The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-12-01
ANDERSON O, III.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER /, 1881.
MIsCEL1ANEOUs NEWS.

next Massachusetts Leglalature, and they arc
TO he cslled upon to perform the devotional
cxcr. isos thus saving the cost of chapI in.
light of the jurors who acquitted Belle
Spaulding of numbering her husband at
Galesburg, ILL.,, accepted her invitation TO a
banuuct in celebration of her escape from
the gallows
Italy has established naval school.
copied after the Annapolis of America.
There are forty two officers and professors
vino are instructing las pupils how to handle
the new monster ironclads.
An extensive establishment for the
manufacture of macaroni, vermicelli and all
o,her sorts of Italian pastry in PHILADELPHIA
has seriously damaged the importation of
sneh articles from Italy. 1t was hatched hv
the Centennial.
By far tho best marriage, in point of
social position, made by any American lady
in England in recent years. was that of Mrs.
Ives, nee Motley, with Sir William Harcourt.
LADY Vaudeville gained higher rank, but her
husband is utterly destitute of any position
arising from personal merit of any kind.
Car Alexander III, while examining
/.
one day recently, discovered that two hum
drcl and eighty bottles of ch7mpsgne had
been consumed during the lying in state of
the late Emperor. He was very angry
and said some harsh things 70 the attend
ants
The corner-stone of st. David's Episcopal
Church laid at Scranton, Pa, by Bishop
Fri
storm hy the light of torches, was broken
open the samo night by somo sacrilegious
wretch, for the sake Of the coins deposited
including a five dollar gold pieco and silver
dollar.
Thomas Mast, the caricaturist, is re-
ported by tho Denver Inter Ocean to have
lost forty thousand dollars in the Plata
Verde Mine and Mill at Silver Cliff, Colorado.
Mr. Mast, by the way, never has given the
public the benefit of his ideas as to tender
foot investments in the auriferous and
argentifcrous sections of this grand Cont
nent. A cartoon is in order.
Mr.. T. Theodore Walton, whose betting
exploits in England gained him fame and
money, has arrived in New York. He admits
winning $i65,000 during the racing season
$4,000 Of which was won on three races of
Foxhall lIo was called the American
rlunger, term formerly applied to the
Marquis OF Hastings, who during his career
on the turf was equally reckless.
The threatened litigation between the
Baroness Burdett-Coutts and her relatives
has been averted. All the counsel consulted
considered that she married foreigner
which she could not do under the terms of
the will of the Duchess of st. Albans without
rencuncing her interest in the Coutts Bank
The baroness has therefore resigned her half
hhare i'll the bank, but will continue to
receive small annual allowance as compen.
sation.
Tho Rev. DR.. Richard 8. Storrs, pastor
Of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn,
was presented on Saturday evening with a
certified check for $4,000, gift of HIS
friends inside and outside his congregation.
The completion of DR.. Storr's thirty-fifth
year of his pastorate was made the occasion
of this tribute of affection and esteem. The
presentation was made by the Hon s. B.
Chittenden. DR.. Storrs made n graceful
speech of acceptance.
Spain has taken lesson from American
inanciering, and for the first time for many
years her budget shows surplus of $4,000
In lS79-So the deficit was $l9,75O, 900; in
1S3o'sl, S21, 21,250000. This Improvement, so
relieving to the bondholders has been ef-
fected by converting tho treasury and other
privileged debts, amounting ID $4,000 coo,
into 4 per cent stock-which, issued at S5,
bears ~ per cent. interest-the redemption
being delayed and spread over period of
forty-ono years. The annual saving exceeds
fifteen millions.
About nineteen years ago a firm of dry
goods jobbers in Philadelphia-Messrs Hood,
Bonbright & Co.-failed, and made settle
ment with its creditors st seventy-five cents
on the dollar. Being thus absolved from all
legal complications, it cesumed business,
ana mas since enjoyed great prosperity. Last
week the firm sent to each of its former
creditors tho following circular: "Kindly
neiricnded by our creditors at time when
We were needing help, We in after years
created fund intended for their benefit.
ihis we have tho pleasure now to offer them.
covering in Its equitable application moro
than tho percentage abated in our settle
ment under the recommendation of their
committee of creditors the excess ia each
case Will represent pro rata apportionment
OF interest derived from said fund. In CRATE
~ remembrance therefore, we inclose here
nth our check for s." The total amount
distributed by this rare act of integrity is
moro than 100000, and the persons to
whom it is due number about 15O.
The later advices from England state
that the strange speculation in Confederate
ponda, which set in so suddenly and ex-
tended so rapidly from England to this
country, has quite as suddenly died out.
Inc theory on which tho shrewd originators
OF the speculation set it in motion was that
there wee large sums of money deposited
Ia the Bank Of England to the credit of the
late Confederate Government and Other
large deposits of money held on Confederate
account elsewhere, to all Of which the hold
ers OF Confederate bonds had legal claim.
it seems to havo been accepted by the
crednlous with moro confidence than is
usually given to so wild o story.
While the fever of speculation lasted
those who picked up large amounts of
bonds for o merely nominal sum made
money out of their dupes; for we learn that
at their eliminating point some of the bonds
were sold in England at 10 per cent. of their
race value. But when the London Times
stated that thore was no money held in tho
Bank of England on Confederate account.
aud when, from other sources, it was learned
that if there were any Confederate assets
anywhere the decisions of the English Courts
ediudEed thaYn IN halonu IN Tho Cnvarnment