The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-10-04
General News Summary.

So This is the policy of the LOUISVILLE
+. Courier.Journal:: "As long as tbeF ,si-
dent does his duty we shall fling ou ap
for him, taking care, meanwhile, to ote
the Democratic ticket"
- The owners of the Mammoth Cave
now search visitors, to be sure that no
instruments are taken in by which the
bearings of the cavity can be ascegtained.
They fear that an entrance may ne made
on somebody else's land, and tht profit
of the cave be thus divided.
hs- Advices from Ohio are that the
managers of both parties are directing
their attention more to the carrying the
Legislature than to the gubernatorial
canvass. The question as to whcm shall
be United States Senator is thought OF
much more importance than who shall
be Governor. -.
Ex-Governor Chamberlain made a
speech at Postdam, New York, the 9th
er day, before an agricultural society.
Among other things he said that, how
ever much he might differ from the Ad-
ministration on other points, he heartily
endorsed its efforts to reform the civil
service, which he believed should be en-
tirely divorced from politics.
|, -Therei is a daily increase of tndica-
tions that the administration is very
doubtful of success in Ohio. Gresyenor
spoke very despondingly of Republican
prospects, and said it seemed impossible
to get any enthusiasm into the canvass.
Contrary In the usual custom of Cabinet
officers, Secretary Sherman says ne In
tends to 20 home to vote, which indi-
Gates his belief that the Republicans
will need every vote they can get:
The naval officer in the Philadel-
phia custom-house is a frank individual.
He told the investigating commission
that he considered his presence and Pc
sition superfuous, but thought that ln-
asmuch as the place and salary are pro-
vided for by law, he might as well fllthe
place and draw the salary as any one"
Accordingly he devoted himself to pa
tient attendance at his Office one day IN
each week, and drew his salary with con-
scientious regularity; and, as his Office
was probably given to him as seward
for political service, he doubtless b:lleved
that he had done his whole duty in the
premises.
IA practical use for the telephone,
better than the mutilation of "Tha Last
Rose of Summer" or "Home, Sweet
Home" has been discovered BY. Dr.. Fos-
ter, government inspector of mines in
England DR.: Foster sent q telephone
down the ventilating shaft of the Eliza
Mine, at st. Austell, Cornwall, the in
strument having been attached to 2 Gov
cred copper wire, and in less than fifteen
minutes persons speaking at the bottom
ofjthe mine were distinctly audible on
the surface. The telephone will super
sede the inefficient cord signals hitherto
used as q means of communication from
the interior of deep mines to the glround
above. kz
Jennie June says that money 1s not
so often the reason why young women
marry elderly men as people imagine.
She SAYS that the young man of to-'1ay is
not the desirable husband that the Young
man of fifty years ago was; he is not so
thoughtful, sober, painstaking and con-
scientious; !; he lives at q club, has no love
| of home life nor desire to busld up
character and reputation as a man and
citizen; his ideas of life are bounded by
the theatre and the doings of ,his little
set and in too many cases his ambition
is to own a racer and be on Intimate
terms with the ballet. Naturally moth
ers Shrink from entrusting their s'augn-
ters to such youths as these, even it they
have the opportunity, and are better
pleased to bestow them on older men
men who have sown their wild oats; who
know how little of real value thers is in
the temporary excitement of pleasure;
who have, perhaps, been married once,
and have learned to value home and the
guarantees it affords for permanent hap
piness."
= Mr.. Richard A. Proctor, after citing
score of predictions oflthe discovery of
the Marian moons, from the tasne OF
Galileo, to whom Kepler said, 81 please
myself with the thought that you will
discover two moons attending on alars,"
down to Arbuthnot, nevertheless comes
to the conclusion that the recent dis
covery of the moons is altogether new.
But only the most fortunate of egtrono-
mers are likely to see them, and only for
brief periods at long intervals. Now
that they are 'svisible" there are not ten
telescopes in the world which can show
them. They will be lost to view after
October, even in the Washington re-
tractor, the largest yet mounted. They.
may be visible again during a few weeks
in autumn, 1879; but after that it is
probable that no telescope will show them
until 1892. There was a bare possibility
that in 1845 they night have beeta de-
tected had diligent search been slade;
but up to that date men had not opened
their telescope eyes sufficiently TO see
these tiny orbs.