The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-07-10

has appeared in letter to the New
York Tribune with novel plan for doing
away with the. proposed Ship Canal
across the Isthmus of Darien. His plan
is to pick up a ship at Aspinwall and
haul it bodily across the Isthmus to PAN
anna. He proposes fve-track railway
with road-bed forty feet wide and an
immense truck with one thousand
wheels. He will run, this under the
loaded vessel as she lies in the dock and
secure the same thereunto. Then, with
dozen large-sized locomotives he will
walk off with it like a thing of beauty
at the rate of fifteen miles an hour,
though the average speed would not, Mr..
Eads thinks, be more than eight miles
an hour. The estimated cost of this
ship railway is only $50, 100000, or about
one-third of the cost of canal across
the Isthmus. Mr.. Eads thinks that he
could complete his railway in five years,
and thus give this generation the benefit
of his scheme if he could commence oper-
ations at once.
Senator Eaton, of Connecticut, geu-
orally strikes straight out from the shoul-
der. Here is what he said on the SUBJ
ject of keeping the peace at the polls by
military force: Gan army to keep the
peace at the polls! That is all that Ca
tharine wanted of old Suwarrow-noth.
ing else; and when the old Tartar sent
his messenger to his Imperial Highness,
Order reigns in Warsaw be kept the
peace. He kept the peace-and 100000
men, women and children were butchered.
Keep the peace at the polls,' says the
Senator from Minnesota; that is all we
require That is all Louis Napoleon
required. He kept the peace at the
polls when he was elected Emperor. 1
believe that there were about 100000
votes polled. and about 100000 were
for Louis Napoleon, because he was
keeping the peace at the polls with an
army. That is the entertainment to
which we are invited. None in mine.'"
Mexico is again about to be launched
upon the turbulent sea of revolution. A
letter received from Monterey, dated
June 11th, states that Negrete, Commau-
der in-chief of the Mexican Army, had
pronounced against Diaz with 5000 men.
Chief Justice Vallarta has assumed the
Presidential chair pro tenn, which Pres
ident Diaz abandoned to pursue Negrete.
In consequence of the excitement and
uneasiness Congress adjourned its session.
Another letter says Diaz has discharged
Generals Trevino and Inaranjo and ap-
pointed new men in the places of these
officers. They were chiefs in command
of the Northern Division. The revolu-
ton, it is thought, will be general
throug hout the country at once.
Mr.. R. NJ. Pulsifer of the Boston Her.
aid quotes the statement that the people of
the United States pay 100000 600 year
for spirituous and fermented liquors, and
only S95, 100000 for education, and S4S,-
100000 for religion. II had no idea we
were such athirsty people, he says "but I
have heard good deal of virtuous indig-
nation expressed because church prop
erty is exempted from taxation and some
of the States have come very near to
running themselves with expensive COM
mon schools. Suppose we should all
swear off for three years, and wipe out
the public debt.
"A Virginia paper tells of woman
who had q sick hen which she cut open
to satisfy a laudable curiosity. Upon |
making the dissection she found inside |
of her hen forty eggs, twenty-five of |
which were full size, and the other fif- |
teen of which ranged downward from
the size of a hickory nut. These were all
taken out, and the hen, after being sewed |
up, began to recover rapidly and is now
we'll and lively again.
= 1t has been ascertained by actual |
scientific survey that the surface of the
water at the mouth of st. Johns river,
Florida, is only three feet six inches
lower than it is $50 miles above. In
other words, the river has but an average
fall of less than a sixth of an inch to the |
mile. Another singular fact worthy of
is that it has a course
taking its many meanderings into ac-
between 300 or 400 miles, yet |
its source is not more than twelve miles
from the shores of the same ocean into
which it empties itself.
To ignore the warning of approaching
disease is neither cautious nor safe.
Prudence would suggest the immediate
use of good preventive remedy, such as
DR.. Bulls Baltimore Pills, which eradi-
cate at once all symptoms of bilious dis
eases.