The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-01
"A Democratic military organization

A Democratic military organization,
intended to seat Tilden by force of arms,
was generally believed to exist in the
winter of 1877, aud the New York Sun
quotes interviews with Peter Bowe, the
present sheriff Of New York City, and
Major John E. Tracy, who say that the
organization numbered 10000 men, and
J. NJ. Corse, "Hold the Fort" Corse, as
its commander. 1t originated in an Or
ganization of Union soldiers begun in the
spring of 1876, and intended to offset the
dBoys in blue" on the Republican side.
After the election, its leaders began cor
responding as to the possible need for
using force to inaugurate Mr.. Tildcn, and
perfected their organization. obtaining
countenance and sympathy from officers
high in the army and navy. "Baldy"
Smith, Franz Sigel, H. W. Slocum,
nearly all the Democratic brigadiers in
New York State, NJ. I. Donohue. "of
New Hampshire" which is probably
mistake for Massachusetts, Steadman, of
Ohio, and some others are claimed in the
organization. 1t does not appear, how
ever, that arms or ammunition were ever
collected or military organization effect
ed The entire association was probably
nothing more than one of those provision
al preparations for possible strife which
occupied the attention of politicians on
both sides up to the time when Senator
Edmunds's electoral bill offered peace
full solution. This organization itself, it
is worth noticing, divided after that bill
became law.
One hundred masked men rode up
to the county Jail in Winchester, ILL.,, on
the 18th March, battered down the door,
disarmed the guard, and with revolvers
in hand, compelled them to give up the
keys; they then opened the cell of Joseph
J. Field and riddled him with pistol shots.
Field was incarcerated for murder, and
had wealthy connections.
- The New York Herald finds in the.
Massachusetts Legislature Al Republi-
cans for Grant, 81 for Blaine, 36 for Ed
munds, and Is for all other candidates,
leaving Grant and Blaine badly in the
minority. OF the Democrats, q are for
Bayard, 10 each for Tilden and Thurman,
and II for others.
Collector Swope writes to Ben Deer
ing that il the year ending June, 1879,
sill ,7S1 gallons of whiskey were made
| in Kentucky. He estimates the crop for
the year ending June, 1880, at 10, 1885,
726 gallons. The tax on this will be
nearly SIC, 100000.
AT dinner she had doctor at either
hand, one of whom remarked that they
were we'll served, since they had q duck
between them. "Yes," she broke in
her wit is of the sort that comes in flashes
-"and I am between two quacks." Then
silence fell."-Boston Transcript.
The ashes from the body of DR..
Hahn, who was cremated on Thursday,
| 18th March, have been shipped from LIE
| Moyne's crematory to New York. They
weig FIVE pounds and thirteen ounces.
The body was reduced to ashes in two
hours and twenty minutes.
Both houses of the Virginia Legis-
lature have passed a bill repeating the
Mofet bell punch liquor law, and re-
establishing license system, which is to
go in operation May 1st The repeating
vote was nearly unanimous.
Jay Gould, the New York stock
speculator, is making more money than
any man in America, except w. H. Van
derbilt. His income is $4,000 q day.
Twenty years ago he was poor tanner
in Pennsylvania.
C.. l.. Landrum, the negro barber
who assaulted Mrs. Hunter in Chester on
Saturday, the 9Th instant, was tried CON.
yicted and sentenced to the penitentiary
for seven years on the following Thurs
day.
"The grass is turning green," was
the obseryant remark of a young man
escorting pretty damsel across the COM
mon, and the saucy miss replied that he
had got ahead OF the grass by number
of days.
The Boston Post has got the idea
that there is no love in second marriages,
and that where the wife lends her hus-
band quarter she expects it back in
something besides kisses.
- The factory of the Domestic Sewing
Machine Company, in the city OF New
York, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday
night OF last week.
- The United States Government pays
salaries to $4,000 persons.
The New York Herald Irish relief
fund now aggregates S3OS, l37.