The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-09-27
General News summary.

l IA NEWS SUMMARY
- Potatoes are so plenty in Kansas as
TO be hardly worth marketing.
y Owning aud tilling the soil. how
euer humble the plot or limited the can.
itai, Is the aim and pridiu of all classes In
Western Europe.
= The grounda surrounding the war
monument at Berlin are to be paved yith
stones from the several ba.tie-fields of
the Franco -Prussian war.
Won Moltke says that It is not vet
possible to form any Just estimate of the
true value of the German army, because
1t has not been!beaten yet.
= A colossal statue Of the late Andrew
johnson is to be set up us q monument
to his memory near his old Tennessee
home. Itis of white marble, aud is be.
ing carved in Philadelphia.
= The Court Circular says that many
american bellies, who have married
french noblemen, have lived to repent
their act, as they are never cordially re-
celved by the French aristocracy.
The removal of the Southern Bap-
tist theological Seminary from Green
vile, 8: O., to Louisville, KY, was efec-
1ed during the summer. The Baptist, of
Kontutay have offered 5000, 600 to endow
it. About sixty students have alreadv
entered.
The editor of the New Orleans
Democrat asserts that "the present bat
ties of Pleyna are of yast.importance To
the civilized world" And vet a great
Georgia statesman does not even "keep
up" with the war in Europe and cares no
moro about 1t than dog fight.
= Gen. Joe Johnston is credited with
the statement that both sides were great
l!y demoralized after the first Bull Run
battle. and that he now believes it would
have been better for the South if tho
North had won that battle, for in that
event the war would have probably ended
there.
- Until lately it was not uncommon
for the excited and delighted Cubans to
throw doubloons in place Of flowers to @
favorite actress or danseuse, upon the
stage. Miss Adelaide Phillips was thus
greeted at the Tacon Theatre on GER
tain OCCASION; 80 were Lola Monies and
Jennie Lind.
= The Presbyterian Church in Ireland
has 8 synods, SO presbyteries, $50 congre-
CATIONS, 639 ministers, 78,445 families,
and 1O7 1852 communicates. The susten- .
tation fund amounts to $4,000; the
total ministerial income for the past year
was $4,000. The average salary Of the
ministers was 1870.
- The Grand Duke Nicholas allows
no pilfering by the troops under his COM
mand. Any offender detected is tried by
court-martial and shot. So strictly is
the order obeyed that Gen. Zotoff him
self had to do without chickens for some
daye because the Bulgarians refused to
sell him fowl for his private table. :
- A machine has been invented in
New York, mounted on wagon wheels,
which is intended for use on farms in the
west. 1t deluges the ground behind it
with smoke from burning chips and hrim-
stone, ana hoid5 tic smoke do9n long
enough to sufTocate every potato bug.
locust and other insect that comes within
its influence.
= Senator Dawes, Of Massachusetts,, is
represented to express approval of the
PresidentS Southern policy, and to saw
that if it fails the Republican party
ought to take care that the country shall
see that 1t fails because the Southern
States are not prepared for such treat
ment. Guess the Senator need not fear
On Siia; ground.
The Russian Birzhevuiya Vedomosti
calculates in recent issue that the war
will by the autumn have cost Russia not
less than s5OOOO,OO0 roubles, of which
$4,000, 600 are already gone "a rouble is
about eighty csnts.) It's expenses will
almost necessarily keep Russia quiet for
a good many yearo, circumstance
which, having regard TO tne Cazrewitzs
known dislike of Germany and Germans,
may not be without satisfaction to Bis
marck, among Others.
- AT the final interview between
Howard and Joseph, before the latter
took the war path, Howard gave the Nee
Perce the ultimatum of going upon the
reservation, as his land was wanted; and
when Joseph, protesting that his tribe
had ever been friendly with the whites,
and had kept the peace in its ancestral
valleys, declared that he would not &c
upon the reservation, Howard replied
that the Great father in Washington
"had soldiers enough to force him on"
Thereupon, it is said, the Indian an
swered: white man says what is not
80; white chief tells lies" It was q
shocking thing to say to the fraudulent
Christian soldier; but Joseph must now
begin to think 1T was just about true,
that there are not enough soldiers to
drive him on 20 the reservation.
"A New York letter of Saturday says:
.'The merchants generally testify to sat
isfactory business this week. AS hereto
fore noted, tho unaesAonably warm
weather has been n drawback to some
| lines that deal in winter goods. but apart
from that, there is no Complaint. To-
day there was steady movement in
nearly all makes of fall fabrics. Cottons
were in moderate request; prints quiet
in first hands, but active with job6ere.
spragne'a prints are reduced to SIX cents.
Ginghams and dreas goods are in better
request, as likewise mems woollens. In
hides and leather, boots and shoes, tobac-
co and iron trades, there is a decidedly
improved feeling. The last mentioned
cannot, indeed, be said to bs much moro
active than has been, but merchants are
much more confident of the future than
| they have been for aomo time. and that
is something."
| GLASS AND ITs PHENoMENA.-The
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