The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-27
house and the Stono; party probabl,
from gunboats. Enemy withdrawn from
Legare's.
July S.-Enemy known to have alto
gether abandoned James Island, and our
city to be safe for the present.
General News. Summary.

- In Arkansas the influx of immi.
grants from all parts continues.
- On one ranch in Texas thousand
lambs were killed by cold weather.
The Usage Indians own about s..
700 head of cattle and 5000 ponies.
Ia Columbus county, N. c., it is
proposed to cultivate jute for market.
= 1t is said that castor beans can be
raised to perfection in Western Texas.
At Columbus, Miss, fire proof
vaults have been built for the county
records.
= Gen. Walker estimates that in 1890
the population ofthe United States will
be 63,467,OOO.
Last year the losses by fire in the
United States, as far as reported, footed
up S76,513,lOO.
w. III. Vanderbilt draws $4,000
interest every ninety days from the
United States Treasury,
In Alabama law has been passed
giving blacksmiths and wookworkers q
lien on vehicles repaired by them until
the price is paid.
= From Jacksonville, Fla, the ship
ments of lumber last year aggregated
41,719,225 feet, all increase Of 7,74O,-
BIT over the year previous.
1t has been developed that 95,G1S.
100000 friction matches arc consumed
every year in the United States, or 700
for every man, woman, child and baby.
Twenty seven families ofimmigrants
from Tennessee arrived in Bonham, Tex.
as. Among them was man named
Jones, who has nine boys under fifteen
years of age.
One of the most serious drawbacks
to the prosperity of South Florida, issaid
to be the fact that so large portion of
the supplies is imported from the North.
The remark might be extended 10 other
parts of the South.
Natchez Democrat A young gen.
tleman of this city having offered his
lady love his heart and hand as Christ
mas gift, was very much astonished when
she told him that she would great d cal
rather have pound of mixed candy.
- Bishop Elder, of Cincinnati, said in
his recent episcopal letter to the clergy
of his diocese: "In entertainments given
for church purposes, or in any way sane
toned by the priest, there must be no
dancing after dark and no round dancing
at any time"
- Little Rock Gazette: Arkansas can
afford to snap her fingers at politics.
With plenty Of bread and meat to feed
her people, and Sas many more as may
choose to cast their lot with us, nothing
is wanted to keep on the high road to
prosperity and progress but wise, equi.
table and common-sense legislation.
- A man who went to Arkansas from
McNairy county, Tennessee, thirty-two
years ago, on recent visit to his old
home, hunted up the heirs of a man to
whom he owed sixty five cents at the time
of his departure, and paid the principal
and interest, amounting 70 two dollars.
During the recent cold term ice was
seen at Waldo, Fla, fully an inch thick.
At Cedar Keys ice was found three -fourths
of an inch thick. At Mandarin, on the
St. Johns river, all the oranges were fro
zen, the loss being estimated at $4,000.
The thermometer at Fernandina went
down to seventeen degrees above zero.
= During the remainder of the winter
the Signal Service will notify the Super
intendent of the Texas division of the
United States military telegraph lines
when "northers" may be anticipated.
These predictions will be conspicuously
posted in the telegraph offices along the
line, for the benefit Of sheep and cattle
men.
In the eastern portion of Terrell
county. Ga., Elder Matthias +. Cowley
and John w. Taylor, two Morroon
preachers from Salt Lake City, Utah,
have been for several weeks past holding
frequent services and prociaimiug the
tenets of their faith. They have been
zealously working in behalf oftheir cause,
distributing tracts containing their creed,
and preaching on Sunday and during tho
week.
- Eugene Hale, of Maine, will be one
of the youngest members of United States
Senate. He Is 44 years of age, having
been born in 1886. Butler, of South Car
olina, was born in the same year; Plumb,
ofKansas, in 1887; Groome, of fMarylaud,
in 1888; and Bruce, of Mississippi, in
1871. These are the only Senators under
45.
- The few inhabitants upon the Red
River, Texas, are much excited over
strange rumbling noise that is heard both
night and day 1t resembles the sound
of railroad train, but as there are no
railroads within fifty miles ofthe locality
the people believe it is passage of vol
canic action. It's rangeis from north to
northwest, and it recalls the ominous
sounds described by Humboldt as pre-
ceding the great earthquake of 1859 in
Mexico, when the volcanic mountain of
Jorulia was upheaved.
Sarah Bernhardt is investing the
profits of her American tour in necklace
that is being made in Paris, and which
will be the finest specimen of the jewel
er's art of this century. 1t is composed
of two rows of magnificent brilliants,
about an inch and quarter apart. be-
tween which wreath of field-f 7crs in
precious stones: representing the natural
coors of ftbe rustic blossoms, seems to flow
with the greatest ease and grace magma
BILE. The minute poppies are composed
of rubies, the cornhowers of saphires, the
marigolds of topaz and so on, while the
leaves are of emeralds. No two flowers
are alike, and, altogether, the necklace is
pronounced the finest composed during
this generation.
The Philadelphia American maps
out very correct course for Garfield to
take, for the purpose of strenthening his
party, when it says: "Our belief is that
Mr.. Garfield will pursue neither Mr..
Grants policy nor that of Mr.. Hayes in
this matter We look to see him ignore
all lines within the party, as neither of
these two gentlemen has done. 1t is indif.
ference, nor hostility, that will give fac
tions the coup de grace. We have had
twelve years of factional distribution of
patronage under the Republican party,
! and they have been wears of growing dis