The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-09-29
News and Gossip.

sheriff.
:. Guiteau has gained ten pounds since
his incarceration.
An abundant rice crop and of good
quality, will be harvested in Louisiana.
Out Of every one hundred inhab.
itants OF the United States sixteen live
in cities.
r Gen. Sherman says that Mason. who
shot at Guiteau, deserves the seyerest
punishment"
= Atlanta, Ga, sells upwards of $780,.
100000 n year, and is still conquering
new territory.
- The Senate Of Georgia has passed a.
bill imposing te1 of fifty dollars on the
sale of pistols.
Many mountain counties in Ken.
tucky report the best corn crop they have
had in fifteen years.
= St. Louis Is about TO follow the ex.
ample of Chicago and New Orleans. by
licensing gambling houses.
- In Geneva, Switzerland, clergymen
are elected TO the pulpit, just the same
as State officials are to Office.
The Washington organization
known az the Mrs. r. B. Hayes lem,
perance Society has disbanded.
-. The report of rain all over the
South Was what caused cotton to advance
from II to 20 points in New York.
= Nincty-one wagon loads Of dried
fruit were seen in one day on the road
irom Knoxville, Tennessee, to Maynard.
vile.
= The wells ut Crcsfield, Nd, have
gone dry, aud water ia brought TO that
town by railroad and sold at ten cents n
gallon. n,,-.
- General Grant and General Joscph
p. Johnston hob.nobbed in the friend.
iiest way at the late Aztec dinner at
,"ayne, Pa.
- retail fruit vendor in Atlanta Ia
reported to be worth 10000, all of which
ne made there In few years BY, industry
and economy. r
= Gen. Grant has now no tannery to
look after, no wood TO haul, no armies 10
lead, to glorious victory, no public, Office
to administer. ,n 8,,,,,,Il-
= 1t 10 estimated that about twenty.
i've thousand d Americans have visited
Europe this ye,., spending thousands
upon thousands =. dollars This Is one
way the money goes. 4 <Ha lcai
- The owner of large CRANBERRY
farm at Berlin, Wis.,, employs hundred
girls, and he promises to marry the one
who picks the most berries this season.
providing she wan Is him.
j. The Augusta News says Atlanta ia :
already beginning to fill up with low.
| down swindlers thieves and rascals. and
Old Iigc Anderson will have plenty TO do
for the next three months. a;
= Bishop M'Tyeiro, Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, preached in the
Methodist Episcopal Chapel in Romc,
Italy, on recent Sabbath, Dr.. Vernon
acting as interpreter to the Italian hear.
| ers. .,..' -. .:plis. 5,sas
- OF the $4,000 Mormons in Utah,
only about 10000 are polygamous. Most
Of these are Of European importation.
The younger generation of Mormons find
one wife apiece as much as they and
their purse can stand.
- Denver, Col. is lighted by electric
lights placed on wooden towers nearly
two hundred feet high. Some Of the
streets are laid with pipes, through which
steam is conducted to buildings whose
owner pays for tile privilege.
= A woman who dressed .!;erself ia
mems clothes and went into the army
during the war, so that she could be With
her husband, and who was wounded in
tho service, has just received 5000 In
pension arrears at st. Louis.
Under the new code of criminal
procedure in New York, any person who
has been convicted OF q felony or Eve
times Of misdemeanor may be ad-
he will be liable to arrest without war
rant
=. The Supreme Court of Pennsylva.
MIA decides that person who has paid a
part OF the purchase money on property,
be. who IS not entitled TO the ownership
until the entire price is paid has an in
sura6le interest in the property to tho
extent of his own interest therein.
The Star Parlor Orga Company
and Beatties immense organ factories in
Washington, n. j., were totally destroy.
ed by fire Sunday afternoon. The loss
is estimated at 100000, which is par.
TALLY covered by insurance. Four hun
dred men are thrown out of employment.
= Cocoanut growing is becoming an
important industry in Florida Chas.
Maloney has plantation Of several
thousand trees on Stock Island, j. v.
Harris, of Key West, has abcst 1000
trees, E. 0. Lock about 10000. and Lieu.
tenant Governor Bethel is having an ex-
teEsive grove of cocoanut trees planted.
| = The King of Siam 10 the hnppiest
of mortals. He has been favored with
new white elephant, which is the god OF
the Siamese idolatry, and the king has
received this addition to his pantheon
with every mark of veneration and wor-
ship. He has lodged the elephant mag
, nificently and provided him solid SER
vice of gold.
= The report of the tobacco product of
, the United States for the census years
1880 and 1870 shows an apparent increase
in production of eighty per cent. during
the decade. The production in 1870 waa
262,735,341 pounds, and that of 1880,
473, ,l07.073 pounds. A curious fact in
t this connection is that there wasa higher
, average per-ac in line n orlnern than ir
the Southern States, which would have
been regarded as an anomaly some years
! ago.
- The operation performed on Sena-
tor Hill, of Georgia, last week by Prof
Gross, of Philadelphia, was more ex-
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