The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-24
General News Summary.

- House.rents in New York city hav
advanced from ten to twenty-five pc
cent.
There has been unusual mortalit,
among the colored people of Pickens thi
winter.
= 1t is said that Hayes will nominate
Taft for the Supreme Court, if Matthew
is rejected.
- A seat in the New York Stool
Board was recently sold for thirty thou
sand dollars.
- A son of Henry Ward Beecher ha
been appointed an Assistant District At
torncy in New York.
- a man in Pennsylvania has COW
that produces twenty-threc and a hal
pounds of butter week.
- .ibbeville county has paid S2l ,202..
4S for State, Sl3,3S401 for county and
S8,917.50 for school taxes.
The inland fisheries of Eastern
North Carolina yields s5O0,OO0 per an.
mum and employ 1000 men.
- Mr.. John r. Raymond has scored q
great success in New York in his new
play, "Fresh, the American"
= The State of Kansas is going to
place a statue of John Brown in the Ma
tional Gallery at Washington.
-Feuator Allison's chief recommen-
dation for the Cabinet is that he can beat
General Schenck at draw.poker.
"A Norwich, Conn.,, fourteen.year-
old boy is writing and illustrating a pop.
ular history of the United States.
- Amos It. Dwight, one of the Oldest
members of the New York Cotton Ex-
change, died on Monday, 7th inst.
- Mrs. Hayes says she likes to live in
the White House. This, we believe, is
also one of Mr.. Hayes weaknesses.
-Ex. Governor Talbot, of Massachu-
sets, thinks that women should be
allowed to vote in municipal affairs.
= Every building in the town of Pass
Manchas. La, was swept away by ter
rifle storm of wind and rain on the 9th
inst.
"A citizen of Vermont has recovered
fifteen hundred dollars from q railroad
company in that State for cutting off his
ear.
- Henry. the body servant of Hon.
A. Fl. Stephens, who recently died at
Charlottesville, Ca, was worth about
$4,000.
"A constitutional amendment is now
before the Missouri Legislature prohibit
ing the manufacture of alcoholic liquors
in that State.
- Ludlow Street Jail, New York city,
has number of prisoners confined for
debt, one of whom has been there for
more than five years.
- A bar-room for women has been
iopened on one of New York's most fash
enable thoroughfares, and is reported to
be literally patronized.
The storm on the 9th instant caused
eight land slides on the Air Line Rail-
road, between Charlotte and Atlanta.
The damage, hcwever, was not great.
"A bill has been presented in the
Missouri Legislature providing that here
after at all general elections the voting
shall be by rira roce, and not by ballot.
"A village is to be organized near
Boston, the title deeds to which will con-
tain clause forever prohibiting the
or sale of intoxicating
liquors in the town.
= Col. John S. Mosby is mentionedin
Washington as the next Republican can
didate for Governor of Virginia. 1t is
said that movement already is on foot
to secure for him the nomination.
The Hon. John Fl. billiard, Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of
North Carolina, has resigned his position
on the bench. Col. Thomas Ruffin has
been appointed to fill the vacancy.
= The dividend declared by the lessees
of the Georgia Western and Atlantic
Railroad at their recent meeting was FIVE
thousand for each share. On twenty
shares they paid out one hundred thou
sand dollars.
Two Senators and six Representa-
tives were captured in recent police
raid on gambling places in Washington.
This is another illustration of the effect
of Washington malaria" on the Con-
gressional system.
- The Masons of Augusta have de-
termincd to build new Masonic Temple
and a fine theatre on the site of their
present lodge room. The improvement
will cost about $4,000. The new theatre
will seat one thousand people.
- A Galveston widow is about to
marry her fifth husband. Her pastor re-
buked her for contemplating matrimony
so soon again. "Well, just want you to
understand, if the Lord Keeps on taking
them I will too" was the spirited reply.
- at the Delaware Breakwater the sea
last week was frozen over for more than
twelve miles out, and the mouth of the
bay from Lewes to the opposite Jersey
shore was closed completely, and persons
could cross on foot to Cape May, a dis
lance of ten miles.
- The South Carolina Railroad offers
a rate of $40 for emigrants. from New
York to Columbia via Charleston, the
route being from New York to Charleston
by steamer, and from Charleston to Co.
lumbia by rail. This price includes chill
dren, baggage, &c.
- IL Is eSLlIlliLtu Ludt IL Will oliy Ldho
about twenty years to consume the origi-
nal pine forest of Georgia, and it is
thought to be time for the adoption Of
some effective measure of protection.
The consumption during 1880 amounted
to over 250,0O0 acres.
= An ordinance has been passed by
the Augusta Board of Health requiring
the vaccination of all children in the
limits of the city of Augusta, and for
bidding teachers of private and public
schools to admit any unvaccinated chill
dren into their schools.
An effort is being made to secure
an increased clerical force for the Atlanta
postoltice, the business has grown to such
large proportions. In 1876 the total re-
ceipts of the Office were S24, ,424.35, whilst
in 1880 they were S52,925.2S, or more
than twice the amount.
The woman's rights movement has
received boost in Texas, where reso-
luton has been forced through the Leg
islature, in the teeth Of determined op.
position, admitting the sisters to positions
in the State departments on an equality
with men. The heads of departments