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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-27
Melton and Woodruff.

COLUMBIA, April 1o.-The following
letter which has been tished up out Of
Joe Woodruff's voluminous correspon.
dence. will be read with interest:
MELTON e. CHAMBERLAIN.
LAW OFFICE,
COLUMBIA, s. c., October, 1876.
Dear 10: lam busted, broke, strapped,
insolvent--haven't cent. Send me
your check for one hundred dollars, if
only for 10 days. If you haven't it, 90
and get it somewhere.
Yours, faithfully,
SAM'L w. MELTON.
/, will be observed that tho letter 10
dated October 6, 1876, just little while
before the final collapse Of the Chamber.
lain government. here was nothing
wrong in asking "Dear To" for the loan
of hundred dollars if "Dear TO" had
been in position to make the advance
honestly. The story of his stealing was
we'll known at the date of the Melton
epistle, He had nothing that belonged
to him honestly. But still wor.e fea-
ture of the transaction is that, after ask
ing for such favor, the immaculate
Melton should almost instantly have
turned around and smitten tile hand
which helped him. The public have not
yet forgotten how "Dear 10" was handled
by Mr.. Melton in the Cardozo case.
It is, perhaps. one of Mr.. Melton's
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-27
President Lincoln's Remains.

SrRISdfIELD, ILL. April 17.-Last
Saturday memorial services were held Mt
the National Lincoln Monument In Oak
idge Cemetery. Governor Cullom and
Major Connolly delivered addresses.
Ever since the attempt to steal the re.
mains, about three years ago, everybody
save half dozen persons intimately con.
ncctcd with the--nionumeut association
supposed that Mr.. Lincoln's remains
were enclosed in the marble sarcophagus
which stands in the vestibule leading to
the crypts, where the other members of
u, the family. arc entombed. This is n1t 80.
The remains of Mr.. Lincoln have been
buried in the rrolnd under a portion of
tho immense granite pile forming his
monument, and are now in complete
state of retrifaclion, tho form and even
the features Of the dead President being
preserved.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-27
A Bit OF Society GOgsIn.

WAsnINGToN, April 16.-The ap.
pointment of Mr.. Chandler to the Navy
portfolio has developed an interesting
phase of Washington social life which
sets gossips ngog with speculation. It
will be remembered that wheE :. Wilkes
Booth was shot the picture of a beautiful
young lady, reigning society belle, was
found on his person. The original of the
portrait was recognized in the person OF
Miss Hale, the daughter of leading
politician and statesman, and q lady Of
whom Booth had become deeply and
seriously enamored. What encourage.
ment he had received was not precisely
known, but there was enough between
them to form tho basis of good many
romances which afterwards appeared in
the public press. Miss Hale afterward
became Mrs. Chandler, and is now the
wife OF the Secretary of the Navy. The
same whirligig of time which has brought
this about has also made the then young
son of the martyred Lincoln Secretary Of
War. 1t now appears that, according to
official etiquette, it is the duty of the
Secretary of War TO escort the wife Of
his next in rank to dinner on State occa.
sions. He must take the wife of the
Secretary Of the Navy. Secretary Lin
coin, in short, must escort the one time
sweetheart Of the assassin of his dis.
tinguished father. Therefore society is
shocked.
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Platform Of the WOrkingmen.
New YoRK, April I6.

m NEW YORK, April 16.
The central organization of Trades
Unions met this afternoon and adopted a
platform OF principles which demands
eight hours for days work, prohibiting
the employment of children Under four.
teen years of age in workshops, mines
and factories, the abolition of all con.
tract labor on government works and the
prohibiting of all convict contract labor;
the enactment of laws giving workmen
mechanics lien for full wages for their
work; equal pay for equal work of both
sexes; establishment Of labor statisti.
cnl bureau by the States az well as by the
General Government, tho officers of these
bureaus to be chosen from labor organi.
izations; sanitary inspection of mines,
factories, and all conditions of labor
abolition of the conspiracy and tramp
laws, and all laws not bearing equally on
rich and poor. and the establishment of
a national circulating medium, which
shall be issued to the people without the
intervention Of banks.
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Social Equality ON the Rail.

CINcINNATI. April 19.-Mrs. s. ].
Gray, colored, wife Of Rev. S. J. Grny. of
Lexington, Ky, who, through her hus.
band, sued the Cincinnati Southern Rail.
road Company for refusing her admit.
tanco to the ladies' car on first class
ticket last August. and placed the dam.
ages Mt $4,000. was awarded q verdict of
one thousand dollars in the United States
Court this morning.
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A STRANGE OCCURRENcE.-lt is sta
ted that on Tuesday last an old man
named Mr.. Jerry Glenn, who lives about
five miles from Greer's Station, disap-
peared rather suddenly, and that party
at once began searching for him IS soon
as his absence was observed. Blood was
discovered at wood pile near the house.
and this alarming evidence was traced
for about mile away from the dwelling
of Mr.. Glenn, where he was found lying
in helpless condition, entirely uncon-
scious and bleeding profusely from deep
cut in the left wrist. He was taken
home and DR.. Westmoreland, of Greers,
was sent for, but on his arrival expressed
the opinion that there was little hope OF
the injured mans recovery. One OF the
bones i. Dir. Glenn's wrist is said to be
entireIy severed and several important
blood vessels are cut. At last accounts
he was very weak from loss of blood,
and was not expected to live. There is
no explanation as to how he received
such an injury, and it can only be ac-
counted for upon the theory that MIR.
Glenn's mind having been feeble for
some time, he might have accidentally
cut himself with an axe, hatchet or other
sharp instrument and then wandered off.
Mr.. Glenn is large land owner, and n
we'll known farmer in this section.-
GreeauiNe Ne,rs.
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Riddlod.

GALVESTON, April lS.--A special to
the Nems, from Decatur, says Joe Brown,
alias Big Jim, one ,f the men who bru.
tally murdered the lam boys, year ago,
In Hill county, horribly mutilating the
bodies and then cremating them, was
shot and killed, to day, by Deputy Sher-
I'll Meridith and posse, in an effort to
arrest him. Brown drew pistol and
defied them, whereupon he was riddled
with bullets.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-27
North Carolina Politics.

RALEIGH, Apri! IS. The State Re.
publican Executive Committee, all the
members present except two, to-day met
ana decided to call the State Convention
on wednesday, June 18th. They moved
TO favor an alliance with the liberal
movement in this State.
The State Anti.Prohibition Conyen.
ton IL called to meet on Tuesday, Nav 2.
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VOLUME XVII.---NO. Al.

greatest misfortunes that he will not be
true to his friends. I saw a prominent
Republican politician from Charleston
TINS morning who used the exact Ian.
guag,e which now quote: "He (Molton)
mas done some id mean tricks, aud I
nope, they (the Democrats) will scorch
MN like h-ll. He wouldn't stand bv
his own party, and be is getting just what
he deserves."-L G. H., in Heus and
CDU,fer. @"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-27
Homicide In kerslaw.

COLUMBIA, April l0.-The Lancaster
Ledger reports that difficulty occurred
at 1. j. Cauthens mill, in the upper part
of kcrshaw county, on last Saturday ne f.
tween Clark, the miller, and Daniel
Peach, in which Peach was killed.
Peach WIS drinking. and attacked CLARK
with n knife, and Clark seized a MALE.
and struck Peach in the breast and killed
him instantly. Clark surrendered him.
self to Trial Justice. Peach wns forty
years old, md left family.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-27

= According to official statistics the
total population of the German empire,
as given by the last census, was 45. .234 ,O91,
of whom 44,658,20 were natives and
275,856, foreigners.
How the hearts of crowd swell and
throb with pitiless hatred against the
man who coughs during the performance
at theatre, when they know lie is too
stingy 10 invest twenty-five cents in q
bottle of DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup.
A consignment of ninety.four bales
Of raw silk arrived in New York on
Monday from Hong Kong, but when
opened were found to contain nothing
but sea-weed and grass. The shippers
were the notorious Vogel Bros, who had
been paid S47 900, the value of the raw
silk.
"A South Carolina farmer thus
spoke to the Augusta Chronicle the other
day: ~ have just purchased some i'm
proved implements and am cultivating
my land better than ever. Cotton ruined
me. Last year raised 1000 bushels OF
corn and did this with scarcely any rain.
am making money on small grains and
forage. Last year raised ten bales of
cotton. This year have not a seed
planted. find no difficulty In selling
my corn and hay in Augusta"
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CURRENT TOPICS.
A Desperate Tramp Killed,

ST. LOUIS. April l9.-A crazy tramp
IN the vicinity of Maryville, Mo-, has
been annoying the citizens for some time.
In endeavo-ing to arrest him one of the
constable's posse was shot and killed by
the tramp. The Sheriff and posse then,
IN endcavoring to arrest the Tramp, killed
him.
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- We pass our lives in regretting, the
past, complaining OF the present and in
dulging in false hopes of the future.
The Carson City (Nev.) Appeal says ::
ST. Jacobs Oil is good for rheumatism,
neuralgia and thousand different ills.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-27

"A negro woman in Onslow county,
North Carolina, is said TO be seven feet
two inches high.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-03
Roscoe COnklfug.

1t will be an honor and a gain to the SUI
preme court, gain to the republican party, a
gain to the democratic party, gain to the
laurels of justice and a gain to the whole coul
try if Roscoe Conkling should accept the po-
sition to which he was nominated by
the president. But we still doubt it.
We still think Mr.. CoRkling will quietly
decline this offer precisely as he de-
clined the chief justiceship when Grant offered
it several years ago.
Some twenty years ago Conkling, Blaine,
Sherman, Allison, Window, Wilson, were all
republican members of the house together.
They were all poor at that time-very poor.
They were of about the same age; had about
the same start, and have been in public life
constantly. Blaine is now millionaire; AL
lison, of Iowa, in the senate, is another mil
lionaire; Sherman is trebly a millionaire;
Window is a millionaire; Wilson also got to
be very rich.
Roscoe Conklng-the ablest, greatest,
proudest of them all-is poor to-day. No
man came SO near to be acting president of
this country during the eight years of Grant
as Conking. No man in Washington, except
opportunities. Mr.. Conklng did not profit by
tilSAt. llC ID pun to-udy, dllS tiis SHaiaSlSi-
ICES the difference between him and the other
leaders of the republican party.
the position on the supreme court is high
honor. 1t is a position for life. Itpays $40, 900
a year. 1t confers great dignity upon the in
cumbent. Roscoe Conkling is now only a
private citizen He has many traducers. But
we still doubt whether he will accept the
place.
Of all the American politicians and So
called statesmen Roscoe Conkling is incoIn-
parably the Hottest, ablest and the cleanest.
He is the most dauntless, eloquent and intel
lectual character in American politics to-day.
We should dislike to lose him.-[St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-03
Miscellaneous Items.

The late Gov. Blue Jeans Williams, of In
diana, is to have granite monument Is feet
9 ncnes high, to cost $4,000.
Ex-Secretary Blaine is to attend the banquet
of the Knights of St. Patrick in St. Louis n
St. Patricks Day, and respond to toast.
Mrs. Alice Keller, member of the Emma
Abbott opera troupe, has secured divorce in
New York from her husband, David T. Kei-
Ter.
Some modest citizen of Providence, r. L.,
who wthholds his name, has given about 80
acres of ground, admirably Situated, for tn e
purpose of a public park, designing that it
Shall be commemorative of the encampment
of the French troops in the war of the revolu-
ton.
Washington Irving Bishop, who figured in
this country as an exposer of spiritualism, az
terward went to England to perform as a mind
reader, after the manner of Brown. He has
made some stir there, but has been rather
staggered by an offer of thousand-pound
bank note if he will ascertain its number
while it remains in sealed envelope.
There is much dissatisfaction in Jamaica on
account of the extravaganza of the colonial
government. Resolutions have been intro
duced in the legislative council urging re-
duction of the governors salary and retrench-
ment in other expenditures, which were only
defeated by the casting vote of the governor.
The lamentations of the Bordeaux wine
merchants continue. They were obliged last
year to import 24,ooo, 900 gallons of foreign
wines, besides $500 tons Of Smyrna and Cy-
prus raisins, which furnished about 2,ooo, 900
gallons more of fluid which, duly mixed,
they supply as claret.
Of $50 women who are this year pursuing
the higher courses of education in St, Peters
burg, SCI study physics and mathematics, and
only All literature; ORG are of noble origin,
and ia profess orthodox faith.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-03

ed within and without the senate house
free citizen of the United States of
America. For more than week her
arrival at Kentucky every place and
corner in the large theatre we're book
ed for at competitive prices, and at
Washington General Jackson present.
ed her to the members Of his ministry
for her to receive the congratulations
of his colleagues on her election as an
American CITIZEN"
1t is delightful to be told that in
this. country "troops" are "evey-
where" and that they "present arms"
to actresses. But it is funnier still to
be informed of Celeste's ELECTION" as
"a free citizen of the United States of
America" and that it twas proclaimed
within and without the senate house,"
though whether "at Kentucky" or in
Washington we cannot make out. And
who were General Jackson's "col-
leagues" when he presented her to his
ministry 60
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-03

The husband of Lady Burdett Coutts is a
member of the International Fashion Exhibi-
ton, to take place in London next year, and
the official list gives the following nomen-
clature for this much-benamed Anglo-Amer-
lean: Mr.. w. L. A. B. c. Burdett- Coutts.
The Hon. Mark Alexander, of Meclen
burg county, Va, for I6 years member
congress, celebrated his goth birthday on the
18th inst. He is the only survivor of the ia
nous Virginia convention of $4,000, and is
in excellent health, considering his advanced
age.
Moltke, and practically head of the German
army, is married to an American lady, Miss
Lee, whose sister is the wife of very dis
tinguished Wurtemberg nobleman.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-03
From Robe to Resta urant.

Meridian (Conn.) Republican.
Winsted is very much excited over the mar
rage of one of the priests, who was very pop
ular among the Catholics there. There is a
monastery in that town-the only one in the
state--where priests known as the order of
Jesuits have their headquarters, and live some
what secluded, similar to sisters, although not
quite so secluded or retired. These Jesuit
fathers 60 out to various Catholic churches;
conduct Emissions" or revivals of two or three
weeks duration, doing real laborious service,
taxing their mental and bodily strength. To
this sacrificing order the married priest once
belonged, but more recently he was officiating
as assistant at St. Joseph's church. His name
is the Rev. Edward Agudi, and he was mar
ried about two weeks since to by Methodist
clergyman, in New Haven, to Miss Welsh,
of Winsted, who had been employed in New
Haven. The priest left Winsted, ostensibly,
to visit Boston, on a visit to his superior, but
not returning the truth leaked out. He has
opened a restaurant in Bridgeport, where he
appears to be doing good business.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-03
An AgnOstic's Prayer.


drawal from the pulpit of the church
of the Unity, in Chicago, and from a
$4,000 salary, has caused so much
comment among Unitarians, says he
was induced to take this step because
of his continually increasing liberal
views. He holds that, while it is i'm
possible to predict in detail what the
future of the church will be, it is easy
to perceive 1.-The general tendency
1t is toward "the substitution of basis
of impartial and natural ethics for the
basis of supernaturalism in. which the
church has rested" Human SYM
pathy will take the place of dogma, and
with the speculative beliefs thrown
aside, it will have more time for prac-
tical philanthropy and will become the
great educational and formative force
of society. He some time since aban-
doned the petition form in prayer.
About week ago Mr.. Milne opened
his service with the following:
"We turn our feet from the common
path of life into the seclusion of this
sacred hour, made sacred to us by our
own intentions. AT least for a little
while we bid farewell to the fret and
worry of our daily life, to the burdens
which we in silence carry, and to the
trivial pleasures which do so much to
dissipate our fine energies and pur-
poses. We come here to find rest, to
find light, to gain strength for the du-
ties which are before us. We come
here that by the planting of holy pur-
poses we may grow stronger and ncbler
in all the ways of life. May the still
ness of this moment breathe a sweet
serenity into every heart. Looking
backward, we may learn to regard with
scorn all that has been unworthy of us
all pettiness all littleness, all
counselling with ignoble and time
serving motives. Looking forward,
may our aspirations reach af-
ter the highest ideals for
ourselves and for our fellows. May
we be above despair, above hopeless
ness; may we look into the future with
calmness and determination, prepared
for its duties and for whatever of con-
flict may await us. And my our inter-
communication lift us into a realm
where we shall be emancipated from
suspicion and misinterpretation ofeach
other. We do not forget the poor.
They are always with US. May men
help the poor, the blind, the sick, and
they who are beaten down by the
trampling of many feet in all the ways
of life. o that our hearts may at least
be full of sympathy, and our hands al
ways full of help for such. And may
we look with yearning eyes for the
coming of that day in which there shall
be no pain, no crying nor WEAKNESS of
heart! Amen"
The latest Englishman imported by
the Herald was set to work to write
the obituary of Madame Celeste. He
had nothing to say about her frequent
performances in this country except
the following, relating to her second
visit to the United States:
everywhere she passed troops pre-
scented arms, the people hurrahed and
cheered Justify and lengthily, parlicu-
larly SO on the day she was proclaim.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-03

PRICES coRREcTHD BY FRANK ]. BEIrEl

PRICES CORRECTED BY FRANK J. BEITEL
Texas pine, rough, per thousand. ........ $2s 90
Texas flooring, T. and G., dressed, per M 90 90
Texas boxing. dressed, per thousand. 90 90
Yellow Pine dressed. N and ~ per M. 20 90
Yellow pine, 7. and G., per thousand. IS 90
Flooring, y p all heart, T. and G., per M 20 90
Boxing, dressed, yellow pine, per M..... IS 90
Siding, n. dressed, yellow pine per M. IS 90
Ceiling, u, dressed, yellow pine, per M. IS 90
Siding. q, dressed, yellow pine, per M. 90 50
Ceiling 81, dressed, yellow pine, per M. 80 50
White pine, from to 2, per thousand. 70 90
Siding u, white pine, per thousand. 90 50
Ceiling, u, white pine, per thousand ..... 90 50
Poplar, per thousand. Observation-Disclosures. 90 90
White oak, per thousand ................ 90 90
Sawed cedar. per thousand. ............ 50 90
Pailing white pine, d. and H per M..... 40 90
Failing yellow pine, D. and H per M. IS 90
Failing, yellow pine, rough per M........ 90 90
Laths white pine, per thousand ..... 50
Laths yellow pine, per thousand. ...... 80
Shingles, Long Co.'S 80. X" per M. 90
Shingles, all heart cypress, per M. .... so
Shingles cypress, second quality, per M. S so
Shingles, cypress, third quality per M.... 5 90
Shingles, yellow pine, per thousand. ..... so
Shingles, "Shoo-Fly," per thousand. 900. oc
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01
Prohibition Notes.

political Economy uersus The
Liquor Traffic" an address by the
Hon. w. T. Wiley, recently Dolly
cred in the Morgantown M; b.
Church, and now published IN
pamphlet form, is one of the clear
est and most convincing documents
of the kind ever given in our State.
Pastors might well read 1t to their
congregations instead of sermon.
--Aduocatc Correspondent. o.
REwARDs.-Gov. St. John of Kan
sas, issues a proclamation setting
forth the facts of lawless combina-
lions to resist the Prohibitory laws,
in the five cities of Atcheson, Leav-
ellsworth, Topeka, Wyandotte and
Dodge City, and offers series OF
large rewards for the arrest and
conviction of any violators of the
law in these cities, together with
like large rewards for the convic-
ton and removal from office of any
constable, sheriff, or other officer
who fails or refuses to discharge his
duties in enforcing the laws. The
brave Governor has a mind that
the laws shall be enforced.
TIDAL WAvE.-An exchange
says: "a tremendous teetotal tidal
wave has struck Arkansas, and
thousands are signing the pledge OF
abstinence and many saloons are
closed"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-02-01
Elizabeth Borough.


This Monongahela river town is
entitled to honor. 1t has just ac-
complished the utter route of some
saloonists who undertook to violate
it's Prohibitory law. The leader of
these law-breakers was one Owen
McElroy, who sold openly and
boosted that he would do SO.
The citizens felt themselves out
ragged. They concluded to paddock
the murder-shops. Constable Nc
Clure, man ofsnap and conscience,
did his whole duty. The work went
forward step by step, and without
hating, till now all the cases are
before the Grand Jury, and Owen
McElroy, who boasted before the
Alderman that nothing could keep
him from selling, is skulking in
out of the way places as fugitive
from Justice. This notice has APP
peared in the Elizabeth Herald,
that has done good work IN the
fight: