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

in parts Of New! York State on the Cd
inet.
- Eggs sold in NewssYorls ,citys.Iaat
week as high as seyenty.fiye cents y
ldozen.
"By the way, howais thatsfund for
ex-Presidents getting along PR. i, B..
Hayes.
: The small. .poxlis worse in philadel.
phia this winter than it has been si- .
the epidemic of 1872.
- Let us pray that this may be" an OF.
year for the potato bug, the. grasahopper
and the fruit tree peddlef.
- Some of his Philadelphia friends
have raised o 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 leland Legislature.
- "A Richmond Va, real estate sagen.
cy has received 1900 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 ut Augusta, Ga.
1T is said the postal card las do.
creased the sale Of writing papsr $40
100000 annually In the United States.
A bill fss been introduced in the
New York Legislature to compel all tel.
egraph companies 70 lay their wires undo.
ground.
! = Albert p. and Charles E. Talbot
two brothers, of Maysville, No., have
been sentenced to be hung for theY muir.
der of their father.
= Beth Eden Baptist Church, in Phil.
hdelphia, was destroyed by fire last week.
The church was erected few years ago
at cost of Sl50,000
- This Is the anniversary of the burn
ing Of John Rogers 326 years ago. The
fire was ore Of hesbrightest lights of the
Englist reformation.
= English ladies.of fashion now have
shooting suits as much as riding habita.
They. are made with padifor the gun on
one side Of the waist. g
- The party who usually pays the
highest compliments to tho Lc.d, in his
prayere, usually pays the lowest wages to
the people he has in his employ.
- General Grant might be-. made
Grand High Keeper of the ObelislE, with
salary OF $4,000 q year. The obelisk
can stand the weather until 1884, Co,.
| ricr-JouSnaz.
!ds Lewis, .thvs .taivvs Grace Darling or
America, saved two moro men rom
drowning near Lime Rock Light. House.
OF which che is keeper, last Friday.
This makes Bixteen lives saved by Mi1s
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 in, the gap of 6l miles
will be speedily filed.
!! James E. Brown, of X;ttap;np.
Penn, who died December s, beuueaths.
$25 tn every widow in the town. Sz5 10
every. wife who shall become a widow.
and the same amount to all the girla now
living who shaii become wives.
= Mr.. Gladstone's position on tha
Irish question has excited so much oppo.
sition that fears are entertained for his
personal safety. His house 10 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 birdssin 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 a 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 "Dsad Beat Di-
rectory." and its publication occasioned
great excitement.
= There are now 1,247 persons en-
ployed in the census Office in Washing
ton. G69 males and 57S females; also
| 90 messengers and 16 watchmen. The
monthly rent of the census building ia
$l,838. The number Of enumerators
employed in taxing the census vas 81 .265.
under $50 supervisors.
- Grant WAS educated as the egpense
of the government, has drawn govern.
ment salary nearly half his life, has had
house and horses given him, auG now
S250.0 in cash has been raised for him.
Is it too much to ask hin, TO give the
American people receipt in full for all
demands to date ?-BostoD Globe.
- Billiards, bitter blasts, blockaded
turnpikes and railroads, ships frozen in
the frozen hagtors, hospitals full of jack
frost's victims, avalanches on the noun
tains, deep snow drifts in the valleys.
portentous ice gorges, thermometer
marking thirty and forty below zero
such has been February record since the
month began.
- A horrible case of brutality is ex-
citing Jacktown, Ohio, where John Cum
Tings placed the tongue of his eight
year.old boy. between hickory sapling
and then nailed tho Hapling to o partition
in the barn, beating the little fellow at
intervals for six hours. The boy had
been sliding down hill in disobedience 10
his fathers orders.
Thariics~ ~ rasstt asstta describes Aaron Burr
as quite man, very graceful in move-
ment and courteous in demeanor. A
small hand and foot. Not spirited dash
ing at all, but his manners full ofreposo
and ii5 voice N ss sofs sofs and musical. Ge
would strike one at first as being slightly
effeminate, but he was not 30 he vas i
bold, etrnng, capable rsa. IN c0nveYsa.
tion-till the last ten years of his life-
he was brilliant.
- The most destructive fire that ever
visited Plymouth, n. O., occurred in that
town on the night OF the 9lst ultimo.
It's Origin is due to the explosion of a
kerosene lamp, and from 10 O'Clock D. m !.
until 2 o'clock next morning the flames
ragged. destroying and damaging no less
than fifty buildings in the business centre
ofthe place, and property estimated at
Sl35,000, on which there was but little
or no insurance.
= a New York letter says: "The ten
deLcy of the government toward cheap
rate OF interest is gradually having It's
effect on real estate, which comInsnds
better prices than FOR q long while, whiie
looms on bond and mortgage (three years
to run) have been taken by sorne Of our