The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-27

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Bayard Taylor left his family so
poor that they can not pny the rent of
The house in Berlin in which thew are
living, nor have they money enough 10
bring them home.
- Imagine a mass OF ice mile wide
aud thirty miles long crushing along with
the power Of a thousand freight trains.
and you will have some idea of the break.
ing Of gorge on tho Ohio.
| Lord Bcaconsfieid comes from a long
ivci stock. Some pedigrecmonger has,
been looking upon his antecedcnts, and
has discovesed that his father Isaac Dis
raeli, lived TO be 80, and his grandfather
"Old Ben," after whom he was named, St.
= The population Of England's South
African colonies is 1900 600 blacks and
100000 whites. The Zulus have nm
army of $4,000 trained soldiers. Their
military system is a. rigid Us that Of Ger
many, and develops splendid fighting
qualities.
The son of colored barber in Phil.
adelphia has Gstonished the town by Sc
curing admission to tho white boys
Normal School through competitive
examination in which 1876 white boys
took part. Iio is the first Of his race so
distinguished.
= The Boston LdreyfiSer tells this nm
ecdote of the late Hon. George s. Hill.
lard: "Mr. Hillard was always depended
on to draw up resolutions on the death
ot member of the Bar. On one occa-
son friend found him thus employed
lie looked on with n sad smile and said !:
L wonder who will do this service for me
when am gomez? They cannot do bet
ter than 10 take some of your own reso
| lufiODa yyaa th.. ranl, .
| = One of the Paris papers publishes
tho following: "Therc arc Gascons in
America az everywhere else. One OF
J them recently said In the State Of Ohio
the cold is so intense in the winter that
this happened to mo: was attacked by
n robber. took out my pistol There
was powder in it. but no ball. / was in
spire, by lucky idea. spit in ttu
barrel and fired. The spittle froze on 80
way, and the malefhctor was shot deadp"
- The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
Ind. Rep.) says: "rhe most brazcp
piece of impudence in the recent history
of American politics is the acceptance bv
Algernon S. Badger, Postmaster of New
Jrieais, ei., Just o C,!.!!sc.or
at that port, of q position on the Repub-
lican Campaign Committee of Louisiana.
IN violation of the civil service order Of
President Hayes and in the face of tho
removal of Naval Officer Cornell, of New
York, Collector Simmons, of Boston, and
Others, for running with local political
IL achines."
= The glad tidings come back from a
missionary in far Burmah that more than
100000 tracts and 25,G00 Bibles have
been distributed among the heathen
there during the past year. And the
Sun Is led TO remark: meantime, al
though peace reigns in Brcathitt County.
Kentucky, and nineteen alleged muir.
dcrers are securely locked up in Jail, the
inhabitants of that benighted region are
still sadly in need both of schoolmasters
and missionaries; and Breathitt County
Is q good deal nearer than Burmah.b -
The home heather is never interesting.
The missionary field is green that's far
away.
= A correspondent of tho Savannah
News relates a.horrible story about Sem
ator Blaine, He says that some thirty
years ago Blaine was teaching school in
Kentucky, and was "a Fury Bourbon
Democrat" On one r,,asion Cassius
IA: Clay made himself n candidate for
office on an abolition platform and was
billed for speech at Frankfort. Young
j Blaine declared he would reply to him,
and q gentleman nov living loaned him
ten dollars TO pay his expenses History
doesn't say whether he anawered Clay OF
j not, but the party who loaned the money
gays he still has the plurned knightis
Epromisory note. As IL is Southern
claim there Is no use in carrying the
I case 70 CongEeas.