The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-28
General News Summary.

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at Washington, has ordered his agents tt
distribute 1000 among tie poor mer
and women recently thrown out of chi
ploymcnt by the reduction in the depart
ments.
- Stillwcll, the man who could not Sc
an office because his wife was Mrs
Hayes favoritc cousin, has got the office
for another man and got the other mar
to appoint him Il deputy. Nepotism has
not, in years, received so severe a check
- There is 4 shade of suspicion that
John Sherman didn't imbibe the doc
trines of civil-servicc reform with his ear.
ly picty, and that if he can spare an hour
before breakfast these summer mornings
he would do we'll to run around to Carl
Schurz and take an easy lesson or two.
David A. Wells told the President
the other day that 10 per cent of the la
borcrs of the country were out of employ
ment, and that, "unlcss the administra-
ton shall soon manage to bring about a
different state of things, nearly everybody
would go into the opposition"
- Diaz has been recognized as consti-
tutional President of Mexico by Germany.
Diaz is satisfied with the instruction of
our government to Gen. Ord to pursue
maraudcrs into Mexican territory if nee
cssary, and will send a military force to
the Rio Grandc with a discreet officer to
act in harmony with Ord.
= The Louisville CoWicr-Jourmal is
endcavoring to persuade the North to
look after its own criminals, and speaks
particularly of the Republican State of
Pennsylvania, asserting that "thc number
of murders in one year in the single State
of Pennsylvania is greater than the entire
number of murders in the Southern States
during the same period"
- Mr.. Samuel l.. Clemens has once
more explained where he got the name
of Mark Twain. He says it was the
non de plume of Captain Isaiah Sellers,
who used to write river news over it for
the New Orleans PicayNnc. "Hc died
in 1868, and as he could no longer need
that signature, 1 laid violent hands upon
it without asking permission of the pro-
prictor's remains"
- Postmaster General Key, who is
"still Democrat" is understood to re-
turn from his Southern TRIP with the pos
tai commission convinced that there is
no danger of division in his party, or
likelihood of any whig revival. AS a
Democrat, this discovery must rejoice
Mr.. Keys heart; as pillar of the ad-
ministration, he cannot very properly
make merry over it.
- Mrs. A. T. Stewart, the widow of
the millionaire merchant of New York,
has made princely gift to the Episcopal
Church of Long Island. 1t is to take the
form of cathedral church (now build
ingj at Garden City, Long Island, a see
house and chapter house, and a suitable
endowment for permanent maintenance.
The buildings, when completed according
10 the plans now agreed upon, will be
worth aboutSl 100000.
Ex-Governor Bullock Of Georgia,
who left that State with very unsavory
reputation, returned few days since to
stand trial on some charges of railroad
swindling, but, though his counsel
(among whom is Ben Hil) pressed for
immediate action, the case was postponed
till August, and there are hints that
prominent Democrats are so much mixed
up in the business that they don't want
it thoroughly exposed.
Boss Tweed is discouraged and dis
gustcd, and says the other and equal
thieves are getting off easier than he is,
and that it isn't fair show anyhow.
The Attorney General of the State returns
him his confession, and refuses his re-
lease, wanting apparently fuller con-
fcssion. But Tweed now proposes to
confess judgment in all the cases and
suits brought against him, and take his
chances for the punishment.
: 1t looks after all as if President
Hayes did not purpose spending much
more of his summers in Washington than
did Gen. Grant. His trip to New Eng.
land will occupy week or more, and
after that he has promised to make trip
South. Then he expects to put in con-
siderable time at the Greenbrier White
Sulphur Springs. 1t is expected, by the
way, that there will during this summer
be a large congregation of prominent
politicians of both parties at the White
Sulphur, who will combine pleasure with
the concoction of political schemes and
combinations.
- The ground of the Supreme Court
on the eight-hour law is that such re-
strictions on the freedom of contract must
not be interpreted to cover more than the
language admits of, and that the lam
guage Of the act of 1865 does not require
that days wages shall be paid for eight
hours work, and does not limit the right
Of employer and cmployc to agree upon
a longer day. Where the laborer con-
tinucd to work more hours day and &C.
ccptcd the pay for it without protest, the
court holds that the contract between
him and his employer was not at variance
with the law and was completely full
filled.
- For most of the time since the vigil
ance committee revolution, over 20 years
ago, San Francisco municipal politics
have been under the lead of a citizens
committee, sometimes sclf-appointed, but
often pcrpetuating itself for years, and
always independent of national or State
politics. Lately this habit has been
broken down and party politics has come
into the city government with no good
affects; but now 1000 business men and
firms have united in call for the revival
of the peoples party, to take possession
of the municipal government, and ii
seems to be certain that the old order
will be restored.
- Senator Anthony wants New York
divided into two States. He thinks that
$50 great population is entitled to q
larger representation in the Senate =
The Senator is very generous, says tho
New York SIN, but there is something ol
the Trojan horse about his generosity
The Republicans, of whom Senator An
thony is an obscrvant leader, know thai
they cannot carry the next Presidential
election as the States now stand, and they
would like to carve another Republican
State out of Democratic New York. Blu
New York will remain as it is, the lead
ing State of the Union in brains, wealtl
and population.