The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-08

,ssIsrspa gutelligfaeer
pusImA1D sHRRY WEDNESDAY.
F.oLENKsUALEs. u. EDrroRs AND
C.LANGSTON PRoPRIEroRs
W "WEDNESDAY MARoHs. 1893.
TERMS:
ONE YEAR, .......-.............. 81 80
SIX MONTHS. ......... %
Harrison left as q legacy to- Cleveland
an empty treasury. When Cleveland
swsnt ont OF Office he left q surplus OF
| a05,05s, ,443 In the treasury. In the FOUL
yeas that have interviewed this surplus
& has melted Away until there is only about
szs4, ,00o, 600 LEFT all told.
Ex-Preside lent Harrison has accepted an
'sanyitation from United States Senator
Leland stanford Of California, to deliver
;Ssa course of law lectures at the Leland
Stanford University. He will spend
three; months during the year at the
University. His compensation Is fixed
Sat SIS, ,0o0. or s., 900 q month.
The newspapers report that Texas is
preparing to plantth largest cotton crop
shis year thsti It has ever grown. Already
tfat greet State produces 9 large proper
Ion Of the entire cotton crop Of the coun-
try and If no disaster happens there is
no telling to what point its enormous
! yseiop may depress prices next fall.
The present severe winter has been
& bonanza for the Florida hotel keepers.
The sraYel TO that section has never been
slarger, and their paiatial caravansaries
have bean fnn to overaowing with shiv-
ering yiaitors from the frigid North.
$sThe proprietors have coined money and
. the clerks wear the biggest sort Of dia-
moEds.
The great strike in the cotton spinning
districts OF England has caused destitu-
tion and suffering equally as great as
during the war! when it was impossi5le
20 obtain cotton TO keep the mills going.
sa IL & terrible state OF affairs, and the
|s9nd Is not yet In view. This strike has
s3ad much to do with depressing the price
's'Gpf 1 At cotton. IS.
s with four newspaper men In the Cabi-
ssnet Mr. Cleveland ought to get along
:spratty val. hfr. Carlisle once filed
sfhs chair ditorial, Mr. Lamont was
1: ssewspaper man when Mr.. Cleveland
6 discoyersd him, Hoks Smith runs q live
81; papSr now, and J. Sterling Morton was
iii kts younger days; connected with the
: Chicago Times. What would this coun-
sstry do, anyway, IL it wasn't for the news
Tast week Congress- passed the carA
y |S1 21cpnpl lar bin. The bill in brief provides
ssafter January; 1893. all locomo-
& lives must be equipped with power;
q @driying hrske and appliances for operat-
Ing train brakes BY the engineer, and all
:|cars must be- equipped with conplers
! coupling antomsti icaily BY impact, and
hich can be nncpupled without necessity
smen going between the ends Of the
Ehs Wflninsson a. C.) Messenger
truly remarks s.It really looks, as we
3 rad Northern papers from day to day,
That there is q dsnser ignorancs Of the
South day On the part of otherwise i'm.
4 leaigent people, than there was twenty
years ago. They do not really know as
!: much 81 the sont hern States. judging by /
what they write ss they do about France,
oss Great Britain, or oven Hayti or Ha-
4. I,
meeting of merchants and business
man Of Charleston together with railroad
osaeials, was held 8 few days ago. Steps
were taken to aecnre q charter Of the
Charleston Grain Exporting Company
which the capital stock was subscrib-
ed This movement Is the outgrowth Of
tie recent action OF the railway authori-
& fiss, graniing reduced rates on grain from
afhe West to South Atl ntic ports. The
new company will be organized at once,
and its business will be TO ship Western
grain and flour to Earope through thst
The latest big hoax that has come to
ght relates TO the opening Of the Chero-
Eee Strip. Large numbers OF negroes
\ have been arriving in Oklahoma lately,
sach provided with aeard, purporting to
be issued by the department Of the inter-
ior, and signed by Charles b. Clarke,
9, which processes to sentitle its
holder TO sixty acres of good farming
land Epon presentation at the opening Of
she strip. The holders paid $40 apiece for
these cards to some rascal who sold them
all over Tennessee, Mississippi and Ala
sbama.
GO Slow WITH COTTON.
Ina recent article In the Charlotte N.
C., Observer, General Rufus Barringer
declares 1t to be his honest belief that the
best thing that could befall the South:
would be 8 decline in the price Of cotton
tliatiwould force the trial ofother crops
AID industries.
After describing the present condition
soY the .all.cotton farmer, the General
& nays
81 merely state facts, that sixty years
&1,ra v,yr5os Eouth xuaa4 fi1Iad with