The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-07-12
General News Summary.

= Plus TX hes again positively stated
newsmongcrs that he will not leave
Rome unless compelled by yiolence to do
go.
= Tho Mollie Maguircs in Pennsylva-
mia are not suppressed by the hanging of
eleven of their numbering associates last
week. Tvo more men have been mur-
dercd, and others who were witnesses
against the executed Mollics have mystic
riously disappeared, and, it is feared,
have become the victims of vengeance.
Other witnesses against them have fed
in fear of like fate.
= Buenos Ayres, South America, has
just had one of the most disastrous rain
storms in the history Of that country, the
water falling almost continuous for sew
eral weeks. The pampas were flooded,
and the losses of cattle, horses and she .p
can only be estimated by hundreds ol
thousands c- millions of head. The ar
rivals Of interior products at the cities
has greatly fallen off, and nearly all iile
wool in the market is sold
= The Crystal Palace, London, will in
all probability be turned into college
for technical education. The city guilds
have taken up the project, and the mcr.
GERS, drapcrs, fishmongcrs, goldsmiths and
clotiworkers have each promised the
sum of $4,000 annually. The armorcrs
and braziers have promised f525, and
the plasterers E62 los. each per annum
Tke projectors confidently hope that an
endowment of f50,000 per annum will
be forthcoming for the technical cduca.
ton Of youth.
Our County Auditor has furnished
us with the following interesting state
ment in regard to our taxes in the past
and the present: Taxable property in
the county in 1876 amounted to 81 ;.
TT ,120. The State tax on this was $40
5i8.32; county tax on same was Sc $685.
48; total tax, $26, ,54680. The property
of the county in 1857 amounts to 81 )
TAI ,104. State tax on this foots up $l2,-
28772; county tax on same il s., ,223.31
total tax, SIT ,411.03. Difference between
the Chamberlain government in favor OF
the Hampton government IS $9,135.77.
Comment is Unnecessary. The above
figures speak for themselves. Kco,cec
Courier.
- During the past six weeks, Senator
Ransom, Of North Carolina, has been APP
pcaing to the President and Secretary of
the Treasury for an amnesty for all his
people charged with violating the inter-
nal revenue laws. 1t is said he has con-
cludcd an arrangement with the Internal
Revenue Department, by which all cases
in North Carolina can be compromised
with the government, under certain re-
strictions. The terms are understood to
be satisfactory to General Leach, John
N. Staples and Thomas B. Keogh, who
are attorneys for the whisky and tobacco
men of North Carolina. The terms will
be made known as soon as the formal ar
rangements are completed with the at.
torneys.
The Iowa State Republican Conven-
tion on Wednesday presents the anoma-
ly in our political history of the first con-
vention of tho administration party under
q Few president refusing by three
fourths vote to indorse his policy. and
greeting every reference to it with pro.
tests and misses. The hope of the party
managers to have the family quarrel set
tied behind the scenes, and everything
kept quiet on the stage, proved dclusive,
and the president was snubbed in the
most offensive way. The State which
gave him the largest majority of any in
the Union thus rebukes him for living
up to the very platform on which Il
helped eject him. The facts that most OF
the managing politicians of Iowa are
either members or retainers of the Union
Pacific railroad ring and followers of
Blaine-like james T. Wilson, General
Dodge and Senator Allison-and that the
displaced and defunct Gov. Packard OF
Louisiana was present ut the convention,
will help to account the carnab bmind for
these untoward results for the Republi-
can pnrty