The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-01-02
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

try, With an aggregate of $500 profes.
aors.
= Mr.. J. Russell Young will, they saw
arrange General Grants accounts of his
travels.
= The number of oyster catchers. boat-
men and openers in Virginia is put down
= The tide of immigration to Texas
from Germany is heavier this year than
ever before.
- The information comes from Boston
that plain rrm is the only drink affected
Dy congressman this season.
Jesse Pomeroy, the notorious boy
murderer, Of Boston, is said to be losing
his mind and falling in Lealth.
MIR. Wallace McGee, who was re-
Gently married in Carroll county, Va,
had Mt the time 104 grandchildren.
= Rev. James Hodgson, Adventist. of
Petersburg, Virginia, says the world wili
come to an end on the 5th of January.
- The North Carolina Legislature
meets January 8. On the 22d of jan
uNry they elect United States Senator.
"A curiosity can be seen at Syracuse.
\. 7. 1t is live cat with six feet, each
forepaw having two we'll formed and per-
feet feet
:. Gen. Joe Hooker is 64 years old.
we'll, hearty, and possessed of a supreme
aversion tor his army associates, Gems.
Grant and Sherman.
= Jefferson Davis book of n,e-,oirs is
to be published next spring Sit, altane-
o,isly in New York and London, with
| French edition in Paris.
| a prisoner arraigned at the bar of
the New Castle, Va, court knocked the
Judge over with his fist and felled the
clerk with brick bat.
- The registers show that in fifteen
months the Richmond bars have sold
| 1887 ,305 alcoholic, and 3,O93, ,523 malt
drinks; total tax, $55, 5,650.6i.
J. There are 824 places in the good
city of New Orleans where the down
trodden and oppressed citizen may walk
in and t&'.e sugar in his'n."
- Adam johnson. colored Liberan
apostle, has been arrested ut Afallard
Creek, n. c., for swindling an old negro
out OF $ll4 and the title deeds to his
farm.
If George p. Marsh holds out until
next March he will have served the
| country as minister to Italy seventeen
years, and will have drawn for his seryi-
ccs 100000.
- Alabama il burdcned with land
purchased by the State at tax sales. In
one county the State has thus gnt possess
sion of $4,000 acres-nearly one-third
of the county.
Mrs. J. D. Mcintyre, of Pender
county, N. c., aged twenty-four, has lust
| presf nted her lord with son, his twenty
fourth child. He is eighty, and she ia
his fourth wife.
- Mr.. Halsted says it IS no secret
among Grants intimate friends that ho
would rather be made field. marshal with
salary of $4,000, and retired on half
pay, than to run for the presidency
again.
- VIM. Jefferson, who was hung at
Warrenton, N. c., on the 18th December,
admitted 10 the commission of eight
rapes, ono murder, several attempts at
murder. besides numerous house burn
ings and burglaries.
| - 1t is said that Lieut.. Flipper, the
only colored cadet who has been grAdua-
ted from West Point, has decided to
write or authorize book describing the
hardships which he had to endure there
on account of his color.
= Cedar Keys ships annually $40. 600
pounds Of fish, bringing into the city
about $4,000. In addition to those
shipped on ice, immense quantities are
salted and SOLD to parties in the interior.
increasing the income to about $25, 900.
"A band of thirty gypsies visited
Crawfordville, Ga, recently, and che
women drove thriving business by tell
ing fortunes to negroes. The chief Mt
fractions held out to the negro men were
that they were all told they would have
white wives.
- A thousand men, are from the Con
che to the Red River ;n Tasss hunting
buffalo. It is claimed shat this little
army has been OF great advantage to the
State in driving back the Indians and
allowing the tide of white emigrants to
follow close in their wake. t
= Negro slavery in the South .sas
abolished by the war, but what will wipe
out Democratic slavery in the North
The shareholders lost the commercial
control of the Southern blacks, but they
still retain mastery of the Northern
Democrats. The Hills and Gordors and
Whitthornes and Huntons crack their
whips in the halls Of Congress, ard the
Voorhees, and Thurmans and Woods aud
Coxes and Sprjngers feel of their collars
and apologize for the noise.-,Sf. louis
Globe Democrat.
= Dnring the session at Richmond,
Va, last month of the Grand Lodge az
Good Templars. an interesting incident
occurred. A speaker alluded TO the mel
ancholy end of the lamented Edgar
Allen Poe, which brought out DR.. Moran,
who attended Poe in his last sickness in
Baltimore. He refuted and rebuked the
slander that he died under the influence
of either opium or liquor, and stated that
after he became rational, for many days
before his death, he could not be persua-
ded to take either stimulants or opiates
to allay his nervous excitement. He
died in his sober senses, true pcnitent
of the past.
= Baltimore is growing in Importance
as o grain port, the receipts of -four for
the year ending the 30th Of Septcabee
amounting to 778,211 barrels, and of
!; grain to 30,639654 bushels, an increase
of about one-fifth in both items over the
year before. The wheat traffic shows the
greatest gain, from 100000 bushels in
1877 to 1876, ,233 bushels this year, willie
the corn receipts were some 5000 600 less
than year ago, owing to the refusal of
!. the Baltimore and Ohio line to compete
with the very low rates offered by other
trunk lines,
= If the new year be not begun with
fresh activity in trade and industry. the
lowest point of business depression hav-
! ing passed and better times being at hand,
{ it viii not be because we, the citizens OF
L the United States, have not encouraged
0 one another with this belief, nor because
t the belief was without apparent founda-
Q ton. Capital is gaining courage, new
: enterprises are projected, Increased con-
: sumption, better prices, and higher wages