The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-05-02
General News Items.

- 1T is estimated that the floods have
managed property in the State of Mis-
sissippi $3,00O,OOO.
The Tennessee Republican conven-
ton split and two sets of deli ,ateswill
go to Philadelphia.
- Although tho British have about
25O,OOO soldiers in South Africa, the
cry is still "more men," al
- Burglars wrecked q bank at Stras-
burg, Va, by using nitro-glycerine ON
the safe, and got $4,000.
= The postal receipts Of the country
have grown from about $4,000, 900 in
1880 to over $10O, 100000 in 1900.
Seven negroes were drowned near
jackson. Miss, in the high water re-
sulting from the recent heavy rains.
= A volcano IN eruption in the Phil
ippines has been furnishing some
diversion for our army officers and
| men.
1t Is reported that the Southern
teiegraphers are trying to, get up u
sympathetic strike on other SVeat sys-
toms of railroads. ~
= Deaths from the plague through
out India last week numbered nearly
1000. The disease has appeared at
several ports on the Red Sea.
= A Georgia man has retired from
public life because he thinks that too
many Of his relatives have offices. He
has q right to place among the won
dcrs of t. world.
"A b II has been introduced in the
United States senate to grant pen
sion of $50 per month to Gen. Long
street, for service as Major in the
Eighth U. s. Infantry during tho Mex
lean war.
The ladies of Presby terian church
in Cleveland, Ohio, resolved to do
without Easter hats and new dresses
until mortgage over the building was
paid up. 1t took only ono Sunday to
raise the 900 required.
= The secretary of the board of
Philippine commissioners will receive
$4,000 year and expenses-double
the salary of congressman or senator.
The members Of the board will doubt
less be paid princely salaries.
- Gen. H. v. Boynton has accepted
an invitation to attend the annual
Fourth Of July celebration at the Gull
ford battlefield, Guilford Court House,
N. c., and to deliver the address on
the occasion. Gen. joseph Wheeler
has also been invited and is expected
to attend.
- Alabama is coming to the front.
While she is u great producer of pig
iron she lays claim to the largest hog
in America, ten feet two and half
inches long, four and half feet high
and weighing 2,549 pounds. He is n
three year old, half native and half
Berkshire.
- The efforts of the populist and re-
publican leaders of North Carolina to
agree upon terms of fusion have failed,
and according to the announcement
made by Senator Pritchard, represent
ing the Republicans and Senator But
Ter, representing the populists, there
are to be tickets represented by each
party in the North Carolina campaign.
- Tho division of botany of the de-
partment of agriculture has issued cir
culars tostimulate interest in artichoke
raising. Artichokes are now raised in
comparatively small quantities in
Florida and Louisiana, and the early
varieties, which appear in February,
bring about go dozen IL the Now
Orleans markets. In April they sell
for Is or 20 cents dozen in the
southern cities, but always command
much higher prices in northern mar
kets.
- North Carolina will be finely re-
presented nc the Confederate reunion
ut Louisville. Colonel Julian S. Carr,
the millionaire manufacturer of Dur
ham, will take a large delegation. He
will have them handsomely uniformed,
will take them on o special train and
will pay all their expenses from the
time they leave home until they get
back. A famous North Carolina COM
mand will take its famous legend,
First ut Big Bethel; Farthest at
Gettysburg, and Last at Appomattox."
- The current delusion that the
Chinese eat rats rests upon the fact
that small animal which infests rice
fields, known as the tsuichow, is con-
sidered in China great dclicacy. This
little animal-about tho size of an or
d-nary rat, with head shaped like
that of a ferrct--fceds ON rico. It is q
very prolific creature and is sold wide
ly in the markets of Chinese cities.
Usually there are twenty or thirty of
these animals. neatly cleaned ami
skewered apart, strung on bamboo
reeds.
Gen. Jubal Early has never been
ranked &c sToat siraSegist, but it
appears at last that he was. The New
York Press man, who runs the "Per-
sonal" column Of that paper, tells the
story as he heard it from an ex-CofIa
f.