The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-12-13

The unveiling Of the statue Of Mary
Washington, mother of the Father Of his
Country, took place at Lynchburg, Va,
last Saturday.
- Congressman Bailey, Of the 9Th Tex
as district, declares that anybody who
says he is a Populist In "either liar or q
scoundrel, and do net know but that he
is both."
In Colorado women's suffrage has
triumphed and now the petticoat tribe
may walk up to the ballot box with i'm
punity and vote.
The movement from the northwest
to the south is growing. A party OF Ohio
farmers are now In Central Georgia, in
specting the lands there with view to
settlement.
Famine walks tho streets Of Chicago,
says the Times of that city. The half has
not been told. Many Of the churches arc
now thrown open at night 10 shelter the
homeless, and the newspapers urge all of
them to open their doors to the unfortu-
nate.
Statistics just issued show that du-
ring the past year but twenty-one pas
sengers and nine employees, thirty per-
sons in all, were killed in railroad acci-
dents in Great Britain and Ireland. In
the same period nearly 900, ,000, 900 Of pas
sengers We're carried.
The Clemson College truntees have
adopted some rules asi to the admission
of pupils. Hereafter they will be ap-
portioned amongst the counties in pro-
portion to repreSen tati0n in the Legisla-
ture. A medical examination will be re-
quired and diseased boys will be reject.
ed. Those who do rot report within
ten days after the opening will forfeit
their places.
- There is an epidemic of smallpox i'm
Southwestern Virginia, and health off,
GERS have been ordered to vacciDate ev-
erybody in Lynchburg. To follow in
strnctions, they are making house to
house canvass, and are having trouble in
about every black person's house they
enter. The negroes have got the idea
that the white people are working a
scheme to kill them off by injecting poi
son into their arms, hence the trouble,
A well-to-do farnaer, who lives about
fifteen miles below here in this county,
was in town few days ago purchasing
some articles and remarked incidentally
that they were made necessary by the ar
rival of his nineteenth child. He is efty-
two years old and has been married
twice. His first wife had two children
while his second Is the mother of seven
teen. Of the total number of nineteen,
seventeen are living and there are sever
al grand children. Is there larger FAM
lily than this In the county, or, for that
matter, In the State a-GreenviNe Ne'ps.
i'll. Van Allen, who was appointed
to the Italian mission by President
Cleveland, has sent in his resignation.
Alter his appointment it was charged
that it was made In consideration OF
$50, 900 subscribed to the campaign fund.
Mr.. Van Allen states that he did not give
that amount but that he did contribute q
considerable sum. he declines the ap-
pointment because it has brought unde-
served censure upon the administration.
The President wrote letter to MIR. Van
Allen to reconsider his resignation, but
he positively declined.
Ifthe Solons had really wanted to
save the people something by reducing
salaries, why did they rush the election
of Judges through in such hurry2 No
might pass now, 1t could not affect the
new Judges, whose salaries are obliged,
under the constitution, to remain at
IS, 800 during the entire term for which
they were elected. Suppose $500 Is
sufficient salary for Judge these hard
times: $1,000 a year for four years
500, 900, and 81, 1000 for the Associate JUS
tice-might have been saved the tax-pay-
ers if the legislature had passed a proper
salary reduction bill before electing the
five new Judges. But then, they cannot
be blamed for did not their boss order
them to have the election early-"not
later than the 4th of Decent ber ?"-Ne,0-
be7Ty Observer.