The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-09-23

+. l.. CARDoZo, Treasurer ). Z.
= The first snow of the season is reported
from Mount Washington.
- The next elections will come off in OHIO
and Iowa on the 18th Of October.
- Ex-Gov Letcher has been nominated
by the Democrats for the Virginia House of
Delegates.
- The Savannah Ners and 4drcrtiser have
! consolidated, leaving only one daily paper
| in the town.
= Congressman Lamar will deliver the
| address at the dedication of Vanderbilt Uni
versity, at Nashville Tenn, in October.
= The Pickens Sentinel announces the
death of. n. Arnold, ESQ., which occurred
at his residence near Central Station on Tues
| day, 14th inst.
= The returns of the election in Colorado
Territory last week are not yet complete,
and the result is thought doubtful, both par
ties claiming the Legislature. It may be
conceded to the Republicans, however.
- Sam. Bowles, of the Springfield Repu5-
! lican, asks an important question "If the
people go on voting Democratic State and
Congressional tickets in this careless way,
what is to become of the great Republican
party?'
- Jefferson Davis, Jr., son of the ex-Con-
| federate President, accompanies his father
on his Western tour. He is twenty-one
years old, has lived the greater part of his
life in Europe, and will, upon his return
from Colorado, settle down in Memphis in
the cotton business
| - Gen. Joseph E. Johnston contradicts
the statement that he is to become the COM
mander-in-chiefo ofthe Egyptian army. The
khedive did make him a tempting offer
three or four years ago. but it was declined
and has never been renewed. The General
intimates that his sword is not for hire.
- Senator Gordon, of Georgia, has written
letter, in which he expresses himself in
| favor of leaving the financial question out
of the Democratic national platform, and
making the fight on other issues. He thinks
the first object of the Southern Democracy
should be to dispossess the present admins
Atlanta (Ga.) Herald is of the opinion that
nine out of ten Of the public men of the
South take similar view of the matter.
The Ohio Democrats are jublant at the
action of their allies in Pennsylvania. The
Cincinnati Enquirer bursts out in double
lead with this confident prophesy: 1.-THE
Democratic ticket will sweep Pennsylvania
by 50, 900 majority in November. Before that
time Ohio. strengthened and sustained by
this declaration of Thursday, will have sent
greeting with 10000 majority for Allen
Standing shoulder to shoulder with the gal
liant Democracy of the Keystone State, We
extend our hearty congratulations.
Atlanta Constitution: The meeting of the
Airline Railroad stockholders Wednesday
was very lively and noisy After conside-
rable amount of sparring to determine
whether o quorum Of stockholders were
present matters were harmonized by the
adoption of a resolution requiring the chair
man of the meeting to appoint committee
of three Stockholders to unite with delega-
ton from the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany in seeing the first mortgage bond
holders and trying to arrange some way of
settling the present litigation. This conf
mittce will be appointed during the after
noon The meeting then adjourned to the
first Wednesday in November.
- The Greenville (Tenn.) Mtelligencer
mentions the death Of Mr.. SluSher, who was
probably the largest man ever raised i'll Ten
nesSee, and who lived about one mile from
Greenyile Mr. SlllSher was only nineteen
years old. and when quite young he had
8 severe attack of rheumatism, which drew
him ont of shape. If Mr.. Slusher had not
been crippled, he would have been nine feet
high. His boot was eighteen inches long,
and one of his hands was the size of four
ordinary ones. He could sit ON q chair and
pick up anything three feet from him. His
head measured about fourtceninchcs around,
and around the chest he measured seven and
q half feet The coffin containing the re-
mains was eight and half feet long, twenty
eight inches wide, and two and half feet
deep.
Washington correspondence of the New
York Tribune: "The new policy toward the
South, rs examplitied by the course pursued
by Attorney General Pierrcpont i'll regard to
the late riots in Mississippi, will, it is be-
lieved, be more effective in restoring order
and preserving the peace than the ordering
of the whole army to that State would be.
A fundamental fact which the administra-
ton has never enforced upon the majority
of the carpet bag Governors Of the South is
that the only sure protection which the citi-
zen of anv section of the State can have is
that which comes from rigid enforcement
of the local laws by the local authorities.
The general government is such an immense
mat hine, and is provided with so few means
of reaching remote places that it is impossi-
BILE for it to give the citizen in his home that
protection which he should demand from
his State or county, and the presence of
regiment of soldiers in Mississippi can do no
good except as it eXerts q moral effect, or
acts rs posse for the local officers. Recog-
nizing this fact and the repugnance of the
people to unnecessary meddling with the
affairs of the States especially by the mill
tarv, Judge Pierrepont has, ut the same time,
been prepared for any emergency that might
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