The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-02-07
General News Items.

@ll9,63O,5OO for 1893 and $ll0,3t2.55O
for 1897.
- a bill has been introduced in the
Maryland legislature that will ,iisfran-
chise large percentage of the negroes
i'll that State.
- 1t is said that $33, OOO, 900 we're in
vested i'll southern cotton mills last
year. The present Indications are that
during 1900 more than this amount will
be invested.
= Plague is increasing in Honolulu.
and there have been 80 deaths from
the disease Ten blocks of the city
have been burned in the effort to stamp
out the pcstiIencc.
= There is still chance for the OWL
ers oil cotton captured during the civil
war and sold by the United States, To
make good their claim. There are
still S9.0OO,0oo available for paying
them.
- The gunboat Nashville which fired
the first shot of the Spanish war is now
III the philippines, but there is littlo
chance that it will fire the last shot of
the Filipino war at least for some time
to come.
DR.. Is. NJ. Palmer is the oldest sur
viving moderator Of the Southern Gen
eral Assembly, holding that Office in
1861. He is still in the active pasto-
age in New Orleans, although consi-
dcrably past 80.
- The next Confederate reunion will
be held i'll Louisville, Ky. That city
will raise 100000 fund in order to Sc
cure the 100000 offered by Charles
Broadway Rouss for the Confederate
Battle Abbey.
A bill will be introduced in Con-
grcss shortly to extend the facilities of
public libraries by reducing the postage
on books from main stations to branch
es, for tie convenience Of patrons in
small communities
There are ., ,1T5 widows on the pom
sion roll credited to the Mexican war
and nEly 9,294 surviving soldiers of
that conflict. The Indian wars, from
1882 to 1S42, show 5000 widows and
1866 surviving soldiers.
z Hard fighting reported i'll the
Philippines on Jan. o5, resulting in
American victory. Only one U. S.
soldier killed, while SO Filipinos were
slaughtered. Gen. Otis claims that
this fight disposes of the last organ
lied band of "the enemy"
The levees on both sides Of the
mississippi are of sufficient extent that
if they were built in n single straight
line they would be about 1900 miles
long, or long enough to stretch the
greater part of the distance between
New Orleans and New York.
- Balloons are now used for drying
linen in one Paris laundry. Bamboo
frames are attached to a captive bal
loon and the clothes are attached to
them. The balloon makes six ascents
daily to Il height OF about 100 feet,
where the air, according to the pro-
prictOrs of tho laundry, is particularly
good for linen.
Josiah Emerson, q farmer who
voted for Mckinley in 1896, declares
his intention to vote for Bryan pro-
vided the latteris nominated in the
summer, because the kinks in the tails
of the three remaining pigs from re-
cent litter form the letters w. J. Il.
Mr. Emerson intcrrrets this incident
as an omen OF the outcome Of the next
election.
A bill has been introduced by
Representative Glynn, of New York,
to stop the shipment OF convict-made
goods from one State or Territory to
another State or Territory. Violation
Of the proposed law is to be punished
by a fine Of not less than $3.50 nor more
than $500, or Imprisonment for not
more than one year, or by both fine
and imprisonment, and the forfeiture
of the goods to the United States.
p. &. Tory, of Wisconsin, has Se-
ceived notice that the government will
pay his claim arising out of the de-
of the schooner Thankful by
French pirates in 1903. Mr.. Torrcy
who is descendent of the people who
owned the Thankful, will receive ST.
AGO. The claim, it seems, was present.
cd by this government to the French
and paid long ago, but tho
money was not turned over to the
heirs.
= The Medical Record says: "What.
ever may be the immediate or remote
causes Of the dark complexion of tho
negro, philosophical inquiry has shown
ls that to him it is provision of na-
tire, mercy and benevolence. The
black color of natives of tropical re-
gions may justly, then, be considered
as q wise experience provided by OmS
impotence for cooling the fever of the
blood under the influence of the scorch.
ing SUM-"
- Charles H. Cramp regards tho
South African war as q serious menace
TO England's commercial supremacy
Jo saws fhat fhe war haa Ind a,ch an