The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-05
News and Gossip.

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In Lafourche parish, La, there are
3lS citizens named Williams.
- The Austin (Texas) Statesman says
that in North Texas bears are killed.
- The slaughter of bufaloes goes on
at the rate of two hundred thousand per
year, but no one will be worse off when
the last one has been killed.
- The candles and tapcrs procured to
burn around the bier of the Gar in the
presence of the royal family were found
to be filled with nitro-glycerine.
- eyes," says Chicago Tribune
writer, Senator Butler has wooden
foot" This seems to be just the oppo.
site of the Tribune mans aff1iction-a
wooden head.
= State Geologist Kerr says that the
aggregate water power of North Carolina
is equal to about 3,5O0,0OO horse power,
distributed over the entire area of the
State, with the exception of few sea-
board counties. 1t would be adequate to
turn 14O,000,0O0 spindles.
- The dogs eaten by the Chinese are
of pale yellow color, and are about the
size of spaniel. They have black eyes
and blue tongues. The Chinese give
them no meat, but pen them up, as is
done with pigs, and feed them with rice
meal and farinaceous food. Dogs bred
in the islands of the Pacific are said to
eat nothing but vegetables.
"A Mr.. Perkins, of England, has de.
signed an ocean steamship which he says
on consumption of fifty tons of coal a
day of twenty-four hours will cross from
Queenstown to New York in four days,
and on occasions can make forty miles an
hour. The suggested steamer has twin
screws forward and aft, the bow screws
pulling and stern ones going ahead.
The mayors or mayors.eIect of the
ten largest cities in the Union-New
York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago,
Boston, st. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati,
San Francisco and New Orleans-are
Democrats. The municipalities thus
under Democratic control have popu-
lation of 4,653,47S souls or nearly one
tenth of the entire population Of the
country.
Gen. Malone has two sons and a
daughter, all old enough to take their
places in society at Washington. His
wife is very accomplished lady, and
the exact contrast physically to her hus
band. She weighs over two hundred
pounds, and is said to have possessed
remarkable personal beauty in her day.
| Next TO Alexander Stephens, General
Malone is the smallest man that has
ever been in Congress.
= The statistician of the Agricultural
Bureau at Washington, in recent re-
port, shows that the value of land in
Kentucky has increased during the past
year only six and six.tenths per cent,
while South Carolina's lands have during
the same period appreciated eighteen
per cent, and Virginia's twelve and a
half per cent. Kentucky is ahead of
Delaware, whose land appreciation was
only three and eight. tenths per cent.
- Lewis Redmond is not dead, as was
recently reported, as will be seen by the
following telegram sent from Asheville,
N. c., on Monday week: "Great excite
ment was created in this city to-day by
the arrival of guard of six men, having
in charge the notorious moonshiner and
outlaw, Redmond, who has so long and
80 successfully evaded arrest. he is in
Jail, and carries in his body six bullets,
the result of his obstinate resistance"
= One respectable New England pa
per has just suggested that the special
need of Washington at this moment
seems to be "a we'll defined case Of Asi.
attic cholera" Another equally respec.
table Republican journal in Connecticut
observes that "the benevolence of the
Almighty to the United States could not
be more significantly manifested to-day
than by turning the yellow fever into
Congress"
Hon. Carl Schurz has returned to
journalism, his first article in the st.
Louis Westliche Post being on the situa-
ton in the Senate. He shows clearly
that it is the Republicans who are OBJ
structing the public business, and that
the Democrats claim, properly enough,
that the Republican plan would be fol-
lowed by repetition of the corrupt
carpet bagger rule. "In fact" says Mr..
Schurz, "Ihe fight over few Senate Off
ces is nothing else but fight for the
possession Of the Federal power in fu-
ture."
- The disciples of Nihilism professed.
ly despise both the marriage tie and all
those delicate sentiments which custom
arily characterize the relations between
the sexes. Sophy Piovsky, though deli
cately nurtured and brought up in re.
fined society, was living as Hartmaun's
wife when she gave the signal for the
attempt to blow up the Imperial train at
Moscow. She returned but recently from
abroad to take an active part in the late
plot, and on arrival Immediately joined
Jelaboff, the chief conspirator, aud lived
with him as his wife till the moment of
his arrest.
- ]. Milton Turner, ex-Minister to
Liberia, is trying to organize another
band of raiders, TO proceed from St.
Louis and OCCUPY the reservation Of A.
900, 900 acres in Indian Territory, known
as Oklahoma. Mr.. Turner is, in other
words, preparing to rebel against the
Federal Government, which has notified
the country that no settlers will be al
lowed on those lands, which, by the laws
CT the treaties with the Five Nations,
can only be occupied by such friendly
Indians as the Government chooses to
remove there. Capt. Paine last year at
tempted to do what Turner proposes to
do this year, and after he got bis emf.
grants to the Kansas line he found a
troop of United States cavalry obstruct-
ing the way. Turner will doubtless find
the same obstruction.
- The Richmond Dispatch shows that
the foundation of wealth on which not
few of the old New England families
rest was derived from the slave trade.
They sold the negroes as property, and
got the money for them, which they hold
to this day. We bought the negroes as
property, but our investment passed from
us by the act of the North, and for which
we shall never receive cent of compen-