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


- The total taxable property of Ten
nessee is s21l,76S,43S.
- Arkansas and Texas are contending
with the concealed weapons.
- East Tennessee has S,0O4,126 acres
Of land valued at S37, All ,470.
- More or less damage resulted from
the late rains all over Louisiana.
- Two mules had fight at Eutaw,
Ala, resulting in the death of one.
= Knoxville, Tenn, has 13 churches,
which will seat every soul of her popula-
ton at one time.
= The Mar'li Gras pageants at New
/ Orleans this year will surpass anything Of
the kind ever witnessed there.
- The cotton factory at Cottondale,
eight miles from Tuscaloosa, Ala, has
172 lpoms continually running.
- Louis Gaskins, Of Brooksville, Fla,
plucked Il ripe watermelon on the 10th,
which was fully matured and of nice
flavor.
- Gen. Hancock has advised the ipau-
guration committee that he will be in
Washington and at the committees SER
vice on the 4Lh of March.
- The sugar trade had an unusually
prosperous year in 1880. The consump.
ton in this country increased Q per cent,
and both re6ners and dealers made
money.
"A bill to revive the whipping post
for wfe-beaters IS likely to pass the In
diana Legislature. 1t limits the punish
ment to twenty-five strokes on the bare
back with cato '-nine'tails.
"A claim for one cent was recently
allowed the Union Pacific Railroad by
the treasury department, and its settle
ment involved as much labor and red
tape as if it bad been for million dol.
lars.
= Glass manufacture is making won
derful strides in Ohio. Last year five
new works were erected; this year there
will probably be as many more. More
than two thousand are employed in the
business
"A letter from Rosewood, Fla, to the
Hartford, Conn.,, Times says that the
writer doubts whether there were ever 80
many people in Florida as at this time,
and the arrivals are numerous beyond
anything ever seen before.
Senator. elect Miller, of California,
says his Alaska fur seal company has
paid the government 100000 Of the
81 ,O0O 900 we paid for Alaska, and before
bis 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 $3.50 900
for him, and seem to have agreed to fur
nish him With free dinners and to have
him deadheaded on all the railroads.
The poor man has about 100000 besides
his recent gifts. Really, General Logan,
don't you think he can manage to get on
with economy?
- Huntsville (Tex.) Rcm: Total con.
victs on hand February l, 2,140 consist.
ing of 2,l1l State and 20 United States).
How employed In prison at Huntsville,
405; hired about Huntsville, 81; on
Rusk prison construction, 1893; in iron
foundery force, 90; in wood-cutting
forces, 206; in plantation forces, GAG.
- The Rev. DR.. Cuyler, in recent rem
iniscences as to Carlyle, mentioned that
he heard him say: IT wad like to see
America. Ye may talk about your
Dimocracy or any other 'cracy or any
kind of polcctical rubbish, but the secret
of happiness in America is that ye have
gat vast deal of land fos very few
people"
- The Putnam County (Ela.) Herald
says that an agent of the Italian Govern
ment has been in Florida and has just
returned to Italy. He advocated Florida
as home for his couutrymen, and large
immigration to that State mey be expect.
ed. Arrangements are being perfected
with the Oriental Steamship Company
tor their passage.
- The most valuable modern coin is
Confederate States silver dollar, which is
valued at 81 900. There were only a 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 have increased from 1922 ,003 in
1870 to 5,643 ,S9l in 1864 gain Of more
than 33 per cent. The whites in these
States have increased from 3,813,377 in
1870 to II, 1,259,7l3 in 1880, or less than
% per cent. AS there was very little
immigration during the ten years, it fol-
lows that the census result, probably
show the correct rates of increase of the
two races.
- The Oregon system ofliquor licenses
is being urged for trial in Boston. Under
it the buyer, not the seller, is obliged to
procure license. Objection is made to
the plan on account of the great number
OF licenses that would have t. be issued
and looked after, while friends of the
measure think it would debar from the
saloons many chronic drinkers, who have
not the money and respectability requi-
site to secure license.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, says the
people of his State hardly know they
have government. The 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 what
it produces, so that it pays taxes as part
of its expenses. Comparatively speak
ing, the burden is not felt. In the East,
says the Senator, taxes can not be levied
in that way, because there are too many
rich men.
= 1t is said that Horace Maynard
turned young man out of the Postoffce
Department whose family are Republi-
cans merely because he made some bets
on Hancock's election. When Maynard
came back from Tennessee beaten for the
Senate, bis bad humor was the subject of
common comment all over Washington.
He was as sour as old cider, and is said
to have taken a petty revenge on his
political foes by turning several Demo
Gratis in Tennessee out Of the Postotfice
Department
= Reports from Chicago are to the
effect that smallpox is increasing there
with great rapidity, and that in several