The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-09-11
VOL XIV. mo. 8
GENgRAL News sUlIAARY. glIllI 4.
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1lnstoni ~. u, claims q man and
wife 118 and 104 years old respectively.
- Beef sells in Wilmington, No,
, for one and q half to two cents per pound.
- The Macon, Ga, gamblers are re.
quifed to pay q license tax of $500 q
month.
- Few gold mines are constantly be-
Ing found and opened around Waahing-
ton, Ga.
:. Pike county, Ga, he's a itweIve-yegr
old boy that weighs 375 pounds, and ~
gaining Svt pounds every month,
There ere. 500 Confederate soldiers
buried in Magnolia cemetery, Charleston.
| a monument will be erected to their
memory. istg fssi 80
- Miss Lucy .Horton has entefed suit
for $20, 600 against John H Morgan, son
ex-senator Morgan, Of Alabama, for breach
= Two hundred sallona OF wine were
made from one grape vino last year on
Mr. kutland,s place on the Wittelacoo-
The celebrated Kennedy cattle
rancho, Texas, on the. Rio Grande, has
been purchased by an English COM
pany for $950, 900. gK ! @l;.ls. 4s,tt5.I q.
| Arkansas, gave bisth 10 twins and killed
them, for which she gets four yeafs in
the State prison. las7 ii!.s Il. et'5a 5;s
| As q means Of making the Illinois
State Fair more than ordinary attractive
ills. proposed that the Legislature shall
hold Knock session for fnn't ON the
grour.i. aas i8;,e nom
- An old lady who had been confined
to her bed for many years in Richmond,
Va, by rheumatic gout was suddenly re-
stored TO hoalth aud arose from her bed
and walked. 5l,is6l
- There are nowlin Texas over $780,
600 sheep. Last year over i / 900. 600
pounds of wool wero shipped out of the
state, besides large quantities that were
manufactured. ssrs iaf i
- James Bullock, Of Walton county,
Co., while hceing in o cotton field, found
concealed In q etump SIC, ,0e0 in gold
and silver and pile Of greenbacke. The
paper money had rotted.
- During the past year no fewer than
300, ,00, 900 acres Of ofgoveTnnaGnala land have
been taken up or sold to settlers. It Is
estimated that about half o million peo-
pie have settled on these lands.
- a saWtiEh was landed at Galveston,
Texas, few days ago which measured
| over fourteen feet in length. S It was
taken in seine. This species OF fish Is
the most formidable enemy of the whale.
- In Paris thirty Eve years ago stores
of all kinds were open on Sunday morn
ing, Now all large establishments are
closed, and only o few cf the smaller are
open. In Italy, too, labor is more
restricted on Sunday than formerly.
- At Decater, Alabama, last IVedncs-
day, B. L. DeGrafenreid, an old citizen
OF that place, bad dispute with col
ored woman about washing, and coming
m = IL LII,
choked him, so that he soon afterwards
died. ~ y, .,5 IS. 9., a. A.. IS q.
- Thus far at Memphis. 238 negroes
hsve had yellow fever. or these but "a
died. There have been 293 white cases
aud of these 1l5 died. The deduction
from his would seem to be that stae'
negroes can take the disease very readily,
bpt it is not by G great deal as fatal rs
among the whites tAssf
-u - In Montague, Texss, last Friday,
Charles Harris! was executed in theIpres.
ence, OF FIVE thousand pesons, for tho
murder of his brother in January, 1877.
He was convicted on his on ccnfes-
sion. He was firm 20 the last, and the
drop fell while the assemblnge sang
tude of people, equal in number to 3rie-
fourth the population of tho United States,
have Eecently been destroyed BY famine
in China. Yet such is lhe statement
that comes on the authority OF MIR. For
rest, the Engiish constit at Tienfain.
Nor has the Terrible visitation yet passed
away. ,i4.8islJJa Ilis5slioad s d. F.ses,4l.
- Ex-senator Corbin, fsouth Caroline,
has returned 20, Washingt on from colora-
do. He pronouneea the story without
foundation that while he was visiting in
DehverS10 GOO Worth OF bogus gold bficks
were pelmed of upon himT No transas-
lion 1f the kind was attempted; and
nothing occurred npon which to found
such O story. j.eiS
The commissioner OF Internal reve-
nusreports that the tax on the matches
produced areYenue during the Last fscal
year of three and o quarter million dol
lars--an increase over any previous year.
From fiye-e!ghts to three. foutt1a5 of The
price ofniatches Is due TO the tax. y We
import no matches nows but arc export
ing them to O large extent. ,,,s - "A
- Come person, with plenty of spare
time on hand, has made the foliotS- (
ing calculation sasl to 4 the weight
aud buiikk in bullion OF tsio5 th d 1asional
debt: Two billion tyo hundred mill
Hens eg s;!sss 8 :afa t>9n
pounds avoir6hpois, df' &, $50 tons. TO
trdnsportit by railway would Eequirs1o0
freight trains of ii earn each. Is would
fill 400 rooms 10 feps ,Yides 20 feet, long
and 10 feet long. +. ID & n,
- Atlanta, Georgia, special says re-
liable report has been received here to
the effect that various Mormon cnngrega-
tions in North Georgia are: arrhngsng for 4
an immediate exodus to Utah. a crest
many native Morrnons will 60. The
n,fvahsfTif creatha sffYita eYeiker1efik Si In &