The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-07-05
General News Summary.

the little yellow marks upon certain
brands Of Havana cigars, which caused
them to be greatly priced by smokers,
are created by the sprinkling of acids.
"A disease has broken out among the
fish in Round lake, N. Y, and hundreds
of bass, pickerel, catfish, etc, are dying
on the shores, and are being buried by
the neighboring farmers. It is thought
that the fish are killed by poison escap-
ing into an inlet of the lake from man
ufactory Of potato-bug poison situated
on it's banks.
The British House of Lords has
voted this week that, where the friends
of a deceased person object to the church
of England service, they may dispense
with it or substitute another service, even
though the deceased is buried in church.
yard. This is not only against the gov
ernment but greatly shocks the Estab-
lished clergy, and they will probably
unite in keeping the question out OF Par.
lament altogether at present.
The report of the capture of Aca-
pulco, Mexico, by Alvarez is confirmed,
but at last accounts the supporters of
Diaz, the present President, were making
a fight for its recovery, dropping shells
into the town from gunboats. The
American merchants have placed their
books and valuable papers in the house
of the American consul. Gen. Jiminez,
Diaz governor of Acapulco, was killed in
resisting the attack of Alvarez.
The surmise that many of the per-
sons run over by railroad trains have
been previously murdered is usually not
susceptible of proof. An engineer on
the Louisville and Chicago Railroad,
however, applied the breaks so promptly
that the body he saw ahead on the track
was not struck. 1t was found that the
man had been robbed, almost killed, and
then placed where a train would be likely
10 obliterate all evidence of the crime.
On last Thursday eleven men were
hanged in the mining districts of Penn
sylvania for murders committed by them
at different times. These men all be-
longed to powerful secret organization,
to the members of which the name of
Molly Maguires is commonly applied.
Their crimes were with difficulty ferreted
out, but now that so many of them have
been brought to justice, the order has
lost much of its terrorism for the people
of Pennsylvania.
New Orleans rumors about Mexico:
That important movements on the Mexi-
can border looking to the acquisition of
territory which are winked at by the
authorities at Washington are in pro-
gress; that Texas cattle raisers are send
ing to Washington their claims for dam
ages by Mexican cattle.raiders the past
ten years that the Southern tier Of Mex
ican States will secede from the Diaz
government and establish Lerdo as their
ruler.
"A vigorous temperance campaign
during the summer is planned in south
ern New York and northern Pennsylva-
MIA. Murphy himself has promised to
spend fortnight there, and later; in the
season proposes to tackle the metropolis.
Elmira, N. Y, has been swept by the
movement, 1000 having signed the
pledge, almost entirely Americans and
Protestants, as the Catholic clergymen
discourage participation in it.. and the
Germans of course can't give uL their
lager. Murphy and his followers expect
the greatest temperance revival ever seen
in this country next fall and winter.
= The gold casket in which the free
dom of the city of London was presented
to Gen. Grant has on the diverse central
panel view of the capitol at Washing
ton, and on the right and left are the
monogram and arms Of the lord mayor.
| On the reverse side is view of the en-
trance to Guildhall and appropriate in
scriptions. At the ends are two figures,
also in gold and finely modelled and
chased, representing the city of London
and the United States and bearing their
respective shields, the latter executed in,
rich enamel. At the corners are double
columns of laurel wreathed with corn and
cotton, and on the cover a. Tcornucopia
emblematical of the fertility and prosper
ity of the United States. The rose, sham
rock and thistle are also introduced.
The cover is surmounted by the arms of
the city of London. The casket is sup
ported by American eagles modelled and
chased in gold. The whole stands on a
velvet plinth decorated with stars and
stripes.
In recent lecture in Edinburgh on
"The Stars" Professor Grant said that
railway train, travelling day and night
fifty miles per hour, would reach the
moon in six months, the sun in two hun
dred years; and Alpha Centauris, the
nearest of the fixed stars, in forty-two
millions of years cannon ball, travel
ling nine hundred miles per hour, in
100000 years; and light, travelling
1S5, 1000 miles per second, in three years.
Light from some of the telescope stars
takes $3.50 years to reach the earth;
from others 100000 years. These stars,
therefore, may have become extinct thou
sands Of years ago, though their light
comes to our eyes. Alpha Lyra is 1O0,-
G00,000,000 of miles from US, and its
magnitude and splendor are as 20 to l
compared with our. sun. The sun is
neither greater nor smaller than most of
the stars. 7ee ,
Sham fights are plenty enough to
train amateur soldiers, and are constant
ly resorted to in European countries to
instruct their armies during times of
peace in military mafeuvres. But the
first experiment of the kind for the pur-
pose of training an ambulance corps that
we recollect seeing mention Of is just
announced from Dresden. Detachments
Of troops from that garrison have been
sent out almost daily, deployed into the
formations used for attack, and ordered
to march against an imaginary enemy.
In the rear follow parties Of sick bearers,
and further in the rear are ambulances.
It is for the training of these sick bearers
that this drill is especially conducted, ard
as the lines of troops move forward Ger.
tain men are ordered to fall down as
though wounded, and are directed to pose
themselves in way to simulate various
wounds. Afterwards, when the attack
upon the enemy is supposed to be sue
cessfully executed, the field is searched
by the sick bearers, the wounded men
discovered, their wounds temporarily and
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