The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-03
General News Summary.

Flog.3.s haty's 10 good. 80
Three thumbs on one hand il tho
best Columbia County, Kentucky, baby
can do. o'o5 sN5
- An Anderson County. Keptuckv -
d,stlller pays annual freight bills Of
- They serve new asparagus and green
peas now at the Jacksonville and other
Florida hotels.
. There arc only $4,000 real estate
holders in New York city in a popula.
tion of 100000.
- The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher savs
that he has just declined an offer of $500 :
Oco to lecture for one year.
- Iwo thousand acres of land covered
with fine timber, wero sold in LAWS
county, Ky, recently at 81 per acre.
iron Is rolled so thin at the Pitts.
Ourg, Pa, iron mills that 10000 sheets
thickness.
= Mr.. Fair, Senator elect for Nevada.
represents as much property in his own
person 20 all the rest of the State with
its g.. 300 Inhabitants.
= Brewer Gunther, of Paola, Kansas.
has committed suicide because the strin.
gent State law has rendered his brewing
establishment worthless.
- Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas are all importing large mum.
oers of Merino sheep-More than for any
season for ten years past.
"a circuit of three miles in New
York is now lighted by electricity, and
the electric light is fast superseding gas
III many OF the large Offices.
= The Shaw University at Raleigh. N.
o., one of the Baptist schools for freed
men, has sent out more than 1000 teach
ers among the colored people.
The most costly building in the
country, when completed, will be the
Mormon temple ut Salt Lake CITY, the
cost of which is estimated at S27. 900 O0D
An Arab legend says the feet of
pigeons are red because their ancestors
walked in The red mud which settled
upon the face of the earth after the de.
luge.
- General Grant smokes ten cigars a
day, for which he pays twenty-five and a
half cents apiece. And the Nation is
asked to pension him because he ia 60
poor.
The trinket shops in jacksonville
aud st: Augustine, Florida. are as eco
nomical as those at Niagara Falls. The
incest Is cent shell baskets can be bought
at $3.50. ~ - e-s
a Hancock aud English banner. in
tatters, still hangs from the liber,v.po]e
at Charlottesville, Va. No ono will haul
It down, aud the purpose is to let it float
for four years.
- The widow of President Polk is &C
beloved and respected, that, by common
consent of all parties, the interest on her
little fortune in Tennessee State bonds
all she had, is exempted from repudin.
ton.
= Build cotton nills. Five million
bales OF manufactured cotton is worth
to the South 1926, 100000. Atkinson. of
Boston. says don't manufacture it. we
say, spun into yarn this cotton is worth
$3.50. 100000. ~
Crematory furnaces are now in ope.
ration at Zurich, in Switzerland. and a,
BEreslau. Dresden and Go,ha, in Germany.
Throughout Germany tho preiudic,
against disposing of the dead by burning
is rapidly disappearing.
In Illinois total abstinence socie.
ty of twenty members have adopted q
novel method for keeping themselves
straight. Each member has deposited
5000, which is forfeited to tho rest in
case he breaks his pledge.
Inc friends of temperance in Penn
GRyivaii1a are circulating petitions to the
Legislature requesting that body to take
necessary preliminary steps to submit
constitutional amendment similar to the
one recently adopted in Kansas.
- IL is reported that Hon. James
Whiting, Of New York, and ex- Gov. D.
d. Chamberlain. of South Carolina, have
beer, engaged az Counsel for the defence
IN the Whitaker court martial. Mr..
Whiting is lifelong Democrat.
-J Judge Barret, of the Supreme Court
OF New York, has granted an injunction
to Rufus Hatch, restraining the Western
Union, the Atlantic and Pacific and the
American Union Telegraph Companies
from entering into any agreement Of con-
solidation, and from Increasing their cap.
ital stock.
- a young couple of Fairfield, Iowa.
who had been long engaged, became in.
yolved in lovers quarrel and parted l..
anger. The same night both of them
attempted suicide, and alike mado fail.
ures. Convinced that they could not
live happily apart, reconciliation and
hasty marriage took place the very next
day.
- The Baltimore Sun gives the Presi.
dental vote for President as folIowa
Hancock, 4,432,978; Garfield, 443O. .827.
Hancock's majority ever Garfield. 2'65i.
Weaver, Greenbacker, received 305, ,O88:
Dow, Prohibitionist, 9,644; scattering.
1913. Total vote, 9,l82,S34. The iSstn
says the figures were obtained at tho
proper sources in Washington and at
State capitals.
- About 10000 bills have been intro.
duced in Congress this session. Among
them is measure providing for the ps..s
ment OF S5,UOO 10 one Cults for manu-
scrip: of treatise on logic, written bv
President Madison. Tie bill bill specifies
That the work il to he nrinlaa far .hs .es
of members of Congress. They cer.ainlv
need posting on logic, bat the people
ho;:!i TIT So TequifeG 10 pay for piGFip their
schooling.
= The syst;r, Of preparing postage by
means OF small adhesive labels, to bo sold
to the public and received by the post
office in evidence of payment when at-
vocated by Rowland Hill. in 1887. and
was adopted by the British postofTice in
1910. The stamps were iirst used May
6 of that year, and were introduced in
l847 into the United States. All civil
lied nations have them.
- The recent opinion &C the Assistant
Attorney General for the Po,toffice De-
partme at, by which invoices. bills of
lading, circulars and the liSse are stricken
from tho list of third class mail matter,
is n decision Of serious cnncera for tho
business community. We believe that
these ought all to be retained on the list,
and further that the written words.