The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-30
Generai News Summary.

A<hSotich DPaitOnb LHNO DecD lnLr0-
, duced at West Pointed, Miss.
Boston celebrated her two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary last week.
- The President has accepted an in.
vitation to visit Washington Territory.
Texas, It Ia estimated, will reach z ,OOO.-
600 head.
= Memphis Is the only CITY in the
United States that has less population
than 1860.
= The late election giyes the Ver.
mont LegiS!aturo 1877 Republicans and
II Democrats.
- President Hayes has been made
Vice President of the American BibIe
society. a.II
The gallant Confederate General
I3ushrod johnson, died q: his home in
Missouri, last week.
- The Florida orange crop is reported
ruined By the recent great storm: loss
said to be 81 100000.
- The railroad commissioners Of Kon.
lucky will recommend the reductio OF
fares to three cents q mile.
- Victorin's stronghold in Mexico bos
been discovered, and the reward for his
scalp has been increased to $4,000.
- A Boston pastor, who did not take
q. vacation, married twenty couples in
the two months others were nbsent
= John Keene, Of RockIaud. Me. has
q horse which likes tobacco SO we'll thnt
he begs chey whenever his master
takes one.
- The Texas and Pacific Railroad
Company have inaugurated scheme to
induce ten thousand Germans to immi.
crate to Texas.
= Skowhegan, Me-, boasts two apple
trees, ono planted about 1762 and the
other 4S years later, which are still bear
ing their yearly burden of rnssets.
= Fourteen thousand seven hundred
persons are now employed on the Penn.
ssylvania railroad, and the New York
Central railroad has 10000 EMPLOYEES.
- A silk mill is being erected at Haw-
ley. IA, which will have a ground floor
OF over an acre, be several stories i'm
height, and give employment to 1000
hands
- The members of the Chinese EN-.
6assy have been so grossly insulted by
the rabble in New York city that they.
have determined to go home rs soon as
possible. ~ %.s1
- Clayton HillBman, tho eleven.year
oia coiorri 10y VIM bruiniiy killed an
infant son Of @. G. Hillsman, at Cullo-
den, Gn., has been sentenced to be hang
ed on 18th of October.
= The population of West Virginia is
announced by the census supervisors of
the State ut 618,914. The. population
ten years ago was 2,0l4; so there, has
been nm increase Of forty per cent. 'ia
= The ex2 x2enses of thu late Triennial
Conclaveo oE Knights Templar, ut Chica-
20, were S9S 600. and the receipts $87,.
GOO. The deficiency will be made good
by the three local communicates.
- Henry Mockahee, a guard over
convicts at work on the Big Sandy rail.
road, near Mount Sterling, KY, was at.
tackled with axes by two convicts and
literally cut 20 pieces. The conyicts
made their escape.
= Five men were killed last Friday.
ct The Esctory Of the Uninn Metallic Car.
tride Company, at Bridgeport, Conn.,, by
the explosion of six pounds illuminate.
used for making the large caps for,
exploding dynamite. ,sg I...F
Twenty thousand frst-class passen.
gers were carried from America to Eu-
rope this summer up to July 14-an in
crease of 1000 over last year. Assum
that each of them expended $500, : low
estimate, they left abroad $40, ,000,G00.
- Mrs. Oliver jolly and her three
children, aged one, six and ten wears,
respectively, were drowned recently by
the upsetting Of small boat on tho st.
Lawrence. Two men and woman
saved themselves by clinging to the
boat.
= Asheville IN. C.) Citisen saws;
The tobacco crop throughout this Sec
tion, which is now being cut in many
place., w''l prove generally splendid
one. Tho irea ofland planted in tobac-
CO is PROBABLY double that Of any former
season.
! = Robert E. Cuibrisih, editor of the
San Francisco Weekly Argus, was pnm-
melled on the streets BY j. q. Flood, Jr..
for publishing an article in his paper
relative to the rupture of che engagetnent
between hfi55 Jessie Flood and g. s..
Grant. Jr.
The Jewish population of the world
At the present time is O matter OF much
discussion aud great uncertainty. The
Jewish calender of G:snd Rabbi Seryi
for the present year puts the number at
$4,000 Others estimate it as low as
100000. II
- Aduel between Ute Indian and a
Navajo, took piace. iast Thursday, ucar
Ssnta Fe, N. NJ. A few friends Of the
Indians were present. The Ute was
killed and the Navajo seriously Injured.
Knives were used, and tho duel vas
caused by boIh Indians wanting 10
marry the same girl. se
= A peculiarly brutal ard cold-blood-
ed murder occurred at Hartford, Conn.
last week. Henry Kinghorn, o black.
smith 40 years of age, drunk, aud exas.
perated because his wife wouldn't pay
n &4nfi mortgage on his shop and deed Il
to him, cooly shot her through thesliead
as she sat at her sewing machine,
49, a prominent, Baptist divine in
Magoffin Co. KY, discddses ar;ainst sup
porting. missionaries, because, ae ho SAYS,
tue ssvSee ,:;;;e :Ass.saneAa That .ghennyar
the gospel Is preached unto all people.
the end will have reached, and God
forbid that he should contribute one
cent toward Fastening that portentous
period.
S- At the annual reunion of the old
settlers of Texas at Denton, the proces-
sion Was headed by George Morris who
located in Texas fifty-six years ago, and
has lived in the State under the
crown of Spain, republic of Mexico, die.
tatorship of Santa Anna, republic of
Texas, United States, Confederate States
and again the United States.
- A ruralist came into Tallahassee,
Fla, and finding newsstand ordered q
lot of papers, which he took from tho
clerk with p-ofuse thanks, He was as.
tonished, though, when Tho clark asked