The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-07-05
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'nVn W po BtcaIy pflzeQ Dy smokers,
are created by the spSinkiing Of acids.
a disease has broken ont among the
fish in Bound lake, =. x, and hundreds
on the shores, and are being buried by
the neighboring farmers. Itis 4thouriit
that the fish arc killed by poison esceD.
ing into an inlet of,the lake front msi,.
ufactory Of potato-bug poison situated
on its banks. HREi sFis ~,
- The British House Of Lords has
voted this week that, where the friends
OF deceased person object 20 the churcl,
of England service. they may dispense
NTH 1t Or substitute another seyyice. even
though the DECEASED is buried in church.
yard. This is not only against che GOV.
ernment but greatly shocks the Estab-
iished clergy, and they will psoia0ly
unite in keeping the question ott of Par
liament altogether at present.
The report of the capture Of Aca-
puleo, Mexico, by Alvarez is confirmed,
put ut last accounts the supporters Of
Dlaz, the present President, were making
q fight for Its recovery, dropping shells
into the town from gunboats. The
American merchants have placed their
books and vf,.slaDis papers in the house
OF the American consul. Gen. Jiminez.
Diaz governor OF Acapulco, was killed In
resisting the attack of Alvarez. L
The surmise that many of the per-
SONS run over by railroad Trims have
been previously murdered is usuai,y not
susceptible of proof. An engineer ON
the Louisville and Chicago Railroad,
however, applied the breaks SO promptly
that the body he saw ahead on the tract,
was not struck. 1t was found that the
man had been robbed, almost killed, and
then placed where q train would be likely
70 ooiiterate all evidence Of the crime.
Oh last Thursday eleven men we're
hanged In the mining districts Of Penn
syiyania Tor murders committed by them
at different times. These men all be-
longed to powerful secret organization.
to the members of which the pame az
Molly Maguires is commonly apriied.
Their crimes wero with difficulty ferreted
out, but now that SO many of them have
been brought to justice, the order has
lost much of its terrorism for the people
of Pennsylvania. u .gs 81
- New Orleans rumors about Mexico:
That important movements on the Mexi-
can border looking to the acquisition of
territory which are winkcd at BY tho
authorities at Washington are in nro-
gress that Texas cattle raisers are s6nd-
ing to Washington their claims for dam
ages by Mexican cattle.raiaers the past
ten years; that the Southern tier of Mex.
ican States will secede from the Diaz
government anu establish I4ario as their
ruler.
A yieU, Gus temperance campaign
during the SIMMER ie planned In south
I ern New York sid northern Pennsylva.
min. Murphy himself has promised to
spend fortnight there, and later in the
season proposes to tackle the metropolis.
Eimira, N. Y, has been swept by the
movement, 1000 having signed the
pledge, almost entirely Americans and
Protestants. I'd the Qathnlio alerggeefs:sr.
discourage participation in it.. and the
Germans of course can't give up their
lager. Murphy and his followers expect.
the greatest temperance revival ever seen
IN this country next fali- and w:nter. '4.s
gold sssket in which tho free.
DOM OF the city of London yG, presented
to Gen. Grant has on the diverse central
panel v:aw .: Ehs s..;,.;S;; a. :; ;Ssi,i,ip~
ton, and on the right and left are the
monogram and arms of the lord MAYOR.
On the reverse side is a view of she en-
trance to Guiidhall and appropriate in
scriptions. At the ends are two figures.
also in gold and finely modelled and
chased, representing the city of Lontlon
and The United States, and bearing their,
respective shields, the latter executed in,
rich enamel. At the corners are double
columns of laurel wreathed witli'Sorn and
cotton, and on the cover O. -e6ynucopin
emblematicai of the fertility and prnaner-
ity fthe United States. Tho rose, sham
rock and thistle are also introduced.
The cover is surtiiounted by the arms of
tie city of London, The casket "a ys,,n-
ported by American eagles modelled and
chased in gold. Tho whole stands ON a
velvet plinth decorated with stars and
stripes. sa3i ss.9I'@l - ,S;sS
- In a recent lecture in Edinburgh on
"The Stars" Professor Grant said that a.
railway train, travelling day and night
fifty miles per hour, would reach the
moon in elk months, Che sun Id two Eun.
dred years; and alpha Centanris, the
nesTeat of the fixed stare, ia forty.two
iaiilious OF years a cannon ball, travel
ling nine hundred miles per hour, in
2,70O,0Oe years and light, travelling
!e5. .oee miles pei, second, In three years.
Light from some Of the telcsccpici stars
takes b,7Go years to reach the earth;
!;es.. others 600 900 years. These stars.
therefore, may have become extinct thou
sands Of years ago, though their ligih:
comes to our Syes. Alpha Tjyra is I6O.-
000, 600, GOO of miles from us, and lis /
magnitude and splendor are as 20 to 4 +.
compared with our sun. The sun ia
neither greater nor smaller Than most of
the stars. y ssiie sliss1ss '.S'f l8tsffy99sFe
= Sham fghtstare plenty enohgIr TO
train amateur soldiers, and are constantz
" resortsT 20 in European countries to
instruct their armies Ciffrfnnr fiff,aa ne