The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-11-14
GENERAL. NEWS ITEMS.


A boat has been launched in New
York that is expected to make so miles
an hour.
Ihe census figures f0rcshad0ws an
lncrese OF 30 members to the House of
Representatives.
= Tho Georgia Legislature is discus
sing the question Of holding II consti-
tutional convention.
= Mckinley is the first President
since Gcant TO secure Il re- c-clcction ut |
tho end Of his first .cvm. !
- i'll New FORK one voter died in tho
election booth and another INN late
ly after casting his ballot.
= The battlcship kentucky will be !
sent to scare the Moors into paving
indemnity Tor an American citizen kill
cd there.
- The Woman's Home Missionary
Society of the Methodist church has
raised It's $200,G00 for the Twentieth
Century Fund.
| = In three out of four election riots
in Northern States negroes precipitated
the trouble-in Pennsylvania, in Della
ware and Colorado.
! The cnumerators sheets are not all
in as yet, but it is already known that
the returns will show that there are in
the country between 5,5OO,0 and g.
O0O,O 900 separate farms.
= The Atlanta Journal will tako
trainlond Of school children from tho
public schools of Atlanta to Washing
ton next March to witness the inau-
guration of President Mckinley.
- The Agricultural Department of
the United States has distributed
limited supply of the Egyptian cotton
seed with view of determining
whether this cotton can be successfully
grown in tho United States.
- Senator e. X. Davis, OF Minnesota,
is about to die, it is reported, from Il
curious cause. The dye from his sock
got into small cut on his foot, which
resulted eventually in blood poiton.ng
30 that now his life is jcopardized
= Since 1890 tho fifteen Southern
States have increased their population
from 22,440,278 to 2G330, ,3O7, gain of
3,800,O20. While there has been more
or lees of this from immigration from
other States, there has been very little
from other countries.
1t is said that $4,000 cabin passen-
gers have crossed the Atlantic to Eu-
rope this year. Assuming that the av-
crage expenditure of this class of trav-
era OH tho other side is about E3O0-and
it is probably more-tbat means nearly
$30,000,O 900 paid to tho foreigner.
The Old John street Methodist
church in New York celebrated it's
132d anniversary recently. Among the
relics they have tho Bible Philip Em-
bury, the first local preacher, and the
clock Of John Wesley, which is now
clicking off the time MI right
- For some time cnegotintiations havo
been going on locking to complete
surrender of tho Beers in South At
rica. But General Botha and Pres
ident Steyn refuse to surrender. They
seem to believe that intervention will
come from tho other powers very soon.
- Democratic GoycrnOr-elpct Will
liam S. Jennings has informotiOn from
his cousin, William. j. Bryan, that he
will visit him at his home in Brooks
vile, Fla, Immediately after the holi-
days and be present ut the Inaugural
tion at Tallahassee on the first Tues
day in January.
The Vermont Legislature, which
is now in session, is about to consider n
bill which provides for the negotiation
Of loan of $4,000, ,OOO-thc entire sum
to be expended on the Improvement of
the public roads Of theGrecn Noun
tain State during the next two years
Vcrmonts debt is now but $334, 900.
= Secretary Hester, of the New Or
leans cotton exchange, in his report
says that the month of October is
ahead of tho Same month last year in
round figures 100000 bales. The total
amount of the cotton crop brought into
sight for the two mCnths ending Octo-
ber 3!st is 3,051, 800 against 2,sGt, 1856
last year.
! - The people of Greater New York
have finished with one political cam
paign only to plunge into another. The
returns from the natioal election were
not in before the municipal campaign
against Tammany was opened. Tie
election occurs next summer and the
prospects are that there will be tie
livcliest sort Of a campaign.
= Christmas trees arc already being
cut down in Washington county, Ne,
and tho Seasons output from that sec
ton will amount to 400 carloads, with
$50 punches to ~ car. Each bunch
consists of from TWO to six trees. The
trees are sent to New York where they
will retail for about ten times as much
as they are worth on board the cars in
Maine.
= 1t is believed by the engineers who
are repairing the Galveston Mexico
cable, which was broke up by the Gal
weston hurricane, that the storm wos
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