The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-10
General News Summary.

= Strawberries arc selling in,NewIYork
for six dollars quart.
= a coal companyin Colorado struck
oil q fow days ago at depth of I,145
: Butler county. Pc, pays oyer one
scalps. :" - -
A new telegraph company with
100000 capital has been organized IL,
Chicago. e -
= New York had 2.3ss new building,
S23, ,93s, 900. 'eD eo'' ''
!. The national debt of England il
held by about $4,000 people that Of
France by about 1000 600.
- The colored Republicans of Augusta
Ga, have endorsed Senator Bruce for n
place in Gen. Gavield's Cabinet.
= The city council of jefferson Ga
has placed the licenae for selling LIQUOR
at one thousand dnllars per annum
= The mmissinnef of pensions sava
II will require $500,00O 600 to paw Mi
claims under The arrearages of the pen.
sion law Of 1879.
= 1t is'eslilnated that ct least twenty.
thousand dollars worth of spirituou, Il.
quors were sold at Greenwood, Abbeyille
county, last year.
- ~ man sold two cats which he had
dressed to q restaurant keeper in New
York for rabbits, and got twenty. five
cents piece for them.
- Oscas A. Rice, late deputy collecto
OF internal revenue at Bntan Rouge. has
been committed To prison on charge of
embezzlement. in default of $40 900 bail
:. N. l.. Webb, Of Georgetown county.
= =, has been convicted of fraudulent
ya,."S aud sentenced 10 two months inn.
prisonment.. and to pay 6ne of one
hundred dulars.
Senator Dennis, Of Maryland, has a
twelve acre terrapin pond in which DO
raises terrapins for market. He has sold
as MANY as twelve thousand in one wear
They bring from ten. to. fourteen dollars
a dozen.
= In the Senate of the North Carolina
Legislature, bill has been Introduced
proposing an amendment to the constitu.
tinn To the effect that after 1895 nc enc
who cannot read. write shall bo allow.
ed to vote.
"A young man named James Gaddis
OF Chattanooga. Tenn, killed h;s mother
recently. They had been drinking to.
gether and quarrelled, when he struck
natI IA
in few minutes.
= Some fifty emigrants en- route to the
West passed through Atlanta last weat OBJ
Among them was lady v,.y was sa;d to
be the mother of twcnty.nine children
She called the roll at every station to ses
that none were missing.
- Benjamin SchnelI and Hattie Gor.
trude Posry were married recen.ly bv a
trial justice, at Seneca CITY. The eirI ia
only eight years old, and was married
with the consent Of her mother. who
witnessed the ceremony.
- a negro named Bob Hennecan VINO
found dead in creek in MeckIenbnrr
county, N. c., his head beat into a ieIj1
aud chain around his neck. Fo,,r ne.
gro men have been committed to mil
charged with tho murder. '"'
x Since the commencement of tba GOO
son, iieaTiy three millions of tons of ice
have been housed in the Hudson river at
an expense not exceeding twenty .gyo
centa per ton. The ice will average
twelve inches in thickness.
= Hon. A. 8. Merrimon. in n recant
address before the North Carulina State
prohi0ition Convention, said that he bnd
been practicing law for twenty. eipbt
years, and nine. tenths of the cases In Ria
practice have been brought on by LIQUOR.
r. Gerald Paget. fourth son of Lord
Alfred Pnget. and his wife have been
hunting in Wyoming and Montana.
One night they slept in an opon tent
with the thermometer 30 degrees below
zero and the wolves bowling about them
- 1t is stated that Prof. o. O. Hill
principal Of the normal school Mt OregoI,
Hall, Como, No.. will be private eecreta.
ry to President Garfield. Prof. Hill wa,
one OF the faculty at Hiram Collere, Oh;o
when General Garfield was president Of
that institution. -
= The Ohio State Local Option Con.
vention has passed resolutions asking the
Legislature to pass local option anti.
liquor law, and claims that, inasm,,ch as
woman is the greatest sufferer from tha
liquor traffic, she ought 20 be allowed to
vote on this question.
a Company with $4,000, 900 canital
has been organized for the purpose of
Ieaslng the Cincinnati Southern railroad.
1t this Ia effected. it ia proposed to forn,
combination with the Kentucky Central
Chesapeake aud Ohio and the Erlanger
lines from Chattanooge.
- The Camperdown Mills. near
Greenville, are unable to gil their orders
With the present force employed, and the
superintendent is now forced to run ali
night as well as all day. He has Issued
circulars calling for two hundred and
ttty additional operatives To whom, good
wages and steady work Ia nrnmisei
- - The North Carolina Legislature
viii probably order special election for
May or August to find ont the pcpular
sentiment on the question of prohibi,ion
II the people are in favor ofprobibition
s!ao GGi,T5IiiuT viii i1e requested TO cali -,
extre sAssinn nc the Lee I;,.; i.5s.;;:T5 i, 1,sss
at once M unqualified prohibitory law.
- 81. Louis gamblers propose TO eyade
State laws next spring by fitting out a
noat on the Mississippi River. with n
large main cabin for keno and smaller
rooms for faro. runlette and hazard
Each passenger is to pay 81 fare. and
three fourths of the fares are to consti.
tute "pots" for the game, the bank de.
ducting the usCal commission.
- The annual report of the commits.
sioners of emigration for the year 1850
was completed on the 25th. The total
number of passengers arriving at Castle
Garden was 372,880. OF this nnmber.
l04, ,204 came from Germany, 66. $50 rom
| England, and 10, ,l9e from Itaiy. The
report recommends that Congress mako
snch laws as may be required touching i'm
migration.
= Virginia IL have civil rights
case as to public school. At LY5ch-
burg q whis8 girl was dismissed ffnna
school bacanse she lived with negro