The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-14
General News Summary.

Republican party is so sick that it must
either change its medicine or buy a
coffin.
- Niles G. Parker, ex-State Treasurer
of South Carolina under the carpet.bag
administration, is now manager of q
metal house in New. York. His qualifi-
cation probably was familiarity with
brass.
= Gov. Robinson, of New York, may
safely be set down as the champion vetoer
of the century. He refused his signature
to no less than so of the bills passed by
the recent Legislature, and will very
likely treat good share of the hundred
or more left on his hands at adjourn
ment in the same way.
- The Robert E. Lee Monumental
Association, of New Orleans, has suc-
ceeded in obtaining funds nearly sufi-
cient to erect monument in that city to
the memory of that illustrious general.
1t is proposed to erect the monument in
Tivoli Circle, which is the centre of the
city, and the most prominent and con-
spicuous place.
= Miss Hadlock, of Newport, VT,
met in the street man who had circula-
ted derogatory stories about her. She
had prepared herself for the occasion.
First, she took pepper from pocket and
threw it in his eyes. Secondly, she took
a rawhide from her hustle and struck
him several times with it. Thirdly, she
took a rotten egg from a hand bag and
smashed it in his face.
: The Philadelphia Times says: "Gov.
Wade Hampton is expected to visit
Auburn, N. Y, on the Goth of this
month, to attend q reunion of the Shields
Guards of that city, military organiza-
tion named after General Shields, who
commanded the New York Volunteers
and the South Carolina Palmettoes in
the Mexican war, and who was an init
mate friend of Gov. Hampton's father"
They used to talk about Grants in
Vulnerable kinfolks-the Dents, the Ca
seys, the Kramers, the Corbins, and the
so-forths,". said a disappointed Kentucky
ofice-seeker the other day, "but he
couldn't have been as bad off, in that
respect as Hayes, whom, to judge from
his list of appointments, you would nat
urally suppose to be kin to every id
one-horse Republican in the State of
Ohio.
- Ben. Butler, it is said, has resolved
to take himself and his fortunes to Col
orado. New England is by far too small
and too inconsiderable place for man
of his wide embracing sympathies. In
his new home in the Centennial State he
will devote himself to the pastoral occu-
patton of sheep shearing, abandoning for
the nonce the political warpath. 1t
would not, however, be astonishing to see
the gentle Ben B. turn up in Washington
full Aedged Senator.
- The Indianapolis Sentinel, sneering
at Grants European reception, says:
"The living present knows that Grant
consorted with thieves, that he was the
defender and supporter of conspirators,
that he girdled the Louisiana Returning
Board scoundrels with bayonets, while
the perjured crew was plotting frauds
with which to reverse the will of the
American people. The Atlantic ocean,
were its waters soapsuds, could not in a
thousand centuries wash out the stains
from Grants record. His friends should
let him rest and rust" ,.af
The Mormons double once in six
years. They now number 100000 They
have thirty incorporated cities, three
million dollars worth of irrigating Ca
nails, 1853 school houses. II newspapers,
missionaries in every nation in the orld,
10000 militia, 6 cotton and wooden fac
tories, 500 miles of railroads, telegraphs
all over the Territory, and temples built
and being built enough for all their peo-
pie to worship in. Besides, missionaries
send them 5000 emigrants every, year,
and their elders baptize many hundred
native Indians and receive them into the
Mormon church. 80 a.f .;s lori =
= Whittemore, ex-cadet peddler and
larcenous carpet-bag legislator of South
i Carolina, has marched without impede
ment into the bowels of Massachusetts,,
and Massachusetts, feels very sick. But
Massachusetts, ought not to. be discour-,
aged. She got rid of Whittemore once
before, when he had been caught swind-
ling, aby making him chaplain of regi-
.ment during the war. Why not ordain
him now as a missionary, and let him
steal awhile away to Kemper County, or
any other place where a good article of
preaching is needed, and where there
isn't much lying around that he could
pick up IN. Y Tribune. @
The first big gun has just been cast
at the South Boston Foundry, atwelve-
inch rifle gun, being the first one made
for the government of the United States.
The weight of this piece of ordnance
when finished will be about 10000
pounds, and it, will carry projectile
weighing about 700 pounds. The ordi;
nary charge of powder in firing it will
be from 10 to l40 pounds, with which
the projectile will pierce a solid mass of
iron from twelve to fifteen inches thick,
at q distance of 1000 yards. The gun
will be made of cast iron, lined with
wrought iron cored tube, and when fin
ished will be sent to the proving ground
at Sandy Hook, to be tested, andif found
to be. satisfactory, will be mounted in
one of the Notifications in New York
harbor. Gen. Benet, Chief of the Bu-
reau of Ordnance; Col. Bnspin, the
ordnance constructor, and other pomi-
nent ordnance officers, will witness the
casting on Wednesday. This gun will
be made on q system which has been
thoroughly tested in this country on guns
of smaller calibre, which havebeen found
to equal any gun made abroad. The
work upon it was commenced nearly
year ago, and the greatest care has been
taken to select proper metal to be used
| in its construction.
- The English countryman cannot
vote for member of Parliament unless
his rent is taxed at 912 year, which
practically means that he must occupy q
house worth G16 a year, or $50 rent.
This disfranchises not only laborers, but
small tradesmen, the curate or clergy
man, the school-teacher, the dissenting
minister, and almost everybody but own
ers of farms and the wealthier profess
sional class, who altogether constitute a
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