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

mans In Texas.
In Lafourche parish, La, there are
3l8 citizens named Williams.
n The Austin (Texas) .Syatesm.n saya
that in North Texas bears are killed.
= The slaughter of bufialoes goes on
at the rate of two hundred thousand per
year. but no one will be worse of when
the last one has been killed.
- The candles and tapers procured 10
burn around the bier of the Car in the
presence Of the royal family were found
to be filled with nitro-glycerine.
Yes" says Chicago Tribune
writer, Senator Butler has wooden
foot" This seems to be just the oppo.
site of the Tribune mans affliction[a
wooden head. "
- State Geologist Kerr says that the
aggregate water power of North Carolina
Is equal to s5out 100000 horse power.
distributed ever the entire area of the
State, with The exception of few sea-
board counties. 1t would be adequate to
turn lac, 900, 900 spindles.
= The dogs eaten by the Chinese arr
OF pale yellow color, and are about the
size of spaniel. They have black ewes
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 Pae'9c are said to
eat nothing but vegetables.>
- A Mr.. Perkins, of England, has do.
signed an ocean steamship which he saws
on consumption of fifty tons of coal O
day OF twenty-four hours will cross from
Queenstown to New York in four days,
anu on occasions can make forty miles an
screws forward and aft, the bow screws
pulling and stern ones going ahead
Ahe mayors or mayors-elect Of the
ten largest cities in the Union-New
YORK, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago,
Soston, st. Louis, Baltimore Cincinnati,
san Francisco and New Ofleans--are
Democrats. The Municipalities thns
under Democratic control have popu.
ihiion Of 1868, 47S souls or nearly one.
tenth of tho entire population Of the
country.
Gen. Malone has two sons and a
daughter, all old enough to take their
places in society ut Washington. His
wife Is very accomplished lady, and
the exact contrast physically 20 her hus.
band. She weighs over two hundred
pounds, and is said to hayo possessed
remarkable personal beauty in her day.
| Next TO Alexander Stephens, General
Malone il tho smallest man that has
ever been in Congress.
= The etatistician of the Agricultural
Bureau ut Washington, in O recent re-
port, shows that the value of land in
Kentucky has increased during the past
year only six and sixtenths per cent,
while South Carolina's lands have during
the aamo period appreciated eighteen
per cent, and Virginia's twelve and
half per cent. Kentucky is ahead of
delaware, whose land appreciation was
only three and eight. tenths per cent.
Lewis Redmond is net dead &c --ss
recently reported, as will be seen by the
following telegram sent from Asheville.
N. o., 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
so successfully evaded arrest. He is in
Jail, and carries in his body ak bullets.
the result of bis obstinate resistance"
-.CHe respectable New England pa.
per has just suggested that the special
need of Washington at this moment
seems 10 be "a we'll defined case of Asi.
attic cholera" Another equally respec.
table Republican Journal In Connecticut
observes that "thc 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 Westiiche Post being on the si,ua,
ton in the Senate. He shows clearly
that 1t is the Republicans who arc OBJ
structing the public business, and that
the Democrats claim, properly enough,
that the Republican plan would be fol.
lowed by q repetition of the corrupt
carpet.bagger rule. ''Tn fact" says Mr..
Schurz, "the ght over few Senate Off
ces IS nothing else but o fight for the
possession of the Federal power in fu.
ture."
= The disciples of Nihiism 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 Mt
Moscow, She returned but recently from
abroad to take an active part in the late
plot, and on arrival Immediately Joined
Jeliaboff, the chief conspirator, aud lived
with him as his wife till the moment of
his arrest.
- j. Milton Turner, ex.Minister to
Liberia, is trying to organize another
band OF raiders, to proceed from St.
Louis aud occupy the reservation of IA
Ooo ,0o0 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 Nc settlers viii be al
lowed on those lands, which, by the laws
Of 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 emil
grants to the Kansas line he found q
.tocp of United States cavalry obstruct-
Ing the way. Turner will doubtless find
che same obstruction.
- The Richmond Dispateb sho~a 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 profs:ty, aud
J got the money for them, which they hold
J to this day. We bought th, negroes as
/ property, but our investment, passed from
US by the act Of the North, nd for which
, we shall never receive q ce.. of compen-
sation. The slave trade was NOS abolish
ed until 1908, because so many New
] / England meI had their money In thsr
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