The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-12-16

| "uhuitu pouuuS Oi ice.
The acreage of wheat In the United
States aggregate 30,000.OQO.
Every person in America writes ar
average OF twenty letters per year.
= Cruel husband calls his wife "pree,
fruit" because she never aprees will
him. ''
= Russia has abolished the duty on salt
which will greatly benefit the poorer
classes. :
The first case in which an Indi an ap
peared in court was recently tried il
Omaha, Nebraska.
:. A leading New Orleans authorit,
estimstes tho cotton crop for tho currcn,
year at 100000 bales.
= The assessed value of te xable pron.
erty, in Georgia has increased $I4.0,0.O0O
during the past year.
.-"One touch of you, ma, makes the
whole world spin," aS the boy said when
his mother boxed his ears.
= They say Chicago girls never find
It hard to elopc. They make rope lad.
ders Of their shoe-strings.
= There are some men 80 talkatiye
that nothing hut the t0othache can make
one of them hold his jaw.
we bear great complaints at Wash.
llngton D. O., that the mails from the
South do not arrive promptly.
= The Georgia Legislature adjourned
last Saturday. "Bill Arp" says the
whole concern had the mumps.
= The Commissioners of Immigration
of Florida thinks $4,000 people have i'm
migrated to that State within two years.
- There Ia n movement on foot by
prominent members of the Tennessee Leo.
islature to cut down the number of cleo.
tions.
= Darling husband" she said. 'sum
l not your treasure 2" Certainly" he
replied, land should like to lay you up
in Heaven" p
- President Hayes in his message to
Congress recommends that Gen. Grant be
made Captain. General of the Army, with
suitable pay. 81
- During the postal year recently end.
ed 3,358,65l letters and packages. went
to The Dead Letter office. Nine thouand
had no address. In money letters were
found S1,600,0O0.
Tie sana":c!: Islands Islands iz tho h5anncr
nation of the world in education. Every
child is obliged to learn reading and
writing, and there are absolutely
no iliiterates in q population of 5000.
:, james Christopher, of Forest City
ARR, recently went to the house of COT.
ored woman, and. in attempting to force
his way in, was killed by her. She was
discharged on the grounds of self defense.
= There are deficits in the budgets of
several departments of the City Hall of
New Orleans. The appropriation for INV
of the police is $4,000 short, and The
improvements Department is short S32,-
- Inquiry at Republican Headquarters
developes the fact that as far rs heard
from there will be five contested seats
from South Carolina, nne from Georgia.
one from Alabama and two from Missis.
sippi.
-"Shall we sell or abandon our girls ?n
editorially asks the editor of the Ha,uL.
eye. Do neither. Give 'em away.
' When girl is given away. ifshe is not
sold, the young man is-in O maiori-
ty of ases.-Norr:sto,cn Herald.
- There is q movement in India TO
abolish the seclusion of Hindoo women
and have them brought into society in the
European fashion, but it ia opposed by
the native papers on the ground that the
young Hind0os are not moral enough to
associate with unmarried women of their
own race.
= Washinton Star says: ut is stated
and upon good authority too, that Gen.
Garfield has been assured personally and
by letter by several Senators that thew
intend heartily to support his administra.
tion in hops that sect.nnalism, which is
30 fatal to the South, may be forever re.
moved from politics."
The returns of the census in Georgia
have been completed in the census office,
with the exception of ten counties. 1t is
estimated that the total results will show
that Georgia hns population of from l.
$4,000 to ] 100000. The population of
Richmond County is 34,569; that of
burke Is n ,l27; Columbia, 10,4G5; Nc.
Duffie, $40, and Jefferson, 1869 The
returns from Fulton and Chatham have
not yet been footed up, but it is not
improbable that Richmond will be-
shown to have larger population than
Chatham.
= Sarah Bernhardt is represented az 60
elevated over success ir this country that
she has agreed so lengthen her engess-
ment with Abbey, and may even 20 to
California. Her New York engagement
closed Saitiniay, and she begins at Boston
this week. 1t seems certain now that
Abbey Is going to mako lot of money
out of her just how much is what is now
bothcring the correspondents, and they
are already figuring it all the way from
$4,000 to 100000.
-Secretary Sherman's annual report ia
an able document, presenting the con-
uiiion uf tho treasury liz n clear anu
graphic manner. The surplus of revpuo
is large an increases yearly above all
possible demands for government pur-
poses and for the sinking fund, and the
secretary says it is for Congress to deter
mine whether it will reduce or modify
taxation 80 as 10 diminish ync revenue
collected, or apply the supluses as they
accumulate to futher reduction of the
public debt. Iftaxes are to be reduced
he suggests that itshould be in the shape
of repeal of all internal revenue imposts
other than those on bank circulation.
spirits, tobacco and fermented LIQUORS
In providing for Tefunding that part of
the public debt which falls due on or be-
fore July ], 1881 and which amounts in all
to $687 $780, 600. the secretary recon-
mends the issue of treasury notes to the
extent OF $500, 100000. These notes are
to bear interest at she rate of per cent,
to be in denominations of not less than
$40, to run from one te ten years, &c bs
sold for less than par, and the proceeds
applied to the payment of the 8 and 6
per cent. bonds of 1881. He thinks that
such notes could now be hoated at 8 per
cent, but might not be the case with less
favorable market. He also recommends
that authority be given him 70 issue $780,