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

nessee is $2ll 1884
= Arkansas and Texas are contendint
with the concealed weapons.
= East Tennessee has 8,004,126 acrel
Of land valued at $37,417,479.
- More or less damage resu.ted from
the late rains all over Louisiana.
- Two mules Ind fight at Eutaw
Ala, resulting in the death of one.
- Knoxville, Tenn, has IL churches
which will seat every soul of her popula.
tion ut one time.
= The Mardi Gras pageants at New
Orleans this year will surpas, anything OF
the kind ever witnessed there.
- The cotton factory a. Cottondale,
eight miles from Tuscaloosa, Ala, has
l72 looms continually running.
= Louis Gaskins, Of Brooksyille. Fla,
plucked Il ripe watermelon on tho 10th
which was fully matured and of nice
flavor.
- Gen. Hancock has advised the ipau-
gu ion committee that lie will be in
Washington and ut the committees SER
vice on the 4th of March.
= The sugar trade had an unusually
prosperous year in 1880. The consump.
tinn in this country increased 8 per cent.
and both r, fners and dealers made
money.
: a bill to revive the whipping post
for wifc-beatcrs is likely to pas. the In.
diana Legislature. 1t limits the bani,h.
ment TO twenty-five strokes on the bare
back with n cat o-nine tails.
"A claim for ono cent was recently
allowed the Union Pacific Railroad by
the treasury department, and its settle
ment involved ns much labor. and red
tape rs il it bad been for million dol.
lars.
y Glass manufacture is making won
dcrfnl stridcs in Ohio. Last year five
new works were erected; this year there
will probably be as many moro. More
than two thousand are employed in the
business.
"A letter from Rosewood, Fla, to the
Hartford, Conn.,, Times snys that the
writer doubts whether there were over so
many people in Florida as at this time,
aud tho arrivals nrc numerous beyond
anything ever seeu before.
= Senator. elect Miller, of California,
says his Alaska fur seal company has
paid tho government $3,000,000 of the
81 GOO 600 we raid for Alaska, and before
his grant expires will have paid the whole
sum we paid Russia; while the seals,
honestly protected, are more plentiful
than ever.
-. Grants friends have raised $3.50 600
for him, and seem to have agreed to fur
nish him with FREQ dinners aud to have
him .deadheaded on all the railroads.
The poor man hns about 500, 900 besides
his recent gifts. Really, General Logan,
don't you think he can maunge to get on
with economy?
= Huntsville (rex.) Rem: Total con.
vvicts on hand February /, 2,l40 Consist
ing Of 2,11l State and 20 United States).
How employed In prison ut Huntsville,
405; hired about Huntsville, 81; on
Rusk prison construction, 1913; in iron
foundery force, 90; in wood.cutting
forces, 2O6; in plantation forces, GAG.
= The Rev. DR.. Cuyier, in recent rem
iniscencee as to Carlyle. mentioned that
he heard him say II wad like toisee
Amerira. Ye may talk about your.
Dinlocracy or any other 'cracy O. any
kind OF polcctical rubbish, but the secret
of happiness in America is that We have
gat vast denl of land for very few
people,"
= The Putnam County (Fla.l Herald
says that an agent Of the Italian Govern.
ment has been in Florida end has inst
returned to Italy. He advocated FlOrida
MS home for his countrymen, and o large
immigration to that State may be expect.
ed. Arrangements a.e being perfected
with the Oriental Steamship Company
for their passage.
= The most valuable modern coin is a
Confederate States silver dollar, which is
valued at 81 900. There were only few
Of these coins struck. The Confederate
government had the dies made and q few
coins were struck at the New Orleans
mint for the inspection of the govern
ment officials. They found, however.
that they had no more silver, and no
more were coined.
- The blacks of the sixteen Southern
States hav, increased from 4,242,CO3 in
1870 TO 5,64o, ,S9l in l8SO-a gain of moro
than 33 per cent. The whites in these
States have increased from 9,8I8,877 in
1870 to 1l,259,713 in 1880, or less than
% per cent. AS there wes very little
immigration during the ten years, i. fol-
lows that the census results probably
show the correct rates Of increase of the
two races.
: The Oregon system ofliquor licenses
ia being urged for trial in Boston. Under
1t the buyer, not the seller, is obliged to
procure license. Objection 10 made to
the plan on account of the great number
OF licenses that would have to be issued
ard looked after, while friends of the
measure think it would debar from the
saloons many chronic drinkers, who have
not the money and respectability reaui.
site TO secure license.
Senator jones, of Nevada, says the
people of his State hardly know .hev
hs.s 8 government. ii.ine system of tax
alton Is such that the poor do not feel the
taxes. People are taxed according to
their incomes. a mine is taxed for Shat
ii produces, SO that it pays taxes as part
of rs expenses. Comparatively sneak
inGs the burden ia not fell. In the Ens.
says the Senator, taxes can not be leyled
in that way, because there are too mauy
rich iiien.
1t is said that Horace MAYNARD
turned young man out Of the Postoffice
Department whose family are Republic
cans merely because he made some bets
on Hancock's election. When MAYNARD
came back from Tennessee beaten for the
Senate, his bad huu.or was the subject of
common comment all over Washington.
He was as sour as old cider, and is said
to have taken petty revenge on his
political foes by turning several Demo-
Gratis in Tennessee cut Of the Postoffice
Department.
= Reports from Chicago are to the
effect that smallpox is increasing there
with great rapidity, and that in several
towns ID Illinois and Iowa the disease is
epidemic. Cincinnati, too, is becoming
alarmed, and remembering that no longer
ago than 1872 eleven thousand one hun.
dred and seventy mine of her people per.