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

- lhis ls the p0lley or the Louisville
Courier.Joarnal "Aslong as the Presi-
dent does his duty NO shall fling our cap
for him, taking care, meanwhile, to vote
the Democratic ticket"
- The owners Of the Mammoth Cave
now searcn visitors, TO be sure that no
instruments are taken in by which the
bearings of the cavity can be ascertained.
Ihey iieaT that an eIitfnucu pisy pe made
on somebody else's land, and the profit
Of tho cave he &hna divided.
s - 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 whom shall
be United States Senator is thought of
much more Importance than who shall
be Governor.
- Ex-Governor Chamberlain made
speech ut Postdam. New York, the 9TH
er day, before an agricultural society.
Among other things he said that, how
ever muot: he might differ from the Ad-
ministration on other points, ne heartily
endorsed ita efforts TO reform tie civil
service, which he believed should be en-
tirely divorced from politics.
- There is q daily increase Of indica-
doubtful Of success in Ohio. Grosyenor
prospects. and said It eaAnna6 in, nnsaihle
to get any antusiaena into The canvass.
Contrary to tee usual custom OF Cabinet
officers, Secretary Sherman says he in
tends to go home to vote, which indi-
Gates his belief that the Republicans
will need every vote they can get.
The naval rNS4rcap 81, fho Tt,sloIal-
phia custom-house is frank individual.
He told the investigating commission
that he "considored his pysssace and po-
sition superflnous, but thought that In
asmuci i5 the Piao5 and salary are pro-
yided for by law, he might rs we'll filI the
place and draw The saIpry 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 a reward
aT0T political service, he doubles believed
that he had done his whole duty in the
premises. t1'
- A practical use for the telephone,
better than the mutilRtion of eThe I lat
Rose of Summer" or "Homa. Sweet
Home" has been discovered by DR.. Fos-
ter, government inspector Of mines in
England. DIR. Foster sent o telephone
down the ventilating shaft Of the Eliza
Mine, at st. Austeli, Cornwall, the in
strnment having bean attached to COW
| cred copper Yirp, and in ie7a than fifteen
minutes persons speaking at the bottom
mine s,sra distinctly audible on
the surface. Ihe telephone viii super
sede the inefficient cord Signals hitherto
used as u means of communication from
the interior of deep mines to the ground
above. ,5.}s
- Jennie June says that money Is not
SO often the reason why young women
marry elderly men as people imagine,
She says that the young man Of to-day is
not the desirable husband that the your ]
man of fifty years ago was he is not SO
thoughtful, aober, painsfaking and con-
| scientious; he lives at club, has no love
Of home life nor desire to build Ip
character and reputation rs d 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
&c :. :es &. sud z =. J., vIi intimate
terms with the ballet. Naturally moth
ers shrink from entsusting theiT daugh-
ters to such youths 40 these, oven if they
have the opportunity, and Gre better
| pleased TO bestow then on olts6r mea-
men who have sown their Wild oats; who
know how little of real value there is in
the temporary excitement OF pleasure
| who have, perhaps. been married once,
| and have learned TO value home end the
guarantees it afords for permanent hap
pinessn
i - Mr. Richard A. Proctor. after citing
a score Of predictions Of 1.-THE discovery OF
the Martian moons, from tho time of
1 CALLED, TO gViaons Kepler stid, i please
mysaf with the thought that you will
| discover two moons attending on Mars %
down to Arhnthn0t, nevertheless comes
70 the conclusion that the recent dis
Sovefy Of the 7lo0ns Is altogether new.
But only, The most fortunate Of astrono-
nefs ara likely TO see them, and only for
| brief periods at long intervals. Now
| that they are visible there are not ten
teleacopas ia the world which can ShoW
them. They viii be lost to view sfter
/ October, even in the. Washington re-
| tractor, the largest yeE mounted. They
may be visible again during g few weeks
| in autumn, 1873; bat after that IL Is
probable shat no telescop willshow them
until 1892 There lzssz i, E.sara possibility
that in 1876 they might haye been de-
sected had diligent search been raado
but up to that date men had not opened
their telesccpic eyes sufficiently to SEQ