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

District of Illinois candidate has an
pcared Ill each of the eight counties.
= The fire losses in this country last
year figure up $l3G,773,2OO, against
Sll0,650,500 for 1893 and allO,312. $50
for 1897.
bill has been introduced in the
Maryland legislature that will disfran
chisc large percentage of the negroes
in that State
= 1t is said that $4,000, 900 were in
vested in 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 81 deaths from
the disease. Ten blocks of the city
have been burned in the effort to stamp
out the pcstilencc.
= There is still chance for the own
ers OF cotton captured during the civil
war and sold by the United States, to
make good their claim. There are
still $9,O0O,00n available for paving
them.
: The gunboat Nashville which fired
the first shot of the Spanish war is now
i'll the Philippines, but there is little
chance that it will fire tho last shot of
the Filipino war 1T least for some time
to come.
- Dr. Is. NJ. Palmer is the Oldest sur
vlving moderator Of the Southern Gen
eral Assembly, holding that Office in
1861. lie is still in tho 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 thcpostagc
OH books from main stations to branch
es, for the convenience of patrons in
small communities
- There are S,175 widows on the pen
sion roll credited to the Mexican war
and only 9,20f surviving soldiers of
that conflict. The Indian wars, from
1882 to 1912, show 5000 widows and
1866 surviving soldiers.
Z Hard fighting reported in the
Philippines on Jan. 25, resulting in
American victory. Only one u. S.
soldier killed, while SO Filipinos were
slaughtered. Gen. Otis claims that
this fight disposcs Of the last organ
lied band Of "the enemy"
- The levees on both sides Of the
Mississippi arc of sufficient extent that
if they were built in q 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 arc attached to a captive bal
loon and the clothes are attached to
them. The balloon makes six ascents
daily to height OF about 100 feet,
where the air, according to the pro-
prietors of tho laundry, is particularly
good for linen.
Josiah Emerson, farmer who
voted for Mckinley in 1896, declares
his intention to vote for Bryan pro-
vidcd the lattcris nominated in the
summer, because the kinks in tho tails
Of the three remaining pigs from re-
cent litter form the letters w. j. B.
Mr. Emerson interprcts this incident
as an omen Of the outcome Of the next
Presidential election.
A bill has been introduced by
Representative Glynn, of New York,
to stop the shipment of convict-madc
goods from one State or Territory to
another State OF Territory. Violation
of the proposed law is to be punished
by 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. e. Tory, of Wisconsin, has re-
ceived notice that the government will
pay his claim arising out of the de-
struction Of the schooner Thankful by
French pirates in 1903. Mr.. Torrey
who is descendent of the people who
owned the Thankful, will receive $1,-
AGO. The claim, it seems, was present.
ed by this government to the French
government and paid long ago, but the
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
us that to him it is provision of na,.
ture, mercy and beDevOlence. The
black color Of natives Of tropical re-
gions may justly, then, be considered
as wise experience provided by Oms
impotence for cooling the fever OF the
blood under the influence of the scorchs