The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-09-13
General News Summary.

- The Grand Encampment of knights
Templar, at Cleveland, adjourned to
meet next in Chicago.
Alvin Adams, founder of the Adams
Express Company, died in Boston yester.
day, aged seventy.three.
= The suspensions of newspapers in
the United States during August were
thirty-two, comprising four dailies, twen-
ty.seven weeklies, and one monthly.
Gen. o. 0. Howard is to be present.
ed with costly diamond ring rs q re-
ward for his Indian achievements. He
will wear it in his nose.
The Paper Trade journal announces
that the commissioner of.patents has ex-
tended for seven years more the Henry
Voelter patent for reducing wood to
paper pulp. It also states that the
patentees will raise the price Of such
pulp to three and half.
= The latest and most distinguished
convert to the Presidential policies is
Vice. President Wheeler. he has Just
discovered, or at least sufficiently Giscov-
cred to say so, that he believes in the
President and his works. Fall in, gem
tlemen It is better late than neveg-foY
yourselves.
= The Cuba business gets On in Seith-
er direction. Mere troops from ispain,
| another change in the captain general.
ship, Joveilar going home in September,
and the revolutionists as troublesome as
ever. It does seem ss if it was about
time for Spain to do one thing or the
other, crush the rebellion, compromise
with it, or abandon the island.
The Londoners who met Gov. 1glden
seem to have been good deal impressed
with his freshness and mental vigor.
One of the gossiping weekly papers there
fancies that our Republicans "who fatter
themselves that be is played out will
have fresh cause by and by to respect the
fighting powers of the most formidable
political antagonist they have snssoun-
tered in many years"
The reports from India grow worse
week by week. The latest estimate makes
the victims of the famine already half q
million, and puts the probable loS of
life before it is over at the enormous ag-
gregate of. four millions, or one of ,six.in
the population affected. This total is
double that of the terrible Persian faEline
of 1871, which has been accounted the
greatest of modern times.
| = The long current story that Presi-
dent Grant offered the chief justieeship
to Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, is con-
frmed by the ex-Presideat, only re.ison
for his non-acceptance. being that the
then Democratic Legislature would
choose Democrat to succeed him. The
country has reason to congratulate ihself
THAT Wisconsin elected q Democratic
Legislature that particular year.
Gen. Grant is back in England from
the continent, and has gone up to Scot
land, making visits at the country homes
there of distinguished people. There is
a disposition among the working-meH Of
England to demonstrate in his honor, but
probably he will contrive to avoid any
marked expressions of this sort Trey
would be regarded over there as OF a
political (Republican) or labor chasac-
ter. 80 I. ...s. 49,
= Senator Edmunds hasn't got 30 far
along as was reported. He is In q mild
state of mourning still, because PresiGsnt
Hayes is breaking up the party machine
with his civil-se. nice reform order. BE
says the order will simply destroy for the
time being every practical work in the
Republican party, and, while he thinks
/ it is founded in correct motives, he ste-
lieves it is not advantageous to the public
interest. ALI this is sad-for Edmunds-
and unworthy Of him, tool
= Hitherto the rush and jam about
the polls has been such as to deter n1asly
of the women voters of Cheyenne, Wyo-
ming, from exercising their privilege, but
NOW a separate voting place in hotel
reading has been set apart for their
exclusive use, and two lady judges of
elections appointed to superintend the
boxes. There hasn't been any woman in
the Legislature yet, and the Cheyenne
Sun rersuasively remarks: Don't Ae
bashfnl, ladies, but come to the fronts
assert your rights"
"A bridge of the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific railroad over ToEl-
mile creek, near Des Moines, Iowa, has-
ling been carried off by food, q passer-
ltger train ran into the stream on Wednes-
day morning and made q terrible wrecE.
Eighteen persons are known to have bean
Ikilled, possibly many more, while 9 large
number are wounded. a part of this
train was Barnum's show, and six OF. his
men at least have been killed. Among
the persons killed was Mr.. Bolt, apromi-
nent citizen Of Boone, Iowa.
Judge Field Of the United States
Court should have said less or mora
when interviewed lately by San FraN.
cisco paper as to the truth of the news.
paper story that Judge Bradley had 'ls
one time decided to vote for giving tkss
Florida electors to Tilden. He said
Judge Bradley never "read' to him arg.
opinion or paper to that effect, with sucil
refusal to say SAY suS anything more, @ as I to indi-
cate very clearly that he could say, if he
would, that Judge Bradley told him that
| he had decided so to vote.
| - The sTnrkishS oovernment has for