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

~ n democratic mi itary organization,
intended TO saat den by force of arms,
was generally believed 10. exist in the
winter OF 1877, and the New York Sun
quotes interviews with Peter Dowe, the
present sheriff of New York City, and
Major John E. Tracy. who say that the
organization numbered 200, 900 men, and
J. M. Corsc, "Hold the Fort" Corse, as
its commander. 1t originated in an or.
ganization Of Union soldiers begun in the
spring Of 1876, and intended 70 Offset the
"Boys in blue" on the Republican side.
Alter the election, lie leaders begun cor
responding as 10 the possible need for
using force to inaugurate Mr. Tildcn, and
perfected their organization, obtaining
c:ountenance and aympathy from officers
Smith, Franz Sigel, H. w. slocum,
New York State, NJ. 7. Donohue, "of
New Hampshire" which is probably a
mistake for Massachusetts, Steadman, of
Ohio, ard some others are claimed in tho
organization. Itdoes not appear, how.
ever, that arms or ammunition wers' ever
collected or military organization effect.
ed. The entire association was probably
nothing more than one of those provision
oil preparations for possible strife which
occupied the attention CT politicians on
both sides up to the timo when Senator
Edmundn's electoral bill offered q peace
fnl solution. This organization itsesG 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 reyolyers
in hand, compelled them TO give up the
keys; they the opened the cell Of Joseph
J. Field aud riddl,d 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, SO for Ed!
munds, and rs for all other candidates.,
leaving Grant and Blaine badly in the
minority OF the Democrats, 81 are for.
Bayard, 10 each for Tilden and Thurman,
and II for others.
8 - Collector Swope writes to Ben Deer
ing that in the year ending June, 1879,
8,1I1791 gallons of whiskey were made
Ia Kentucky. He estimates the crop for
the year ending June, 1880, at C,139,-
726 gallons. The tax on this will be
nearly $1o,OOO,0Oo.
- AT dinner she had doctor at either
hand, one of whom remarked that they
were we'll served, eince they had duck
between them. eyes," she broke in
her wit is of che sort that comes in flashes
---."and ! 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 Le
Moyne's crematory to New York. They
weigh Eve pounds and thirteen ounces.
The body Yves reduced to ashes in two
hours and twenty minutes.
= Both houses of the Virginia Legis-
Iature have passed bill repeating the
Moffet bell punch liquor law, and re-
establishing license system, which is to
60 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. II. Van.
derbilt. His income is $4,000 day.
Twenty years ago he was poor tanner
in Pennsylvania.
&C. l.. Lcndrum, the negro barber
who assaulted Mrs. Hunter in Chester on
Saturday, the 9Th instant, was tried con.
victed anc sentenced 10 tie peniten. .iary
for soveh years on the following Thurs
day.
"The grass is turning green," was
the observant remark of q young man
escorting pretty damsel across the COM
mon, and the saucy miss replied that he
had got ahead of the grass by q number
of days.
The Boston Post has got the idea
that there is no love in second matriagea,
and that where the wife lends her ahas-
band quarter she expects it back in
aomething besides kisses. n
The factory of the. Domestic Sewing
Machine Company, in the city ef New
York was destroyed by fire on Tuesday
night of last week.
- The United States Government pays
saiariea TO 5000 persons.
= The New York Herald Irish relief
fund now aggregates $500, 1877.
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