The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-09
General News Summary.


wares and Seminoles, are all members of
Baptist churches. In two cases the
Chiefs are pastors.
= A case of poisoning is reported at
Upton, Monitor county, Mo-, in which
six persons were given poison in milk
while eating breakfast.
- Mocking birds are getting so scarce
in Virginia that q law has been passed
prohibiting their capture for sale for the
next six years.
= This is the season for gathering va
nilla in Putnam County, Florida, and the
woods are full of people engaged in that
occupation It is.worth $5 per 100
pounds in Palatka.
| = Nearly all the American officers in
the Egyptian service are now on their
way home, because of the Khedive's
friendship for Turkey in the war, the
Americans not caring to fight for Mo-
hammedan power against Christian
power.
- The last loan of the Turks, as stated
on "the most reliable authority" was of
two millions of money from some large
house in Paris deeply interested in Turk
ish securities. This loan was on the Sc
curity of diamonds and other jewels, the
property Of the late Sultan.
= The Iowa Greenbackers, at their re-
cent convention, denounced national
banks as curse to the country, and one
speaker went so far az to declare that the
people would be justifable in rising en-
masse and destroying them. They then
nominated national banker for Cover
nor. sef wa. s.,.ia34s -
| Suicides have been terribly frequent
! in New York. From June 1st to the end
of the first week in Jueg no less than
sixty.three people have attempted to
make way with themselves, and of this
number thirty-eight were. successful.
Drowning was the most popular method
of suicide.
! - Since the decision of the court of
appeals that none but hotel keepers in
New York can sell-spirituous liquors,
there has been a, rush to get into the
hotel business. Thus far LOO applica-
tions have been made, and each appli.
cant has three beds-some of them on
the roof and some in the cellar. 81
The Seventh National Conference
of Young Mems Christian Associations
in Scotland was held July 10, at Edin-
burg. The union embraces 100 societies,
with membership exceeding 10000.
Gentlemen representing the American
associations were present from New
York, Brooklyn, and Columbia, s. G.
: The colored Republicans of Talla-
Ihassee, Florida, held meeting a few
days ago and adopted an address fully
recognizing that a political revolution
has taken place, and one Of the results
they hope will be the obliteration of race
issues in politics. The meeting Endorsed
1.-The course of President Hayes.
| - The value of the crops, as given
by the Agricultural Bureau in its report
for. last year, was in round numbers
$555, 400, 900 of corn, $S42, ,000, 600 of hay.
$2O4, 100000 of wheat, $272, $1,000 of
cotton, and $129, 1000 of oats. Pota-
toes are down for a value of $65, 900 900,
tobacco $9O,000,000, and barley $780,
e5O,O0O. ~
= The Georgia Constitutional Conven.
| tion has adopted q bill Of rights, which
recognizes all races of citizens and
pledges all protection in their. rights Of
citizenship. Imprisonment for debt and
whipping for crime are prohibited. The
bill declares that the right Of changing
the constitution or form Of government
is the sole and inherent right of the peo-.
lple of the State. go -.
"A farmer living at Limington, Maine,
named M. Gould, after picking lot of
potato bugs from his vines the other day,
went in to supper and ate freely Of bread
| and milk, crumbling up the bread with
unwashed hands. It is supposed some of
the poisoned juice of the bugs got into
the bowl, as he died before the next
morning.
The coal regions threaten to be
the theatre of lawlessness and. blood
shed long after the railroad strike has
come to an end. In all sections of Penn
sylvania there is a bad spirit in the air,
and riotous proceedings have already
taken place at many points. Those in
the vicinity of Plymouth have been
outrageous, and call for the
sternest measures of repression. - ~
There is a charge against General
Scott for contingent expenses amounting
to 81, ,129, which has been on the books
of the government since 1916. The Sec
retary Of War has just been advised by
the Auditor that it might do no harm to
cancel the item, seeing that the General
| is dead and never was morally response
bic for it anyhow.
The Calcutta Mohammedans have
published an appeal to their Indian fell
foSw-subiects of all creed for help to the
sick and wounded Turkish soldiers.
| Neither Christians nor Hindoos, however,
have as yet shown any signs Of respond
ing. On the other hand, the Mohamme-
dams of Singapore have quietly subscribed
among, themselves some $4,000 for re-
mittance to Constantinople to aid in the
war.
/ = Some idea of the vastness Of the
railroad strike may be obtained from .
statement of the number. 0fmen employed
BY the great trunk lines. The figures are
from trustworthy sources. The New York
Central and Hudson River employs To-
600 men the Lake Shore and Michigan
Central, 10000; the Erie, 1880; the
Baltimore and Ohio. main and leased
lines, $4,000, and the Pennsylvania, with
its leaseholds, 27,500.
= In that part Of the Black Forest
belonging to the grand duchy of Baden,
lies the pretty district of Koenigsfeld,
containing 40 inhabitants. During fifty
years there have been no crimes or mis-
demeanors of any sort-neither trans
gressions Of the police regulations, nor
sherif's sales, nor illegitimate births, nor
nor Or lawsuits tSssu s.e Of any :.
Koenigsfeld no one has ever got drunk
or stretched out a hand to beg.
The king of Gaboon, the Oldest ma
tive prince on the African coast, died
about the beginning of May, at the ad-
vanced age Of 100 years, and was sue
ceeded by his eldest son, Andaunte, who
at once broke up his fathers harem and
cashiered the women to the, number of
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