The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-13
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Texas has $4,000 shccp.

as q day Of thanksgiving and prayer.
- Colonel King, the great Texas cattle
raiser, has pasture Of 337 square miles,
which will supply food for 10000 cat
tic.
- The increase of cotton export at
New York this year is thirty-eight per
cent. over that Of the same period last
year.
- Gee. gia's gold mines yield over 81
100000 year, and the work of getting
out the 'yellow boys" is increasing and
expanding.
= The Mississippi Democratic Con-
servative party has reduced the ordinary
expenses Of the State government from
| $706, ,873.42 to $225, LOO.
= Goyernor-elect Charles Foster, of
Ohio, says he is not candidate for the
United States senatorship, but will seys
out his term as governor.
- The cholera is rapidly subsiding in
Yokohama. Official returns show up
ward of $50, 900 cases since the outbreak
in April, and $1,000 deaths.
Capt. John r. Wilder, prominent
citizen and steamship agent of Savannah,
Ga, was found dead in his bed at the
Kennesaw House at Marietta, Ga, No
vember 1st.
- In 1860 there were 1,Sl1 ,24G hands
engaged in the manufacturing industries
of Che United States; in 1870 the num-
Der was 2,053,996; in 1880 the number
will not be less than 100000.
- Gen. Chalmers is announced as q
candidate for the Mississippi senatorship,
to succeed Senator Bruce, and he will
probably make it lively for Congressman
Singleton, who is his principal rival.
= Miss Maud Banks, daughter of Gen.
Banks, has made he debut at Brooline,
Mass, as an actress in an amateur COM
pauy. She intends to go on the profess
sional stage. The general was once an
actor.
The great actress Rachel had small
scar upon her check. In the extreme
poverty of her childhood she one day in
the street contested with dog the right
TO bone with some scraps of meat on it.
A bite from the dog caused the scar.
- Assistant Postmaster New, of Pitts
field, Mass, added 81 900 to his income
in year by removing fresh postage
stamps from letters, putting on those that
had been used and selling the stolen
ones. He used the money in maintain
ing his social pretensions.
= Two prizes have been offered by the
Royal Agricultural Society of England
for new varieties of wheat, combining
the largest yield of grain and straw per
acre, with smooth aud thin husks, full
and white kernels, high specific gravity
in the seed, and with bright, finn, and
stiff straw
= Two women at Union, Tenn, had
duel in regular man style. They both
fired at the word, and one hit boy who
was climbing over the fence with 4
watermelon, and the other hit calf in
the field. Both having drawn blood they
acknowledged that they had received
satisfaction.
- Some firm in Germany is attempt
ing to substitute paper for wood in the
manufacture of lead pencils. The paper
is stepped in an adhesive liquid, and rolled
around the core of lead TO the required
thickness. After the paper is dry it is
colored, and it resembles, when finished,
an ordinary cedar pencil.
= 1t is a generation of old men which
troubles the peace of Europe to-day.
Prince Gortschakof' is 81, Lord Beacons-
field "a, Prince Bismarck 65, Count Won
Moltke 70, and the Emperor William SO.
The youngest of the leading figures in
diplomacy are old-Count Andrassy Sc
and Count Schouyaloff 90.
- There is one citizen Of Mississippi
who is doing a good work for the future
of his State and section. DR.. G. NJ. Val.
den, of Walden, Miss, is supporting and
paying tuition for sevcnty-iive students
in the State University at Oxford. He
is wealthy man, and every year gives
thousands of dollars towards the cduca-
ton of the youth of his State.
- The Augusta Chronicle says: ave
learn from a gentleman who has fine
cornfelds on the river, that the grain
was completely covered, and has been
seriously damaged by the sudden and Sc.
rous overflow. The damage to one field
above Augusta was from $1,000 to ST.
500, while several other plantations count
up losses at $500 and upwards.
- There are iifly-threc cotton mills in
operation in North Carolina, and the
consumption for past year is estimated at
,434 bales, or II, ,299, 800 pounds. Ac.
cordng to the figures of the National
Cotton Exchange, this was an increase Of
1854 bales over the previous year.
Three large mills are now being erected,
with the prospect that others will be adj
ded within the next twelve months.
- The oldest timber in the world,
which has been used by man, is supposed
to be that found in the ancient temples
of Egypt. 1t is found as dowel-pins in
connection with Il stone-work which is
known to be at least 1000 years old.
These bowels appear TO be of tarmarisk
or shitlim wood, of which the ark is said
to have been constructed, q sacred tree
in ancient Egypt, and now rarely found
in the valley of the Nile.
- Nearly 10000 emigranls have ar
rived in this country since the first OF jan
uary, and it is estimated that at least TO-
600 more will come by the end of the
year. In point of numbers the Germans
are first, and next, in the order named,
come Irish, English, Swedes, Scotch,
Norwegians, Swiss, Russians, Welsh and
French. The commissioners of immi-
grafton estimate that upon an average
the immigrats have brought so each in
money and personal property to the same
value. This would make total of S22,-
100000 thus brought into this country
and distributed in this year.
This is what Robt G. Ingersoll says
of the women: 81 tell You women are
more prudent than men. ] tell you as
rule, women are more faithful than men
ten times as faithful as men. never
saw Il man pursue his wife into the very
ditch and dust of degradation and take her
in his arms. never saw man stand at
the shore where she had been morally
wrecked waiting for the waves to bring
back even her corpse to his arms; but
.oo,, ,,nn,np urith her white arms