The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-07-12
General News Summary.

OOhSAo 10 A'CUo hSN"AN
- Plus TX has again positively stated
for the benefit of the busybodies and
ncwsmongcrs that he will not leave
Rome unless compelled by violence to do
so.
= The Mollie Maguircs in Pennsylva-
MIA are not suppressed by the hanging of
eleven of their numbering associates last
week. Two more men have been MUIR
dered, and others who were witnesses
against the executed Mollies have myste.
riously disappeared, and, it is feared,
have become the victims of vengeance.
Other witnesses against them have fled
in fear of like fate.
- Buenos Ayres, South America, has
Just had one of the most disastrous rain
storms in the history of that country, the
water falling almost continuous for sew
eral weeks. The pampas were flooded,
and the losses of cattle, horses and sheep
can only be estimated by hundreds of
thousands or millions of head. The ar
rivals of interior products at the cities
has greatly fallen off, and nearly all the
wool in the market is sold.
- The Crystal Palace, London, will in
all probability be turned into college
for technical education. The city guilds
have taken up the project, and the mer;;
GERS, drapers, fishmongers, goldsmiths and
clothworkers have each promised the
sum of $4,000 annually. The armorers
and braziers have promised G525, and
the plasterers G52 los. each per annum
The projectors confidently hope that an
endowment of s50,000 per annum will
be forthcoming for the technical educa'
tion of youth.
Our County Auditor has furnished
us with the following interesting state
ment in regard to our taxes in the past
and the present: Taxable property in
the county in 1876 amounted to ST.
III, ,12O. The State tax on this was S19,
54S.32; county tax on same was $685.
4S; total tax, s26, 6,546.S0. The property
of the county in 1851 amounts to 81,
TAI, ,104. State tax on this foots up Sl2,
| 2S7.72; county tax on same is S., ,223.G
total tax, S17, ,411.03. Difference between
the Chamberlain government in favor o
the Hampton government is $9,135.H
Comment is unnecessary. The above
figures speak for themselves.-Reoyc
| Courier.
During the past six weeks, Senate
Ransom, of North Carolina, has been ap
pealing to the President and Secretary o
the Treasury for an amnesty for all hi
people charged with violating the inter
nal revenue laws. 1t is said he has con
cluded an arrangement with the Interna
Revenue Department, by which all case
in North Carolina can be compromised
with the government, under certain re
strictions. The terms are understood tt
be satisfactory to General Leach, Johl
N. Staples and Thomas B. Keogh, wh'
are attorneys for the whisky and tobacco
| men of North Carolina. The terms vii
be made known as soon as the formal ar
rangements are completed with the at
| torneys.
| The Iowa State Republican Conven
tion on Wednesday presents the anoma'
ly in our political history of the first con
| vention of the administration party unde
rev president refusing by three
fourths vote to indorse his policy, ane
greeting every reference to it with pro
tests and Kisses. The hope of the part!
managers to have the family quarrel set
tied behind the scenes, and everything
kept quiet on the stage, proved delusiye
and the president was snubbed in the
most offensive way. The State which
gave him the largest majority of any ii
the Union thus rebukes him for living
up to the very platform on which i
helped elect him. The facts that most O
the managing politicians of Iowa arr
either members or retainers of the Unior
Pacific railroad ring and followers o
Blaine-like james F. Wilson, Genera
Dodge and Senator Allison-and that th'
displaced and defunct Gov. Packard o
Louisiana was present at the convention
will help to account the carnab bmind fol
these untoward results for the Republi
can nortv