The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-06-08

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Charleston are whooping-with.ss - the
whooping cough.
= The Piedmont MilI, Grecnyille
County, has just made another shipment
OF 100 bales Of its goods to China.
= The State of Kansas boasts of hay.
ing 4 million and half of acres covered
with growing wheat, and week ago the
grain was tour feet high.
:. The Prince of Wales has been elee.
ted unanimously and by acclamatinn
commodore of the Royal Yacht SQUAD
70, ron In place of the late Earl of Wilton.
The position, the most distinguished in
tue yachting world, is one long coveted
by his Royal Highness.
"A telegram from Decatur, Ala 9th
instant, published in Southern panea
says: "A man, with his wife and child
were camped near Buena Vista. Monroe
county. The child was heard CRYING in
the night, and citizens found the man
and woman both dead. supposed to hayo
been caused from spider cooked in the
supper"
= Pay up or look for some other em.
pioyment, 10 about the meaning OF the
circular which the Republican Congres.
sional Committee has, addressed to the
Senate and House employees, demandipg
contributions for campaign purposes
The Intense humor Of the .locument IN
contained in the paragraph wherein the
iorced assessments are styled "yoluntary
contributions;" and it is further remarked
that "they will not be objected to in any
official quarters"
= The friends of Mr.. Conklinp. not
TO be behind the friends of MIR. blaine.
are trying to prevail upon him to become
candidate fer Congress in his old Dis.
trict:: He has been assured that he
would be elected without opposition.
While the ex-senator has not indicated
whether he will accept nomination. the
chances are that he will not, unless in
the event of the resignation of Secretary
rTehnghuysen he fails to secure the port
iolio OF the Department Of State.
= Theatrical profits the past season
have been very large in some individual
cases: George Adams claims $4,000
out t"aumpty Dumpty" in forty weeks.
Buffalo Bill received about 100000. of
which half was clear profit. Maepie
Mitchell and John T. Raymond MADE
about $4,000, while Samuel of Posenh
drew over 100000 in New York alone
last season. Mr.. Edwin Booth Ia said to
have made 5000, and his manager, Mr..
Abbey, $4,000, out of his last season.
"A Salado correspondent of the Bol.
ton (Texas) Journal writes: 81 venture
to assert that one of the most novel we'd
dings that ever took place in Texas was
the marriage, May 4, of Mr. s. Gentry.
OF burleson county, and Miss Rachel
Watson. nenr Salado. The groom was
ak feet high and weighed one hundred
and sixty pounds, while The bride was
only TWO feet eleven inches and weighed
only sIxty-five pounds. Miss Watson
was twenty six years old and we'll known
rs the dwarf of Boil county,"
Late Saturday evening, twelve miles
from Little Rock, Ark, Jim Jaunders. a
colored boy Is years old, attempted an
assault on white girl named Mamie
Carr; Her screams frightened him away
ana he came to the city on Sunday after
noon. lie was arrested and sent to tho
country under constable's posse and
lodged In small house in the ncighbor.
hood. fer safe keeping. About 10 o'clock
at night large body of masked men
broke into the building, overpowered the
guards and riddled Jaunders's body with
bullets.
= The old log cabin which Washing.
ton made his headquarters when sur
veyn;r in the Valley of Virginia still
stands intact over the spring at Soldiers
host Clarke county. Soldiers Rest was
built ~ Gen. Daniel Morgan, of Reyo.
iusionary fame. When bruised and
bloody from the numerous fights with
which he was wont to celebrate court dav
IN tne neighboring. town of Berryville,
ne would retire to the old spring house,
where his wife would bathe his heat, and
bind up his wounds. The old cabin il
now used as dairy.
= Answers to one hundred letters nd.
dressed to prominent men of the South.
ern States by the New York Times satisfv
IL that the Democratic party of the South
IS unit on national questions; that the
inder rcndont movements fostered by Ar
thur are failures, and that generally
throughout the South is found :ndiffar-
ence to or denunciation of the admins.
tration. All of which indicates that
Malone stock, whether the original Vir.
ginia preferred or the Mississippi or
Georgia common, is an unprofitable DO.
ililcai investment.-Ne,oY York Press.
- The Grant bronze medals have been
completed, and are in course of distribu-
on to the BOG members of the CHICAGO
Convention. in commemoration of the
ballots cast for him for President. On
one side is profile of Gen. Grant, and
around 1t on raised circle appeared the
thirsy-six ballots, the record beginning
at the bottom and eA tending around tiil
the circle meets again. On tho diverse
side appears the following inscription
"Commemorative of the thsrty-six ballots
of the Old Guard for Ulysses s. Grant
for President. Republican National
Convention, Chicago, June, 1885," Un-
derneath is blank on which is engraved
the name of the delegate receiving it.
= The tunnel under the British Chan
mel has been voted defensible by mill
tary committee of Euglishmeu, who re.
commend, however, that the opening of
the tunnel be placed farther inland in
order to give room for defensive works.
The idea seems to be that train from
FRANCE must stop in an English pit sur.
rounded BY Armstrong;, hinge lerliaca-
tions and brave policemen. All this is
curious and rather ridiculous. Tho
French, confessedly military people,
do not think of fortifying their end Of
the tunnel: On the contrary, they treat
it as they do other lines of communica.
ton between their country and its neigh.
bors. The English di5cussion of the
turi4el sounds very much like the foolish
,h ss said by some wise men about rail-
, -. in 1926 and ocean cables in 1860.
= Mr.. Edison has put his electric light