The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-17
General News Summary.

VasS SCUM CAROLINE soon for prohibition.
4 = negro was killed by white man
in Kingstree, in this State, 9th Instant, in
O drunken row.
| = It is estimated that OF least 80 COO
bushels of rice were made last year on
the West JVa,aree.
| = Senator German, of Maryland, was
once . pcge in the chamber where :,
4 now sits as Senator.
+ =. Twenty. nine young doctors were
graduated at the Charleston Medical Col.
lege Saturday, 9Th inst.
| In the Whitaker trial, lately, all
expert astonished the court by tieiug him
self rs Whitaker YVES tied.
- At terrible explosion In n Nvo,,.
| ing mine, Sd instant, 20 dead Chinamen
have been recovered from the mine.
| - The Duke of Sutherland and his
son will visit this country this summer.
arriving in April and returning home in
August.
- Henry Tilden said, n day or r.,
ago, that his brother-Samuel J. Tilo.n
predicts for Garfield the stormiest term
on record.
= Gen. Garfield, at his Inauguration.
occupied the chair from which Washing.
ton arose to take the oath of Presidential
Office in 1889.
= The Chester and Lenoir Railroad
have secured the transfer of the right of
way through .he Town of Lincolnton at
q cost Of $3.50.
= AZ late terrible earthquake in 80
isle OF ischia, in Italy, 102 budies Lave
been recovered from the ruins of the
fallen buildings.
- The .Ne,rs and Courier says that the
Georgia Historical Society has drum
which was used at the battle of Covpens.
January II, 1881. na
= There have been seventy.tvo con-
veyances of real estate entered in the
Auditor's Office, in Camden, since the LIST
Of January, 1881. f =.
- a bill has passed the Senate of
North Carolina enforcing O tax of $500
on oil persons engaged in employing
laborers to leave the State.
= Capt. w. II. Bartless, a successfuI
timber dealer at Hampton, has perfected
an arrangement with an immigration
agent to have immigrants brought over.
- The Darlington National Bank will
be ready to commence business in about
thirty days. The County Commissioners
office Will be lheir place Of business until
January l, 1882.
49,, The; The expenses Of Hayes Louisiana
I
should be presented to Hayes for pay
ment. 1t amounts to $9e50.7S. chiefly
for wire and cigars..
3 All males in Greece over twenty .one
years Of age have been ordered under
arms, and they and the Turks are mar.
shaling their forces on the border, ready
to begin work any day.
- Tait Is proposed for the Postm aster-
ship OF Charleston; Wilder for that of
Colmmb.a I. B. johnson for U. 8. Mar
shalli Corbin for, District Attorney, by
the National Republican Committee.
- The administration Of President
Hayes has paid off two hundred millions
OF dollars of the public debt, besides
achieving specie payments and refunding
more than thousand millions of dollars
at lower rates of interest.
- A considerable amount of the back
school debt has been wiped out under the
Bidding Act in Orangeburg County. It
is thus that the Democrats ara clearing
away the Radical school debt, besides
running current expenses
That General Garfield il o man Of
uncommon discernment ia shown by q
remark he made that "the newspaper
correspondents ct Washington know
more about the public welfare and public
necessities than the average Congress
man."
NO, l am not worth O. million of
dollars" said Senator Brown, of Georgia.
to an inquirer, "nnr is any other man i'm
Georgia, if his debts are all paid. Young
man." continued the Senator, looking at
him benignly over his spectacles, "a mil
lion dollars is good deal of money!
- IN the "reminiscences of the frat
Confederate Treasury clerk, published in
the New Orleans Democrat, it is stated
that company from DeKalb County,
Gs., commanded by Capt. Geo. W. Lee.
was the first organization that renorfed
for duty under the Confederate Govern.
ment.
- The Directors OF Camnerdown Mills
have made an appropriation of twelve
hundred dollars for the erection of o
church on their premises in Greenville.
which 10 to be opened to the denomina.
tions of the city. Rev. Landy Wood IL
looking. to that particular field of reli-
gious labor,
= Twenty or moro Democratic men,
6ers elect to The next Congress have
formed club for the purpose Of advanc.
Ing free trade, or tariff for revenue only.
and making that the objective point In
their jnbors during the next Congress-
and their battle-cry in the Presidential
campaign Of 1884. "
- The stock of the Air Line Road
begins tc loom up among the phenon,-
email changes Of railroad values In the
South. Last summer IL went begging
below so, and now it is quoted at 40.
The advance of this stock in the Rich
mond and Baltimore markets has been
steady and we'll maintained. There is a
great future for the Air Line Company.
because the country it penetrates is ~
the up.gSade.
| = The canal at the State capital Is he.
fore the people again. A correspondent
| Of the Netus and Courier says: It. is con.
fdently believed that four hundred thou.
sand dollars can be raised this year in
the State, which will suffice to enIaree
the luSer half Of the canal and give is
hfteep thousand horse. power, and build
an initial yarn mill of sixteen thousand
spindles. Such increase of subscriptions
as might be made toward the capital of
a million and half would be used in
building other mills and further improy-
ing the property.
- The largest peach orchard in the
world is not in Georgia, as the papers
have it, but in Chambers County. Ala.
bama, near the Georgia line. It Contains
ESQ acres, and has yielded $4,000 worth
| OF peaches. 1t Is owned and cultivated
by Mr.. John Parnell, csother of tho
Irish agitator. He came to this country
some ten or twelve years ago and bought
an old and worn ont cotton farm. whieh
n IN 0ANav n a.. Al u =