The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-02-09
News and Gossip.

O. @n0 'aiiuIeS leet week In the United
in the South. rp'"s"
There are over 10000 Southcrners
IN New York City who have located there
since the war.
- There are in Congress eight Irish.
and three Germans.
1t ia estimated by the New York
Hera.d that the property destroyed by
100000, 900. w ~
Thomas II. Benton and John @.
Calhoun were born, like Daniel Webster.
IN I782. The centennial anniversary OF
the Missouri statesman comes on the i4th
18th. ~ -A"''"
- The London Nesos is authority for
the statement that it is not tho Hebrews
who, without giving up their religion.
became citizens OF Russia, but ,he aliens
In haste to be rich, who were subjected
to persecution.
= Mississippi leyees have begun to
break. 1t is only the beginning, but tho
conditions of weather In the North ind;-
cate that there will be no overfloys In
tho spring, when great deal moro dam.
age would be done.
= In the Iowa House last week a hi,
was introduced prohibiting the giving of
railroad passes to any public officer Of
state, county, city or town, or Ia anv
juror also reducing tho fare on all rail-.
road5 to half cent.
The laborers living in the small town
OF Penomene, near Panama, and WORKING
on the DeLesseps Canal, refused to be
veccinated. During the three months
past upWaras OF one thousand deaths
nave taken place there from smallpox.
MIR. John Kelly. according to the
outgivings Of some of his followers, has
determined to organize O personal party
In New York. II is hard to conceive how
party moro personal than the Tammany
organization under Mr.. Kelly's despot:c
sway can possibly be engineered.
= Mr.. E. nj. Boynton, an inventor, of
Brooklyn, has invented what he terms n
bicycle railroad, to solve tho problem, OF
rapid transit, by means of an elevated
tunnel, witL latticed sides, supported bv
row of posts or piilars. with wheels
hGeen fsss i. diameter no calculates 10
effect speed of $50 miles an hour.
- Among the charred debris that have
been removed from the rninn Of the R:s--
Theatre in Vienna, were the remains Of
henry Samek, the chief of the claoue.
who, aft. Displaying extraordinary gal
iantry In rescuing several persons from
the galleries of the burning house. lost
bis life in trying to s1ge his overcoat
| Miss West, the daughter of the
mi 1tufn
washington for the skill and taste with
which she plays the hostess In her fathers
house. She is only eighteen, and had not
| long been out Of her convent when she
started for Washington. She shows in
entertaining tho grace and selfposeession
OF an experienced married woman. and
youthful gentleness that adds to I.es
charm.
| = Alabama returns as subject to taxa.
ton mechanical tools of the value of
S2ZS. .oO0 farming implements. $77, 500,
making total value of mechanical tools
and .Lrminng implements OF $306,OOO.
VI guns, pistols and dirka, 1854 2hG: or
about $4,000 more invested in rnns.
pistols and dirks than in farming imple.
ments and mechanical tools combined,
Ihe average value of weapons in each
county is $1,000.
| = One of the cu-iosities of the North
Carolina Penitertisry is white man
named Lev Sheior, who has taught
some !itrli ray ;;:;;ooo remarkable feats in
ascending and descending miniature lad
deTs and scPes, standing III the stocks,
balancing, etc. He 10 half.witted man,
and becomes sometimes perfectly wild.
Yet he Is always gentle to his little pets,
| and thav nathan az. rf LIZ
Others, but live in the cell with him.
= An old man named Woods, who WINS
once a wealthy citizen of Kentucky,
counting fifty negroes among his assets,
is now living in Cincinnati in happy do.
pendence; upon the charity of colored
man and his two sisters, who were Mr..
Woods slaves before the war. They are
the members Of &. family separated at the
austlon 6locE, hus repurchnsed at round
price and united by Mr.. Woods, under
his OWN roof, after much trouble and do.
lay, and they are now paying debt of
gratitude.
- One of the meanest men in exist-
ence ia o prosperous Kentucky farmer.
It had long been his custom, when he
had o letter to write, to drop in at the
bank where he kept his account and bor-
ItOW u SuC6C OI pApSf. I1AVlnR ln1t-E -
tine letter he would ask the cashier 10 put
it in an envelope and direct it for him,
and then carry 1t to the postoffice himself.
|, The frequent repetition Of this performs
ance seemed in itself trifie small, but
, the cashiers indignation can beimaginea
, when he learned that the farmer never
stamped his letters, knowing that the
, postmaster, recognizing the cashief's
: handwriting and the banks naue Ia the
corner, would courteously prepay them
and send the bill to the bank.
- The escape of Col. Tom Buford from
the gallows after his deliberate murder Of
Judge Elliott has been condemned in the
!. Kentucky Legislature, and formal ex-
{ preston of dissent with the verdict was
!. all bnt secured. A resolution to erect 4
Q monument 10 Elicit was introduced, and
:. the preamble asserted that he had been
u "shot down and murdered In the sight oi
6 the capitol by The ruthless hand OF au
i assassin, who escaped just punishment
D undor she guise of tho recently popular
10 plea of insanity" In tho spirited debate
N which followed the jury end their verlic
found no defender, end it was conceded
i that the murderer had been saved by th
y wealth and popularity Of his family, bu
}" it was supposed that the clause would b
te q reflection OH Judge Jackson, who ha
n, presided at the trial. and II was strlcke
n out,