The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-03
General News Summary.

- The business indications at all the
Florida hotels is good.
- Three thumbs on one hand is tho
best Columbia County, Kentucky, baby
can do.
- An Anderson County, Kentucky
listiler pays annual freight bills of
$4,000.
- They serve new asparagus and green
peas now at the Jacksonville and other
Florida hotels.
= There are only $1,000 real estate
holders in New York city in popula-
tion Of 100000.
- The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says
that he has just declined an offer of $780,
600 to lecture for one year.
Two thousand acres of lane, covered
with fine timber, were sold in Lewis
County, KY, recently at 81 per acre.
- Iron is rolled so thin at the Pitts.
burg, Pa, iron mills that 10000 sheets
are required to make single inch in
thickness.
- Mr.. Fair, Senator elect for Nevada,
represents as much property in his own
person as all the rest of the State with
its 62.265 Inhabitants.
- Brewer Gunther, of Paola, Kansas,
has committed suicide because the strin-
gent State law has rendered his brewing
establishment worthless.
- Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas are all importing large mum.
bers of Merino sheep-more than for any
season for ten years past.
= 4 circuit of three miles in New
York is now lighted by electricity, and
the electric light is fast superseding gas
in many of the large Offices.
- The Shaw University at Raleigh, n.
c., one of the Baptist schools for freed
men, has sent out more than 1000 teach.
ers among the colored people.
- The most costly building in the
country, when completed, will be the
Mormon temple at Salt Lake City, the
cost Of which is estimated at $27, 900, 900.
- An Arab legend says the feet of
pigeons are red because their ancestors
walked in the red mud which settled
upon the face of the earth after the de.
luge.
= General Grant smokes ten cigars n
day, for which he pays twenty-five and a
half cents apiece. And the Nation is
asked to pension him because he is go
poor.
- The lrinket shops in Jacksonville
and St. Augustine, Florida. are as eco.
nomical as those at Niagara Falls. The
incest 25 cent shell baskets can be bought
at $3.50.
A Hancock and English banner, in
tatters, still hangs from the libefty-polc
at Charlottesville, Va. No one will haul
it down, and the purpose is to let it float
for four years.
- The widow of President Polk is 80
beloved and respected, that, by common
consent of all parties, the interest on her
little fortune in Tennessee State bonds,
all she had, is exempted from repudia-
ton.
Build cotton mills. Five million
bales of manufactured cotton is worth
to the South s225, 100000. Atkinson, of
Boston, says don't manufacture it. We
say, spun into yarn this cotton is worth
$3.50, 100000.
-Crematory furnaces are now in ope.
ration at Zurich, in Switzerland, and al
Breslau, Dresden and Go,ha, in Germany.
Throughout Germany the prejudice
against disposing of the dead by burning
is rapidly disappearing.
- In illinois total abstinence socie.
ty of twenty members have adopted
novel method for keeping themselves
straight. Each member has deposited
5000, which is forfeited to the rest in
case he breaks his pledge.
The friends of temperance in Penn
sylvaiia are circulating petitions to the
Legislature requesting that body to take
necessary preliminary steps to submit
constitutional amendment similar to the
one recently adopted in Kansas.
- 1t is reported that Hon. James
Whiting, of New York, and ex.Gov. D.
H. Chamberlain, of South Carolina, have
been engaged az counsel for the defence
in the Whitaker court martial. Mr..
Whiting is a lifelong Democrat.
= Judge Barret, of the Supreme Court
of New York, has granted an injunction
to Rufus Hatch, restraining the Western
Union, the Atlantic and Pacific and the
American Union Telegraph Companies
from entering into any agreement of con-
solidation, and from increasing their cap.
ital stock.
"A young couple of Fairfield, Iowa,
who had been long engaged, became in
volvcd in lovers quarrel and parted in
anger. The same night both of them
attempted suicide, and alike made fail
ures. Convinced that they could not
live happily apart, reconciliation and
hasty marriage took place the very next
day.
= The Baltimore Sun gives the Presi-
Dental vote for President as follows:
Hancock, 4.432,97S; Garfield, 4,49O,327.
Hancock's majority over Garfield, 2.65l.
Weaver, Greenbacker, received 305,0SS;
Duw, Prohibitionist, 9,644; scattering,
1873. Total vote, 9,lS2,834. The Sun
says the figures were obtained at the
proper sources in Washington and at
State capitals.
= About 10000 bills have been intro
duced in Congress this session. Among
them is measure providing for the pay
ment Of s., 900 to one Cults for manu-
script of treatise on logic, written by
President Madison. The bill specifies
that the work is to be printed for the use
of members Of Congress. They certainly
need posting on logic, but the people
should not be required to pay for their
schooling.
- The system of prepaying postage by
means of small adhesive labels, to be sold
to the public and received by the post.
Office in evidence of payment when at.
tached to letters or papers, was first ad-
vocated by Rowland Hill, in 1887, and
was adopted by the British postotice in
1910. The stamps were first used May
6 of that year, and were introduced in
1847 into the United States. All civil
lied nations have them.
The recent opinion of the Assistant
Attorney General for the Postoffice De-
partmcnt, by which invoices, bills of
ladipg, circulars and the like are stricken
from the list of third class mail matter,
ia decision of serious concern fnr tha