The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-13
All Sorts Of Paragraphs.

If man waits too long for some-
thing to turn up, it will be his toes.
- The Ohio River, which is mile
wide at Louisville, KY, in ordinary
stages of water, is now reduced to the
width of stone throw, and is in fact but
little more than succession of great
puddles. Where the river usually
stretches out broad and rough, nothing
but bare white rock is to be seen, and the
novelty of the thing is so great that the
people of Louisville throng the empty
river bed seeking for shells or pretty
stones, or simply to enjoy the unprece-
dented spectacle, and on one day lately
it was estimated that 1O, 900 persons were
rambling over the dry bottom of the once
mighty stream.
: Gen. Grant is reported by an Inter-
Ocean reporter to have given the follow
ing opinions of public men: Of Thur.
man there is no hope; he is dead and
deserved political death. Of Tilden:
ooh! I guess he will be nominated,
wont he?" Of Bayard: ~ always liked
Bayard, not because I think him man
of extraordinary ability, but because I
think him true man." Of Garfield:
"He is an able statesman" Of Han
cock: "He would be stronger man than
Tilden, but (laugbing) poor Hancock
would be sssailed by the Catholics for
hanging the sainted Mrs. Surratt, when
he was really no more responsible for it
than you were."
- With the proceeds Of subscription,
monument has been recently erected at
Middle Tiger Church, in Spartanburg
County, to the memory of Miss Francis
Woodward, who was murdered on the 5th
of June last, by John j. Moore, for
which crime Moore was lynched in the
vicinity of the place where he had COM
mitted the deed. The monument is of
Italian marble, and stands six feet high
on base of native granite. The in
scription is cut on raised shield facing
the East, and is as follows: ''In memory
of Frances Woodward, born June 90,
1859. Died defending her virtue, June
5, 1879. She loved her church, and
proved her fidelity in the sacrifice Of her
life. Gently, stranger, softly tread, for
Christian sleeps below. She is not dead,
but sleepeth in the arms of Jesus" An
address was delivered on the occasion of
unwilling the monument, by Rev. A. G.
Durham.
= 1t looks as if Dakota would be the
thirty-ninth State. 1t received sudden
setback in 1878, from the postponement
of the Northern Pacific project, but it
shortly recovered, and its growth has
since been rapid. In 1870 its population
was about $4,000. Now it is estimated
at 100000, and its people think it will be
100000 by 1880. This will clearly enti-
tie it to admission unless the Territory is
divided, question which will be much
discussed. Dakota is just three times as
large as New York, which would seem to
make it rather too colossal for convenient
management. The Missouri River is q
natural division north aud south, having
Bismarck or Yaukton for the capital Of
the eastern State, and the western with
the political and business centre of the
Black Hill mining region. If division
is decreed, however, lin which case the
eastern half might be named "Pembina,")
admission to the Union would have to
be delayed. 1t is asserted that three
quarters of the soil of Dakota is unsur-
passed on the slope for wheat-growing,
and there are six lines of railroad now
being pushed across these lands from
east to west.
Secretary of the Treasury Sherman
addressed large Republican meeting at
Paterson, N. j., Saturday evening, many
of his hearers being silk weavers. He
claimed that the prosperity of the silk
manufacturing industry at Paterson
was due to the protective tariff passed
by Republican Congress, and attribu.
ted to the same party the merits of
the resumption act. Continuing, MIR.
Sherman said: 81 want to serve notice
on the Democratic party that the Repub-
licsn party have resolved on two things.
We are going to secure to every lawful
voter in this country the right to vote
one ballot in United States elections and
no more. When member of Congress
or officer of the National Government is
to be elected Congress has power to reg
ulate such elections, and the Repub-
can party intend, if the present law is
not strong enough, to make it still stron-
ger. In Southern States that right is
turned over to the very men who depriv-
ed the people of their rights by fraud
and violence. We intend to right that
wrong, so help us, Almighty God" Mr..
Sherman concluded by prophesying bril-
liant victories for the Republican party
in the coming elections.
- The newspapers of San Francisco
gave way to little temporary delirium
over Mining Millionaire Sharon's recep-
ton of Gen. Grant. The Post had re-
port of the affair that was nineteen COL
umns long. OfSharon's mansion it says:
"Between $4,000 and $4,000 was ex-
pended in this entertainment. The Bel
mont mansion, palatial as it was before,
was made more so for the occasion. New
wings were added for wine and supper
rooms. Fresco artists made pillars and cor
inces beautiful. To perfect the ventila-
ton of the art gallery, fancy apertures
were made in the ceiling, and through
out the several rooms, that which was
not beautiful before was made so, and
that which was beautiful was made
more 80. The wine room, which
was located in the lobby of the
bowling alley, and embraced an apart:
ment 27x40 feet size, elegantly decorated
with cypress barnches and geranium
leaves, with shields and pampas plumes,
was presided over by Edwin Fay, whose
delicious punch was unanimously prais-
ed. This wine room was referred to with
suspicious frequency in the report, and
it probably had something to do with the
magniloquence of the language"