The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-31
News and Gossip.

: The total number of hogs packed at
Chicago for the year ending March was
5,762,19
= The Worlds Fair Commissioners
claim to be disappointed as to General
Grants popularity.
= President Garfield has announced
the determination te keep inviolable the
secrecy of the Cabinet.
At Camden, Ga, the Greenbackcrs
elected every town officer. The Demo.
Gratis made no nominations.
: The State Agricultural Department
of North Carolina has been experiments
ing in the cultivation of jutc with tho
most satisfactory results
= The american Settler, published at
London, says that Arkansas, U. S. A.,
offers greater inducements than any other
State in the American Union"
= Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta and
Macon, four Georgia cities, have an ag.
gregate population of 1O0,S6O, and an
aggregate Indebtedness of $8,3S7 900.
Don't you think" said husband,
mildly rebuking his wife, "that women
are possessed by the devil ?" EYES,"
was the quick reply, Gas soon as they are
married"
= A bill to remove the restriction on
suffrage in the State Of New York, based
on sex, was reported in the Assembly for
consideration. 1t will, if passed, allow
women to vote at all elections.
Mrs. Ellen J. Dunnell, of Bath,
Me-, who was supposed to be in the last
stages of consumption, has suddenly re-
covered her health. She says the cure
, was direct answer to night of prayer.
! - In Johnson County, Tex. The Gle
burne Chronicle says that Al 900 acres of
rich prairie land has changed hands
within the past twelve months. A large
part of it was sold in blocks of l60 acres
each.
- Mr.. Longfellow can take a worth.
less sheet of paper and by writing poem
on it make it worth $50. That's genius.
! Mr.. Vanderbilt can write fewer words on
a similar sheet and make it worth st0,-
100000. That's capital.
- A Second Adventist in Greenwood
County, Kansas, who declares that the
world is coming to an end this year, took
a note for $1,000 the other day, running
FIVE years, with interest at twelve per
cent, and demanded first.class mortgage
security.
= West Virginia can scarcely continue
to be ranked among the States with
distinctive negro population in the light
of the present census. With a total
population of 61S,195, the State has but
25,7OO negroes, or about one in every
twenty-five.
- 1t requires Two hours to cremate O
body. The ashes of the deceased are
placed in tin box, sealed, and can be
carried away by the friends. They
weigh from five to seven pounds. The
cost of cremation is S45, which includes
all expenses.
Apostle Cannon is confident that lie
will recover his seat as Delegate from
Utah in Congress. He claims to have
more reason to be hopeful with Repub-
lican ma jority, and asserts that President
Garfield did not approve the giving OF
the certificate to Campbell.
i! : The Mexican railroad project has
overwhelmed Texas with prosperity. 1t
is stated that 10000 men are at work
constructing new railroads in the State,
and that 1000 new settlers enter its bor-
ders every day. This is boom which
has width, depth and length.
- Miss Kate Smith, an inmate of the
Union Home for Old Ladies in Phia-
delphia, after three years labor, has
completed a quilt containing 55,552
pieces. She has been blind from infancy,
but threaded every needle herself, and
used 100 spools Of thread in the work.
! "A Frenchman who lives in the val
! ley of the Carson River, in Nevada, who
owns a herd of forty camels, will utilize
! his "ships of the desert" next summer in
carrying goods from the terminus of the
Carson and Colorado Railroad into camps
| far out in the wilderness. All but two
or three ofthe camels are natives of Ne
: vada.
Now that the Philadelphia capital
! lists who are about to reclaim the i'm
mense tracts of land in the State of
Florida, known as the Everglades, have
completed their contracts with that State,
! it is no longer secret that one Of tho
] main features of the gigantic scheme is
(: the building of ship canal across the
! State of Florida.
= One popularity of Postmaster Cen
eral James, which will strike most persons
! coming in contact with him, is his good
nature. He has the happy faculty of
doing business surrounded by bores with
out losing his graciousness or his temper,
and he can get rid of an obnoxious visi-
tor in such way as to make him think
he is comforting a favor when he is be.
ing literally edged out of the room.
The difference between the Funders
and the Readjusters on the Virginia debt
| is that the Readjusters propose to scale
1.-THE debt sharply, and tn provide means
to pay the remainder, and that the Fun
'ders' propose to scale less sharply, but 10
provide no means to pay the remainder.
Neither partyi is for full payment. Each
proposes, like the Irish Land Leaguers,
to pay what it chooses But the Read
| iusters propose to pay the reduced sum,
while the Funders propose to fund at
reduction, and then let the reduced
debt pay itself.
! Mr.. Archibald Forbes has high
opinion of the late Emperor of Russia.
He says he should characterize him in
brief as the only honest Russian he ever
knew. "He had the unhappiness," says
Mr.. Forbes, "of being better than his
race. He was good man, who honestly
strove for a long time to make his people
purer and better, and who lived long
enough to come sadly to the conclusion
that it was impossible, and finally to be.
come, in shadowy way, perhaps, tainted
with the universal corruption around
him."
= The suicide of Brevet Major General
Emory Upton, U. S. A., at San Francisco.
is announced by telegraph. Gen. Upton
was conspicuous figure during the late
war, and achieved some reputation as
military writer, his Infantry Tactics"
having been adopted as standard work
by the War Department. The cause of
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