The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-10-09
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


Judge Mackey decides that trial
Justice Jury of six is not constitutional.
The new opera house at Greenvl!le
has just been completed. 1t is said to DO
very fine building.
- There is O rumor that Republican
paper is to bo stated i'll Charlotte, N. u,
soon, and that man from Wilmington
is to run it.
DIR. VIM. B. Rice has been elected
from Barnwell county to fill the unoN-
pired term of Hon. Henry Hartzog de-
ceased, in tho Legislature.
- a country postmaster in Georgia,
whose salary is but S45 per annum, was
compelled to disgorge 1926 as his share
of the Republican campaign fund.
- There is ono thing that Gen; Grant
deserves credit for. He knows how to
make speech that never bores his audi
tors with it's length and is never crowd
cd out of the papers for want of space.
Solon Chase, tho great Grconbacls
apostle of Maine, looks upon tho recent
election in that State as nothing much
for Blaine to brag of Tho Senator just
"saved himself form being buried un-
DER" and that was all.
Hon. John G. Presley, native OF
williamsburg county, has been elected
iudge of the Superior Court from Sonoma
county, CAL, his adopted home. Judge
Presley, of California, is q brother Of
Judge b. G. Presley, of this State.
The Wilmington, Columbia and Au-
custa Railroad was sold at auction in
Wilmington last week under decree of
the United States District Court, and was
purchased by committee representing
tho first mortgage bondholders, for Ss6o,-
500
- Michigan is priding herself on the
fact that she has never had case OF vel
low fever within her borders. Verify is
the claw of compensation" great. Nei-
ther has Memphis ever had case OF
Zach. Chandler within her borders
Courier Journal.
George William Curtis, editor of Har.
pcr's Weekly, advises Republicans to
scratch Cornell and support the balance
of tho ticket. This is an offset to John
Kelly, who wants Democrats to scratch
Robinson and vote for the rest OF the
nominees.
The building of the Marietta ga
Female College was burned on Monday
last. The fire was discovered at 3 o'clock
in the morning, but too late to extinguish
it. It was large two story brick build
ing and the property of city OF Marietta.
There was no insurance.
According to the Jacksonville Union,
the total debt of Florida Is, in round
numbers, only million and half dol
lars. She pays her interest promptly,
and without overburdening her people
with taxation, will redeem at maturity,
or before. every bond for which she IS re-
sponsible.
According to the Live Oak Dispatch
the orange crop of Florida for the season
of lS79-'SO promises to be from 10 to 20
per cent. larger than for the season OF
lS7Sl79. Willie some of the growers
may not produce so many, the fruit will
be larger, leaving the inference that the
increase is from new groves coming into
bearing.
Tile municipality of Paris offers
premium of 10000 francs for the best
mode of burning the bodies of the dead.
The preferred system is to become the
property of the city. In Milan, and sew
eral of the German towns, cremation is
tolerated by law, and is coming into fire.
quent use. The overcrowded cemeteries
in the environs of great cities are found
to be injurious to the public health.
Since the decision in tho great bond
case was rendered, the State Treasurer
has received one thousand and one let
ters (more or less) from bondholders, in
curing about the status Of their bonds.
AS that official, who has but one arm,
and his hard worked clerks have as
much as they can possibly attend to or
dinarily, it is hardly to be expected that
replies can be sent to these applicants for
information.
The Savannah News says: A curl
Gus discovery has been made in carry
ing on the excavation required for tho
water works. At the dopth of twenty
eight feet the workmen encountered an
extensive bed of oyster and clam shells
mixed with pieces of wood and charcoal,
showing evidently that the ancients were
as fond as the moderns of these delica-
cies, and that roasts of this description
were fashionable in the days of remote
antiquity. Truly, there is nothing new
under the sun.
The Washington Post boils the .eXo-
dus agitation down To this great truth:
"White labor has produced half the great
cotton Crop of Mississippi, and largo
percentage of that of other States, the
blacks are needed in the South, and it
will be for their interest to stay there.
But if Northern mischief makers lure
them away, their places can and will be
w uCIl any illdii VI SAf~oo "a IA AS'A
think they can't be spared, great mis-
take is generally made. There is no
place filled by any man that can't be re-
filled when he leaves it. Cotton will be
raised because it is necessary and
paving crop. If the negroes will not
produce it, others will do that work"
- General Sherman was once lawyer,
or tried to be. He got case in Kan
sas Court, the only one he ever tried in
his life. It was legal controversy about
a little bull, worth about Sl5. The law
and the facts were all on Sherman's side,
and he went in Court with large num-
ber of law books and long brief, pre-
pared with sleepless care and great dill
gence. A little spile-haired lawyer,
with a complexion like side-hill and
breath laden with stale grog, came in on
the other side and won the case. Sher-
man picked up his books and walked out
of Court, swearing he would never try
another law suit in Kansas, and he mover