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


Judge Maclkey decides that a trial
justice jury ofs!x is not constitutional.
- The now opera house mt Greenville
has Just been completed. 1t Is said TO be
very fine building.
- There is q Tumor that Republican
paper 10 TO ba stated I'm Charlotte, N. c.,
soon, and that man from Wilmington
Is 10 IN IL.
= DR.. VIM. b. Rico has been elected
from Barnwell county TO fill the uncx-
pired term of Hon. Henry Hartzog de-
ceased, in tho Legislature.
A country postmaster In Georgia,
whose salary Is but $i5 per annum, was
compelled TO disgorge 1925 as his share
of the Republican campaign fund.
= There is one thing that Gen. Grant
deserves credit for. He knows how TO
tors with Its length and is nevor crowd
cd out Of the papers for want Of space.
- Solon Chase, the great Grconback
apostle of Maine, looks upon the recent
election in that State as nothing much
for Blaine to brag Of The Senator just
DER" and that was all.
Hon. John G. Presley, native OF
judge of the Superior Court from Sonoma
county, CAL, his adopted homo. Judge
Pressley, of California, is brother Of
The Wilmington, Columbia and Au-
gusta Railroad was sold at auction in
Wilmington last weok under o decree Of
the United States District Court, and was
purchased by committee representing
tho first mortgage bondholders, for $780,
500.
- Michigan Is priding her,elf on the
fact that she he's novor had O case Of yell
low fever within her borders Verify is
the claw OF compensation" great. Nei-
t!er has Memphis ever had case OF
Zach. Chandler within her borders
Courier Journal
George William Curtis, editor Of Hdr.
por'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 voto for the rest OF tho
nominees.
- Tho building of the Marietta (Ga.
Female College was burned on Monday
last. The fire WAS discovered at O. o'clock
In the morning, but too late to extinguish
1t. 1t was largo two story brick build
Ing and tho 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 Overburdoning her people
with taxation, will redeem at maturity,
u.
sponsible.
= According TO the Live Oak Dispatch
tho orange crop OF Florida for the season,
Of 1870@S0 promises 10 bo from 10 to 20
per cent. larger than for tho season Of
lS7S-'70. While somo Of the growers
be larger, leaving the Inference that the
increase is from new groves coming into
bearing.
The municipality Of Paris otTers q
premium Of 10000 francs for the best
mode of burning tho bodies OF the dead.
property OF tho city. In Milan, and sev-
eral of tho German towns, cremation is
tolerated by law, and Is coming into fre-
quent use. The overcrOwded cemeteries
In tho environs Of great cities are found
to be injurious to the public health.
Since the decision in tho great bond
case was rendered, tho State Treasurer
has received ono thousand and one let
ters (more or less) from bondhclders, in
quiring about the status OF their bonds.
AS that official, who hns 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 Eant TO these applicants for
information.
- The Savannah Ncirs says: A curl
ous discovery ha5 been made in carry
ing on the excavation required for tho
water works. At the depth OF twenty.
eight feet tho workmen encountered an
extensive bed of oyster and clam shells
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 now
under the SUM-. VII. sr a
= The Washington Post boils the EXC
dus agitation down TO this great truth:
cotton Crop OF Mississippi, and large
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 win be
filled. When any man or class of men
think they can't be spared, a great mis-
take Is generally mado. There is no
place filled by any man that can't be re-
filled when ne leaves It, Cotton will be
raised because it Is q necessary and
produce 1t, otherE will do that work"
= General Sherman was once lawyer
or tried to be. He got case in Kan
sas Court, the only ono he ever tried in
his life. It was U legal controversy about
o little bun, worth about S15. The law
and the facts were nll on Sherman's side,
and ne went in Court with large num-
ber of law books and a long brief, pre-
pared with aleepless care and great dill
gence. A little spike-haired lawyer,
with complexion like side-hill and
breath laden with stale grog, came I'm or
the other side and won tho case. Sher-
man picked up his books and walked out
of Court, swearing he would never try
another law suit In Kansas, and he never
did. This Is a true story. Sherman ad-.
mits 1t himself. at fll events, anewsps-,
per man out West vonches for H..
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