The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-19

llvered UP to the captain or any OF his
kindred.-AbbeviNe Medium, dfay, -.
= Mr.. D. G. Wilson, President of the
Port Royal Railroad, and Hon. VIM.
Elliot, of Beaufort, visited Washington
last week and opposed the abandon
ment of the naval station at Port
Royal, S. c., as indicated to be the
policy of the naval department by
the withdrawal of the frigate Me,v Hamp-
shire. They we're strongly backed BY
Senator Hampton, who called with them
upon the President on the 9th inst. The
delegation was received kindly by Mr..
Garfield, who was much interested in the
statement that the duties paid at the
Beaufort custom house were equal to
those paid at Charleston and Savannah
put together, while the expenses of col.
lection were only twentieth part of
either one of those ports. The secretary
of the navy was visited, as was also Admi.
raj Porter. The result was that prom.
ise was secured that Port Royal would
be continued rs naval station, and
another storeship would soon take the
place of the ,Ne,O Hampshire. Admiral
Porter favors the establishment of q
depot for naval repairs in the noble har.
Dor of Port Royal, which, he said, was
the only one worthy of the name on the
South Atlantic coast south of Norfolk.
- Captain John w. Watts, the Sheriff
of our County, has little son about 8
years old, that is indeed prodigy. You
can ask him to multiply any given num-
bers, and he will multiply them correctly
in seconds time. His faculty for mul.
tiplying is not only confined to hundreds,
but he can multiply thousands as we'll.
The fact that this little prodigy does not
know one figure from another, makes it
the more mysterious. Give out the null
tiplication table, and tell him how much
each line increases, and he will multiply
them as fast as they can be written down,
or, in other words, just as fast as a person
can give them cut to him. Ask him to
explain how he multiplies numbers 80
readily, and his quick, intelligent an.
swers are as mysterious as his faculty for
multiplying. g.-LaurensviMe Herald.
- A stage coach was recently stopped
by robbers not far from Corpus Christi,
Texas, and the passengers made some
remarkably hasty movements in chang
ing the locality of their valuables. Capt.
Millet snatched off his watch and chain
and threw them into the brush, and wear
ing long beard, he managed to conceal
valuable diamond pin by holding down
his head. He also cut slit in the lin.
ing of the coach and slipped 5000 in
greenbacks out OF sight. Judge Leisen-
ring showed his watch and chain into his
boot. All this was accomplished before
the robbers could get them out of the
coach. There was great cursing by the
robbers at the poverty of the travellers.
and in revenge they were kept about two
hours with their hands up in the air.
- The ratification of the Chinese trea.
tise, which was agreed to by the Senate
last week, will not, it is claimed, bring
the relief to the people of tho Pacific
coast from Chinese immigration which
they are 50 anxionsly clamoring for.
The regulations concerning the inporta.
ton of Chinese to the United States,
which the treaty comedies shall be made,
il IS now said in diplomatic circles must
be adopted by the legislative branch OF
the government. The executive branch
can enforce the regulations, but it has
no power to prescribe what they shall be.
This being the case, it would seem that
Chinese immigration must so on
unchecked till the meeting OF Congress
in December next.
- Prohibitory laws are not what we
want; temperance organizations will not
meet the end desired dry elections will
not answer the purpose. Reform must
begin elsewhere, if we desire effectually |
to remove this curse from the land. We
may be wrong, but it is our firm convic.
ton that unless public sentiment be di.
rected against this liquor drinking (; |
unless it is frowned down by our leaders,
both in church and State; unless the
agitators in this question and those to
whom the great masses of the people |
look up, and follow Us leaders unless
these, we say, preach not only by precept,
but by example. all the prohibitory laws
that forty Legislatures could pass would
be of no avail.-AbberiNe Medium.
Gen. Gary's will gives his entire
property to his three sisters, Mrs. Gen.
Evans, Mrs. Hodges and Miss Luella
Gary. The impression has prevailed in
our community, for two or three weeks
past, that Mrs. Evans and her family |
would come to Edgcfcld to live-occu-
pying Oakley Park-but, and we are
very sorry to say so, this seems to be un:
certain. We suppose the property will
ultimately be sold.-Edgefela Advertiser.
= Peter Blassingame, q colored car.
penter, while at work on trestle being
built on the Air. Line Railroad across the
Saluda River, five miles from Greepville,
was instantly killed Friday last by fall.
ing piece oftimber striking him on the
bead and knocking out his brains. His
body fell into the river and hoated some
distance before being recovered.
Judging from the number of loads
Of baled hay, sacks of corn and sides of
bacon hauled away from Bamberg, last
Saturday, we concluded that that section
must have been sorely troubled last year
with cotton fever. Other sections OF
Barnwell county have been similarly
affiicted.-BornreN Sentinel.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
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