The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-02-09
Paragraphs OF News.

- At Newcastle, CAL, there is a
famous fig tree. One foot from the
ground it measures eight feet four inches
in circumference, and its branches cover
$500 feet of surface.
- Mr. A. A. Stanson, near Little Rock,
in Marion County gathered from forty
acres last year 1875 pounds of seed cot.
ton, which yielded from the gin 1927
pounds oflint, making forty bales avera.
ging 455 pounds each.
= The manufacture of orange wine is
becoming an established industry in
Florida. The factory at Clay Springs
has just closed its season, having made
1000 barrels. For this quantity million
and a half of oranges we're pressed. The
price paid for oranges delivered at the
factory was So thousand.
= The Farmers Alliance isgrowing in
North Carolina at q rate never before
experienced by an organization of any
kind. There are now 307 alliances, and
every indication points to continual
growth of the same proportions for some
time. The:ohicers are sure ofhayeing an
enrolled membership of $4,000 by April 1.
= Two Mormon elders, the Revs.
Humphrey and Sookey, have been severe.
ly whipped by a party of men in
Edge6eld county. They we're passing
through the county making converts,
when party organized and followed
them. The elders were tied up and fog.
ged, after which they we're informed that
they must leave those parts
"A prominent railroad official says
that fully 1000 tramps continually infest
the railroad lines of the country. They
are constant menace to the safety of
travellers as we'll as to the property of the
companies, as many of them do not hesi-
tate to cause accidents by turning switch
es, burning bridges and other devices. 1t
is estimated that 5000 of them are killed
annually while attempting to steal rides
or walking on the track.
- The Chester correspondent of the
Columbia Register says: Alex GLADDEN.,
who lives near the line between this and
York countys, devotes considerable at.
tention to the Allen cotton. Heinformed
me this morning that he has refused 124
cents per pound for this variety of cotton.
He states that the cultivation of it does
not require any more work than the ordi-
nary cotton. This being 80, it seems that
the more general cultivation of the Allen
variety would be wise thing on the part
of our farmers. A difference of three
cents per pound between it and the ordi.
nary cotton is certainly calculated to Sc.
cure for it the attention it deserves.
= All the counties in Michigan which
have held elections under the new local
option law, fourteen in number, have been
carried in favor of prohibition. There is
said to be a'strong probability that at
least twenty mora will declare in the
same way as soon as elections in them oc.
cur. This is a similar result to that
which has been attained in other States,
notably Missouri, Illinois and Ohio, by
the application of the local option princi.
pie. 1t is curious fact, however, that
the professional Prohibitionists oppose
the local option principle almost as bit
terly as they do liquor license or tax laws,
probaly because of the increasing ten.
dency to use the two in conjunctions as
furnishing the surest method of restrie-