The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-11-29
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON.
From Our Regulas Correspondent.

From Our Regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 1877.
Time has dissipated all hopes Of an
adjournment, and Congress has settled
down for long and tedious session.
The Military Signal Service, under its
chief, Gen. A. J. Myer, is growing more
and more important to every branch of
industry. One hundred and ffty-nine
signal stations have been kept up during
the year, furnishing daily reports of
coming storms for the benefit of agricul-
tural and commercial communities. One
thousand and ninety-fve synopsis and in
dication reports have been furnished to
the public and the press tri.daily, re-
quiring data to be telegraphed from 125
stations for each report, over 5000 miles
of wire, requiring but 80 minutes from
the transmittal of the storm indications
at each station to tabulate the data at
the main Office and give it to the public
and the daily press. Eighty-six per cent.
of all indications have proven correct.
Cautionary signals have been maintained
at Al sea and lake ports, of which 7S per
cent. have been verified. Six thousand
two hundred and sixty-four Farmers
Bulletins" or daily forecasts have beea
displayed in frames at as many different
post Offices in cities, towns and hamlets
for the benefit of all classes, announcing
in each locality the weather probabilities.
In every home "Old Prob's." indications
and forecasts are as much necessity and
convenience as clock.
Many evenings find party of friends
in the Red Room at the White House,
who drop in to make social call on the
President and Mrs. Hayes. These gath
eriugs are without formality, and are not
unlike social calls 80 common in our
American homes.
Fickle fortune plays strange freaks.
The balance of Gen. John @. Fremont's
estate was recently swept away by fire:
his library, furniture and pictures have
all been sold, and his heroic wife,
"Jessie," is earning living as con-
tributor to Harper's Magazine, her spare
time being devoted to her new book on
Foreign Travels" soon to be put in
press. Alexander Shepherd, familiarly
known as "Boss" Shepherd, reputed in
the past as being worth his million, in
whose home-elegant and palatial-the
bon ton of the Capital, the gay and the
cultivated, ever had entree, overtaken by
unforeseen disasters and driven into a
sea of financial embarrassment, has yiel-
ded to the storm, and the auctioneer's
hammer seals the change of ownership
of pictures rare and works of art from
the skilled hands of the old masters.
The President has declared his inten-
tions on the silver question, and will not
approve any measure that shall in the
least impair our national credit, or COM
pei the holders of government securities
to receive payment of either principal OF
interest in a currency less valuable than
gold.
Those who aid the government as con-
tributors to the revenue by the use OF
liquor or tobacco, must be gratifed at
the results of the business of last year
as shown by the report of the Commits.
sioner of Internal Revenue. Liquors
paid tax of $57, ,469, ,429.72 and tobacco
$4l, ,106 1852, the largest sum ever re.
allied from this source in any year.
The Democrats are highly elsted OF
the detection of Senators Patterson and
Connover in the Kellogg case, and the
Republicans pour obloquy on the head
of Senator Sharon for his absence from
his seat in this hour of peril to his party,
Threats of expulsion are freely made.
Messrs. Scudder and Bowditch, Of
Cambridge, Mass, under the auspices Of
the Hayden Surveying Expedition, in
exploring for fossils in Utah and Wyom-
ing, discovered "buggy locality.
Much time was spent in the region Of
the South Park, and more than 1000
insects and over 5000 plants have al.
ready been worked out of the territory
strata. These new discoveries will make
a most fruitful field of study for enthusi-
astic naturalists..
The Consular reports to the State De
partment from nearly every country show
large increase in the direct trade with
the United States. 1t is suggested that
our artisans and mechanics follow as fal
as possible the tastes of the people in the
character of manufactures intended fol-
sale in these various countries. The
Belgian Commissioner at the Centennial
has organized a company of European
capitalists for the purpose of manufac-
turing plate glass, the works to be loca-
ted near Pittsburg, Pa. FAX.