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

sold tor s1.25.
Strawberries arc selling in'New!Y Yosk
for six dollars quart.
A coal company in Colorado struck
oil few days ago at depth of Jas
feet.
- Butler county, Pa, pays over one
thousand dollars Il year bounty on fox
scalps.
= A new telegraph company with
$1,000, 900 capital has been organized in
Chicago.
= New York had 1889 new buildings
begun in 1880, at an estimated cost Of
1923, ,93S, 600.
= The national debt of England is
held by about $4,000 people; that Of
France by about 1000 900.
The colored Republicans of Augusta,
Ga, have endorsed Senator Bruce for
place in Gen. Garhed's Cabinet.
- The city council of Jefferson, Ca,
has placed the license for selling liquor
at one thousand dollars per annum.
The commissioner of pensions says
it will require s500,000, 900 to pay all
claims under The arrearages of the pen
sion law of 1879.
j 1t is'eslimated that at least twenty.
thousand dollars worth of spiri,uous Ii.
quors were snld at Greenwood, Abbeville
county, last year.
= \ man sold two cats which he had
dressed to restaurant keeper in New
York for rabbits and got twenty-five
cents piece for them.
- Oscas A. Rice, late deputy collector
of internal revenue at Baan Rouge, has
been committed to prison on charge of
embezzlement. in default of SO, 900 bail.
IN. L. Webb, of Georgetown county,
S. c., has been convicted of fraudulent
voting and sentenced to two months i'm.
prisonment, and to pay fine of one
hundred dnllars.
Senator Dennis, of Maryland has a
twelve acre terrapin pond in which be
raises terrapins for market. He has sold
az MANY as twelve thousand in one year.
They bring from ten. to. fourteen dollars
q dozen.
- In the Senate of the North Carolina
Legislature, q bill has been introduced
proposing an amendment to the constitu-
ton to The effect that after 1895 no one
who cannot read :or.wrte shall be allow
ed to vote.
"A young man named James Gaddis,
of Chattanooga, Tenn, killed his mother
recently. They had been drinking to-
gether and quarrelled, when he struck
her with a poker, which caused her death
in few minutes.
Some fifty emigrants en- route to the
West passed through Atlanta last week.
Among them was a lady who was said to
be the mother Of twenty.nine children.
She called the roll at every station to see
that none were missing.
- Benjamin Schnell and Hattie Ger
trude Posry we're married recently by
trial justice, at Seneca City. The girl is
only eight years old, and was married
with the consent Of her mother, who
witnessed the ceremony.
- A negro named Bob Hennegan was
found dead in a creek in Mecklenburg
county, n. G., his head beat into q jelly
and chain around his neck. Four re.
gro men have been committed to Jail
charged with the murder.
AJluIS VIC VI tllG Stu-
son, nearly three millions of tons of ice
have been housed in the Hudson river, at
an expense not exceeding twenty five
cents per ton. The ice will average
twelve inches in thickness.
- Hon. A. s. Merrimon, in recent
address before the North Carolina State
Prohibition Convention, said that he had
been practicing law for twenty. eight
years, and nine. tenths of the cases in his
practice have been brought on by liquor.
= Gerald Paget, fourth son of Lord
Alfred Paget. and his wife have been
hunting in Wyoming and Montana
One night they slept in an open tent
with The thermometer 90 degrees below
zero and the wolves bowling about them.
= II is stated that Prot. o. G.. Hill,
principal Of the normal school at Oregon
Hall, Como, Mo-, will be private secreta-
ry to President Garfield. Prof. Hill was
one of the faculty at Hiram College, Ohio,
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, inasmuch as
woman is The greatest sufferer from tho
liquor traffic, she ought to be allowed to
vote on this question.
"A Company with $4,000, 900 capital
has been organized for the purpose of
leasing the Cincinnati Southern railroad.
If this is effected. it is proposed to form
a combination with the Kentucky Central,
Chesapeake and Ohio and the Erlanger
lines from Chattanooga.
- The Camperdown Mills, near
Greenville, are unable to fill their orders
with the present force employed, and the
superintendent is row forced to run all
night as well rs all day. He has issued
circulars calling for two hundred and
fifty additional operatives to whom good
wages and steady work is promised.
- The North Carolina Legislature
will probably order special election for
May or August to find out the popular
sentiment on the question Of prohibition.
If the people are in favor of prohibition,
the Governor viii be requested to call an
extra session of the Legislature to pass
at once an unqualified prohlbitory law.
st. Louis gamblers propose to evade
State laws next spring by fitting out a
boat on the Mississippi River, with a
large main cabin for keno and smaller
rooms for faro, roulette and hazard.
Each passenger is to pay 81 iare, and
three fourths Of the fares are to consti.
tu'e "pots" for the game, the bank de-
Quoting the usual commission.
The annual report Of the commits.
sioners of emigration for the year 1880
was completed on the 25th. The total
number of passengers arriving at Castle
Garden was 372,Ss0. Of this number,
2Oi came from Germany, &C, ,399 from
England, and 1880 from Italy. The
report recommends that Congress make
such laws as may be required touching i'm
migration.
- Virginia is to have civil rights