The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-04-06
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

The late frost and snow have done
no material damage to the grain crops.
The Griffin NetoS calls the late eclipse
"a centennial humbug."
= The recent eclipse Of the sun did not
seem to attract much attention.
- The recent snow storm was ten
inches deep in the mountains.
Fifty-nine State Conventions are to
be held within two months.
- Liverpool is the most densely popu-
lated town in Great Britain.
- Rev. John g.. Law has resigned the
charge of the Walhalla Presbyterian
Church.
The annual convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association of Alabama
will meet at Huntsville, April 81.
= California is going to try public
whipping as punishment for wife beat
ing.
- The Grangers of the United States
have over $1S,000,000 invested in their
various enterprises.
The annual tobacco crop of the
United States is about 300, COO, 900 pounds,
worth to the producers at least $40 200, 900.
ALL the employees of the Concord
IN. H. Railroad have been compelled to
sign the temperance pledge.
= Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe made
81, 800 from her orange grovein. Florida
last summer. - q 80
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, a nephew of
Gen. R. E. Lee, is appointment candidate
for Governor of Virginia. -! ~
= The Dallas County (Ala.) Republi-
cam Convention unanimously endorsed
Harralson, the colored Congressman who
voted for amnesty, for denomination.
Congress costs the country at the rate
of $40, 900 day, and there is a prospect
that the present session will extend
through the summer and late into the
fall. '-;s.s>>:5. i,ls..
Herschell V..:sJohnson and Colonel
Warren Aiken, sarenamed for Governor
of Georgia. The former has tsbeen there"
and knows how easy lies the head that
wears crown.
The present situation of the Repub-
lican party seems to be accurately
summed up in this terse sentence in the
Cleveland Herald: "The party is now
either to be reformed from within or
smashed from without"
= The evidence in the Belknap case is
being prepared by District-Attorney
Wells for presentation to the grand jury,
and it is probable that an indictment
will be found against him by that body
very SOOI.
- The United States Senate has ordered
sissippi, to ascertain whether intimida-
ton was practiced upon the colored peo-
pie in the late election
Aiken County is unit fora straight
out Democratic ticket, both State and
county, and square, old-fashioned,
Democratic rough and tumble in the
next election. The last county election
was only lost by sixty-five votes.
The delegation sent to Cincinnati by
the Pennsylvania Republican Convention
is almost entirely owned by Simon Cam
eron, and will undoubtedly be for Conk-
ling on the second ballot.s Not over half
dozen delegates are friendly TO Blaine.
- The State Supreme Court Of Georgia
has unanimously decided that the head
of a family can waive for himself and
family the right to homestead, thus
enabling the people to create valid lien
upon the full value of the property.
= The House military committee have
agreed to offer an amendment to the bill
reducing the army, looking to discon-
tinuance Of the use of colored troops in
the United States army. The law as it
now exists authorizes the creation of ne
gro regiments at the option of the secre-
tary Of war. The committee propose to
repeal this and wipe out the negro organ
izations by allowing the term of enlist
ment to expire and prohibiting future en-
listments.
Congressman Lamar, of Mississippi,
is reported seriously i'll, and is threatened
with paralysis. He has gone to New
York to consult "a physician, and will
afterward go to his homo in Mississippi,
to remain for the present. 1t is doubtful
whether he will be able to continue his
labors as member Of the House. His
absence will be serious loss to the
Democratic side of the House. He has
6ad baSh uaTe shock az of wa parsIyss his nhyseaI @
condition is O critical one.