The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-10-11
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General News Summary.

General News Summary.
North Carolina has paid for fertili-
zers within the past twelve months
;$3, ,000, 900, and Georgiae$2, ,000,000
| According to the Cleveland Pain.
dealer, STANLEY Matthews, is Senator
l. without &lparty and 8 politician without
hopeY - .9Go ga: f!7Jf rT9i 8 RI
" Two. bands, of Methodist .colored
folks have, within. few days, laid in
Baltimore corner stones for new church
edifces.aiqH- Ut, go: ~ ~ .a,t iat
- West Virginia has between eight
and ten millions OF, acres, of forests, the
timber E in, which h is valued at 100000
as it stands 80 - .'' '''.
1.-The clerk of the House of Repre-
sentatives states that the Democratic ma.
iority, according to. the certificates now
in, will be eleven. !; ,,..-,,,.....ft...
T. There are In. the United States and
Canada eight hundred Y. NJ. G. Associaa;-
tions, with membership of 100, 1000, and
owning property to the~extent of $780,
600, 900. -. .,eit.s,.n,i,e,q ,.s5.f.. r.
- Texas has 1,750,000 people; and
Louisiana only about, $1,000. When
the war ended Louisiana was the more
populous State of the two. Three years
from now Texas expects to have twenty
Tie S New Y York II Commercial t,ae,, Adver.
tiser, Republican, says::"aEven the most
prejudiced bloody sshirtist must admit
that the annual crop of negro shootings
is remarkably e. backward in south Carof-I
ma this season.,
= -2Jddgg Kelley gives III as his opinion
thatltheItesamptioh act cannot be, will
not be and .ought,not.to.be be enforced. He
thinks that about the. first act of Con-
gress will be, either to, repeal it or extend
the time to an indefinite day, which will
be about the same thing. inyi':.ai ,.,;d
= Russia has, in the last six months,
exported wheat to the value, of over $13,-,
100000, against wheat to the, value Of
$4,000, 900 for the corresponding period
last year. So, in spite of the war, she
has had food enough for her own people
and q handsome surplus for outside ma
itions.
F7T-The New Orleans Pt;cay,snes. gives ei,
warning that there are certain measures
of vital importance to the South which
Southern Congressmen~intend to press
this winter with all their. energy, and it
instances the Southern Pacific rail ronte,
the leveeing of the Mississippi, and the
Improvement Of Southern harbors and
riYers.c sa!l odY .i:i3InlI :" sdn'not 'tei'
q I'M. Thiers'!only child-a daughter
died many years ago, and the, children of
his wife's nephew, Gen. Charlemagne,
will inherit the large fortune of the
statesman: Nine. Thiers brought her
husband a.. handsome i dover; libut Nj.
Theirs had already become enriched by.
his literary works and newspaper ven
lures before he married, and for the last
forty years Of his life he kept house in
the. st9le,o g grand Iseigneur. q9e.i ~
The Havana (Cuba) papers publish
/ particulars of the discovery Of. what are
alleged to Be the remains Of e Columbus
in San DomingohnW While they do not
idenyIthat it is possible that the remains
may be those Of the great discoyerer, they
consider it to be, highly, improbable.
According to historical statements; the
remains of Columbus were taken from
|'Spain toiSaa, Domingoin. 1886, and from
San Domingo to Havana jig, 1875 and in
tered in, the cathedralU t,s.,'zr.- II,
ID W-Te4as has three. Thousand prisoners
awaiting frial, for penitentiary oHences,
and the Calvert 7sran, considering the
question what to, do with them, ,seriously
suggests that they be organized into q
military corps and turned. u! loose on MeIi- N
co. OF course, if this were done, Tesas
would care very, little whether they Killed
or were killed, and as either result would
be gratifying to eyerybody ~ concerned, ex-
cept the ,Mexicans and the conyicts, it is
a wonder the idea leafs is not @ made mad. something
= There will undoubtedly be an at
tempt made. at the next; session of Con-
gress to repeal the tenure of Office law
and to restore to the Executive ihe
RGgss Of gsE8a9sB a Rasy fHf ssal as
ment in favor of this repeal now will be
the existence of the law is an obstacle to
civil service reform, and that the Presi-
dent in order to reform radically the pub
lie service; should have what the consti
tuition gives b him, the power Of permanent rg a'nn
In THE Chicago Inter- Ocean having a.
dressed a-cireular letter to various MEM
bers of Congress, asking them TO indicate
their position on the subject Of remonet-
izing silver, has received replies from
1877 ,Ofthese, 1S1Eare in favor Of repeal.
| ing the;law ofi,IS73, and restoring the
silver dollar to its old place in coinage; |;
15 in favor of remonetizing, with condi-
tons; IS oppose remonetizing;; 81 are.
These answers represent every State, and
Include 81 senators and 1865 representa-
ItiYes. iOf The latter .s113 advocate, the
measure and IS Oppose T. .'.' mr.; - ~,
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