The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-13
Ex.Represeptatives Elliot and Raj

- EX-KeprcSentaLlves EillOt anu Nal-
ncy of South Carolina, both hold clerk
ships at Washington:
= There is said to bo Representative
in Congress from Alabama who has never
made a speech or offered a resolution or q
bill. He draws his pay promptly and is
very popular in his district.
- The proprietors of the Truth, the
New York paper that first published the
Garfield. Alorey letter, have issued q card
stating that they are at last convinced
that the document vas a forgery. and
begging Garfeld's pardon.
- The South Carolina delegation is
domiciled in Washington as follows:
Senator NJ. G. Butler at $40 n. Capital
street; Representatives Evins, Richard
son, O'Connor and Aiken at the Metrop'
olitan Hotel; Representative Tillman at
4lG, 9Th street.
L. K. Wilson, who was alleged to
have been knocked on the head at West
Point, Ga, and robbed on Monday night
last, confessed that he wounded himself
with knife and then beats his head with
piece of pine wood and took the money.
He was agent for the Southern Express
ut West Point.
An old colored preacher was
recently convicted in Orangeburg Court
of having voted two Republican tickets
folded together at the last election. In
consideration Of his being can humble
and ignorant negro" he was fined out 81
without costs and two days in Jail by
Judge Mackey.
- Three men were caught in the re-
cent blizzard on Texas prairie and took
to the woods, where they started and
kept up hot fire. One of them fell
asleep and was horribly burned about
the upper part of his body, while his
legs were subsequently, frozen. He was
taken to Dallas after several days wan
dering, scorched above and frosted below
the waist, but will probably recover.
- The New York Tribune of Monday,
in double-eaded leader, says: "The
administration of President Garfield is to
be an administration for the whole Repub.
lican party. II will foment no quarrels; it
will most earnestly seek the things that
make for peace and for the interests oi
the party it represents. But it will not
permit its friends to be prosecuted 70,
their friendship. Whoever has been
persuaded to doubt this may as well
make, hcnceforth, declaration Of indie
pendence from the dictation of any au'
thority, save the wishes Of constituents
and his own convictions of policy and
right"
= The chronicler of Lieutenant Sch
watka's recent expedition in search o.
the remains offs John franklin record.
some interesting facts regarding the
great cold of the Arctic region. The
lowest temperature met with by the
company was 103 degrees below freezing
point, or seyenty-one degrees below zero
The effects of such intense cold upon the
human system were not so marked in the
case of the lieutenant and his companions
as might be supposed, and even during q
month in which the average temperature
was sixty-fve degrees below zero the
health of the party remained unimpaired
Under Mr.. Thompson's scheme, the
apportionment of the States, subject o.
course to final revision. is ascertaioed to
be 49, 9,SG5.9G5, and the proposed basis ot
representation would be for 306 members
making one representative for I6l ,32c
persons. The representation, as the law
now stands, cannot be reduced by any
local or State disqualiications cutting
down the aggregate ofvotes. 1t will not be
possible, while the Hall of Representa-
tives has no greater capacity than al
present, to materially increase the num-
Der of members, nor is it desirable tha
the number should be increased. The
present seating capacity is for 9O2 per
sons, but ten more seats could be added
In House composed of 3O6 members
Arkansas, California, Georgia, Iowa
Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina
South Carolina and West Virginia woult
each gain one member; Texas woult
gain four; Nebraska two; Kansas three
and Minnesota two; New YorE: woult
lose two members, and Florida, Maine
New Hampshire, Vermont and Penn
sylvania. each one. Maryland and th'
other States not named would retail
their present representation. 1t is prob
able that some such bill as this proposed
by Mr.. Thompson will be passed by tn
present Congress.
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