The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10


- The Germans have started society
in Philadelphia for the purpose of or.
ganizing a colony on an extensive scale
as field for German mechanics, trades.
men and farmers emigrating 10 the Uni.
ted States. They are already provided
with the requisite capital. They propose
to buy up tract of land in some of the
Southern States, and when that is ac-
complished they will have their agents in
Germany to provide the requisite facili.
ties and to give all necessary information
TO families desiring to occupy them.
Thelexperiment OF a railroad on ice,
tried successfully last winter in Canada,
has recently been initiated at the Russian
capital. A road was laid on the ice from
Cronstadt to. .Oranienbaum, and its open
ing to traffic marked with great festivi.
Ties. The first train, bearing gala party
of officers. and their friends, stopped mid.
way of the road while service Of prayers
was held. Next day the road was thrown
npen to the transportation of the $4,000
tons of merchandise which had accumu.
lated siuce the. closing of navigation.
Last year 68,477 persons were ar.
-aigned in the Police Courts of New
York city for various crimes, and 46,35S
of them were held to answers The fines
collected amounted to S59,622. TO
New York 71ibnnc states that, estimating
the population ut 100000, one out &c
every $50 persons was held for felony,
one out of 155 for a misdeneanor, and
one of 33 for minor offenses, and one out
Of III persons was under arrest, and
nearly one out of q was held fol some
violation of the law. Reform is needed
in New York.
speaking of the State debt of Lou.
isiana, the New Orleans Democrat says:
Under the provisions of the new Consti.
tuition the debt, in case all consolidated
bonds are exchanged for four per cent.
bonds, would amount to S., ,S79, $50, re-
quiring the sum of 1856, 1872 annually for
interest. Collections for the interest
fund already amount to 1856. .225.S3, or
more than enough to pay the interest. for
1880 upon the whole amount Of the State
debt refunded under the provisions of the
new Constitution. The surplus. s43.s3,
doubtless goes to the support of public
schools.
- Colonel Tom Buford, the Kentucky
assassin of Judge Elliott, is still in
lunatic asylum, where he was sent after
his acquittal. The physicians of the in
stitution say that he has growing men,
tai ,nalady,' probably softening of the
brain; but the Colonel himself says:
"Lunatic, the devill' Pm no lunatic.
Your own mind is not--one whit better
balanced than niue at this moment.
The plea of insanity in my case was
simply adopted to cover the great crime
of the courts. wanted to try the case
upon its merits. / made the issue with
my lifo in the balance, and / would have
laughed at death sentence" He looks
robust and talks connectedly.
- Fuel has been 80 scarce in Mime.
sofa during the recent snow blockades
that many families have burned hay and
unthreshed wheat, and Appleton, vii
lage of 400 to 500 people, did not have
more than half cord of wood and two
or three tons of coal last week in the
whole town. In other places two or three
families have crowded into one house
and burned the vacated dwelling. The
railroad cuts on the smaller roads were
level above the telegraph poles, and filled
up as fast as they could be shoveled out.
A Minneapolis and St. Louis passenger
train was showed in for q full week in
spite of all that six engines. and sixty
men could do.
- Mr.. Moody spoke, inIone of his San
Francisco c1hortations, of the fate of
those persons who, though otherwise
good, were not regene:ated by divine
grace. He referred feelingly to his
grandmother, who had died untouverted,
saying: Although she was good and
kind, and dearly loved by me, fear she
has met with the reward of all who die
not owniag Christ. Il know she is in
hell" At that moment young man
near the front arose and walked down the
aisle toward the door. "There is gen.
tleman," said the revivalist, "who is
tired of listening about Christ. BE is
going straight 10 hell" The object of
this rebuke turned and said in quiet.
clear voice "Well, is there any message
[ can take to your grandmother, Mr..
Moody?"
- 1t is reported that the Texas State
Senate has passed the following resolu.
ton: Whereas, Our civilization owes to
the Hebrew race the exponent of our re-
igion and the basis of our laws, and by
those indissoluble bonds We must be for
ever bound with Israel alike in his pros.
perity or his misfortune, in his joys or in
his sorrows; and, whereas, the genius of
our Government is "human freedom"
which it is our mission to establish at
home and favor abroad; therefore, ~
solved, that our Senators in Congress be
instructed, and our Representatives re-
quested 10 do whatever in their discretion
may seem best to bring the moral weight
of the Government and the people of the
United States uron the Government and
the people of the German Empire, for
the relief of the Jews from any oppres-
sion, for their complete equality and for
that full recognition to which they are
entitled by their wonderful history, their
marvellous unity, their far.reaching ac-
tivi,ies, their tolerance, beneyoence and
fidelity to the institutions under which
they live wherever they are found.
= A Washington letter of Tuesday
night says: "At dinner given this
evening at Wormley's by Mr.. Frank
Hurd, Of Ohio, to twenty or twenty five
members of Congress, TO talk over the
future of the question of tariff reform, it
was determined to form a Free Trade
Congressional Alliance to act together
in the next Congress and in the country
at large for the turtherance Of a reduc-
tion of the tariff to a strictly revenue
basis. Most if not all the gentlemen
present are members not only Of the
present but of the next House of Repre-.
sentatives. The question of action on
the tariff and of informing and inhuenc-
ing public opinion in favor of q revenue
tariff was freely discussed, and it was de.
termined 10 form the Congressional AL
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