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

emigrants to other lands.
- A New Hampshire Judge has di.
vorced 227 couples in five years.
= Greece is bent on o war with Tur.
key, end the music is likely 10 begin in
very few days.
=. twenty-five hundred gallons of
whiskey are manufactured daily in
Wocdford Counfv, Kentucky.
= Mahone's wife weighs 200 pounds.
She can sit down on the Senator more
efiectually than the Senate can.
- Dir. Charles Budd, of Carthage, N,
T., named his oldest daughter Gala
Budd and the youngest Rose Budd.
- Hungry rats ars 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 con.plexions
are in most demand among thoso who
adopt children from the New York Infant
Asylum.
: In covering Riddleberger into their
party the Republicans indorse the repu.
diation Of Sl2,000,000 of Virgina's in
debtcdness.
= The Missouri Legislature has passed
q 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 Q, 1871,
and it is proposed in England formally
to celebrate his next birthday.
= The North Carolina House of Rep.
resentatives 10 composed of 100 members.
On the last day Of the legislative session
only forty-four members wero present.
= It's predicted that Mississippi will
be visited this year by the thirteen and
seventeen year locuste--an event which
is believed to occur only every 22l years.
Kansas cattle are afflicted with
new kind of disease. A wart grows on
the eye.ball, sometimes to tue 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 ono
OF the causes Of the large emigration
from Germany. IF Bismarck keeps ele-
vating his protective tariff half the Ger.
mai people Vii! conc oH This .i:ss side &C the
water.
-"STRAYED-From tho Democratic
party little toy mule, readjusted on re-
pudiation springs and saddled with q
Virginia Senatorship," is tho way tho
Owensboro Messenger puts the Malone
matter.
- Smallpox is cured by Mexican
doctors in three days, and NO marks left,
by treating the patisnt to cold drinks of
cream tartar and water. The cream tar
tar is first dissolved in boiling water.
The Mexican method iR worth looking
into.
- The New York Times. in leading
editorial, declares that president Gar
field has set himself down to the level of
q common politician in bis New York
appointments, and that he is nothing
more than cats paw Of Mr.. Blaine"
This is rather plain talk for q 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
l5O head of cattle, o number of fine
horses, some sheep, wagons and agricul-
tural implements, and will go into stock.
raising and the cultivation Of the soil.
- There are three thriving villages IN
Howard County, Ark. Csnter Point, the
county seat, has three or four hundred
Inhabitants, Mineral Springs about 1--WE
or six hundred and Nashville about two
hundred. About 10000 acres of United
States and State land is yet subject to
homestead settlement, the Center Point
Ne,cs says.
"A New York letter says: Conkling's
friends have had serious "set-back" in
o leading editorial in the Chicago 1fi.
6une 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 bis 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
neTs of dis4uieting character from IRE
land. Details are lncking, but it is re-
ported that insurrectionsry outbreaks
to Paris are regarded as inexplicable-
discover any sufficient ground for them.
= There seems li..io reason to doubt
that Russia and Germany arc seriously
action on tho part Of the European Gov
ernments for the apprehension OF politi-
cal assassins and Iualefactors. The Rus.
sian ambassadors at the principal foreign
courta have all been summoned to st.
Petersburg 10 receive instructions, it is
said, to lay the matter before the gov.
ernments to which they are accredited.
- A singular case was before Missis-
sippi court few days ago. A planter
decided to plant his lands in grass seed
and raise stock instead Of cotton. His
neighbors, who ali stick TO cotton, applied
to the court for an injunction to restrain
the planter from sowing grass seed, on
the ground that grass viii not confiue 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.
- It is whispered that the Grant ele.
ment have determine3, if they are unable
to foist Gen. Grant upon the Republicans
MS It's candidate in 1884, to bring forward
Robert Lincoln, aud endeRvor to push
him through by the light Of the halo
which surrounds the name of his father.
The apti-Grant element has some inkling
of this, and it is surmised that oE3..s
may be made to bring about condition
of circumstances which will force his 70.
tirement from the Cabinet.
/. The people on tho line Of tho Mis-
sissippi and Tennessee Railroad, between
Memphis, Tenn, and Grenada, Miss; arc
indignant over the removal of RobeftH.
Matthew'S, q youth of seventeen, from
his position of Route Agent on the above