The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-04-03
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

= a glass mandatory IS now talked
of in Atlanta.
"A Swiss colony is to locate in Geor-
gia this Spring.
- Alabama's last Legislature cost the
State over 100000.
- 1t takes $4,000 locomotives to sup
ply all the railroads.
- The bonded debt of New York city
is stated at Sl07, ,126,004.
- Chicago has had a National butter,
egg and cheese convention.
- Ripe strawberries are selling at Pa
latka, Fla, at so cents quart.
Key West has thirty-six cigar facto-
ries, employing over two thousand hands.
= Extensive beds Of gypsum have been
recently discovered in Fentress county,
Kentucky.
- From March 1878, to March 1879,
$40 buildings were erected in San An
tonic, Texas.
: The number of newspapers in North
Carolina is 80, or nearly an average of
one to each county.
North Carolina has nineteen rail-
roads that are either wholly or partly
within her borders.
No more cock-fghting in Charlotte.
An ordinance now passed imposes pen
atty of S25 for each and every offense.
Charles Howard, one of New Or
leans wealthiest men, says that city has
been injured by the yellow fever to the
extent of S1O0,0OOOO0.
The. Democrat, of Kentucky, says a
successful farmer of Hart smokes his seed
corn, and finds it keeps insects from eat
ing it and insures good stand.
Two thousand people, $4,000 horses
and cattle, and $4,000 sheep, perished in
the Szegedin floods in Hungary last week.
Of9,7O0 houses, only 261 remain.
The Southern Baptist Convention,
representing upwards Of 100000 COM
municants, will hold its next annual
meeting at Atlanta, Georgia, beginning
May 8.
- The New York Herald estimates
the whole number of mechanics and citi-
zens out of employment in that city, as
only 1885, against 25,400 at the cor
responding period in 1873.
The Minnesota Senate, by vote of
Is to 9, instructs the State Representa-
tives iu Congress to try to secure the
adoption of a constitutional amendment
which will give the ballot to all, irrespcc-
tive of sex.
"Twenty-four whole potatoes plant
ed in as many hills, with handful of
bran in each, will give yield of three
pecks, and the number right alongside of
them, but without bran, will yield only
half a busbel."
The Asheville, IN. C.) Citizen an
nounces daylight through the Swanna-
noa Tunnel on Western North Carolina
railroad. We congratulate the people of
Asheville on the good news. The road,
we suppose, will soon be completed to
Asheville.
- Food greatly benefits when given
property at the right periods, but to
overfeed the baby is to sicken it, and in
duce degree of suffering; DR.. Bulls
Baby Syrup is the best remedy for the
discomfort arising from oyerfeeding the
baby. Price 25 cents.
= An intelligent member Of the Ar
kansas Legislature has introduced q bill
abbreviating the season of lent from forty
to twenty days. He explains that every
thing else has come down fifty per cent.
since the war, and there should be no
discrimination in favor of lent.
-. The report is again started that Mr..
Evarts is soon to leave the Cabinet and
return to the practice Of his profession.
The reason given this time is that he
cannot afford to continue in Office, as he
is not man of fortune and his law busi
ness is gradually drifting away from
him.
To boil eggs properly, place
them in dish having a close cover;
pour over boiling water; cover and set
away from the fire for ten to fifteen min
utes. Eggs cooked in this way are more
delicate and digestible than when al
lowed to boil in the old way. The heat
of the water cooks them slowly to Il jelly
like consistency, leaving the yolk har-
der than the white.