The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-08-01
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

which is now making a profit of over
$500, 600 week.
The migrants who arrived in this |
country for the fiscal year ending June
80 number 4SS,55l, an increase of 30 Der
cent. over the previous year and 100 |
per cent. over 1893.
= AssistantpOstmastc general Bris-
tow has made his report which shows
that Nicely has swindled the govern
ment out Of $131, GOO in the last year in
Cuban postal affairs.
The first bale Of new cotton was
sold at the Cotton Exchange in New
York the other day for 1Ga cents. The
bale weighed 541 pounds, and was from
plantation in Texas.
= The Sheriff in Huntsville, Ala,
was smoked out of his Jail recently by
burning tar and feathers by mob
which determined to lynch a prisoner
in his charge. He did not give up until
he fell unconscious in the building,
nearly sutfOcated by smoke.
= The town Of Somerville, Mo-, is
for sale to the highest bidder. No
taxes have been paid for years and the
property valuation of the place has
dwindled from slO6,OOO in 1880 to $780,
600 in 1900. Good chance for the fel-
low who is trying to acquire the globe
to get start.
= Figures that have just been gath
cred from all sections Of the country
show beyond doubt that the corn crop
this year will be the greatest in his
tory. In the States Of Kansas, Ne
braska. Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan
and Minnesota the yield will be excep-
tionally large.
= Iowa county, Wis, lays claim to
having the lowest salaried official in
the employ of the United States gov
ernment. The government hires Frank
Lynch for one cent a year to carry the
mail between Dodgeville, the county
seat of Iowa county, and Mineral
Point, nine miles distant.
- 1t has been stated that Judge Rob-
ert Pleasant Trippe, who has just died
a. Atlanta, Ga, was probably the last
surviving member of the Confederate
Congress. 1t transpires, however, that
DR.. j. G. Ramsay, now q resident of
Of Salisbury, n. c.. was a member of
the Confederate Congress.
! N Mrs. Thomas Swain, aged 05, has
diet at st. Clair, Pa, OF starvation
! caused by contraction of the stomach,
Several months ago the curious malady
developed and grew worse until it was
impossible to force food into her stom-
ach. Previous to her death the suffer
er had not tasted morsel for twenty
three days.
George Griffin and wife have been
jailed at Asheville, N. c., charged with
causing the death of Griffin's three
children by his first wife, aged eight,
ten and thirteen. They became sick,
and he had their stepmothcr, who
mated them, put hem in an outhouse,
where neighbors found them, but too
late to save their lives.
= During the past two years Danny
Sweeney, of Hazelton, Pa, aged 8,
has fallen twenty five feet from roof,
been knocked down twice by trolley
cars, run over by bicycles six times,
thrown from n freight train once aud
Knocked OFT the track by yard engine
once. Yet Danny is rs sound as a dol
lar and mischievous rs Il kitten. Prob
ably Fate is rcserving Danny for case
of the measles.
In letter to the Philadelphia
Prcss Brooker Il. Washington speaks
very encOuragingly of the treatment of
colored people by their white neighbors
in the South. He says, among much
else that is Of interest: ain any case
have not seen single colorcd man who
had secured intellectual aud moral
properties, and had high character,
who did not have the respect and con-
fidence of the white people where
he lived" "On the WHOLE" says the
Philadelphia Record, sit has been long
observed that well-behaved colored
men are much better treated in the
South than in the North"
- Monday night negro walked into
the Chinese laundry, corner of Court
and South streets, and said he wanted
his laundry, but that he had lost his
ticket. The Chinaman said he had no
laundry for him. Loud words follow
cd. a white man who was there Mt
the time tried to quiet matters by sug-
gesting that the darkey bet 81 that he
did have his laundry. The Chinaman
was willing to undo his bundles if the
money was put up. The negro said he
did not have dollar. The white man
suggested that the negro put his watch
against a dollar. This the negro
agreed to do. The white man held
both the watch and the c.c:ey. The
Chinaman commenced to undo the
bundles, and the white man walked off
with both the dollar and watch
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