The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-09
General News Summary.

UcheFsA news Summary.
- The Chief of the Cherokees. Dela.
wares and Seninoles, are all members oe
Baptist churches. In two cases the
Chiefs arc pastors.
= A case Of poisoning is ..uortet NJ
Upton, Monitor county, Mo, in which
six persons were given poison in milk
while eating breakfast.
= Mocking birds are getting 30 scarce
in Virginia that law has been pnssed
prohibiting their capture for sale for the
next six years. 'o
:, This is the season for gathering va
nilla in Putnam County, Florida. and the
woods arc full of people engaged i1 that
occupation. 1t is worth S. per ion
pounds in Palatka.
- Nearly all the American officers in
the Egyptian service are now on their
way home, because of the Khediye's
friendship for Turkey in tho war. the
Americans not caring to fight for a Mo-
hammedan power against Christian
power.
= The last loan Of the Turks, Ms stated
on "the most reliable authority" was of
two millions Of money from somo lurre
house in Paris deeply interested in Turk
ish securities This loan was on the se.
curity of diamonds and other Jewels, the
property of the late Sultan.
The Iowa Greenbackers, at their re-
cent convention, denounced national
banks rs q curse to the country, and ono
speaker went so far :is to declare that the
people would be justifiablc in rising en-
nldsse and destroying them. They tbon
nominated national banker for Cover
nor. le,
= Suicides have been terribly freo,,ent
in New York. From June LIST 10 the end
of the first week in Jusy no less than
sixty-three people have attempted In
make way with themselves, and of this
number thirty.eight were successful.
Drowning was the most popular method
of suicide. '
Since the decision of the court of
appeals that none but hotel keepers in
Aew York can sell spirituous liquors,
there has been rush to get into the
hotel business Thus far 1,1OO applica-
tions have been made, and each appli.
cant has three beds-some of them on
the roof and some in the cellar.
The Seventh National Conference
c1 3ennSS Mans Christian Association.
in Scotland was held July 10, at Edin-
burg. The union embraces 100 societies,
with q membership exceeding 10000.
Gentlemen representing the American
associations were present from New
York, Brooklyn; and Columbia, s, G.
- The colorcd Republicans Of Talla-
lasscc, Florida, held meeting few
aays ago aud adopted an address. fully,
recognizing that o political revolution
has taken place, and one of the results
! they hope will be the obliteration of race
issues in politics. The meeting indorsed
the course of President Hayes.
| - The value of the crops, as given
by the Agricultural Bureau in its report
:oT. last Jear, wss in round numbers
1856, 400, 900 of corn, $342, 900, 600 OF hay.
$204, $780, 600 of wheat, $272,900, 600 Of
cotton, ard $l29, 9,500,000 of oats. Pota-
toes are down for value Of S65 ,000,O 600, 1
tobacco $30,OO0,0O0. and barley $780,
95O,00O. 'F
= The Georgia Constitutional Conyen-
tion has adopted a bill of rights, which
recognizes all races Of citizens and .
pledges NIL protection in their rights of
citizenship. Imprisonment for debt and !.
whipping for crime are prohibited The
bill declares that the right Of changing
the constitution or form Of government
Is the sole and inherent right OF the peo. u.
pie of the State.
a farmerlivinga at Llmington, Iiaine,
named III. Gould, after picking q lot of
potato bugs from his vines the other day,
went in TO supper and ate freely of bread
and milk, crumbling up the bread with
unwashed hands. It is supposed some of
the poisoned juice of the bugs got into
the bowl, as he died before tho next
morning. r.H
| - The coal regions threaten to DO
the theatre of lawlessness and blood
shed long after the railroad strike has
come to an end. In all sections Of Penn
sylvania there is bad spirit in the mir,
and riotous proceedings have already
taken place at many points. Those in
the vicinity of Plymouth have been
Especially outrageous, and call for tho
|eternest measures of repression. sf'
= There is charge against General
Scott for contingent expenses amounting
to 81 ,l29, which has been on the books
of the government since 1916. The Sec
rotary of War has just been advised by
Z! the Auditor that it might do no harm to
cancel the iteie,, seeing that the General
is dead and metz er was morally RESPONSE
BILE for it anyhow.
= The Calcutta Mchammedans have
published an appeal to their Indian fell
low-subjects of oil creed for help 10 tho
sick and wounded Turkish soldiers
Neither Christians nor Hindoos, however,
have as yet shown any signs Of respond
ing. On the other hand, the Mohamne-
dams OfSingapore have quietly subscribed
among themselves some $4,000 for re- {
flittHnoe 70 Cons.aH.;nopie e aid in the !,
war.
Some idea of the yastness of the
railroad strike may be obtained from q 5.
abatement of the number. ofnen employed !
| by the great trunk lines. The figures are
from trustworthy sources. The New York
| Central and Hudson River employs 49,
900 men the Lake Shore and Michigan 9
! Central, 10000; the Erie, 1880; the
Baltimore and Ohio, main and leased
lines, 10000, and the Pennsylvania, with
Its leaseholds, 27,50O.
= In that part Of the Black Forest
belonging to the grand duchy Of Baden, g
lies the pretty district of Koenigsfeld,
containing 4l0 inhabitants. During fifty
years there have been no crimes or mis-
demeanors of any sort-neither trans
gressions of the police regulations, nor
aheriff7s sales, nor illegitimate births, nor
divorces, nor lawsuits OF any aii.l.- iii
Moreover, in these last fifty years at
Koenigsfeld no one has ever got drunk
or stretched out hand TO beg.
= The king of Gaboon, the Oldest ma
tive prince on the African coast, died
about the beginning of May, at the ad-
yanced age Of 100 years, and was sue
ceeded by his eldest son, Andaunte, who
at once broke up his fathers harem and