The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-30

1t is needless to say that the South ls
largely in the ascendancy where tribute
is to be paid to Lee.
General News Summary.
= The long struggle over the question
whether the Permanent exhibition ct
Philadelphia shall be opened on Sunday
is finally ended by decision in. the af-
frmative.
- The strikes in the coal-mining re-
gions of Pennsylvania are being compro-
missed, and majority of the mines are
now working. A portion of the federal
soldiers are still stationed at disputed
points among the mines and on the rail-
roads, but the rule is that order is re-
established and peace reigns.
SO far from being dangerously sick
with cancer in the stomach, Senator
David Davis protests that he was never
better in his life. Nobody seems to know
how the report of his illness got started,
but has given the Judge a chance to find
out what people think of him, most Of
the papers having concluded that his re-
ported disease presaged his early death,
and expressed their opinion of him as of
man whose career was over. He will
find the comments generally quite agree
able reading. .'-','- -
/ - The Canadians are good deal dis
turbed and somewhat surprised at their
prospects of getting little or nothing from
the arbitration on the fisheries question
between them and the United States, now
hearing the case at Halifax. They make
very great claims, indeed, but the United
States say the Canadians have really got
the best of the bargain, and give good
evidence of it, too, and as the arbiters
must be unanimous in giving damages to
Canada, the chance for heavy award is
not very cheering.
Whiskey-Thief Joyce at last gets
out of Jail, the United States district
court having decided against the legality
of the cumulative sentences" passed
upon him, and decreed his release, be-
cause he has already served out his SEN
tence on the single Judgment which could
be legally inflicted. His discharge was
conditioned upon his giving bail to an
swer an appeal which the district-attorney
took to the United States circuit court,
but there is no likelihood that he will
ever be sent back to Jail again.
- We infer that Secretary Schurz is
not helping Dom Piatt out onsshe quick
silver mine controversy from California,
for which he is an attorney. It pains
Dom to discover, at last that Schurz has
"no more principles than Artemus Wards
Snowman" There seems to be q general
agreement just now among the parlia-
mentary attorneys, which is the elegant
synonym for lobbyists, the. displaced
ofice-holders, the waiting ofice-seekers,
and the cid political warehouses who find
themselves, to their great astonishment,
or the outside of the government stables,
that Carl is bad man, and that: ne must
be put out of President Hayes admins
tration, if it is going to be "a popular
success"
= The action of the constitutional
convention in Georgia on the question OF
the debt is liable to misconstruction.
The convention simply ratifes and con-
firms previous acts of the Legislature
and of the people at the polls in repudi-
ating the so-called Bullock bonds,
amounting to some Sc, 900, 900, which
were tainted from the first, and which
were undoubtedly fraudulently issued
and misspent. The remaining debt OF
the State, amounting to some $10, ,OO0, 600,
was insured in behalf of railroads, and
is not an entirely unproductiye invest
ment, though largely so. The railroads
are being foreclosed-upon and sold to
meet this debt, and; ;iitI vii. undoubtedly
be paid in full from this and other
sources. The bonds of the recognized
debt are quoted at from 80 to 10S, accord
ing as they pay 6 or z per cent.
= Senator Morton has returned home
from his California and Oregon trip, and
the public is for the first time informed
that he suffered stroke of paralysis in
San Francisco Sunday week, which
threatened his life during the journey
back. II appears to be case of motor
paralysis. the left arm only being thus
far affected, but even this renders him
helpless, as he has only been able to walk
by the use of canes, while there is, OF,
course, the constant danger offurther and
more serious attacks. Even with the
indominable pluck of the Indiana Sena-
tor, it is hard to see how he can triumph
over this added disability, and it is prob
ably safe to regard his political career as
practically ended. It is the most fortu-
nate time for such an event, both to him
and the country; he could hardly expect
to secure a reelection, and the new era
upon which we are entering is one which
he has proved himself unable to even
comprehend.
Mr.. Blaine certainly managed his
State Convention in Maine with great
shrewdness. It was a success so far as
the immediate object he had in view was
concerned. He condemned and insulted
the administration under q thin pretense
of neutrality and harmony, and denied
! its friends and defenders either an oppor-
tunity for getting a vote or a chance for
boiling. It is something, however, to
see a voice raised against his leadership
in ariMaine Convention-eyen: if the
chief result was only anoNer exhibition
of his clever capacity for perverting and
suppressing it, But outside Of Maine, at
least, there will be no mistaking the plat
form of the convention. The thin gtise
of phrase only, makes iiis opposition to
Hayes and his policies the more signif-
cant and insulting !; and GOV. Connor
will not be able to make his fellow.re-
pubicans Of the nation understand that
he is running as anything butan anti
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