The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-20
General News Summary.

= 1t is rum0red that Fred. Douglas
will be appointed Minister to Hayti.
= One New York firm lost 400 bar
rels of tropical fruits from freezing.
= The death list of the city of New
York for the past year numbers $4,000.
- The population of Georgia has in.
creased 5000 during the past ten years.
"A T. Morrell was frozen to death
while intoxicated near Butler, Ga, on
the 5th.
= Legislation is called for in Arkansas
for the suppression of quack doctors in
that State.
- Most of the Kentucky railroads
have reduced passenger fares to three
cents per mile.
Hon. Charles NJ. Cook has been
elected Speaker of the North Carolina
House Of Representatives.
= An alarming famine is prevailing in
two provinces of Russia. 1t is said that
100000 persons are perishing.
Robert G. Winthrop, of NIassachu.
sets, has accepted the invitation to de.
liver the Yorktown centennial oration.
- The Jacksonville Union says that
the orange trees in Florida were not very
seriously hurt by the recent cold weather.
= Six thousand miles of railroad were
constructed in this country last year-an
increase over the year previous of 1900
miles.
Ephraim Grindstone and Emmeline
Sandstone were recently married at Lime.
stone, Ala, by the Rev. Samuel Wind
stone.
"A steamboat and fifty coal barges
were destroyed at Cincinnati last Satur.
day by the breaking un of the ice in the
Ohio River.
= Right Rev. Thos. Atkinson, Bishop
of the Episcopal Diocese of North Car
olina, died in Wilmington, last Tuesday,
in the 73d year of bis age.
Henry Minnecker, a German, resid.
ing in st. Louis, drank for wager ten
glasses Of beer in five minutes, and was
dead in less than an hour.
Mr.. Campbell, who succeeded John
Kelly as Comptroller Of New York city,
has already effected an annual saving of
$4,000 by removing surplus employees.
- New jersey Governors are long
lived class. Only four have died since
1912, and when Mcclellan retires the
State will have seven living ex-Gov.
ernors.
e. r. Coke, Democratic Senator
elect to the Pennsylvania State Senate,
declined to take the oath of Office, be-
cause he had used money in securing his
election.
- Texas alone could furnish all the
cotton, sugar, beef and wool which the
whole of the United States now supplies,
and still have plenty of land left uncul-
tivated.
"A water famine prevails in Orange,
N. J. Nine.tenths of the wells are dry.
Water is hauled from a distance from
running streams and sold at 50 q load to
factories and families.
- Four hundred and fourteen million
gallons Of beer were consumed in the
country last year, which is equal to $50
mugs of beer for every man, woman and
child in the country.
- Judge William B. Woods, the newly
appointed Associate Justice of the Uni
ted States Supreme Court, has subscribed
to the oath of office and taken his seat
on the Supreme Bench.
- Ex-Judge Whitaker, who was once
Mayor of Atlanta, and editor of the
Daily MtcNigcncer, was recently locked
up in the station house, in Atlanta, for
stealing bottle of whiskey.
- An amendment to the Constitution,
to extend the Presidential term to six
years, making the President ineligible to
second term, is now pending in the
House judiciary Committee Of Congress.
- The Secretary of the Treasury has
issued circular proclaiming the estima-
ton made by the Director of the mint of
the values of foreign coins. The value
of the Mexican dollar is put at SO 40.
- Anton Klofel, of Bethlehem, Pa,
shot and killed his wife, bride of few
months, for refusing to sing song for
him. His only explanation of the trag-
edy is "that the devil had possession of
him."
- The Louisiana laws holds an en-
ployer responsible for the payment of the
poll tax of his employees, and last week
the New Orleans Times had to pay the
taxes OF forty-four of its eighty en-
ployees.
= Among the rumors that have re-
Gently buzzed in the ears of the Wash
ington correspondents is the story that
Mr.. Garfield will offer the Attorney
Generalship to Congressman Ran. Tuck
er, of Virginia.
j Levi Calkins, of Vernon, Wis,
wished to marry second wife one month
after the death of his first, but no clergy
man or justice would perform the cere-
mony, so Mr.. Calkins read the service
himself, in presence of witnesses.
- The ladies of Ottawa, Illinois, pro.
pose to get up satin hanging and auto
graph album, to be presented to Mrs.
President Hayes "as testimonial Of her
high moral worth and courage in ban
ishing the wine cup from the White
House."
Reuben Howe, letter carrier in
Jersey City, and a member of the sect of
the United Evangelical Brethren, one of
whose regulations forbids their members
from taking any part in worldly affairs,
has been discharged by the Postmaster of
that city, because he refused to vote for
Garfield.
j Mr.. Reuben Springer, of Cincin-
natl INDUCED in Christmas gifts of un-
usual size. He gave q United States
bond for thousand dollars to each of
eight charitable institutions in his city.
Each of the faithful servants in his
household also received 81 1000.
- Mrs. Senator Bruce, wife of the COL
ored Senator from Mississippi, was among
the most distinguished looking ladies
present at the White House on New
Years Day. She wore a Worth's recep-
ton toilet of two shades, of violet colored
silk and satin, trimmed with white lace
and diamond ornaments.
- When General Grant was compli.
mented, just before the adjournment for
the holidays, by the two Houses of Con-
gress suspending their business for the
purpose of paying their respects to him,
mment was made on the fact that two