The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-09-27
General News Summary.
Potatoes are so plenty in Kansas as

General News Summary.
- Potatoes are so plenty in Kansas as
to be hardly worth marketing.
Owning and tilling the soil, how.
euer humble the plot or limited the cap
ital, is the aim and pride of all classes in
Western Europe.
= The grounds surrounding the war
monument at Berlin are to be paved with
stones from the several battle-felds of
the Franco Prussian war
Won Moltke says that it is not yet
possible to form any just estimate of the
true value of the German army, becau'
it has not been!beaten yet.
- "A colossal statue of the late AndrI n
Johnson is to be set up as monument
to his memory near his old Tennessee
home. It-is of white marble, and is be.
ing carved in Philadelphia.
= The Court Circular says that many
American bellies, who have married
French noblemen, have lived to repent
their act, as they are never cordially re-
ceived by the French ariseocracy.
= The removal of the Southern Bap-
tist Theological Seminary from Green
vile, S. c., to Louisville, Ky, was effec-
ted during the summer. The Baptist, of
Kentucky have offered $500, 900 to endow
it. About sixty students haye already
entered.
= The editor of the New Orleans
Democrat asserts that "the present bat
ties of Plevna are of vast<importance to
the civilized world" And yet great
Georgia statesman does not even "keep
up" with the war in Europe and cares no
more about it than dog fight.
Gen. Joe Johnston is credited with
the statement that both sides were great
ly demoralized after the frst Bull Run
battle, and that he now believes it would
have been better for the South if the
North had won that battle, for in that
event the war would have probably ended,
there.
= Until lately it was not uncommon
for the excited and delighted Cubans TO
throw doubloons in place Of flowers to a
favorite actress or danseuse, upon the
stage. Miss Adelaide Phillips was thus
greeted at the Tacon Theatre on q GER
tain OCCASION; so were Lola Monies and
Jennie Lind.
The Presbyterian Church in Ireland
has synods, 36 presbyteries, 559 congre-
cations, 639 ministers, 78,445 families,
and 107,262 communicate. The susten-
tation fund amounts to $4,000; the
total ministerial income for The past year
was $4,000. The average salary Of the
ministers was 1870.
The Grand Duke Nicholas allows
no pilfering by the troops under his COM
mand. Any offender detected is tried by
court-martial and shot. So strictly is
the order obeyed that Gen. ZotoA him
self had to do without chickens for some
days because the Bulgarians refused to
sell him fowl for his private table. :
"A machine has been invented in
New York, mounted on wagon wheels,
which is intended for use on farms in the
West. It deluges the ground behind it
with smoke from burning chips and brim-
stone, and holds the smoke, down long
enough to sufocate every potato bug,
locust and other insect that comes within
it's influence.
- Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts,, is
represented to express approval of the
Presidents Southern policy, and to say
that if it fails the Republican party
ought to take care that the country shall
see that it fails because the Southern
States are not prepared for such treat
ment. Guess the Senator need not fear
on that ground.
The Russian Birzhevuiys Vedomosti
calculates in recent issue that the war
will by the autumn have cost Russia not
less than $4,000, 900 roubles, of which
232,000,000.ar already gone IA rouble is
about eighty cents. Its expenses will
almost necessarily keep Russia quiet for
good many years, circumstance
which, having regard to the Cazrewitz's
known dislike Of Germany and Germans,
may not be without satisfaction to Bis
marck, among others.
AT the final interview between
Howard and Joseph, before the latter
took, the war path, Howard gave the Nez
Perce the ultimatum of going upon the
reservation, as his land was wanted; and
when Joseph, protesting that his tribe
had ever been friendly with the whites,
and had kept the peace in its ancestral
valleys, declared that he would not go
upon the reservation, Howard replied
that the Great father in Washington
chad soldiers enough to force him on"
Thereupon, it is said, the Indian an
| swered: "White man says what is not
So; white chief tells lies" It was a
shocking thing to say to the fraudulent
Christian soldier; but Joseph 2aust now
begin to think it was just shout true,
that there are not enough soldiers to
drive him on to the reservation.
Anew York letter ofSaturday says:
''The merchants generally testify to sat-
isfactory business this week. As hereto
fore noted, the unseasonably warm
weather has been a drawback to some
lines that deal in winter goods, but apart
from that, there is no complaint. To-
day there was q steady movement In
nearly all makes of fall fabrics. Cottons
we're in moderate request; prints quiet
in first hands, but active with jobbers.
Sprague's prints are reduced to six cents.
Ginghams and dress goods az in better
request, as likewise mems W lens. In
hides and leather, boots and ,es, tobac:
CO and iron trades, there is decidedly
improved feeling. The last saentioned
cannot, indeed, be said to be much more
active than has been, but merchants are
much more confident of the future than
they have been for some time, and that
| is something"
GLASS AND IT'S PHENoMENA.-The
elasticity of glass exceeds that of almost
all other bodies. If two glass balls are
made to strike each other at given force,
the recoil, by virtue of their elasticity,