The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-09-11
News gSunn1nnary.

Gen. William Duane Wilson, secretary of the
Iowa Agricultural Bureau, in n letter to the Bur-
lngton Mawkeye, estimates the yield of wheat in
that State at l8, 500, 900 bushels.
Gen. Leslie Coombs, just elected clerk of the
court of appeals of Kentucky, is nearly eighty
years old.
The last overland mail stage which left San
Francisco carried away six thousand nine hundred
and ninety-two letters.
Senator Toombs announces himself as candi-
date for the White House of Georgia, in case Lin
coin is elected
The Hon. Vim. Pennington, the present Speaker
of the House of Representatives, declines being
candidate for reelection 10 Congress from the 5th
district of New Jersey.
They have discovered wonderful cave, full of
air holes, OIL the Eucetta Creek in Alabama. 1t is
six miles long.
Senator Latham, the most influential man in Cal
ifornia, has taken the stump for Breckenridge and
Lane.
Col. Forbes, of Kansas notoriety, has turned up
in Sicily where he enjoys the confidence of Carl
baldi, and occupies important military position
The corners stone of the principal building of the
University of the South, will be laid with appro
pirate ceremonies at University Place, Franklin
county, Tenn, on the 10th of October.
A letter written by Hon. B. H. Hll of Georgia,
says: ''If Mr.. douglas, or any man holding his
views, shall be chs to administer this govern
ment, his very choice will be declaration that there
is no government for the Shareholder"
correspondent of the Chester Standard nomi-
mates Wade Hampton Esq, as candidate for
Congress- in opposition TO the Hon. W. W. Boyce.
One of the arguments used by the writer in favor
of Col Hampton is, that he is in no way tainted
with the hcresy of secession"
Mai. Donaldson, of the United States Army, has
presented to the Maryland Agricultural Society
two ''four- horned rams" captured from the Naya-
joe Indians. He says that the breed of sheep have
six and even seven horns on each head.
The census marshal, the other day, found in one
family in Boston, lady aged forty-cight years,
with son aged thirty-six years, and second hus-
band Of thirty years She had been very young
mother. and by very young husband she has had
the forethought to provide well for old age.
An Iowa exchange says "a lot of runaway
slaves passed through Iowa City recently on the
underground railroad on their way to Canad".-
They were under the conductorship of broaher of
Coppic who was executed at Harpcrs Ferry for
his active completely in the John Brown raid. His
brother il in fair way for the same destiny"
Col. A. L. Dearing, of Edgehed, who was an
nounccd candidate for Major General. has been,
in consequence of i'll health called from the State,
and for this reason has Withdrawn from the race.
A brorzc statue of the late Sir John Franklin is
about to be erected ut Shilsby, Lincolnshire, the
birth place of the Arctic explorer.
Major Culbertson, who has just come from the
Rocky Mountains, says that the head waters of the
Missouri and Columbia rivers arc so near together
that lie at one time drank from the Missouri on the
cast side of the Rocky Mountains, and a half hour
afterwards from the Columbia on the Pacific.
The Rev. y. Bewley, Methodist superintendent
and missionary in Texas, WAS hung by mob
short tine since, on the charge of being an aboli-
ZIONIST. The New York Christian Advocate says
he was dcvoutly pous and innofcnslyc man.
We suppose the Advocate would consider n man
quite "inoffensve" and 'pious if he should set
all the slaves at the South TO numbering their mas
ters.
There are three State elections during the present
month-in California, Vermont and Maine. The
election IN Vermont took place last Tuesday, when
Governor, State and county officers, and members
of Congress voted for.
We announce with regret the dccease. of Surgeon
Bernard NJ Byrnc, of the United States Army
Medical Staff, and for three years attending physi-
clan at Fort Nor,ltr5c station, on Sulivans Island.
His disease was typhoid fever of a viruent form,
and terminated fatally on Thursday evening last,
in his forty-sixtli year.