, 1879-11-24
Intelligence Items.

| 4AtCAAAS OACO xtCuSs
Out on the Texas frontier corn il
worth 50 so per bushel.
Alascosa county, Texas, is enjoying
thirteen months drouth.
Corn is selling at eight and hal
cents bushel in Quincy, Fla.
Fine cotton picking weather prevails
all over the South, and the crop is being
rapidly gathered.
In the past three months, Al ,8H bar
rels of -four, valued at $263, 79S, were
shipped from Richmond to South
America.
John Carman, sailor on the privateer
Wasp in the war of 1912, lives in Fair.
field county, s. c., and wears his hair
in queue.
When a Chicago man gives his seat
in street-car to lady, the papers of
that place publish it as a piece of news.
-Comier-J Journal.
There are only two Republican news
papers in Arkansas, and both favor the
nomination of General Grant.-Louis-
rille Courie,.-Jou,nal.
Mr.. Cyrus Field has erected a monu-
ment to Major Andre. Mr.. Tilden has
also performed similar job for Cyrus
himself f-Courier-J Journal.
It is announced that the ex-Khedive
of Egypt is worth $4,000, 900. But this
statement of his financial condition was
made before his wives had bought their
new fall bonnets. Ibid.
The capital invested in hydraulic
To1.f1rr;o ic G10n nm 00l
and the annual output of gold about
So, ,O00,O This is too big On interest
to sweep out of existence.
| OF the 1000 to 5000 blacks who have
arrived in Kansas from the South, not
more than dozen are now dependent
on the relief committee. The rest are
at work, and some of them are already
laying up money to buy farms.
ga member of London ladies' club
was requested to resign for kissing her
brother in the dining room. ."-Bostoas
Post.
Served her right. She ought to have
been kissing somebody else's brother.
Ibid.
Something new under the sun has
been found. It is a Chicago lawyer
who has thrice refused the nomination
for Judge of the Superior Court on the
ground that he does not consider him
self competent to discharge properly
the duties of the office.-Ibid.
The cotton crop of the present season
is estimated at an increase of SOC, 900
bales over the crop of any previous year
in the history OF the country. The
wheat crop shows twenty to thirty mil
lion bushels increase, and the tobacco
crop twelve million pounds increase.
The highest chimney in the world is
at Mr.. Townshend's works, Port Dun
das, Glasgow, Scotland, and it is, with
the exception of the spire at Strasburg,
the Great Pyramid, and the spire of st.
Stephens at Vienna, the loftiest build
ing. It is circular in section, and rises
to hight of 454 feet from the ground.
The next in hight is also at Glasgow,
at the works of Messrs. Tenant & Co.,
st. Rollox, the hight being 435 feet
above the ground.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: Mrs.
James Bryant, of Lowndes county, do
mated last year her colossal fortune of
natural black hair for the benefit of the
Memphis yellow fever sufferers. It
realized several hundred dollars, and
has now come back to the original
owner, by the kindness of Boston
merchant, who was the last purchaser.
It will be raffled for in Montgomery in
an evening or two, for the benefit of
General Hoods children, and every
body should take chance.
The Youpg Mems Christian Associa-
tions of the United States now number
S54. OF these, Sc have buildings of
their own, valued at $1,924, no.
Building funds to the amount of 1884,
1872 have been collected by AZ associa-
tions, and will be expended hereafter
upon association buildings. The value
OF property of all kinds belonging to
the associations amounts to 81, ,295, 600.
Reading rooms are supported by $40
associations, and 46S expend $316, ,240'
annually for current expenses.