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

Springs, N. NJ, Tuesday, four men an
the two proprietors got into n fight owe
q game of cards, which resulted in al
being killed, each man being shot severa
times.
The Washington correspondent o
the New York Herald says: at is upde
niable that in the new Senate the Rcpub
licans will be stronger in debating fore
than their opponents, while in the Hous
the Republicans are weakened on tn,
whole and the Democrats strengthened.
- A Boston, Mass, man, Thomas W
Durham, who is making tarred cotto1
rope on an extensive scale for cables
etc. is seeking a Southern location, where
lie will be convenient to both cotton anc
tar, and writes to Commissioner Butler tt
know if any place in South Carolina vii
suit him.
"A New York robe and cloak house
employs beautiful girl, the daughter o
a saloon keeper, to act as an animated
dummy" on which to display the arti
cles for sale. She has queenly style
and everything she wears shows to tht
best advantage. Her salary is forty dol
lars a week.
- A young Catawba Indian 'suamed
Allen Harris was cut and stabbed to
death near Rock Hill recently in whis.
key row originating in a disreputable
house. James Duffie, Hampton Owen,
and John Perdue, all white, have been
arrested and locked in Jail charged with
the murder.
Mr.. Georgs l. seney, the benevolent
| New York baker, has given to the N.
E. Church sixteen lots and $200, 900, with
which to found Methodist general hos.
pital in New York, which, however, shall
be open 10 Jew and Gentle, Protestant
and Catholic, heathen and in6del on the
same terms.
Tho reunion of the Society of the
Army and Navy of the Confederate
States for Maryland, which took place in
Baltimore on the 22nd Of February, was
an interesting occasion. Speeches were
made by Generals Wade Hampton, w.
n. F. Lee, Bradley T. Johnson and Dab.
ney H. Maury.
- A minister commenced his sermon
by observing, "What shadows We are p
and then paused IA if to let the thought
sink deeply into the.minds oftbe congre-
CATION, whereupon two lean spinaters in o
front pew guessed that they didn't come
there to be insulted, aud got up and
strobe Indignantly out.
- Hon. Chss. O'Connor, the distin.
guished lawyer, has been interviewed on
the Irish question. He said that the
Irish outcry against British oppression
undoubtedly was warranted, but that
Americans have not time to interfere ;
that we have enough 10 do "in checking
the growth of governmental evils at
home"
There is trouble with the colored
brother at Fair Haven, N. J. The col
ored people there burnt their own school
house because it was an old one taught
by colored teacher, and they wanted To
send their children to new one built for
the whites. The consequence is they
now hav'nt auy,::sand are. shut out en-
tirely.
Jay Gould is willing to be put on
record as saying that the end of the
money stringency is in sight; that pub.
lie confidence is not shaken; that buyers
are nunberess, and prices will advance
with a rush. A quieter feeling was re.
ported from country banks, and the
opinion of the bank officers is that the
worst is now over.
- An Englishman, now sojourning in
the ueighborhood of Columbus, gentle
man of extensive observation, after read
ing the annual report of the Eagle and
Phenix Company, remarked that if such
report were made to the stockholders of
a Manchester mill, they would regard it
as chimerical as tale from the Aarabian
Nights.-Golumbu Ga.) Sun.
= Some wag, says the Washington
Star started The story a little while ago,
that street cars are now running in the
city of Jerusalem, and the papers are
printing the statement as an item oil
genuine news, whereas there is not n
street 10 the city wide enough to accom-.
modate an ordinary track, and if road
were built there would be no business
for it.
In house on the suburbs of Mil
waukee, Wis, a family has been discov.
cred consisting of mother, i'll in bed
with new born babe dead by her side,
and four children, from two to ten years
of age. They had been without food for
two days, except the scrapipgs of swill
barrel which bad once been used in car
rying slops. The father, Earnest Late,
is in Jail awaiting. trial for the theft Of
an old harness.
- The building for the University for
,oored people, which is in course OF
erection at Helena, Ark, will have cost,
when completed, $4,000. The Pastors
Union, in whose hands the enterprise is
proceeding, expects to complete one
wing, at cost Of $4,000, by October J..
The school was originally designed for
the education of preachers and teachers,
hut its scope will not be restricted to that
object.
- In Florida the value per acre Of
cleared land is $9.4S, and of timbered
land 5000. In Louisiana cleared land il
worth Sl496. and timbered land 1888.
In Texas cleared land is worth 1898, and
timbpred land 81. tn Arkansas cleared
land is valued at $ll.78, and timbered
! land at $3.45. In Oregon cleared land is
worth S2l7I, and timbered $3.50. But
in Nebraska cleared land is worth 1892,
and ,imbered land S25.85 per acre.
"A special dispatch from New York,
which lacks confirmation, says that Jay
Gould has offered the management of the
World TO Henry Watterson, editor and
proprietor of the Louiaville Cburier-
Journal. He is to provide sufficient
financial backing for the World to enable
Mr. Watterson to launch out sufficiently
to entirely renovate the paper and to
spend as much money as is needed to gel
the news. Mr.. Watterson has not yet
accepted.
There are now in attendance at the
University of Georgia l75 students.
The finest of the TTnirersitv huildinpa i.