The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-09-20
General News Summary.

- Jennie June, the well-knoyu CORE.
spondent and fashion writer, Ia seriougjv
i'll at her residence in New York.
| "A Kentucky newspaper says that
en- investigation of the records of the
State shows that not single man or wo-
man withih It's borders has been legally
married.
- 1t is stated that Gen. Bob. Toomba
will be o candidate for the United States
Senate to succeed Gordon, and that with
this end in view he will apply to the
next Congress for a removal OF his d;sa-
bilities.
= The New York Tribune thinls that
II Patterson ever made the famous re.
mark, attributed to him year or SO ago.
that "there are FIVE years more of rood
stealing in South Caroline yet" he has
probably revised it now.
Hr: James Gordon Bennett is de.
scribed by q London correspondent "a
looking. exceedingly we'll, as driving
about that city after beautiful black
horse. aid as inundated with invitations
70 balls and garden parties by the nobili-
ty and gentry.
just before leaving Boston for Eu-
rope, Professor Graham Bell, of tele.
phone fame, married the daughter of
Gardiner G. Hubbard, deaf mute. He
had SO carefully instructed her that she
wedding service. -0
London. Thirty-nine churches now cell
ebrates daily communion. against eleye,
last year; $40 have surp?iced choir
against ia; 35 have eucharistic vest.
mente, against II; 80 display candles on
the altar, and since 1867 the use of in
cense. has been extended from three
churches to sixteen.
The Pope preserves his high spirits
unabated. On reading in the Repub-
lique Franchise that he has been dead
Tor several years and is personated by q
priest, his Holiness burst into q fit of
laughter, and ordered o subscription to
DO taken in his name to the paper for five
years. eve shall see who lasts the
iongestW ne said, "and how It will vex
them to put the Pope's address on the
wrappers I"
= The Queens maids of honors are all
granddaughters of peers, who are not be-
low the rank of Earl, that being sine
2na non of eligibility for the position.
They receive $4,000 q year, and if they
marry the Queen presents them with
$4,000 Each is on duty about two
months in the year. Since the Prince
Consort's death they bave had dread
fully dull time of it. Many of these
ladies have remained until past 80, by
which time they have probably become
old maids of honor.
Joyce and Mcdonald, the releayod
st. Louis whiskey thieves, for the devcl-
opment of whose crimes Secretary Bris-
TOW was driven from Grants Cabinet, are
not yet beyond the reach of the lazy.
One of them has an indictment pending
against him for destroying important off,
Gle! records, end there ere n!enty nf
charges that can be brought against the
other. The value of prosecuting them
still farther lies in their capacity to give
valuable information about their corrupt
allies who have thus far escaped detec-
tion.
= The jubilee offerings to the Pope
amounted in round numbers to 90, ,256,-
OOc, half of which was in gold, while the
remainder was in paper. He will rive
$850,000 to charitable institutions, and
will divide $2,400,000 into three equal
portions of 100000. One of these will
be added to the funds Of the Holy Chair;
another will be apportioned among off.
cers, servants, retainers and friends who
have been faithful to the Vatican. and
the third will be appropriated to the re-
storation of ecclesiastical monuments
and to the execution Of works of utility.
= Tho Car receives much Of the
blame for the recent Russian reyerses.
and il is said that his presence With the
army operates unfavorably upon the
plans of the commanding officers and the
movements of the troops. He exercised
unnecessarily more or less influence and
authority, without shouidering any re-
eponsibility, and thus weakened the decis-
ION and energy OF his generals. The
presence Of Nicholas at the front in
1928 proved equally unfortunate for the
Same reasons. The Gear is said to have
left Bulgaria ct the earnest request of the
Grand Duke.
- The next triennial session of the
General Convention of the EPISCOPAL
Church will be held OF Boston, beginning
October Sd, and continuing about three
| weeks. Between $50 and 400 delegates
will be present. and the House of Bishors
will hold their meetings in ttiii5 tho chaps. oe
Trinity Church, and the House of iCieri-
cal and Lay Deputies in Emannal
Church. The opening and closing SER
vices will be held in Trinity Church.
Among the important topics 20 come up
for consideration are the proposal 10
change the name Protestant Episcopal
Church" to something else, and methods
for simplifying and facilitating mission
ary work.
A r:eeting Of mechanics and labor
eTs, in favor OF establishing colony of
Marylanders in Florida, was held in Bal
timore the other evening. The president
| of the meeting stated that he had corre-
sponded with the Governor Of Florida in
relation to emigration to that State. and
had received reply from. Governor
| Drew stating that his letters had been re-
ferred TO the Commissioner of Land and
Immigrafion, and that while Florida
held out no special inducements to emil
grants, they could purchase forty acres
of land for $40. A resolution was
adopted TO name the association Of col
onists "The Florida-M Maryland Associa-
tion of Baltimore City,"