The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-01-31
General News Items.

oohh Nuskin the English author
ana essayist is dead He was 81 years
old.
= Ihc annual pension appropriation
Dill passed by Congress aggregates
$145, 200, 900.
Inc newspaper correspondents
have planned the next war between
Japan and Russia.
subscriptions to the Twentieth
Century Education Fund in the South
ern Methodist Church now amounts to
$573,02l.
= The University of Georgia will
celebrate its centennial in June, 1901.
An elaborate program will be arranged
for the occnsinn.
= Tho Bocr war is costing England
S2,OO0,00O day, to say nothing of tho
priceless blood of heroes shed. This is
costly bOer bunting.
An epidemic of smallpox has been
raging at Alabama City, Attalla and
Gadsden in Alabama and there is also
mn outbreak at Rockingham, NC.
= Tho Mississippi legislature elected
Ex-Governor McLaurin United States
senator for the long term and re-elect-
ed w. V. a. Sullivan to tho short term.
"A Georgia farmer mado this re-
turn to tax assessor: "One wife ,gith
red hhir, two stecrs-that's pair; one
hOrsc-shes q mare, that's nll, swear.n
= 1t is proposed by members of con-
gress to create two new cabinet officers,
establishing the department of com
merce and the department. ofmines and
mining.
: Smallpox is becoming II serious
menace in North Carolina, interfering
with the session Of &C hools and having
already prevented two courts from
being held.
A New Jersey girl, sixteen years
of age. hi been arrested OIL a..charge
of bigamy. The girl bigamst may
furnish n new problem for the boy
state smnnship.
- There is famine in India. Tho
official estimates from Calcutta show
that forty million people arc now in
need. More than three millions are
n ow receiving relief.
"A special from Greenville, Tenn,
says Mrs. 81. j. Patterson, the only liv-
ing child of Andrew johnson. is criti-
cally i'll at her home there and not ex-
pected to live. She is over so years Of
age.
- The inhabitants Of southern Cal
lfornla are greatly alarmed. Recently
steam began to;issue from the base of
mount Tauguitz and still continues,
and the inhabitants are leaving the
locality.
= The official census.of Puerto Rico
has been finished. San Juan has 3D.
500 inhabitants. Ponce has nearly
tvvice as many residents, the number
being $4,000. There nre O57, 900 inhabi-
tants ON the island.
Details have been received of the
killing Of the Captain and crew Of the
hlika Mara on one of the islands of the
Admiralty group by the natives, who
are cannibals. 1t is said that all of tho
victims were eaten.
= The news from the Philippines
tells OF an American victory, and if
you will only read IL little further down
the dispatch says that tho town they
captured was deserted. Tho British
are not finding deserted towns in South
Africa.
= The agents and operators employ
ell on the Southern railway have asked
the company to adjust certain gricv-
anccs and to adopt rules and rcgtla-
ti0ns similar to those governing the
employment Of conductors, tranmcn,
frcmcn, and engineers.
= An cpidmic of absccsscs has spread
among the men employed in the mills
of Muncic, Ind Most of the sores
come upon the hands and f0rcarms.
Physicians explain the ailmcnt by say
ing that the excessive heat Of tho fur
naccs disorders the blood.
= In the senate tho other day. Scna-
tor Tillman referred to Senator Chand-
Ter as Il grasshoppcr, and Senator
Chandler replied that grasshoppcrs
were safe from pitchfOrks. Thcnews-
papers say that Senator Tillman's re-
joinder was lost in the laughter.
= Over 1OO,0 900 bushels of sweet pota-
toes were shipped North from Hickory,
N. G., last year, mostly to Boston, al
though some went as far as Toronto,
Canada. The yield in Catawba Coun-
~ is from 500 to 500 bushels per: acre,
and the net price paid the farmers was
,5 cents per bushel.
- The executive committee of the
Monetary League has decided to hold
national convention at the same time
and in the same city as tho democratic,
silver republican and populist national
conventions. The object of the league
is all endeavnr Tn write the financial
plank of the democratic national plat
form.
Ex-Congressman David G. Colson