The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-17
General News Summary.

- fOSlIUaSter udultS, VI NtW 1Olh 10
Welshman and printer by trade.
Charleston merchants are petition
ing for an excursion from the up-coun-
try.
Ex-Speaker Randall has arrived in
Philadelphia, and intends resuming his
legal practice.
Nearly one.fourth of the towns Of
Vermont have elected women for school
superintendent.
"A negro woman on Mr.. D. L. Mer'
riman's place, near Greenwood, few
days ago, gave birth to triplets.
- 4 colored man on DIR. Reese Gregg's
plantation, in Marion County, was struck
and killed by lightning on Thursday: .
- Fifteen thousand and FIVE hundred
tons of fertilizers have been brought up
the Greenville Railroad already this
year.
- Forty thousand more bales of cotton
have been handled on the GreenVille
Railroad this season than last up to
date.
After Garfeld's inaugural denunci-
alton of Mormonism the country will be
shocked if he recognizes Roscoe Conk-
ling.
- The Cincinnati Southern Railway
Company has made an increase Of stock
to the amount of ten per cent. of its
present stock.
The State Agricultural Department
will pay into the State Treasury this
year $25, 900 from the 25 cents tax per
ton on fertilizers.
The municipal election in IIamp-
ton county resulted in the election of q
wet ticket at the Court House, and dry
one at Varnesville.
The North Carolina Legislature has
passed total abstinence amendment to
the Constitution which will be submitted
to the people for ratification in August.
Mr.. Watson, residing near Green
wood, had his dwelling house burnt last
week. Nearly all the household furDi-
ture was saved. The fire was accidental.
- Gov. Jackson, of West Virginia,
takes strong grounds in his inaugural
against the National Government having
anything to do with the education of the
young.
- The last official act of President
Hayes was the pardon of Thomas Cowan,
a convict in the Illinois State Peniten-
tiary, for embezzlement in the postal
service in the District of Kentucky.
Thomas E. Patterson charged with
the murder Of Charles King, was con.
victed last week at Laurensville of man
slaughter and sentenced by Judge Hud-
son to three years in the penitentiary.
The cost of the railroad projected
between the Mississippi River and the
Atlantic seaboard, the construction of
which will be commenced this year, is
estimatad to be in the neighborhood of
$500, 100000.
= During the delivery of General
Gar6eld's inaugural address, President
Hayes held the hat of his successor,
while the enthusiastic daughter of the
incoming President, forgetting herself,
applauded from time to time.
= The successor of ex-senator Kirk
wood, Mr.. J. W. McDill, was born and
educated in Ohio. where he practiced
law before removing to Iowa. 1t is i'm
possible to keep Ohio men out of Office.
They watch every opportunity.
John G. Whittier having declined,
the Yorktown commission has invited
Paul 81. Hayne, of South Carolina, to
compose an ode for the Yorktown cen.
tennial, to be set to music, and rendered
by performers in continental costume.
= A special Election will take place
in Indiana next Monday, at which it
will be decided whether Indiana is 10
remain longer an October State" that
is to say, whether it shall continue to
hold gubernatorial elections in October.
"A Campbellite preacher called on
the President on Friday and urged his
profession and denomination as grounds
for being taken care of. The President
kindly informed the caller that the
Government was not church organiza-
ton.
- Garfield isn't ashamed of the old
mother who patched his trousers when
he was poor. Let Grant look on that
spectacle and blush for his manhood.
He allowed it to be discovered by acci-
dent that he ever had mother.-Phila-
delphia Record.
- Lincoln's administration was the
era of war, Johnson's the era of factional
strife, Grants the era of sectional hate.
Hayes's the era of fraud. The admin
istration of President Garfield promises
to be the era of peace and prosperity
Washington Post.
- The iron on the Greenwood and
Augusta Railroad has been laid to Quaker
Springs, FIVE miles this side of Augusta
The company now has four hundred thou
sand dollars, and will push the work for.
ward to an early completion. The road
will be finished to the river by the
first of May.
The smokehouse and kitchen belong
ing to Mr.. William Harmon, of Bordeaux
Abbeville county were burned last Wed
nesday night. The fire was the act of an
incendiary-both houses being fired at
the same time. The contents of the
houses were destroyed. The loss is
about $500 or $500.
Secretary Robert Lincoln refused to
be interviewed" in Chicago the other
day, saying good humoredly: II have in.
terviewed people, e,myself, know how il
is done, and 1 don't interview worth a
cent" Mr. Lincoln, who is now thirty.
seven years old, has three children, the
eldest and youngest being girls. His
eldest daughter is twelve years old.
| 1t is astonishing how popular the
little unpretending Christian Church on
Vermont avenue has become since Mr.
Garfeld's nomination to the Presidency,
1t is also quite discovery to find how
many Congressman are communicants in
this church Willis, Errett, Mcmillan,
Money, Armfeld, Hawk, Pettibone
New, White of Kentucky, and Hostetler
- The State Sunday School Conven.
ton will meet in Columbia, Wednesday
and Thursday, April 18th and 18th.
Each county is entitled to as many
delegates as it has representatives in both
branches of the Legislature. This will
be an important meeting and full rep
resentation is desired. Delegates to the
International Convention at Toronto will
then be elected.
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