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

= Bayard Taylor left his family so
poor that they can not pny the rent of
the house in Berlin in which they are
living, nor have they money enough to
bring them home.
= Imagine a mass Of ice mile wide
and thirty miles long crashing along with
the power Of a thousand freight trains,
and you will have some idea of the break.
ing Of gorge on the Ohio.
Lord Beaconaield comes from long
lived stock. Some Pedigreemonger has,
been looking upon his antecedents, and
has discovered that his father Isaac Dis
raeli, lived to be 50, and his grandfather
"Old Ben" after whom he was named, St.
= The population Of England's South
African colonies is 100000 blacks and
100000 whites. The Zulus have an
army of $4,000 trained soldiers. Their
military system IS as rigid as that of Ger
many, and develops splendid fighting
qualities.
The son of colored barber in Phil
adelphia has astonished the town by Sc
curing admission to tho white boys
Normal School through competitive
examination in which 126 white boys
took part. He is the first of his race so
distinguished.
=: The Boston Advertiser tells this an
ecdote of the late Hon. George S. Hill
lard: "Mr. billiard was always depended
on to draw up resolutions on the death
of member Of the Bar. On one occa-
sion friend found him thus employed.
He looked on with sad smile and said i:
4 wonder who will do this service for me
when l am gone?' Thcy cannot do bet
ter than to take some Of your own reso-
lutions,' was the reply"
= One of the Paris papers publishes
the following: "There arc Gascons in
America as everywhere else. One Of
them recently said: In the State Of Ohio
the cold is so intense in the winter that
this happened to me: l was attacked by
robber. I took out my pistol There
was powder in it, but no ball. / was in
spired by q lucky idea. l spit in the
barrel and fired. The spittle froze on its
way, and the malefactor was shot dead ? "
. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
lind. Rep.) says: "rhe most brazen
piece of impudence in the recent history
of American politics is the acceptance by
Algernon S. Badger, Postmaster of New
Orleans, and just nominated for Collector
at that port, of 6 position on the Repub-
lican Campaign Committee of Louissna,
in violation of the civil service order of
President Hayes and in the face of the
removal of Naval Officer Cornell, of New
York, Collector Simmons, of Boston, and
others, for running with local political
machines"
The glad tidings come back from a
missionary in far Burmah that more than
100000 tracts and $4,000 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 Breathitt County,
Kentucky, and nineteen alleged MUIR
derers 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 Burnah." !"
The home heather is never interesting.
The missionary field is green that's far
away.
"A correspondent of the Savannah
News relates a horrible story about Sen
ator Blaine. He says that some thirty
years ago Blaine was teaching school in
Kentucky, and was "a fiery Bourbon
Democrat" On one occasion Cassius
NJ. Clay made himself candidate for
office on an abolition platform and was
billed for speech at Frankfort. Young
Blaine declared he would reply to him,
and gentleman now living loaned him
ten dollars to pay his expenses. History
doesn't say whether he answered Clay or
not, but the party who loaned the money
says he still has the plurned knights
promisory note. AS it is Southern
claim there is no use in carrying the
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