The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-30
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= All men are not homeless, but some
, y, .n ere home less than ntheru
What kind Of robbery Is not dan.
gerous? A safe robbery, Of course.
: A moral in the style of Seneca: 1t
is better to do the idlest thing in the
world than TO sit idle for half an hour.
~ am BUSY plowing, and cannot en-
tertain company" was the substance of a
note sent by Michigan belle in reply to
en- intimatt0n that gentlemau desired
TO see her.
= Whiskey is sold in Rome which will
enable blind man To see sea.serpent
200 feet long, in the middle Of twenty
acre lot of dry sand, and yet people com
plain OF dull times.
A medical journal gives the anti
dOtes to number of poisons, ard adds:
These remedies must be given before
| the doctor comes" By all means. Give
the patient at Least enc chance for his
life.
"My brains are cp fireW exclaimed
an excited lady TO her husband. "Well,
my dear" said the unfeeling man, taking
revolver from a drawer, "just hold
still moment, and l will blow them
outp
"What are you doing-kicking the
old clock all TO pieces?' exclaimed
Chicsgo wife. BLAMED if am going
to have anything around me that
strikes y yelled the man, as he gave it
final lift into the street.
Scene at seaside hotel Lean, lank
stranger-"Why, look here, you charge
me in my bill for counterpaEe. $3.50.
Why, the mosquitoes ate up that coun-
terrane. and Why should | be charged
with it?" Hotel keeper-"Of course
you should. IF you had been nice and
fat the mosquitoes would have tackled
you and let my co,lnterpane alone 7!
A buxOm looking woman entered
dry goods store not long since, and asked
the "gentlemanly" clerk to look at his
calicoes. "What prints will you look
att" inquired the clerk. II don't want
to look at no prince" said the young
lady. Il had rather see free-born
American citizen than all the foreign
princes you can bring out" The "gen-
tlemanly" clerk looked red in the face,
choked little, and apologetically asked
what kind Of calico he should show her.
The London Tines says that VIM.
Gale, an English pedestrian. recently at
Cardiff completed the extraordinary feat
of walking four thousand quarter miles
in consecutive ten minutes, commencing
each quarter mile at the commencement
Of every ten minutes. Although eyi-
IDENTIFY fatigued he walked the last quar-
ter Of Il mile but one in three minutes
and the last five minutes. Thousands of
| persons were present, and Gale was
loudly cheered at the close. Medical
men have examined him daily and re-
port that he has diminished q little in
weight. He is "backed" to perform the
same feat in London.
The new convention between Great
Britain and Ea. t for the suppression Of
the slave trade prohibits the export or
import of negro slaves. Egyptian slave
traders will be tried by court-martial as
assassins, end foreigners will be handed
over to their own tribunals. British
cruisers are authorized TO capture slavers
hosting the Egyptian flag. The khedive
engages TO abolish all private traffic in
slaves in Egypt within seven years, and
within IL years in S0udan and the from
tier provinces.
The reports of tie famine in India
grow worue every day, and are already
appalling. The loss of life is even now
estimated at half O million, and great ad-
ditions to the death list is only too GER
tain, while the Pestiienoe which almost
invariably follows in famine's track viii
doubtless largely swell the total. A pub
lie meeting at Madras appeals to private
charity In Great Britain for help, and the
government is at last, and with apparent
ly inexcusable delay, waking up to a re-
alization of the situation.
The Chinese merchants of San
Francisco are reported as suggesting to
o
all Chinese arriving in this country, to
of such or their countrymen as wish to
return. They also propose to get the
steamship companies to charge double
the passage-money toward America that
they do from it. If these men represent
the sO-called Chinese companies, they
! mean business, and will suspend the
Chinese immigration and eventually ship
home the whole Chinese population.
Senator Morton agreed to help this
scheme by introducing the requisite leg
ialetiUn in Congress.
= The "working.men's party" move
mont is developing rapidly. Meetings
were held in its interes. on Saturday at
Philadeiphia, Colup.1us and Cincinnati,
at each of which resolutions were passed
In favor of ergenis;;ss : se- party The
Cincinnati meeting went on to nominate
full State ticket, headed by L. H. Bond
Of that city 70. Governor, with Cleve-
land German for Lieutenant Governor,
and Cincinnati negro for school COM
H.iasleaes. The Republicans think, and
with apparent reason, that this move
mont viii hurt the Democrats mere than
them, and 60 counteract the damage done
by Judge Vests demagogical speech,
which has alarmed e good many conserv.
ative men of property, es we'll as the just
atarted anti-Hayes movement. The
leaders of this latter claim that it will
AXE $1,000 voters from the Republican
ticket, mostly in tho Western Reserve,
but, deaoFaliEed as the Ohio people ap.
pear to ybe, it eeems hardly possible that
an enSex-congFessional salary -gFabber and O
lot of disappointed ofiice.seekers can
muster 5000 nisn to but their heads
against the stone wall of events.
= The fight in the Virginia Demo.
cratic Convention last week was an in
teresting and important one, and the re-
suit is, on the whole, sn occasion for re-
joicing. The success of Malone on his
own platform of ayowed repudiat;on
would have been most discouraging,
while Col. Holiday gets che nomination
afe.r Letter in which ne declared Aatly
a:sinst repudiatiop, and gave notice that,
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