The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10
General News Summary.
- Dir. Tiden was sixty.seyen years


| - An eighty foot in length whale Wa
captured few days since off Port Royal
CoIonel Richardson, of Mississippi
plants $4,000 acres of cotton every year
- A young man who knows says tba
from court 10 caught is but short step
During the year 1880 1876 miles o.
new railroad we're built in this coun
try.
- Ten thousand through passengers
arrived in Jacksonville, Fla, since Octo
ber %.
- Messrs. Moody and Sankey will
commence work in New Orleans il
March.
Mr.. William II. English was moi
invited to attend the Inauguration cere
monies.
= Congress voted $4,000 for seeds fol
Congressman to distribute among theil
friends.
- The factory at Atlanta, Ga, now
consumes from l60 to $50 bales Of cotton
per week.
The University of Pennsylvania has
conferred the degree Of IL. D. on Presi.
dent Garfield.
- There are two hundred and seventy
three patients in the North Carolina Lu-
natic Asylum.
- The Texas House has voted down
the proposition to exempt manufacturers
from taxation.
"A single business house of Greens.
boro, N. c., has bought 250,000 rabbit
skins this season.
Prices of stock are depressed in At
lanta. Mules have fallen twenty per
cent, in the past month.
- It is said that the United States and
Russia are endeavoring to reduce the
English influence in Egypt.
= Turkey has ordered 30,O00,O00 cart
ridges from the United States, to be de.
livered in the next ninety days.
- The Young Mems Christian Asso
citation of Mobile, Ala, has 400 members,
Of whom seventy. five are ladies.
- Friends OF Stanley Matthews say
that Mr. Garfield will renominste him
for Justice Of the Supreme Bench.
= 1t is estimated that freight train
now enters New York every fifteen min
utes, each train averaging 35 cars.
The receipts of cotton in Augusta
since September aggregate S6,923
bales more than at The same date last
year.
= The British were defeated last Sat-
urday in an engagement with the Beers
in South Africa, aud General Colley
killed.
John harrington shot and instantly
killed Fred. Harper, of Atlanta, at Char.
lotte, N. c., last Tuesday, for the seduc-
tion of his sister.
- The New Jersey Legislature has de-
cided to send battalion Of her volunteer
troops tU represent that State at the
Yorktown Centennial.
- The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company has brought two suits for $780,
900 each against the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company for damages.
General Garfield has received 1,700
written applications for Office. Besides
these there are about 250,000 patriots
now preparing applications.
= The Spsrtanburg and Asheville
Railroad, which is to be sold on the first
Monday in April, under a mortgage for
$3.50, 900 or $500, 1000, cost a million.
- The bullet which was shot into
Billy Carter, at Clerburne, Texas, did not
hurt him much, but the powder ignited
his clothing and be burned to death.
= The government work at the mouth
of St. Johns River, Fla, is progressing,
and it is said that it will make that River
one of the most important in the Union.
- Senator Brown, Of Georgia, is de.
scribed rs one of the speakers whose
practical thoughts seem ever to fit sub.
ject as if he had made it special study.
= The cncking main between North
and South Carolina, on the one side, and
Georgia on the other, comes off at Colum-
bin, 22d of March. The main is for
$1,000.
= The North Carolina Legislature has
refused to make an appropriation for the
expenses of the North Carolina troops
who propose to attend the Yorktown
Centennial.
- The census shows that there are
SS3,298 more men than women in the
United States. Singular that large
country like this has not women enough
to 60 around.
= Hiscock, of New York, is said to be
in better Trim for the Speakership race
than any of the candidates. He has the
support of the Republicans Of the New
York delegation.
- Thirty.si1 successive shocks of
earthquake have occurred nj st. Michaels,
in the Azores. One church and two
hundred houses have fallen in, and sew.
eral persons killed.
The Mains House of Representa-.
tiyes has unanimously voted for the e1.
pulsion of Thomas B. Swan, one of its
members, who has been accused of GER
tain swindling operations.
- The original official copy Of the
Constitution Of Wisconsin cannot be
found, and the great Seal of the State is
80 defaced by long usage that its impres-
sion can hardly be deciphered.
- Many of those who went down to
sea in great ships during the month OF
December never stopped till they got to
the bottom. The losses foot up sixteen
steamers and 203 sailing vessels.
= The eldest son of the Crown Prince
Frederick William, of Prussia, and
grandson of Queen Victoria, was married
last Sunday in Berlin to the Princess
Augusta Victoria, of Holstein-Augusten-
bnrg.
= The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company has bought controlling in.
terest in the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad. which gives the
B. & o. Road all uninterrupted route to
New York.
- Since the Republicans have gather
ed strength in Tennessee there has been
an unparalleled outbreak of lawlessnrss
in I've State. The desperadoes seem to
recognize the acquisition Of power by
their friends.
1t is remarkable how much of good
can be found to say of man after be is
dead. A skinfint died in this State not
long ago and numerous virtues were
squeezed out Of his memory by the power