The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-12-20
General News Summary

we'll County man became the father OF
three boys.
= Several Of the leading cotton factors
in Atlanta estimate that the crop will be
six million bales.
= The kershaw Gazette understands
that large number of negroes in that
county are preparing to emigrate to Ar
| kansas.
= The Virginia Legislature has passed
ajoint resolution declaring the Riddleber-
ger bill to be the final settlement of the
State debt.
= Mack Ieavell, colored was commit
ted to Jail in Abbeyil!e last week for an
outrageous assault on little Q year old
oolored GIRL
"A good many colorcd citizens have
emigrated from Barnwcll County to
Florida recently, and others contemplate
al early exodus
= James Beard. twelve years Of age,
was accidentally shot in tle neck while
fooling with loaded pistol in Abbcvile
County last week
"A young man employed in a store
at Clsike's Ste'ion, Tenn, entered the
store late at night, was mistaken by the
proprietor for burglar and riddled
with bullets.
= The Edgefed 4idtertistr states that
DR.. James a. DeNore. Mr. John Rains.
ford and Mr.. John Wise, three planters
in that county, employ fully five hun
dred negro voters.
= Nearly all the knit goods manufsc.
turers Of Cohoes N. T., have signed an
agreement to run their mills on three
quarters time OIL account of the ovor-
stocked condition of the market
A Chattanooga Court has fined a
man $25 for knocking an editor down.
Journalism is looking up in Tennessee.
The time was when man could knock
dowa as many editors as he pleased in
that State for fifty cents apiece.
= Representative Scranton edits the
Scranton (Pa.) Republican. He says OF
Carlisle, with whom he has served in the
House rs he has with Randall: Per
sonally he is the peer Of Mr.. Randall,
and intellectually he is his superior.
"A disease resembling hydrophobia
has broken out among cattle near Hous-
ton and others parts of Texas. The vic.
tins below, foam at the mouth and roam
over the prairie with head in the air,
destroying everything in their power.
= Chicago has novelty in the way
of Gospel ship, called the Glad Tidings
1t is in command of Captain Burby, his
wife, son aud two daughters. It makes
trips through the northern lakes, and
religious services are conducted by the
family.
| = Mr.. Neal Dow says that in more
than three. fourths of Maine the liquor
traffic has been swept away, no Spirits
being distilled or beer brewed. There
are low, secret liquor shops in the large
towns and in Bangor the law is no:
recognized or obeyed.
= Gen. R. B. Vance 10 reported BY the
Charlotte Observer as saying that he pro.
poses to introduce q bill to change the
mode of collecting the tax on whisky
aud brandy. This plan will dispense
with ,gauges, storekeepers, etc., and
provide for a collector in each County
who will sell stamps just as in the case
of the tobacco tax.
| = Pope Leo XIII., now seventy. four
is tall, thin and bony. He wears his age
we'll and walks very erect. He rises
early, devoting his first hours to prayer
saying mass at o'clock, and at 8 O'Clock
eating breakfast, while he looks over his
letters. He Is man of business meth
DDS, who enjoys the reputation of never
saying or doing foolish thing.
= A small boy named Johu Mara was
picked up in Hoboken by the police
the other evening. He was lying in the
street unconscious. Upon investigation
it was found that he was suffering from
nicotine poisoning, the result of an over.
indulgence in cigarettes. The big bows
seem to stand it better, but they will be
brought down In due time. The ciRa.
rette is "sure shot"
- Gen. "Bob" Toombs, of Georgia
lives in his two.story frame house into
the hall of which q wagon load of hay
could almost be driven lie is rich
having received for years o handsome
income from his law practice. When he
was young he bought large tracts of land
! in Texas, and it is said that he has
cleared $l00, 900 on the portions thereof
that he has sold, while he still owns
enough to turn him several times as
| muCn more.
| - At the closing of concert in Brad.
ford, while n young gentleman was
struggling with his hat, cane, overcoat
opera glasses and his young lady's fan,
all Of which he was trying to retain on
his lap, a suspicious looking blacx bottle
from the overcoat pocket, fell on the
floor with loud thud, "ThereW he
exclaimed to his companion, II shall
lose my cough medicine" That was
presence Of mind.
- The Bennettsville Sur says: "This
will be the hardest winter of any since
the war for the colored laborers of the
country. Already they are rowing ffom
place to place begging for work. There
is at present little work to do. The
crops are all gathered, the small grain
crops planted, consequently the coming
winter presents gloomy appearance to
those whose daily bread depend entirely
upon their daily work. As usual, the
colored people have laid away nothise
for the winter season. Their cotton
picking money was all spent as fast as
made, apparently without thought of
the dull season which must of necessity
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