The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-06-17

ooo AHSo1nVll3 VIC plAoPuCu1Oij n0o
goes about the country lecturing against
Christianity, sometimes says sensible
things, not against religion, but against
the practice of it as carried on by some.
In recent lecture in New York be said ::
"Did you ever know of Christian un-
loading on account of the passage about
the camel going through the eye of q
needle? Do they not rather think that
by tight squeeze the camel could go
throug gh? There are Christians in this
city, with millions, passing every day
houses where mothers want bread. They
expect to meet those mothers in heaven
and sit side by side with endless ages ofjoy
and when they go down to death with
five or ten millions, they launch out FIVE
per cent. to establish theological SEM
mary as sort Of compromise with God"
The grand jury in Clarendon in
their presentment to the court recon-
mended that no licenses be issued by the
county commissioners, and that those
already issued be at once revoked, and
that our representatives be requested to
use their influence in the passage of such
stringent laws as will abate the evil OF
carrying concealed Weapons
st. Louis is agitating the cremation
question. 1t is claimed, first and FORE
most, that the public health will be ma.
terially improved by a disposition of the
dead which does not involve the pro-
cesses of decay and the consequent pois.
oning of air and water in the vicinity OF
cemeteries.
= During the month OF May 53,497
immigrants arrived at Castle Garden.
When April showed an aggregate arrival
of 46,S2l immigrants the result was
deemed extraordinary, as indeed it was,
since the number for April of last year
had been but II COL.
= Women vote in Wyoming, and are
we'll treated by the men, and the married
women don't always vote rs their hus'
bands do, either. 1t is noted, further,
that the women are sure to- vote against
candidates Of dissipated or immoral hab-
its.
Egypt can hardly be expected to
yield another monster crop, and so far
the Indications are quite the other way,
the cotton being very backward. The
authorities say it is from three weeks to
month later than last year.
Some very scandalous revelations
are being made of favoritism in the army.
A few men get all the soft places and
sugar, while large majority have to
fight Indians. But such is life.
- Thomas Jefferson's heirs have
agreed to relinquish the burial ground at
Monticello to the Government, with the
understanding that Jefferson's grand
children shall find sepulture in the same
enclosure.
Vermont is the greatest maple sugar
producing State in the Union. It's annual
yield is about 100000 pounds, worth
$500, ,000 or about an average allowance
of thirty pounds for each inhabitanr
The greatest evils in life have had
their rise from something which was
thought to be Of too little Importance to
be attended to.
- The Canadian Senate lately rejected,
by 80 to 81, the bill legalizing marriage
| with deceased wife's sister or deceased
brothers wife.
"A fretful disposition takes the fra-
GRANGE out of ones life and leaves only
weeds where cheerful disposition would
cause flowers to bloom.
- There are six ex.Govcrnors of
Georgia now living, and all reside within
the State.
Everything that truly and natu-
rally belongs to human career has its
sacred side.
When a man owns himself to be in
an error, be does but tell you in other
words that he is wiser than he was.
- Secretary Evarts is to deliver a
speech or two during the coming cam
naign-provided it is sufficiently protrac-
t,d.