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

| -Gen. .. i carey IS expected 10 call
yass South Carolina soon for prohibition.
"A negro was killed by white man
in Kingstree, in this State, 5th instant, in
drunken row.
1t is estimated that at least 10000
bushels of rice were made last year on
the West Wateree.
- Senator German, of Maryland, was
once page in the chamber where he
now sits as Senator.
- Twenty-nine young doctors were
graduated at the Charleston Medical COL
Iege Saturday, 5th inst.
Il the Whitaker trial, lately, all
expert astonished the court by tieing him.
self as Whitaker was tied.
= AT terrible explosion in Wyom.
ing mine, Sd instant, 20 dead Cinnamon
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, day or two
ago, that his brother-Samuel j. Tilden
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 the Town of Lincolnton at
cost of $3.50.
= At late terrible earthquake in the
isle of Ischia, in Italy, l02 bodies have
been recovered from the ruins of the
fallen buildings.
- The Meas and Courier says that the
Georgia Historical Society has drum
which was used at the battle Of Cowpens,
January II, 1881.
- There have been seventy-two con-
reyances of real estate entered in the
Auditors Office, in Camden, since the 1st
Of January, 1881.
= A bill has passed the Senate of
North Carolina enforcing q tax of $500
on all persons engaged in employing
laborers to leave the State.
Capt. w. n. Bartless, a successful
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 their place of business until
January l, 1882.
The expenses of Hayes Louisiana
commission remain unpaid. The bill
should be presented to Hayes for pay
ment. 1t amounts to $3,950.73, chiefly
for wine and cigars.
- 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.
- Taft is proposed for the Postm aster-
ship of Charleston; Wilder for that of
Columbia; T. B. Johnson for U. S. Mar
shall; 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 q 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. 1t
is thus that the Democrats are clearing
away the Radical school debt, besides
running current expenses.
- That General Garfield is man of
uncommon discernment is shown by
remark he made that "the newspaper
correspondents at Washington know
more about the public welfare and public
necessities than the average Congress
man."
-"No, / am not worth o million of
dollars" said Senator Brown, of Georgia,
to an inquirer, "nor is any other man in
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 first
Confederate Treasury clerk, published in
the New Orleans Democrat, it is stated
that company from DeKalb County,
Ca, commanded by Capt. Geo. w. Lee,
was the first organization that reported
for duty under the Confederate Govern
ment.
- The Directors of Camperdown Mills
have made an appropriation of twelve
hundred dollars for the erection of q
church on their premises in Greenville,
which is to be opened to the denomina-
tions of the city. Rev. Landy Wood is
looking to that particular field of reli-
gious labor.
Twenty or more Democratic men,
bers elect to the next Congress have
formed club for the purpose of advanc.
ing free trade, or q tariff for revenue only,
and making that the objective point in
their labors during the next Congress
and their battle.cry in the Presidential
campaign of 1854.
- The stock of the Air Line Road
begins to loom up among the phenom-
email changes of railroad values in the
South. Last summer it went begging
below 30, and now it is quoted at 70.
The advance of this stock in the Rich.
mond and Baltimore markets has been
steady and we'll maintained. There is
great future for the Air Line Company,
because the country it penetrates is Oh
the upgrade.
- Ihe canal az the State capltal Is 0e-
fore the people again. A correspondent
of the News and Courier says: II. is con-
fdently believed that four hundred thou
sand dollars can be raised this year in
the State, which will suffice to enlarge
the lower half Of the canal and give it
fifteen thousand horse. power, and build
an initial yarn mill of sixteen thousand
spindlcs. Such increase of subscription.
as might be made toward the capital of
million and o 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
25O acres, and has yielded $4,000 worth
of peaches. 1t is owned and cultivated
by MIR. John Parnell, brother of the
Irish apitator. He came to this country