The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-23
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

Belknap was man of simple tastes.
He would not drink champagne when he
could get rye whisky.
- The women's mission societies OF the
United States have contributed about
$40, 900 during the past year, most of
which went to foreign missions.
The Pennsylvania Legislature are
considering bill which makes 1t
penal offence to point a gun or pistol
at person, whether in jest or in earn
est.
= Mrs. Ella F. Clark, of Mechanics
Falls, Me-, shot herself on Saturday be-
cause her husband refused to live with
her after she had been divorced from
him.
- Miles White, Of Baltimore, died on
Sunday, aged 81 years. He was widely
known as an active member Of the Socle-
ty of Friends. He leaves an estate val
ued at 81, 10000
st. Louis proposes to go into the
cotton manufacturing trade. A party
of capitalists from Lowell, Mass, are
ont there examining the facilities for
manufacturing that staple and looking
for location.
The United States Senate has passed
a bill reducing the salary of the Presl-
dent to twenty-five thousand dollars per
annum. His salary was raised leW
years ago to $4,000, and now that Grant
is about to vacate the office, Repu ohcan
Senators propose this measure OF reform.
-The planters about Vicksburg have
got hold of a shrewd idea. They talk Of
Investing their money in cotton and hold
ing it over for high prices in the summer.
They say they can buy it cheaper now
than they can possibly raise it, and there
is no use of being bothered in raising
crop. c.,
Pillow, in Memphis, was sold at Bank
rupt sale on Tuesday. There was no
competition. His residence, probably
worth 81 900, was bought by agentleman
for $26, and valuable library by another
person for Sl1, and both were presented
to Mrs. Pillow.
- At each entrance to the Centennlai
Exposition grounds there will be an au-
tomato arrangement to register the oaliy
number of visitors. The managers estl1
mate that at the lowest so, 900 people will
visit the exhibition every day. This
would yield $4,500,000. The expenses
will be nearly two millions.
- The Mayor of Richmond, Virginia,
in his annual message, directs attention
TO the fact that the colored population OF
that city die at the rate Of 1855 to every
/ 900. whereas the whites die only at the
rate of 1887 to every 1000 and recon-
mends the adoption of more stringent
sanitary ordinances for the protection Of
the poorer classes of society,".
Prof. J. Lawrence Smith, the sclen-
tist, gives an explanation OF the recent
shower in Bath County, Kentucky. he
says the specimens sent to him for analy-
sis are evidently the dried spawn OF bo-
I..aI:.- ,oosiIoa don hf1ooc thQt 0f tho
frog, transported from the ponds and
swampy grounds by currents of wind to
the spot where they were found.
The election Of Democratic House
of Representatives in 1874 now proves to
be a national blessing. Not that the
Democratic party is the custodian of the
honor of the country, but that the exls-
tence of power opposition in Con-
gress is necessary to honest administra-
ton. Would Republican House have
investigated the corruptions of the War
Department? Never. Party pride pro-
hibited the admission that inquiry was
needed.-N. Y Herald.
- Gen. Belknap first made the &C
uuaintance of the two Misses Tomlinson,
who afterward became successfully his
wives, when he was marching through
Georgia" as provost marshal of Shernan's
W,
were both in the Confederate service, had
been captured, and their sisters visited
Gen. Belknap to obtain their release. 1t
is understood that the fair Kentuckians
captured the general, who subsequently
surrendered to one of them.
"A correspondent at Old Fort writes
to the Charlotte Observer that few days
ago, while the hands employed on the
Western North Carolina Railroad work,
were engaged in cleaning out the bottom
of the shaft in Swannanoa Tunnel, which
is 126 feet deep, and which has heretofore
had 100 feet of water in it, human skel-
eton was discovered with hole through
its skull. It is supposed that these are
the remains of some person who has
been murdered and the body thrown in
this shaft, within the last five years. The
discovery, of course, excites good deal
of sensation in the neighborhood.
= AS passenger train on the Georgia
railroad was bowling along, on Friday,
at the rate of thirty miles an hour, to-
ward Augusta, the engineer discovered
in front of him, just as he swung around
a gap, huge tree laying across the track.
With great coolness the engineer applied
the steam brakes, and reversed the en-
gine, but too late to avoid the collision,
and when the engine struck the tree, the
speed of the train had Stacked to about
ten miles an hour. Fortunately, beyond
severe jar, no other damage was done
to the train. The tree was about forty
feet long, and in circumference the size
of mans waist. It was some time be-
fore the railroad hands could clear the
tree from the track.
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