The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-27
General News Summary.

1>iaana9s Tue Influx of immi.
grants from all parts continues
:. On one ranch In Texas q thousand
lambs were killed by cold weather.
- The Usage Indians own about s..
|oo mead OF cattle and 5000 ponies.
III Columbus county, N. O., it IL
proposed to cultivate jute for market.
IL Is aaid that castor beans can he
raiaed TO perfection in Western Texas.
at Columbus, Miss, fro proof
vaults have been built for the county
records.
Gen. Walker estimates thai IL tsAS
the population ofthe United States will
be G3. .467, ,00O. ' Wy
- Last year the losses by fire in the
United States, as far as reported, footed
up S76,513. 100.
- w. II. Vanderbilt draws $51o 600
interest every ninety days from the
United States Treasury,
- In Alabama law has been passed
giving blacksmiths and wookworkers n
lien on vehicles required by them until
the price is paid.
= From Jacksonville, Fla, the ship.
n,ents of lumber last year aggregated
a!,7l9,225. feet, an increase Of 7.74O.-
Sl7 over the year previous.
ooo - 1t has been developed that 35.013.
uoU,VOO friction matches arc consumes,
every year in the United States. or 701
Tor every man, woman, child and baby.
Iwenty.seyen families of impjgrants
from tennessee arrived in Bopham- Tex.
as. Among them was a man named
Jones, who has nine boys under fifteen
years of ago.
= One of the most serious drswbacI,a
to the prosperity Of South Florida. issaid
to be the fact that so large q norton NJ
the supplies is imported from the North
The remark might be extended 10 other
parts of the South.
= Natchez Democrat A younp pen.
tleman of this city having offered his
lady love his heart and hand as Christ.
mas gift, was very much asionished when
she told him that she would great d cal
rather have n pound Of mixed candy.
! Bishop Elder, of Cincinnati. said in
MS recent episcopal letter to the clergy
of his diocese: ''In entertainments g;veeyy
ior churSh purposes, or in any way sane.
tioned by the priest, there must be hem no
dnHcln After dark and no round dancing
nt any time."
= Little Rock Gazette: Arkansas can
afford to snap her fingers at politics
With plenty Of bread and meat to feed.
her people, and ras many moro as NAV
choose to cast their lot with us notbing
is wanted to keep on the high rond to
prosperity and progress but wise. eoni.
taoie ana common'sense legislation.
- A man who went to Arkansas from
McNairy county, Tennessee, thirty.two
years ago, on q recent visit to his old
home, hunted Up the heirs of man 70
whom no owed sixty. five cents at The time
of bis departure, and paid The principal
and interest, amounting to two dollars.
During the recent cold term ice was
seen at Waldo, Fla, fully an inch thick.
At Cedar Keys ice was found three.fourtbs
OF an inch thick. At Mandarin. on the
st. Johns river, all the oranges were fro.
zen, the loss being estimated ct $4,000.
The thermometer at Fernandina went
down to seventeen degrees nbore zero.
- During the remainder Of the winter
the Signal Service will notify the Super.
intendnnt O. the Texas division of .he
United States military telegraph lines
when "northers" may be Anticipated.
These predictions will be conspicuously
posted in the telegraph offices along the
line, for the benefit of sheep and cattle
men.
= In the eastern portion of Terrell
county. Ga, Elder Matthias F. Cowlev
and JOHN w. Taylor, two Mormon
preachers from Salt Lake CITY. Utah.
have been for several weeks past holding
frequent services and prociaiming the
tenets of their faith. They have beer
zeaiously working in behalf oftheir cause.
distributing tracts containing their creed
and preaching on Sunday and during he
week.
= Eugene Hale, of Maine, will be one
or the youngest members of United States
Senate. Ho is "A years of age, hayjrp
been born in 1856. Butler, of South Car.
oline, was born in the same year: Plumb.
ofKansas, in 1887; Groome, OF MARYLAND.
in 1888; and Bruce, of Mississippi. in
lS4l. These are the only Senators under
45.
= The few inhabitants upon the Red
River, Texas, are much excited over a
strange rumbling noise that is heard both
night and day 1t resembles the sound
OF railroad train, but as there are no
railroads within f:ty miles of the locality
the people believe 1t is passage of vol
canic action. It's range is from north to
northwest, and it recalls the ominous
sounds described by Humboldt as pre-
ceding the great earthquake of 1859 in
Mexico, when the volcanic mountain of
Jorulia was t:nhearea.
= Sarah Bernhardt is investing the
profits Of her American tour in necklace
that is boing made in Paris, and which
will be the finest specimen Of the Jewell
er's art of this century. It is cnns s:.eses :.esee;.
oi two rows of magnificent brilliants,
about an inch and quarter apart, be.
tween which. q wreatli of fiel3 fewer; Il,
precious stones. representing the natural
colors OF the rustic blossoms, seems to fiow
with the greatest case and grace imagira-
BILE. The minute poppies are composed
of rqbies, the cornhowers of eaphires, the
narigolds of topaz and SO on, while the
leaves are of emeraids. no two howers
are alike, and, altogether the necklace il
pronounced the finest composed during
this generation.
The Philadelphia American maps
out very correct course for Garfield TO
take, for the purpose of STRENGTHENING bis
party, when it ssys "Our belief is that
Mr. Garfield will pursue neither Mr..
Granite policy nor that of Mr. Hayes in
this matter. We look to see him Ignore
all lines within tho party, as neither of
these two gentlemen has done. II is indif-
ference, nor hostility, that will give fac
tions the coup dc grace. We have had
twelve years of factional distribution OF
patronage under tho Republican, party,
and they have been years ofgroWing dis.
sension. Let us have four years Of o
rule which shall know candidate only
as Republican, and after that ask only
as to his interritv and caDacitv--Vhich