The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-09-28
1rEMs-ED1ToR1AL AND OTHERWISE


the German Empire.
= President Grant has accepted an invita-,
ton to visi. Carol county (Md.) Agricultural
Fair, October 8. -,
The Northern papers tells us that the wild
geese are flying Southwark, which means that
cold weather is at hand.
"A Republican editor says: Let the reign
of small men come to an end" He must be
opposed to the reelection of Grant.
= The Mayor of Selma, Ala, has given Or
ders to have all young men found loafng on
the streets arrested, unless they go to work.
= Horace Greeley delivered an address be-
fore the Northwestern Agricultural Association,
at Minneapolis, Minn., on the 14th, to large
crowd.
DIR. Robert ]. Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
is rapidly failing in health. His disease is by
the physicians declared to be pulmonary con-
sumption.
= The Savannah Republican wants General
Hancock nominated for President, and either
Senator Thurman or Mr.. Hendricks for Vice
President.
Whipping posts are being re-established
in various parts of Virginia, and many OF the
prisoners are said to prefer whipping to i'm
prisonment.
- Several white and colored men have been
arrested at Little Rock, Arkansas, because OF
the disappearance of negro who had been CO.
habiting with white woman.
A shooting affray occurred between DIR.
McGavock and Mr. Thadford, two well-known
planters. at Shawnee town, Arkansas, in which
both were mortally wounded. They had dis
pute about hogs.
- The name of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
has been suggested by correspondent OF the
Savannah Republican as candidate tor Mayor
of that city. If the people of that city desire
a change in their municipal government, we
are quite sure they could not select truer, bet
ter man than General Johnston.
The National Democratic Committee at
Washington has received dispatch from Santa
Fe. stating that the Democratic candidate for
Delepate to Congress from New Mexico had
been elected by twenty-five hundred majority,
and that both houses of the Legislature were
largely Democratic.
= Many Republican Journals are advocating
a one-term rule to avoid the improper use OF
the Presidential patronage. Would 1T not be
better to educate their readers up to the point
of considering such dishonest abuse OF power
sufficient bar to reelection, and leave them free
to retain in office any statesman OF integrity
should their party produce such curiosity
: The Washington Patriot asserts that the
clerks and officials in the Government service
there are forced to join clubs representing their
several States, and that these clubs are part OF
the Radical machinery for carrying elections
The members are expected to vote at all local
elections in Washington, and also to go home
and vote again in the States they come from.
IT, addition, they are regularly assessed per
centare upon their salaries for election pur-
noses and this per centage is to be deducted
from from their pay on che 1st Of September
There is now large, pear-shaped spot on
that side of the sun that is turned toward US.
1t is about 10000 miles in diameter, which is
equivalent to three-quarters of a minute OF arc /;
equal to the angle subtended by 1S3 inches at
the distance of one mile from the eye. 1t is a
very good test of the vision, through smoked
glass, requiring an eyesight of little more
than the average penetration to see 1T without
n magnifier. The spot is little to the left,
and about the same distance below the appa-
rent centre of the solar disc.
Ex-Governor Hamilton, of Texas, says he
never saw any of the members of the present
State government steal anything; but "when
we see a poor, miserable cuss, who never had
$3.50 in his life, come to Austin and borrow
money to pay his expenses, and presently find
him losing thousand dollars night at faro,
driving around in fancy team, making liquor
bills, wine bills, and all sorts of bills, and buy
ing buggy and fine horses to go home in, We
know he is thief as well as if We had seen
him steal"