The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-03-06
GENERAL NEWS iTEaS.

worth Of chickens and eggs last year.
The output of rice tor this season
in Eastern Texas is not less that 10000
tons
= Christians of New York City CON
tributcd last year $27, ,0OO,0 600 for gos-
pei work.
a national prohibition conference
has been called ut Buffalo, n. V, in
August next.
A New York man made over all
his property to his wife. She cloped,
and he is now i'll the poor house.
= Representative ICY" Sulloway, of
New Hampshire, measures six feet
eight inches the tallcst man in CON
gress.
William r. Mardu, Liberty, Maine,
recently cut off his tcn-foot beard be-
cause people asked him too many aues-
tions about it.
= There has been series of mino
horrors lately. Wyoming contributed
tho latest, liz which 50 miners were
burned to death.
- The Oregon Legislature has de
clared in favor of tho repeal of the
clause of the State constitution forbid
ding negroes to live in the State.
= After forty years. practical expc-
rience in dealing with criminals, Chief
Justice Lore, Of Delaware, declares in
favor OF the whipping post, though
not of the pillory.
y Our loss Of soldiers in the Philip
pines has now passed the 6.OOO mark.
Of the total number 72t havo been
killed, 452 have died Of wounds and
accidents, and 2,599 have been incapac
itated by wounds.
= The Navy department is consider
ing the nd DISABILITY of establishing n
naval station on Blythe Isiund, Ga,
which property was acquired by the
department under provisions of nm act
of Congress of 1857.
= The postmaster ut Ccntervillc,
ky-, is woman who lost both legs in
a railroad accident. She is said to
make faithful officer, but five men
are now applicants for the place under
the incoming administration.
- a1rs. Rosa Wurzer, widow, in a
tit of insanity, threw her six children,
aged to 12, i'll well, at Uniontown,
Washington. on the cath o. February
drowning them all. She then tried to
drcwn herself, but was taken out
alive.
= An amendment has been offered
to the North Carolina Constitution
providing for separation of the school
fu' d SO that the taxes paid by the
whites shall go to white schools and
the taxes paid by the negroes shall 20
to negro schools.
- Priarie chickens in Kansas only q
few years ago were looked upon as q
pest. Now the farmers are encourag-
ing their propagation by keeping hunt
ers off their farms. The chickens are
much more plentiful now than for
several seasons back.
= Rev. Joel J. Vandiver, a native
preacher of Northern India, who died
recently after 43 years of hard work,
was at the beginning of that period
the only Christian in that region, where
there are now $4,000 Christians and
1000 children In Sunday schools.
Il. II. Dickerson, sharp negro of
Nashville. has been arrested in Allan
ia for swindling the old slaves. He
travels around and sells certificates
which will entitle them to pen
sion when Congress passes the act
granting pensions to former slaves.
Within its own borders the United
States now produces eight -tenths of
all tho worlds cotton and corn, one
quarter of all its wheat, onc-third Of
all its coal, more gold than any other
country save Africa, and more .nu-
factured goods than England, France
and Germany combined.
- The United States is about to
begin the coinage of Scent piece for
use in the West and Southwest. 1t
will be of nickel, about tho size of q
scent piece, but in the center of it will
be, a hole about quarter of an inch in
diameter. This will enable one to dis
tingulsh it by the feel even in the dark.
= Scientists have at last as they be-
lieve, succeeded in actually mcasur-
ing the earth. They claim that its
diameter. through the equator, is 1926
miles, and that it's height, from pole
to pole, is $4,000 miles. This demon
strates tho truth of the belief that has
long existed shat the earth is tiattcned
at the poles.
"A. j. Hamilton. n prominent
young merchant Of Marion county,
Ala, was found dead, with his throat
cut and his body sunk in quicksand up
to his neck. He had been drinking
heavily and it is supposed that he wan
dered away and waded out in the
stream, and when he saw that o. terri
BILE death awaited him, he cut his throat
to prevent further suffering.