The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-04-03
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

- Mrs. Daniei NIuld00n, of Coving-
ton, Ky. is the mother of -FOUR pair of
t":;is III ia years.
Louise Gibbons, young woman
of % years. at springfield, O., was made
deaf by sneezing.
"A national prohibition conference
has been called ut Buffalo, n. T., in
August next.
= The SOiitil's sweet potato crop is
estimated at fifty million bushels,
worth $25, 1000.
= 1t is againrumored that the Louis
vile & Nashville has bought the Sea-
board Air Line.
- The Arkansas House Of Represen-
tatives has passed u bill imposing fine
OF from $500 to 81 900 for gambling.
= The making Of flour from sweet
potatoes is new industry that has re-
Gently been established in New Jersey.
Georgia furnishes 20i in the army
of government employees in Washing
ton and their aggregate nay is $780,
032.O5.
: There have been reports of lorna
| does from all southwestern States re
Gently. Great damage has been done
in some sections
Out of three regiments in the
Philippines to be mustered out only
three men offered to re-enlst in the
ranks of new regiments.
- In 1890 the total agricultural pro-
duct Of tho South, outside of cotton,
was valued at $3.50. 100000. The figures
for 1900 are S085, $780, 900.
= a solid train load of cattlo was
shipped from Columbus, Co., to Tam
pa, and Havana. There were 600 Of
them and they we're valued ut $4,000.
4 One of the bills recently passed by
tho Minnesota legislative body pro-
vides for medical examination of all
persons seeking license to marry.
= The claims against the govern
ment on account o. tho Spanish war
amount to thirty millions. There nre
five claims for ever n million.
= According to the government agri-
cultural statistics the average worlds
crop Of corn for the past five years has
been 2. 750, ,057. 900. and the United States
have produced rs per cent. of it.
One region around Plant City,
Fla, will ship this season about 100, 900
quarts of stTawb berries. Tho growers
expect to receive an average of IS cents
per quart, which would make the crops
value &8O, 1000.
- Aaron D. Weld, of Boston, is prac-
tically the sole owner of Ludlow,
Mass. town OF 5000 inhabitants. Mr..
Weld is president of Ludlow Man
ufacturing Company, concern which
furnishes employment to nearly all
the laborers and:which pays nine-t -tenths
Of all the taxes collected in the town.
: The Boer General Botha has re-
jected the peace terms offered by Eng
land. The British army will, there
fore, receive reinforcements and the
war in South Africa waged on q more
destructive scale than heretofore. De-
vastation and determination will be
the order Of the day.
- Cattlemen in Greenwood County,
Kansas. are making hard times for
lawyers. They have established a
system of arbitrating differences.
Three men are chosen as an arbitration
committee. They investigate the
trouble and make q decision which is
final. A fuss involving 100000 was
settled at Eureka recently by this COM
mittee.
A queer instance of improper in
huence said to have been exerted upon
jurymen comes from New Haven. The
jury in certain civil case went to
Fairhaven to visit the house Of the
defendants. There, according to the
counsel for tho plaintiff, one of the
parties to the suit gave one of the
jurors piece of pie. This piece of pie
is the ground upon which motion to
set aside tho verdict is founded.
- Mr. Emmett Crowder, of Dinwid-
die county. Virginia, kept $4,000 lock-
ed up in his desk. It represented the
saving of n lifetime. and he was afraid
to trust it to bank. It has just been
stolen, and there is no trace of the
thief, A fool and his money arc not
always "soon" parted. but the separa-
ton is pretty sure to come
= 1t is reported in some of the news
papers that over half of the 500 appli-
cants for tho % appointments
as chaplain in the army are
Baptists. In tho present list of
chaplains there are four Roman
Catholics, eleven Methodists, six Pres
byterians, four Episcopalinns. two
Baptists, one Congregational, one
Lutheran and one Christian.
There has been decided improve
ment in the machinery for cleaning and
hulling rice during the past few months
and as q result between $4,000 and
100. 900 additional acres of land will be
devoted to rice culture in the South