The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-11-30
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Wisconsin is six to eight thousand.
Why is bald head like Heaven BE
cause there's no parting there.
Tt is stated by Mississippi paper that
Benz. G. Humphries is the only Wing ever
elected Governor of chat State.
--latest advices from Texas represent
the cotton fields as remaining unpicked-
the negroes refusing to work for love or
money.
"Howcll Cobb & James Jackson, attor
tneys at law, Athens, Georgia" is a new
firm not unknown to fame, whose cards
are in circulation in Washington city.
John R. Thomson, formerly Of Rich
mond, Va, and we'll known in literary
circles in the South, is now attached 70
the editorial staff of the London Herald
Some of our cotemporaries recommend
the Inauguration of a custom, requiring q
certificate of good character for every ne
gro making application for employment.
General Dndley has arrested negresses
who were leading dissolute lives at Mem
phis, and bound them out to work on
plantations for the balance of this year
and all of next.
Battle monuments are being erected on
all the great battc-felds. The latest
named is at fredericksburg. The deadly
hillsidcs of that town should be named
Burnside Heights.
Orders have been issued from head
quarters withdrawing military guards and
patrols in the city of Mobile. The entire
police and control Of Mobile will be done
through the civil authorities.
General Briscoe, who has just been con-
victed of embezzling Government funds
at Lynchburg, and sentenced to five years
imprisonment, has been released by order
of the Secretary of War, on the ground
of his long and gallant services.
Great distress is stated to exist among
the blacks in the district of Columbia
The mortality among childrenis frightful
many of whom, it is reported BY the
Quartermaster's Department, have starv-
ed to death during the last three weeks.
Among the latest wonders in the animal
kingdom is talking dog, which has been
brought out in Springfield, Mass. lie can
say "Good morning" How do you do?
and many other things as good as hui
man being.
The Louisville Journal says Gov. B. F.
Perry has been elected United States
Senator from South Carolina-thc best
choice, certainly, that could have been
made, and one that will give unalloyod
satisfaction to the friends of the Union
everywhere.
Slavery still exists in kentucky and
Delaware, the proclamation not extend
ing to them, and these States not having
taken any action on emancipation. Slave
population in Delaware in 1860 was 1900
in Kentucky at the same time, 225,OOO.
General L. Kirby Smith arrived in
Lynchburg Saturday morning, direct from
Cubs, where he has been sojourning fol
several months His many friends viii
rejoice to welcome him back to the coun
try again. lie comes in pursuance of au
thority of General Grant to do SO, to be
placed on footing of other Confederate
officers of his rank.
A fisherman recently caught off tho
Massachusetts, coast, Goldfish having in
its stomach a pair of apectaclcs. Owing
to the effects of the salt water on the
brass frames, it was impossible to ascer
tain clearly whether the initials wer:
those of Jonah or not.
There is annually imported into this
country over two million dollars worth Of
human hair Hair which brought foul
dollars pound five years ago is now IA
ted at twcnty-eight dollars a pound; and
some of the more beautiful grades and
colors arc valued as high as one hundred
and fifty dollars pound.
Old Colonel Robert TansilI, formerly Of
the United States marine corps, latterly
colonel of a Virginia regiment and an
inspector on General Writings staff, has
published book on the causes Of the
overthrow of the Confederate Govern
ment. 1t is described as highly luminous
original, witty and entertaining.