The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-02-02

The Mississippi Senate failed to
pass the constitutional amendment bill
over the Governors veto, the vote stand
ing 16 to 19, not the necessary two.
thirds.
At the negro State convention now
in session at Macon, Georgia, w. A.
Pledger introduced q resolution com.
mending the action ofthe colored people
of South Carolina in trying to raise funds
to employ competent attorneys to defend
the negroes who lynched Waldrop near
Contra, recently.
"A special from Key West says
Havana is in turmoil, and on the verge
of mob violence, owing to INSCRIPTIONS
acts of the government. On Sunday there
we're twelve murders, one suicide, eight
highway robberies and four stabbing af.
trays. The situation is becoming more
alarming every moment.
- Prof E. Stone Virgins, the earth.
quake sharp, has been heard from again.
He says that great earthquake period
in North America will begin in 19O4-on
August 10, to be exact. Meanwhile he
will not bother with small shakes, like
those which have taken place recently,
which are merely "the negative or reflex
action of an earthquake, the position be.
ing located south Of Cape Horn"
= Lucien 81. Smith, special agent of
the United States Labor Bureau, has
been getting figures about marriages and
divorces in Texas. In forty-fve counties
he finds that there have been 4,423
divorces, three-fourths of which have
been granted since 1880. Nearly 1000
of them have occurred among the negroes,
and more than three fourths were due to
intemperance.
- The accumulation of bills in the
Senate and House OF Representatives
providing for the construction of new
public buildings illustrates the tempta-
ton TO extravaganza that will always
be afforded 10 large surplus in the
treasury. These bills number sixty in
the Senate, providing foEthe expenditure
of about s13,O0O,OO0, and $50 in the
House, appropriating in the aggregate
S15,000,000. The amounts vary from
$4,000 to 100000, with little refer
euce to The actual needs of the public
service in the matter of new buildings.
"A disp atch from Shelbyyille, Ind,
says: The wife of the Rev. Wesley
Weeks, the man who was taken out of
his house and severely whipped by
mob the other night for laziness, has
evidently good deal more pluck than
he has, for she has armed herself and
hung on the outside of her house pla.
card signed by herself, in which she
declares that her husband shall not do
lick of work before next spring and that
ifthe "Knights of the Switch" pay taem
another visit they will meet with warm
reception.
- Much has been said about the fail
ure to enforce the law in reference to car
ryipg concealed weapons. Our law
makers wiped out the duelling practice
They did it by snch laws as enforced it.
If the carrying of concealed weapon
worked the forfeiture of office, if the act
disqualified the citizen from holding Office,
and if new officers were required to swear
that they had not carried a pistol, dirk,
slungshot, or other deadly weapon, since
the passage of the Act, the market would
be stocked with old pistols.-AbbeuiRe
Press and Banner.
= A married lady in Ontario, N. Y,
has begun suit for $4,000 damages
against prominent man oftbat place for
kissing her on the left cheek last Septem-
Der. She charges that the kiss was a sur
prise, whereby she was thrown into
state of nervous prostration and was ln'
capacitated for her household duties for
a number of weeks. The defendant
admits the kissing, but Gays that he
regarded her as his child, claiming that
the kiss was simple surprise and an act
of affection. The Court will have
tedious time placing value on the luz
ury ola purely platonic kiss.
- Some of our contemporaries are
again at work on the question, "Why are
the negroes dying out 80 rapidly"' The
death rate among the colored people of
the South is very large, but it is unsafe to
argue that therefore they are decreasing
though at first sight that would be a very
natural view to take. 1t is the birth rate
that tells the story, and that is so great
that the four hundred thousand negroes
at the beginning of this century have
grown 10 be something over seven
million. Dying QUIT Well, hardly, We
should say.-Nea0 York Herald. I