The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-03-06
In New York CITY, according to

- In New York City, according TO
some figures recently published, there
are more than 500 rag dealers, and the
pickers, who are mostly Italians, gather
$4,000 worth yearly in the streets and
roads, while the money realized for cot.
ton rags alone in the United States is
put at S22, 100000 per annum.
- A Nashville dispatch, dated Febru.
ary 81, says: Passengers Oil The train
which arrived this afternoon from Louis
vile report that when the train reached
No.n's Station, fifty masked men, armed
with guns and pistols, boarded it. The
passengers supposed them to be train
robbers and were greatly alarmed The
leader of the mob explained that they
were looking for negro who was charg-
cd with assanlting a young lady at Elz-
abethtnwn, and who was supposed to be
on the train en- route to Henderson, Ky,
for trial. The negro was not on the train,
the Sheriff having received notice of the
mob's intention"
= The manufacture Of perfumes from
Florida grown flowers bids fair to be.
come an exlensse industry in the State.
One firm at Jacksonville il already at
work 1t is reported that a gentleman
from South Florida has patented /, pro.
cess for the utilization OF the bloom of
the mangroye aud the sapodila, and to
eatract the sweet fragrance from the cas-
sava plant rs we'll. This will come into
competition with the firm in The more
Northcrn portion of the State, and as
the South Florida parties propose placing
large capital in the business it is bare
ly possible that IN unlocked for compe-
tition in the manufacture of extracts will
be the result.
= Five fires occurred in Philadelphia
during Thursday night, all being serious
They were situated fur apart and followed
each olber in quick succession, several
being in progress simultaneously. These
facts put the iremen at great disadvan-
tage, every engine in the city being in
use, several of them being carried sever
al miles. TIE worst of the fires was at
Powers & Wcightman's chemical works
where an immense quantity of chemicals
took fire, causing the people in the neigh
borhood to fee in wild dismay fearing a
tremendous explosion. A quantity Of
flaming fusil oil poured into the streets,
and the firemen were forced to call on
citizens for help to save their hose carri
ages and engines. They succeeded,
however, in tonfning the flames to the
building by keeping the houses in the
neigbborhood soaked with water. Pow
ers & Weightmau's loss is 81 500, 900;
insurance $750,000. In consequence of
the fire the price of foreign quinine was
put up from $1.35 to $1.55 an ounce.
- Senator Wade Hampton of South
Carolina, has evidently been thinking
over the table of strength of the Demo.
cratic party in the South and the strength
of the Republican party in the North as
printed in the Herald, for he is reported
as saying that it would be good idea to
leave to the six doubtful Statas--New
York, New Jersey, Ohio. Indiana, Neya-
da and California-the task Of selecting
the Democratic candidate and construct
ing the platform. While Ohio has in
yariably chosen the Republican electors,
the fact that she is now the only October
State makes her vote doubtful and there
fore to be the more earnestly contended
for. Nevada and California were Demo-
cratic in 1880. Indiana and Connecticut
in 1878. New Jersey in 1864, 1868, 1876
and 1880, and New York in 1868 and
1876. The tariff issue is now supposed
to eliminate Connecticut from the list of
doubtful States in favor of the Republi.
cans, leaving ninety.four electoral votes
to be contended for in the six doubtful
States, forty. eight of which, added to
the vote Of the solid South or the solid
North, would determine the result.