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

= Postmaster James, of New York, il
Welshman and printer by trade.
= Charleston merchants ere 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
supcrintendents.
A negro woman Oh Mr.. ID. L. Mer.
riman's place, near Greenwood, few
days ago, gave birth to triplets.
= a colorcd man on DIR. Reese Gregg .
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 Greenylle Railroad already this
year.
= Forty thousand more bales of cotton
have been hardled on the Greenyille
Railroad this season than last up to
date.
- After Garfield's inaugural denunci-
aticn OF Mormonism tho country will be
checked 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 $25,000 from the 25 cents tax per
ton on fertilizers.
= The municipal election in IIamp-
ton county resulted in the election of q
vet ticket at the Court House, and dry
one at Vnrnesville.
= The North Carolina Legislature has
passed total abstinence amendment to
the Constitution which will be submitted
to the people for ratification in August
Dlr. 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,
convict in the Illinois State Peniten-
tiary, for embezzement 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 Laurensyillo 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
$3O0,000,OOO.
IL During the delivery of General
Garfield'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.. ]. 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 Fl. 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 to
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 ce. The President
kindly informed tie 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 bc discovered by acci-
dent that he ever had a mother..Phila-
deLphia Record
- Lincoln's administration was the
era of war, Johnson's the era of factional
strife, Grants tho era of sectional hate.
Hayes's the era of fraud. The admin
istration Of President Garfield promises
to be the era of ,ace 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 Msy.
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 fred at
the came time. The contents OF the
houses were destroyed. The loss is
about $500 or $40O.
= Secretary Robert Lincoln refused to
be interviewed" in Chicago the other
day, saying good humoredly: ri have in
terviewed people, e,nlyself, know how it
Is done, and don't interview worth q
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.
: It is astonishing how popular the
little unpretending Christian Church on
Vermont avenue has become since Mr..
Gariield's nomination to the Presidency.
1t is also quite discovery to find how
many Congressman are COMMITMENTS in
this church Willis, Errett, Mcmillan.
Money, Armfeld, Hawk, Pettibone,
New, White of Kentucky, and Hostetlor.
= The State Sunday School Conven-
tion will meet in Columbia, Wednesday
and Thursday, April 18th aud 10Th.
Each county is entitled to Us many
delegates as 1t has representatives in both
branches of the Legislature. This .gili
be an important meeting and full rep
re5entation Is desired. Delerates In the
International Convention ut Toronto will
then be elected.