The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-04
General News. Summary. NsE
= Georgia has GIG licensed distillaries.
: Holyoke, Mass, has eighteen paper

- UtOESId HAS tlO llCcuatu ulSIlll9TleS.
= Holyoke, Mass, has eighteen paper
mills.
- Georgia will have fifteen colored
men in the next Legislature.
New Orleans expects to ship go.
100000 bushels of grain this year.
- The completion of the Mississippi
River improvements wi. require 81, 200,-
900.
- The II cotton-seed mills of the
South turn out 90, 100000 gallons of oil
annually.
= Boston's real estate is valued at
s40O, 1000, 900, (which is nearly $4,000 to
each inhabitant.
- Macon, Ga, has 43 manufactures,
representing q capital of s792,5OO, and
employing 696 hands.
= The Vermont Legislature have re-
elected Senator .Edmunds to his seat in
the United States Senate.
No pupil is allowed to attend the
public schools of Memphis who has not
been successfully vaccinated.
= The people of Schley County, Ca,
voted by q majority of 400 to prohibit
the licensing of liquor saloons
= Miss Nellie Calhoun, grand niece
of John G. Calhoun, has recently made
her debut upon the stage, in San Fran
cisco.
1t is reported that 10000 Cinnamon
are to be imported into New Orleans
from Cuba, to work on the sugar planta-
tions.
The oyster business Of Virginia is
worth S2,000,000 per annum. There are
6,53S white and 1888 colored men en-.
gagged in it.
. - The Buffalo Espress says the reason
men succeed who "mind their own busi-
ness is because there is so little compe-
tition in that line.
- Pleasantville, N. j., does thriving
business in making pickles. During the
season just closed, nearly 100000
cucumbers have been picked there.
- John Hicks, of Jacksonville, Ind.
aged 80 years, has just been sentenced to
the penitentiary for two years. He has
served fifty years of his life in prison.
= Victorio, the Indian Chief, and most
of his band, have been killed by the
Mexicans. Within the past year he and
his band murdered upward of 400 per-
sons.
- Five women were burned to death
in shoddy factory in Cincinnati one day
last week: Heroic efforts we're made BY
the fremen to save them, but without
avail.
II The Harrisonburg Register claims
that Rockingham county, Va, has fur
uished $4,000 worth of horses to the
"outside world" during the past six
months.
- It is claimed that Madison and Bun.
combe counties, N. c., will send to mar
ket this year over q million and half
pounds of tobacco. Their crops are
extra fine.
= The Oregon Senate and House, Oc.
tober 16, passed a constitutional amend
ment in favor of woman suhrage-21 to
in the Senate, and the House by vote
of 80 to 2.
= Wealthy citizens of Baltimore
hive, in $50 years, given S13,000,000 to
public charitable purposes. The bulk Of
this, however, was given by one mah,
Johns Hopkins.
A colored washerwoman, who died
last week in New York, left fortune of
$4,000. She had done an extraordinary
good business in not returning the boys
shirts on Saturday nights.
= Advices from Buenos Ayres all.
nounce that snow-storm occurred there
on the 18th of September, and that it is
estimated tina. 100000 head of cattle,
100000 sheep and 250,000 horses per-
ished.
Schuyler Colfax, who has been men,
toned in connection with the United
States Senatorship from Indiana, declares
that under no possible condition of
affairs, will he ever consent to re.enter
public life.
= The imports into France for the
past nine months show an increase of
263 900, 900 francs as compared with the :
same period last year. OF this increase
189, 100000 francs is in food. The ex-
ports increased 69,000,000 francs.
If we owned Republican govern
ment with Garfield at its head, and Sam
Lee in Congress, and hell, we would rent
out the government and live in hell, we
would. We think we would have more
peace and prosperity in the latter place.
The cotton crops of this country for
1878 and 1879 were the largest ever
raised. The ten crops from 1852 to 1861,
raised by slave labor, numbered 1885,
440 bales; the ten crops from 1870 to
1879, raised by free labor, numbered Al
454, ,743 bales.
- John a. Woodward, for fifteen years
in the service of the Boston City Treas
ury, during the last five of which he was
cashier, has disappeared, and his books
show o defalcation of $4,000. He is
thirty years old, and was of excellent
social standing.
- The New York Graphic Company
is Montreal enterprise. After sinking
s750,000, it has now become profitable,
and after paying all debts, declared q
dividend of $4,000. Two years ago the
stock was worthless. It is now sold at
$50 per 500 share.
- The Register has the following piece
of information: 1T is said that Gufin,
the man killed by McClung at Abbeville
consulted physician the day of his death
as to the best method of committing sui.
eide, and it is thought that he deliber-
ately precipitated the affair which cul.
minated in the tragedy.
Hon. A. G. Porter, Governor-elect
Of Indiana, has announced that he will
not be candidate for the United States
Senate. He says he was elected Gov
ernor, and he wants to be Governor for
four years. His canvass has revealed
many things to him that he believes he
can accomplish for the people as Gov
ernor, and he is anxious to do so.
The motive power of the South Car
clina Railroad has been reinforced by the
addition of two new and powerful loco
motives which arrived few days ago
and have been put into service. Two
more engines are expected within the
next ten days. The engines were built at
the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Phila-
delphia, and have capacity of fifty load
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