The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-02-12

A colored brakeman EMPLOYED on the
Airline Railroad, was killed near Gastonia,
N. c., on the 9Th.
= The Siamese twins did not marry English
girls but the daughters of North Carolina
farmer, name Yates.
Connecticut maintains its inventive su-
premacy, and had more patents granted it
last year than any other State.
- The French government has decided
upon keeping for the next five years five thou.
sand carrier pigeons for service in war time.
Hon. James B. Groom has been elected
Governor of Maryland, for the unexpired term
of Gov Whyte, recently chosen to tie United
State Senate.
- Wade Hampton was recently arrested in
Atlanta for stealing, and John Quincy Adams
is selling guano at Eatonton, Ga. GLOW are
the mighty. fallenw = T.
"A bill has been introduced in the Mary
land Legislature appropriating fifty thousand
dollars to build houses in Washington for the
Senators for that State.
A New jersey Judge had the manliness
to discharge poor woman who, after repeated
efforts to obtain work, failed and stole loaf
Of bread to keep her children from starving.
= A bill to revive the free transportation by
mail of newspaper exchanges, and of news
papers within the County of publication, has
been introduced in the House of Representa-
tiyes.
- Information has reached Richmond, Va,
that the statue of Stonewall Jackson, now
being made in England under order of Hon.
Beresford Hope, N. c., is in hopeful state of
forwardness.
- The mptroller-general states that taxes
are being paid more promptly than in any
other year since reconstruction. The number
Of applications for abatement is less than ten
per cent. of former years.
People who complain of rents in Newe
York nave only to go to vicksburg, Miss, and
get plantation for year by paying the taxes.
So says the New York Graphic. Suppose they
give South Carolina trial.
- The Patrons. of Husbandry now number
about 100000 of the voting population of the
United States. If they can possibly unite,
great changes are about to take place in the
government of this country.
- The National Educational Convention
! recently in session at Washington appointed
Hon. J. z. Jillson, of this State, as one Of the
committee on the Centennial Exhibition, to be
held in Philadelphia in July, 1876.
- The crusade of the Ohio women against
the liquor dealers goes vigorously on. In all
the Ohio villages the ladies are zealously be-
sieging the saloon keepers with prayer meet
ings. They are making the rounds of the
saloons daily, and at each one they present the
pledge to the proprietors to quit the sale Of
intoxicating liquors. 1t is said that the rough
est men find it sometimes impossible to restrain
tears as the ladies kneel on the flags in the
cold or storm, and they frequently yield to
their entreaties. In one place the dealers were
determined to hold out. Accordingly picket
of ladies watched the saloons and Immediately
surrounded the doors when any man tried to
enter for drink. One of the saloon keepers
has sold his stock to an active promoter of the
crusade, and he will move West. At New
Lexington, Perry County, the war is vigorously
prosecuted by about one hundred ladies and one
hundred and fifty men. Immense temperance
meetings are being held, at which one of the
speakers is an ex-colonel, who rehearses the
story of his downward career as drunkard.
The praying band of sisters is seventy-6ve
strong, and they 60 the rounds every day. A
saloon keeper there has issued posters warning
the women not to obstruct his legitimate bus
mess, but they are not at all terrified at his
warning. In most of the villages the ladies
have seven or eight leaders, each commanding
band of twenty to forty, and divide the time
regularly. If the saloons will not close under
a regular agreement, they purpose to keep
permanent guard from this time on until the
| people get accustomed to do without saloons.
Their success thus far has been only average
the record showing that the consumption Of
| liquor has decreased two-thirds.
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