The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-08-12
General News Summary.

every Stables were burned August l,
with a. horses.
The census Office says that the total
population ofthe United States will be q
little over 100000.
- Counterfeit trade dollars of date 1880
are circulating. The government has
issued no trade dollars this year.
- The census indicates an increase in
population in Missouri of 30 per cent. in
10 years. The population is over 2,O00,-
600.
= The Peoples Labor Convention
have nominated, or rather endorsed the
nomination of, Gen. Garfield for the
Presidency.
Vegetables are so scarce in parts Of
Virginia that quantities are purchased at
Petersburg and sent thirty and forty
miles into the country.
"A Mr.. Branscom, of Florida, has
been overtaken by detective in New
York with nearly million forged secu.
rites of the city of Jacksonville. Fla.
Dr. Deems has added 5000 to the
deems Fund" of the University o.
North Carolina, to be loaned to indigent
students attending that institution.
More than 300,0 900 acres of land along
the Air Line Railroad in Georgia, North
Carolina and South Carolina have been
registered for sale at low stationary fig
ures for the next two years.
"A government officer has discovered
an immense bed of phosphate rock near
one of the sounds on the North Carolina
coast. A specimen has been forwarded
to Prof. Kerr at Chapel Hill for analy-
sis.
The first cotton factory in the South
was built on Mill Branch in Lincoln
County, in the year 1915, by Michael
Schenck, grandfather of Judge David
Schenck, of Lincolnton, N. c., and of
Mrs. DR.. Lander, of Williamson, in this
State.
Mr.. Francis Fontaine, the Immi-
grafton Commissioner for Georgia, is
doing excellent work in overcoming the
prejudices of immigrants against the
South. Last week he brought nearly 100
Germans to Cedartown, where they will
be employed by the Cherokee Iron
Works.
= The Irish famine crisis is believed
to be past. The growing crops are doing
well, and the potato crop is ripe. The
contributions are said now to be sufi.
cient to tide the people over to better
times. The British Parliament should
do the rest by appropriate legislation for
Ireland.
- The most remarkable result of the
census brought to light so far is, that in
number of places spread over what is
usually considered the West, from the
western boundary of Pennsylvania to the
Mississippi river and from the Ohio
river to the Lakes. the population has
decreased since 1870.
- The Danvillc Va.) Post quotes
Bishop Penick as saying, in lecture in
that city recently, that only few of the
colored emigrants from America to Afri
ca had succeeded, and that the large
majority, probably nine.tenths, of the
others, would gladly return, provided
they were offered the same inducements
for returning as were made for their go.
ing.
- The largest botanical depot in the
world is said to be at Statesville, N. c.,
where the firm which controls it has now
in stock 100 varieties of roots, herbs,
bark, seeds, flowers and MOSES, and all
sorts of plants for herbariums, in quanti-
ties of from so to $4,000 pounds of each
kind. They pay the collectors, who are
mainly Cberokees, either in cash or
goods, and last year disposed in this way
Of S4O0, 900 worth of merchandise, ship.
ping 100000 pounds of roots and
''herbs."
- There are two plantation proprie-
tors in Louisiana whose landed posses
sions rival those of the proudest estates
of the English nobility, and many Ger.
man princes have fewer subjects than
they have employees on their pay rolls.
Colonel Edward Richard owns 5000
acres of cotton plantations, widely scat
tered, but all managnd under his super
vision. The other proprietor is John
Burnside, who has eight extensive sugar
plantations and 1887 acres of cane in
the ground. His last crop produced
6,0S4,000 pounds of sugar and 1880 bar
rels of molasses, from which $565,OOO
must have been realized.
"A party of white men in Clayton
County, Ca, committed o horrible and
unplovoked murder of young negro
woman, and wantonly beat and injured
an old negro and his wife last week.
The facts seem to be about these, as
gathered from one of the party Cook
who turned States evidence, but after
wards retracted: The party had been to
dance, and when ready to 60 home
some one suggested that they 60 by the
old negro's house, and give him good
thrashing. Cook denied that there was
any intention to kill any one, but says
that the negroes fired on the party when
it approached, and they returned the FIRE,
killing the young woman and wounding
the old man.
- Mr.. Russell, General Hancock's
brother-in.law, states that when old
Aunt Betsy, colored servant in his
family Mt St. Louis, was informed that
General Hancock had been nominated,
she responded: "For gracious! am
obcr reioiced to hear it. What church
is he going to join?" Sho thought
nomination meant conversion. Another
colored servant gave different meaning
to the word. Her main thought was for
Ann Lee, the old colored woman in the
Generals household, where she has been
for great many years: "The General,
I suppose, couldn't help it," said this
other servant. II reckon now he'll have
to give up housekeeping and go to
boarding, but what then will become of
poor Ann Lee?"
Commissioner Raum, of the Bureau
of Internal Revenue, submitted a report
to the Secretary of the Treasury August
4, showing that during the past fiscal
year S125, ,9S1 ,916.10 of internal Revenue
taxes had been collected and that the
entire sum had been paid into the Treas.
ury. During the past four fiscal years
the total amount of taxes received by the
Internal Revenue Collectors was S467,-
$50 1851 and the entire sum has been
paid into the Treasury. The cost of