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

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4 = According to Senator Dawes, tbs
II Republican party is so sick that it muht
either change its medicine or buy o
I coffin. aee
! - Miles G. Parker, ex-state Treasurer
Of South Carolina under the carpet-b bag
administration, is now manager of q
metal house in New York. His aualifi.
cation probably was familiarity with
brass.
| ~ Gov. Robinson, OF New York. nav
safely be set down as tho champion vetoer
of the century. He refused his signature
to no less than so of the bills passed by
tue recent Legislature, and will very
likely treat good share OF the hundred
or more left on his hands at adjourn
ment in .he Same way. asa ssi,s
- The Robert e. Lee Monumental
Association, of New Orleans, has sue
4 ceeded in obtaining funds nearly ruff.
clent to erect n monument in that city to
the memory of that illustriors general.
IL is proposed to erect the monument in
Iiyoi Circle, which is the centre Of tho
city, and the most prominent and con-
| spicuous place.
- Miss Hadlock, of Newport, W.,
met in the street man who had circuIa-
ted derogatory stories about her. She
| III.
First, she took pepper from pocket and
threw it in his eyes. Secondly, she took
a rawhido sao.n her hustle aud struck
him several times with it. Thirdly, she
took a rotten egg from q hand bag and
smashed it in his face. III
-. The Philadelphia Times says: "Gov.
| Wade Hampton is expected to visit
Auburn, N. Y, on the 10th of this
month, to. attend reunion of the Shields
Guards of that city, q military organiza-
tion named after General Shields, who
| commanded the New York Volunteers
and the South Carolina Faiihettoes in
the Mexican war; and who was an inti-
mate friend of Gov. Hampton's father"
| - They used TO talk about Grants in.
numerable kinfolks-the Dents, the Ca
seyss, the Kramers, the Corbins, and the
so-forths," said disappointed Kentucky
office.seelger 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 70 Col
| orado. New England is by far too small
| and too inconsidersble place for o. irlan
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 Cor
the .nonce the political warpath. It
would not, however, be astonishing to sec
the gentle Ben 3. turn upiv Washington
The Indianapolis Sentinel, sneering
at Grants European reception, says
"The living present knows that Grant
consorted with thieves, that he was the
defender and supporte: Of conspirators.
that ne girdled the Louisiana Returning
Board scoundFels witlrr bayonets, while
the perjurede crew was plotting frauds
with which to reverse the will of the
American people. The Atlaptic ocean,
were its waters soapsnds, could not in q
| thousand centuries wash out the stains
from Grants record. His friends should
| let him rest and rust.n s..isa,, S,.l
| The Mormons double once in six
years. They now number 100000. They
have thirty incorporated cities, three
million dollars worth of irrigating ca-
nails, 368 school houses. IL newspapers,
missionaries in every nation in the N orld,
10000 militia, 6 cotton and wyoolen fac
tories, 500 miles Of railroads, teIegraphs
all over the Territory, anG temples built
and being built enough for all their peo-
Ele TO worship in. Beaides, missionaries !.
send them 5000 enaigrants every. year,
and their elders baptize many hundred
native Indians and receive them into the
Mormon church. ..;:,..4.l.tay,s yga I.p!s,si.
h - Whittemore, ex-cadet peddler, and
larcenous earpet-bag legiaiator of South
i Carolina, mas marched without irnpedi-
ment into the bowels Of Massachusetts,,
,gnd Massachusetts,. feelslverys sick.l But I,
Massachusetts; ought not to, be discour-s
aged. She got rid of Whittemore once
ling, by making him chaplain of regi- 4
,mens ,duringl the wanglWhy not ordain
| him nov; ass missionary, and let him
steal awhile away to Kemper County, or
any ether place where o good article of /
preaching Is needed, and where there
isn'tnmnch lying around that he could !
pick up IN. = Tribune. ,.+s ~
II = The first big gun has just been cast
as the South Boston Foundry, s.ws.ve-
inch rifle gun, being the first one made
for the government of tiie United States.
The weight of this piece of ordinances
when rfinisked will bo Iabout, 10000
pounds, and II Will carry; a projectile
weighing about gee pounds. The ordi-
nary charge of powder in firing it will
be from ITO to ieO pounds. with eghiell. ].
tgS phOJSStttO HiOHSO' a Va
| iron from twelve to- fifteen inches thick,
| mt q distance of 1000 yards. The gun
! will be made of cast iron, isned with d.
wrought iron cored tube, and when. fn-li
iahed will be sent TO the proving gtound,
at Sandy Hook, to be tested, and If found
| to be; satisfactory, win be mounted in
lone of the Qualifications In New York
lsharkts. Gen. Benet, Chief 0f the! Bu- 3
reau Of Ordnance; Col. Brispin, the
| ordnance constructor, and other pcfni-
nent ordnance officers, will witness the
casting on Wednesday. This gun will
be made on a system which has been
/ thoroughly tested in this country on guns
| Of smaller calibre, which havelbseu found
] to equal any gun made abroad Tho
| work upon it was commenced nearly n
year ago, and the greatest care has been
taken to select proper metal to be used
in its construction. sae4 sE,ssiSesat
= Tho. English. countgynan cannot
vote for member Of Parliament unless
his rent is taxed at e12 a year, which
practically means that he inuAt occupy d
house worth SIG year, or $50 rent.
This disf.anehisesnot only laborers, but
small tradesmen, the cprate or clergy
man, the schooi-teachsr, the dissenting
minister, and almost evesy ybody bnt own
Iers OF farms and the vFeaIthisf pfofea-
sional class, who altogether constitute 8
very small part of the E,ugIish rural nom