The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-04-14
News and Gossip.

in Dakota.
- There left Ireland last year 9G,357
eu,igrants to other lands.
"A New Hampshire Judge has di-
vorced 227 couples in five years.
- Greece is bent on war with Tur.
key, and the music is likely 10 begin in a
very few days.
= twenty-five hundred gallons of
whiskey are manufactured daily in
Woodford County, Kentucky.
- Mahone's wife weighs 200 pounds.
She can sit down on the Senator more
efectually than the Senate can.
- Mr.. Charles Budd, of Carthage, N.
Y, named his oldest daughter Gala
Budd and the youngest Rose Budd.
Hungry rats are said to be devour-
ing young calves and chickens in the
town of Redfeld, near Minneapolis.
= The School Superintendent of Kan
sas City, Mo-, says that study after school
hours not be means of punishment.
= Little girls with fair compilations
are in most demand among those who
adopt children from the New York Infant
Asylum.
= In covering Riddleberger into their
party the Republicans indorse the repu.
diation of Sl2,0O0,000 of Virginia's in
debtedness.
- The Missouri Legislature has passed
a law declaring that husband shall not
be responsible for the debts of his wife
contracted before marriage.
George Stevenson, the inventor OF
the locomotive, was born June 9, 1881,
and it is proposed in England formally
to celebrate his next birthday.
- The North Carolina House of Rep.
resentatives is composed oe 90 members.
| On the last day of the legislative session
only forty-four members were present.
= It is predicted that Mississippi will
be visited this year by the thirteen and
seventeen year locusts-an event which
is believed to occur only every 22l years.
kansas cattle arc afflicted with a
new kind of disease. A wart grows on
the eye.ball, sometimes to the length of
an inch and half, producing complete
blindness.
The weather was so severe in the
Upper Peninsula, Minnesota, the past
winter, that huge trees along the line of
the Marquette and Mackinaw Railroad
split open owing to the cold.
Heavy duties on rye constitute one
of the causes Of the large emigration
from Germany. If Bismarck keeps ele.
waiting his protective tariff half the Ger.
man people will come on this side of the
water.
"STRAYED-From the Democratic
party little toy mule, readjusted on re-
pudiation springs and saddled with a
Virginia Senatorship," is the way the
Owensboro Messenger puts the Malone
matter.
Smallpox is cured by Mexican
doctors in three days, and no marks left,
by treating the patient to cold drinks of
cream tartar and water. The cream tar.
tar is first dissolved in boiling water.
The Mexican method is worth looking
into.
- The New York 7zmes in leading
editorial, declares that president Gar
| field has set himself down to the level of
a common politician in his New York
appointments, and that he is nothing
more than cats paw of Mr.. Blaine"
This is rather plain talk for Republican
organ.
On farm in the lower San Pedro
valley, California, the Apache Chief Es'
kim-in -zin has settled down, and employs
fourteen Mexicans and Indians. He has
$50 head of cattle, number of fine
horses, some sheep, wagons and agricul-
tural implements, and will 60 into stock
raising and the cultivation of the soil.
- There are three thriving villages in
Howard County, Ark. Center Point, the
county seat, has three or four hundred
inhabitants, Mineral Springs about FIVE
or six hundred and Nashville about two
hundred. About $50 900 acres of United
States and State land is yet subject to
homestead settlement, the Center Point
News says.
| "A New York letter says: Conkling's
friends have had serious Setback" i'll
o leading editorial in the Chicago 7ri-
bune of Tuesday, which goes to show
that if the Senator from New York is
resolved upon rupture with the Presi-
dent, because the latter will not submit
to lis dictation, the West, at all hazards,
will stand by the Executive.
1t is reported that the sudden call
ing together of the British Cabinet last
Monday was caused by the receipt of
! news of disquieting character from Ire
land. Details are lacking, but it is re-
ported that insurrectionary outbreaks
are looked for. Mr.. Parnell's two visits
to Paris are regarded as inexplicable-
the government not having been able to
discover any sufficient ground for them.
There seems little reason to doubt
that Russia and Germany are seriously
meditating q scheme to secure concerted
action on the part of the European Gov
ernmcnts for the apprehension OF politi-
cal assassins and malefactors. The Rus
sian ambassadors at the principal foreign
courts have NIL been summoned to st.
Petersburg to receive instructions, it is
said, TO lay the matter before the gov
ernments to which they are accredited.
- A singular case was before MIssis-
sipp court few days ago. A planter
decided to plant his lands in grass seed
and raise stock instead of cotton. His
neighbors, who all stick to cotton, applied
| to the court for an injunction to restrain
the planter from sowing grass seed, on
the ground that grass will not confine it.
self to the land Of the planter of it, but
spreads over surrounding plantations and
units the ground for cotton. The in
junction was granted.
- 1t is whispered that the Grant elc'
ment have determined, if they are unable
to foist Gen. Grant upon the Republicans
L. g.. Il
Robert Lincoln, and endeavor to push
him through by the light of the halo
which surrounds the name OF his father.
The anti.Grant element has some inkling
of this, and it is surmised that efforts
may be made to bring about condition
of circumstances which will force his re-
tirement from the Cabinet.
- The people on the line of the Mis-
sissippi and Tennessee Railroad, between
Memphis. Tenn. and Grenada, Miss, arc