The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-03-26
1TEMs--EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

- Lake Erie has swallowed Z,0OO persons
since its navigation begun.
- In Florida they are buying butter by the
quart; in Maine they are selling milk by the
pound. ,..,
- Arms and ball cartridge are being distrib-
uted to the militia, of Edgefeld, preparatory
to the fall campaign.
- The nomination of Gen. McLaws as Col
lector of Customs in Georgia, gives universal
satisfaction in the South, so far as we can
learn.
- "Press Chapel" who was confined in the
Laurens jail, made his escape last week, by
burning off portion of his cell door, He is
still at large.
- Queen Victoria is now in the thirty
seventh year of her reign and the ffty-ffth of
her age. She has nine children and twenty
one grand children.
- It was a Georgia landlord who posted the
notice in his dining room that members of the
Legislature would be first seated, and after
wards the gentlemen.
- Thursday afternoon, party of about
twenty-five negroes arrived in Charlotte, on
their way to Mississippi, in which State they
will make their home.
A cow, with hydrophobia, has been excit-
ing the people of Abbeyille. She treed man,
when neighbor put an end to her, through
the medium of bullet.
- The New York Bulletin says there is
plenty of money at the North, but no business.
Many people at the South have a different
complaint-plenty of business and no money.
- The Supreme Court rendered decision
in the Barnwell- -Blackville case, yesterday
The question was decided in favor of Barnwell
which will hereafter be the County seat.
- Rev. Ellison Capers, rector of Christ
Church, has reconsidered his determination to
remove from Greenville, and will co-.olnue to
fill the pulpit he has so acceptably supplied for
so many years.
- The political pot begins to boil in Beaufort
County. A large meeting was held last week
on St. Helena Island, in which there was much
dissatisfaction expressed with the constantly
increasing taxes.
- The most important and only murder
case tried by the court in Greenrile, is the one
was found guilty of manslaughter and SEN
fenced to thirty years in the penitentiary.
| - The negro exodus from Alabama and
Georgia continues. The Montgomery Adrerti-
ser learns that $4,000 tickets for negro immi-
grants have been taken up on the roads lead
ing Southwark and Westward from that city.
- During the parade on ST. Patricks Day
in Charleston, while the companies were march
ing through King Street, to their rendezvous,
before disbanding, they met Gen. Wade Hamp-
ton, and, in token of respect, the whole battal-
ion gave the marching salute.
The Graniteville Is C) Mills in this
State now run over 10000 spindles and 700
looms, pay from 10 to II per cent dividends,
have handsome surplus, and are about bull
ding new mill. The Langley IS. C.) Mills
run 10000 spindles, and are paying handsome
dividends.
- Tennessee boasts that in four years of
freedom from carpet-bag rule she has fixed her
debt SO that the State can and will pay it, has
organized a thorough system of public educa-
tion, while business is thriving, trade brisk and
money plenty. Four years ago the State was
almost as badly off as Louisiana.
- "Mark my words" said United States
Senator Wadleigh, "f Simmons is confirmed
the Republicans will lose New Hampshire" +"
Prophetic language! Simmons was confirmed
New Hampshire is lost; and upon whom but
President Grant can the Republican party
shoulder the chief responsibility for it?
- Up to very recent period, it was held as
fixed fact that shad could only be caught by
nets or traps, and that it was the quintessence
of foolishness to attempt their capture by hook
and line. But this falacy has been exploded
and the honor of discovering the method of
snaring this splendid fish with the fly belongs
to Thomas Chalmers, of Holyoke, Mass.
- In lecture last Monday night, in Balti-
more, Professor Smith stated it as fact, that
whiskey and tobacco bring more diseases than
all other causes in the world. Even the pro-
portion of accidents are mainly owing to ner-
articles. They did more harm than the entire
2,400 remedies of materiG medicG did good.
They were also instrumental in shortening the
| average life of people generally
- Hon. Alex. Il. Stephens is still confined
to his rooms at the National, and though quite
feeble, his mind is as active and his intellect
as clear as ever His physician advised him
not to receive visitors, but Mr.. Stephens insists
upon doing so saying that he knows what is
best for himself. He welcomes all who cal,
and talks freely to every one, both in and out
of Congress, and through his secretary, Mr..
Hidell, keeps up an extensive correspondence.
Some years ago man in England, who
was very thin, exhibited himself living
skeleton. He made much money in this way,
and as he grew rich he became fat until
several years after his retirement from the
show business he was as fat as he had formerly
been lean. Lately, having spent his fortune,
he attempted to again reduce himself to a
skeleton, with the intention of returning to the
show business, but he died from exhaustion
soon after reaching the desired condition.
= A Great Darlington (Mass.) merchant
found box of parlor matches on the store
floor the other morning, which had been
knocked off the shelf by a rat or mouse during
the night. On opening the box, the discovery
was made that, by the conclusion, every match
in the box had been lighted, and the wood of
which they were made was charred and turned
brown. Fortunately, the box was so tight as
to smother the fire, and no harm resulted. 1t
| n hod oh
place, its cause would have been a perpetual
mystery.
- The new army bill now before Congress
szsr ins ey to Sur " NOW opS s Tsgns nanry 10
twenty, now twenty-five. This will make the
army twenty-five thousand instead of thirty
three thousand strong. Any officer may
resign, and shall be entitled to one years pay,
] besides what may be due him at the date of