The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-17
General News Summary.

A severe earthquake shock vas felt
in parts of New. York State on the Sd
inst.
Eggs sold in New..York !city....last
week as high as seventy.6ve cents y
dozen.
by the way, howais thatsfund for
Presidents getting along PR. l. B.
Hayes.
- The small-poxsis worse in Philadel-
phia this winter than it has been since
the epidemic of 1872.
Let US pray that this may be an off,
year for the potato bug, the g.asshopper
and the fruit tree peddler.
Some of his Philadelphia friends
have raised purse Of one hundred thou.
sand dollars for General Grant.
"A large number of petitions favor.
ing woman suffrage have been presented
to the Rhode Island Legislature.
"A Richmond, Va, real estate .agen.
cy has received 1000 inquiries for farms
in Virginia during the last sixty days.
- An encouraging sign of progress at
the South is the proposed establishment
of produce exchange at Augusta, Ga.
1t is said the postal card has dc.
creased the sale of writing paper Sl2,.
1000 annually in the United States.
"A bill has been introduced in the
New York Legislature to compel all tel.
egraph companies to lay their wires under
ground.
Albert P. and Charles E. Talbot,
two brothers, of Maysville, Mo-, have
been sentenced to be hung for the. muir.
der of their father
= Beth Eden Baptist Church, in'Phil.
a1elphia, was destroyed by fire last week.
The church was erected few years ago
at cost of S15O,000.
= This is the anniversary of the burn
ing of John Rogers 926 years ago. The
fire was one of the.brightest lights of the
English reformation.
- English ladies..of fashion now have
shooting suits as much as riding habits.
They are made with padifor the gun on
one side of the waist.
= The party who usually pays the
highest compliments to the Lord, in his
prayers, usually pays the lowest wages to
The people he has in his employ.
- General Grant might be :. made
Grand High Keeper of the Obelisk, with
salary of $4,000 year. The obelisk
can stand the weather until 18S4.-Cou.
rier- Journal.
- Ida Lewis, the: Grace Darling of
America, saved two more men from
drowning near Lime Rock Light. House,
of which she is keeper, last Friday.
This makes sixteen lives saved by Miss
Lewis.
The extension of tho Kentucky
Central Railroad to Knoxville has been
ordered, and the work is to be begun at
once. The Road is in strong hands, and
the probability is, the gap of 81 miles
will be speedily filled.
= James E. Brown, of Kittaning,
Penn, who died December 5, bequeaths
$25 to every widow in the town, S25 to
every wife who shall become widow,
and the same amount to all the girls now
living who shall become wives.
- Mr. Gladstone's position on the
Irish question has excited so much oppo.
sition that fears are entertained for his
personal safety. His house is guarded
day and night, and policeman follows
him to the House of Commons.
- About 100000 bushels of hemp seed
are annually consumed for bird food in
the United States. A heap of baby talk
is also wasted on birds..in the course of
year, and if some of it was addressed to
the children they would be better ma.
tured.
- Some of the merchants of Rich
mond, Ind, recently published book
containing the names of three thousand
persons, who they declared were not in
the habit of paying their bills. The
book was known as the "Dead Beat Di-
rectory," and its publication occasioned
great excitement.
- There are now 1,247 persons en-
ployed in the census Office in Washing
ton. 669 males and 578 females; also
SO messengers and 16 watchmen. The
monthly rent of the census building is
81 1893. The number of enumerators
employed in taking the census was 81 1865,
under $50 supervisors.
- Grant was educated at the expense
of the government, has drawn a govern.
ment salary nearly half his life, has had
house and horses given him, and now
S250,000 in cash has been raised for him.
Is it too much to ask him to give the
American people a receipt in full for all
demands to date ?-Boston Globe.
- Billiards, bitter blasts, blockaded
turnpikes and railroads, ships frozen in
the frozen harbors, hospitals full of jack.
frost's victims, avalanches on the noun
tains, deep snow drifts in the valleys,
portentous ice gorges, thermometers
marking thirty and forty below zero
such has been February's record since the
month began.
A horrible case of brutality is ex.
citing Jacktown, Ohio, where John Cum
mings placed the tongue of his eight
year-old boy between hickory sapling
and then nailed the sapling to partition
in the barn, beating the little fellow at
intervals for six hours. The boy had
been sliding down hill in disobedience to
his fathers orders.
- Thurlow Weed describes Aaron Burr
as quite man, very graceful in move.
menu Auu CUuIlSOuS Iu oSuISduOis IA
small hand and foot. Not spirited dash
ing at all, but his manners full of ofrepose
and his voice was soft and musical. He
would strike one at first as being slightly
ehFeminate, but he was not so; he was a
bold, strong, capable man. In conversa-
tion-till the last ten years of his life
he was brilliant.
The most destructive fire that ever
visited Plymouth, N. c., occurred in that
town on the night Of the 3lst ultimo.
It's Origin is due to the explosion of a
kerosene lamp, and from 10 o'clock p. m.
until 2 o'clock next morning the flames
ragged, destroying and damaging no less
than fifty buildings in the business centre
of the place, and property estimated at
sl35,000, on which there was but little
or no insurance.
A New York letter says: "The ten.
dency of the government toward cheap
rate of interest is gradually having its