary indeed.
Snakes alone in 1878 killed nearly II 900
persons, and tigers, elephants, leopards
and other beasts nearly 5000 more.
Efforts were made at the same time to
destroy the animals, but without appa-
rent reduction of numbers. About 49,
900 snakes and $4,000 wild beasts were
killed and $4,000 paid in rewards for
their destruction.