The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-07-06
News aud GOSSIP.

:. Augusta, Ca, is to have n l;hrorv
building al cost of $l7,500.
= Prohibition is an accomplished fact
In iorty'two counties in Georgia.
= Two hundred buildings arc in course
OF erection at Chattanooga, Tenn.
= Hillsboro, N. c., has formed q stock
company to build cotton factory.
:, The Episcopal Church Congress will
DO held at Richmond, Va, this year.
= Steel.works are to be erected NJ
Batesville, Ark, ct a cost of 800. GOO.
A couple at Sheridan, Ark. are tho
parents OF twenty.four living children.
= AN immense number of manufacto.
ries are being built in Birmingham, Ala.
~ One tannery at yuka, Miss. turua
out Sloo'ooO worth of leather each year.
= Jack Clealand, white, died In Pike
county, Ala. last week at the age of 1875
years. 80
Tennessee taxpayers had 10 oayS72.
900 for three extra sessions of the },eris.
| lature.
= An oat mill will be established NJ
sumter, N. O. 1t will be the first in the
:, Key West, Fla, has sixty vessels
business. fo"s0
= Atlanta, Ga, has eighty. seven II.
censei saloons that take in over SI 600.
600 year. ','o''
The wages of farm laborers in ths
since 1879. "''
: Gen: O'Neal, the Democratic candi.
date Tor Governor of Alabama, is sixty
four years of age.
Virginia has l72 tobacco factories.
Which consume over 100000 pounds OF
:, Key West, Fla, Is troubled with an
epidemic of "dengue" fever. Five hun.
dred cases are reported.
= The present wheat crop of Tennes.
see would pay the State debt, adjusted at
sixty cents Oh the dollar.
- A negro baby born at Corpus Chris.
", 1ex;, recently, weighed twenty-five and
one.half pounds at birth.
= Alabama will have 2,SSO,O0O acrep
IN cotton this season. A decrease from
last year of 1913 per cent.
:, A Farmer in Green county. Ga.
reeds his mules on cotton seed. and thew
are aourshing on the diet.
= The farmers of North Carolina have
Gevoted iorty per cent. more land TO grain
this year than they did last.
- Tie cotton crop of this year, so 1t il
estimated from present appearances, will
be about 5000, 600 bales. "
Galveston county is the wealthiest
county in Texas. Bexar is second and
Travis third in point of wealth.
Many counties in Tennessee produce
me semac, used in tanning, which if
cultivated would yield large profits.
A Jacksonville, Fla, man is exper;.
men ting with West India vans. They
often grow to weigh seventy.five pounds.
= A fourteen. year.old negro bow az
Selma, is six feet five inches in height and
wears No. 13 mems size shoe. ''N''
- The first appearance of cotton as an
articie OF commerce was shipment of
seven sever oales from Charleston, 8. c., In
Opium can be proftably raised in
tne vicinity of Athens, Ga, and a citizen
VIII MAKE some experiments In ;ts cnIti.
vation.
Sugar.cane produced i'm Louisiana
ana mississippi occupies 10000 acre..
ana yields annually 208, $50 hogheads Of
sugar -
There are 1000 Indians yet in the
n ~
and honest
large and splendid quarry of
stone has been discovered near DahIone.
go, Ga, which is of n superior quality
for grindstones.
a collard plant nine feet high and
gourd two feet long aud three and a
hait ieet in circumference are growing at
Madison, Fla. 's' "'
The Cunningham peach orcbad
near Griffin, Ga, Is shipping from fiIe to to
seven carloads of peaches per day. 800
bushels to the car.
= A potato raised near :Hawkinsyille.
Ga., measures fourteen and a half inches
In clrcumterence one way and eleven and
a half inches the other.
The aggregate value of property
owned by colored people IN Georgia. is set
down at $6, 6,47S,e5l, an increase of over
halt million dollars in the past year.
- The candlestick Stonewall Jackson
used in camp, made from a three. pronged
oak knot, was on exhibition at the Allan.
ia Art Loan Exhibition. Just closed.
= A man in Augusta county, Va. was
tossed over a thirty foot precipice by an
angry bull, but was able to take an active
part In dancing party the same night.
= Old Texans say the month of MAY.
just closed, was the c1ldsst Nav known
in Texas since 1882. The May of 1882
was followed by q remarkably hot sum.
mer.
= Mat Kinney, of Corpus Christi,
Texas, is inclosipg O pasture, containing
400, 600 acres of fine grazing land. 1t
will be the largest inclosed pasture in tho
world.
= Florida butterfly hunters get ON az.
erage Of i've cents apiece for Sheir cap
} lures. Some rare specimens brinn muci.
more, and one kind, that IL yetv scaYca