The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-09
General News Summary.

- The railroad suspension bridge ::
niagara Falls has been changed from /:
wooden to an iron and steel structure
within the last four months, without al
hours delay to the trains passing ovel
it, and the new bridge is said TO be thu
strongest and the most durable in til,
world.
Miss Parker of Granville, Mass, o
maiden with $4,000, became enamored
of John Field, head waiter at an Ottawa
hotel, and offered him her hand and for
tune, which he accepted. Their happi-
ness seemed complete, but he died a few
days ago, and it is said that the unwontcd
case fretted him to death.
The cotton produced in the South
in the four years of carpet.bag rule o1
1866, 1867, 1868 and 1869 amounted to
about four hundred million dollars. In
the years 1876, 1877, 1878 and 1879, un-
der Democratic rule, it amounted to
over nine hundred and fifty-one million
dollars, or absolutely twice as much.
= A committee from Kansas is now at
St. Louis soliciting aid for the starving
and destitute in the northern part of that
State. The lowest estimate places the
number of people who are suffering at
Is, 900 and the cause of the afiliction is a
drought, which with a visitation from the
green worm and chintz bug, has ruined
wheat, corn and potato crops in half
dozen counties. Governor St. John has
advised all the people in the drought
visited district to leave Kansas, if posi-
BILE.
- New York Herald special: There
are indications that the Democrats have
practically abandoned the contest in
Maine, and this state of things is attested
by the withdrawal of men and money
from the canvass there for more effective
use in Indiana. Democratic speakers
returning from Maine say without quail
fication that the fusion movement was
failure, and they have no hope of success.
The contest will be continued simply by
local speakers.
"A close calculation, made upon the
basis of comparison Of the census of
of 1870 with that now being
taken, shows the young men who have
arrived at 81 years of age in the past four
years, and who will consequently vote
for the first time in q Presidential elec.
ton on November 2, will number just
about 1,750, 900, or seventeen per cent.
of the total vote of the country. To this
are to be added about 300, 900 voters who
have secured naturalization in the same
interval of time.
1t is customary to mine coal so close
ly as to leave pillars of insufficient size
and strength to support the earth which
is left on top. The people of the
plains, near Nilkesbare, are greatly dis
tressed by the caving in of the earth
beneath them from this cause The fall
goes on piece-meal with a succession of
petty earthquakes. These wreck houses
and barns, and produce general alarm
among the residents, who cannot tell at
what moment any house may be tipped
over and demolished.
- Immigrants continue to arrive at
New York in large numbers almost daily,
and the increase Of this kind of travel
has been such that the Hamburg-Ameri-
'can Packet Company have put nne extra
steamers on their line. 1t is stated that
most of the immigrants now arriving
have friends in the West, who during the
spring and summer sent them the pas.
sage tickets on which they now come.
The most of them godirect to Minnesota,
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Wisconsin
to work on farms or in shops.
The first aud second volumes of the
official records ofthe late war, the publica-
ton of which was authorized by Con-
gress at its last session, have been com.
pleted under the direction of Col. Scott
of the war department and are now in
the hands of the public printer. Cor
gress ordered ten thousand copies of this
work and also authorized its sale to the
puh,ic. These two volumes will soon be
issued and copies can be had from As
Childs, chief clerk of the government
printing Office, at 81 per volume.
Judson Kilpatrick's capacious and
active mouth has given out new story
of Garfield. 81 once saw him." said
Judson, IT once saw him in the house
with his head bent on his arm weeping.
His mother bent over him aud asked,
"What is the matter, James?" He re-
piled, "I am poor wear poor clothes,
and the boys laugh at me-" That moth
er replied, 'Put them outside the door
to.nig ght, and I will mend them for you, so
that no one will recognize them as the
same suit. When you get to be Presi-
dent yon can repay mep" Judson for
gets to add that it was on this memora-
Bile occasion the embryonic statesman
originated the expression, "Let it 90 as
a loan." 1t never will be paid.
- The Northwestern Lun,6erman men,
tions an experiment which may have
important results for lumber and grist-
millers. Sawdust and bran were compress
ed at little cost into q space which will
much reduce the cost of their transporta-
ton. Into block of compressed saw
dust an eight-penny nail was driven so
firmly that it broke in the attempt to
draw it. Yet the block was easily fria-
BILE. Three pecks of bran we're COM
pressed into roll six inches long by six
inches diameter, capable of enduring
much handling, yet easily broken up by
the fingers. The process will probably
bring sawdust largely into use for bed.
ding horses, and will reduce the cost Of
bran to consumers distant from the
mills.
- The London World made the start.
ling discovery that kleptomania was
common in fashionable society, and that
thefts Of jewelry, furs and wraps were
frequent in the ball rooms and cloak
rooms of the West End. Instances we're
given, name and places being suppressed.
Truth followed in the same strain, and
told how light-6ngered lady of title
stole sable cloak from ducal mansion;
also how another lady of title lost dia-
mond necklace. 1t was said these con-
vcyances of property could not have been
seeing that expensive over
coats, costly lace shawls and other prop
erty were invariably replaced by shabby
articles. In several cases the thieves
we're caught in the act, but, protesting
error. were permitted to 20 on restoring