The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-06
VOL. XV--NO. II.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

= Charleston's business lat year
amounted to *:53,oG0.000.
= TEcY are praying for rain in NortI :
ern and Northwest Texas.
- Emigran.s will absorb 10000, 900
acres OF Western land this year.
: Potatoes weighing four ar'i a qu9r-
ter pounds are coInlnn in GeHry:a.
= The drummer's laS Welded The
State of Texas a reyora" OF S65, ,0OU.
"A perfectly back old fell! mare has
hcen caught in Davic County. n. G.
i - Two inches OF snow fell ut Nc.
Louis, Quebec, on the 25gh of September.
= Not a newspaper man in Houston,
Tex, drinks anything stronger than Wa,
ter.
A slight shock of earthquake was
felt in Memphis on the 25th of Scptem-
ber
= Georgia is said mt 10 have n single
millionaire, and vet is the most prosper
GUS Southern State.
- Wild tea grows in abundance in
Arkansas county, Ark, and the people
will discard the Chinese article.
- The rice crop ofsou,h Carolina FOR
the year is estimated at 44,000 tierces,
aud that Of Georgia at $4,000 tierces.
= The Charleston Cotton Exchange
estimate that the crop in this State will
be hhput twenty per cent. below the
average,
: Senator Lamar f;ivurs Rayard for
President He told ua last ycar, with
enthusiasm, that Bayard was l;:e .nob!est
id.as Of siatcsmanship INV living.
= Tie KlufnMn TEX 1:mes says
thar frty-six nuul;': free c!.uuis haze
bern organized in tha r.uEty rr tie
rr :. ut ycsr, e,!u~s,in: Dis e!,ihr.r
= ri.c Wilmington IN. C.l '':far calls
upon the n"xt legislature of tlie Safe to
pass an act for the encouragement Of
shprh raising, which can he made must
'r-oG able there.
= rbc Treasurer of the United States
reports that the total amount of standard
silver dollars coined is S52,757,750;
amount on hand, S3l. .703.6SO; amount in.
circulation, S1l ,054 4,070. 60
= On Friday morning, 18th ult., ON
DR.. George Wise's plantation, in the
Horns Creek section, Edgc6el1 CO., a
negro .mnn named Carey Ashley, WAS
shot and killed by white man named
benjamin. l.. Jones, who lives On ihe
same p!ar..
-Whra K4arney sent uphis card To Gen.
Grant tie third time the "quiet man" re-
marked: 81 would see any workingman
or any man IL California, but I would not
see rutiian" Kearney ought to study
up the famous dialogue between Alexan--
der the Great and lie Robber.
- The largest bridge in Europe is now
building across the Volga IN Russia, is
to cost S3,500,000, and will be finished
next wear. The brl-e is 10 res, on
twelve pcirs, eighty three feet high aud
264 feet apart, the r 'rr heing four miles
wide during the S:"r':a :.'o'ls, but only
4,732 feet in the d:v ,soD.
= Seventy. fnrr pupils are educated at
the Sam. Houston Normal School ut
Huntsville, Tcxa- free of charge, to he ?
come teachct.; in the public schools. The
Legislature h:.s appropriated Sl4.0lO of
the schnn! iIlGd for this purpose, and the
Peabody fund gives $4,000 more, max
ing $4,000 a year for this great and be-
neficent work.
=. A lovers alarm clock has been in
troddced in New Orlcans. At 10 o'clock
it strikes loudly, Two little doors open,
and a man with dressing. gown and cap
on glides ont, hulding in his hand a card
inscribed "Cund nig ght." As he bows
and ,miingIy retires back into the cl'cs,
the yuung man takes the hin., says
good u:sht" to the fair daughter and
departs.
= The Georgia Legislature was in ses-
sion $50 days, and the expenditure
amounted to ever $4,000. In the
House, 1929 bill, were introduced, and
in tile Senate. 2!9. Over 800 resolutions
were likewise introduced. OF the 1,24S
bills, not over Is were passed, leaving
900 consigned To the waste basket OF
the 900, fully 600 were killed on the Sec
ond reading.
=. The lawlessness in Baldwin and
Hancock counties, Ga, is receiving the
proper attention of the authorities. A
Sparta telegram to the augusta Chroni-
Gle says: The people of Hancock arc
determined to protect white and black
from outrage, and our able and fearless
Judge, E. H. Pnttle, is determined to as
sert the majesty Of the law throughout
his circuit. Rest assured, the people of
Hancock ere fully aroused in the cause
of law and right. TO 60 into further
particulars might defeat the end which
every good citizen wishes to see attained.
There are not more than dozen men i'll
the band, and the trouble is personal, not
political.
Charlotte IN. C.) Demscrat:: The
colored people, at some of their protract-
ed meetings in the eastern counties,
have new or novel mode of worship or
of raising money. They call it Storm.
ing Jericho" They form ring and
walk around table at which the Bishop
sits. As they march, singing ard shout
ing, they have to put money in his hat.
When they go around for the seventh
time horn is blown, and at this signal
they all fall down and lie as If dead,
when at another given signal they all
rise and 60 through the same ceremony.
The latter part is called the blowing of
"Gabriels horn," or the Judgment day.
In this part of the State they have "holy
walks" and "cake walks" aud enjoy
themselves generally in "highfalutin' "
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ance of persons who want to sleep.
= 1t was late yesterday morning when
Mr.. Willaby got up, and he was vaguely
conscious of confused recollection of
things, but he didn't say much and tried
to appear as cheerful as he knew how.
Presently breakfast WAS announced, and
the family took their places at the table,
but Mr.. Willaby was amazed, as he sat
staring at six little round wooden boxes
of axle grease ranged solemnly in front
of his plate. "Where under the sum-" he
said, with a puzzled intonation, swhat in
thunder-where did all this axle grease
come from, and what is it for?" ooh, is
it axle grease?" asked his wife, with
charming simplicity and innocence, Just
4 trife overdone. You said last night
when YOU brought these cans home that