The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-02
The Director or the Mint.

The Director OF the Mint.
WAsHiSGToS, June 27.-The Presi.
dent to-day suspended Horato G. Bur.
chard, Of Illinois, as director of the
mint and appointed James B. Kimball,
Of Pennsylvania, in his stead. The
change will take effect July l. Kimba'l
lives in Bethlehem, Pa, where he is pro-
fessor of economic geology in the Lehieh
University. He Is q mining engineer
and s metallurgist by profession. He
was educated at Harvard University and
at the Mining School of Freiburg, Sax.
ony, receiving the degree of ph. ID.
from the University Of Gottipgen ia 1857.
He has held appointments on several
State and Government surveys. During
the war be served in the Army Of the
Potomac rs assistant acknowledgement on
the staffs of Gems. Mcclellan, Burnside,
Hooker and Meade, successfully. He is
now president of the Everett Iron Com
pany, Of Pennsylvania, and is we'll
known in New York, where he has au
Office He is member of the Union,
Century and Down Town clubs of New
York City.
Burchard said to day, in regard to his
suspension, that he preferred that the
change should be made in that way
rather than to resign in the face Of
chargcs of efficiency and Of mismaunge.
ment which had been made against him
by personal enemies, and which have
been published in several newspapers.
He did not dispute the Presidents right
to remove him, but had some little curl.
osIty to see the ~ isons" therefor which
the President wo give to the Senate.
His relations with Secretary Manning
had always been of most pleasant char.
acter, and he regretted that q contrary
impression had arisen since his removal
has been spoken of.
= O. r. Holland, prominent colored
| advocate his scheme of colonizng the
negroes in New Mexico. He claims that
the people Of the South "work fifteen
| months in the year" raising cotton to
| exchange fer bread and meat, and then
| DO not get half enough. He says that
when the negroes leave the Southern
States good class Of whites Will move
| in. Even If white immigrants failed to
| come, he thinks that it would be more
| profitable to let the country grow up in
grass, 70 the people would raise stock and
fertilize and reclaim their worn out lands.
! 1t will be seen that the esteemed colored
brother is little wild.
"A Boston statistician says that 81
will buy as much of the necessaries of
1866, 81 cents IN l845, and $l.19 in 1925.
In other words, the purchasing power of
81 is nineteen per cent greater than it
was in 1866. A dollar will buy more
to- day than in most previous periods in
the history of the nation.
| - Neal Dow declares that there are
grown. up men in the State Of Maine
who never have seen grogshop or
drunken man but there Is nothing 70.
markable about this. There are grown.
up people in the State of Maine who
never see anything, and there is strong
suspicion that Neal Dow is ono Of them.
= Ed. Bundy, the negro hotel waiter
| of Spartanburg who shot and killed
| Annie Hickman, white woman of
disreputable character, in March last, has
beeu convicted of murder and sentenced
to De hanged August 9th. TIE case will
go to the Supreme Court.
= On Thursday Shade StalIings, aged
nineteen years, youngest son of Joseph
Stallings, a prominent planter of Aiken
Coun ty WAS drowned while fishing in the
stream of his fathers mill. The sheating
gave way some distance above him aud
the escaping water engulfed him in its
flood.
= Little girl from Chicsgo-"Our fam.
lily is more aristocratic family than
yours" Little girl from Boston-"No,
it isn't. nIy mother can boast of her
forefathers for the past two centuries"
Little girl from Chicago-"Oh, that is
nothing. My mother can boast of four
husbands in the last two years."
= Many negroes are ashamed of being
black, and they object to being called
negroes because the word "negro"-orig.
inally from the Latin word niger, means
black" 1t has been the weakest point
in the negro's mental make up, since he
became q freeman.
= About $500 saloon. keepers in
Chicago pay license fee of $500 each,
producing the enormous revenue of
$l,750, 900. This ought to 80 long way
toward supporting the municipal govern.
ment.
= The railroad system of Japan has
attained length Of 225-miles, and ia
increasing stesdily. Ithas been mainly
built by the Japanese government with
native capital. The business results up
to tho prerent time have given no cause
for dissatisfaction.
= A0ew color Is called "four o'clock"
If it's the color Of mans nose as he
goes meandering home about four o'clock
In the morning, it must DO mighty
brilliant shade Of red.
- An epicurean doctor says that in
order to obtain the full flavor of butter
the bread upon which it ia spread should
be introduced into the mouth with the
bnttered surface downward.
It Is foolishness to raise a lot Of Beams
and then allow them to get hard and