The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-06-14
News in Brief.

. News in Brief.
= The best farm in Iowa was sold the
other day for $4,000.
= A child lately died at Poughkeepsie
from eating poisonous ice cream.
= A colored woman called "Old Aunt
Biddy Lundy" died recently near Macon
at the advanced age of 112 years.
= The father Of the peasant who saved
the Cars life has been "recalled" from
Siberia, where he was in exile.
= Estimates of the gold coin in the
country range between one hundred and
three hundred millions.
= One of the trapez performers IN
New York circus missed his hold, fell,
and fatally injured himself.
An actress in Mobile was driven to-
suicide by jealousy of her husband.
= The Chicago Times says President
johnson will deliver the Douglas monu-
ment oration there.
= Two little Buffalo girls left their
homes and turned gipsies. After wan
dering with tribe tor some time, they
escaped, reported TO the Now York police,
and were returned to their homes.
= A desperate affray occurred in Paris.
Kentucky, on the 28th, between Charles
Hilton and Noah Alexander Alexander.
stabbed Hilton severely, but not danger
ously and in return received three pistol
shots, wounding him very seriously:
"A young man named Thos. e. Judge
was killed in Louisville recently by a
billiard saloon keeper. The affray oc-
CURED in the saloon. Judge was ne
phew of one of the proprietors of the
Louisville Hotel.
During Gen. Frank Blair's speech at
Warrensberg, Missouri, on Friday the Its
inst, disturbance occurred in which one
man was. killed and several wounded
Cause, politics and whiskey.
= Cincinnati has been made the seat
of the Home Board of Missions of the
Presbyterian Church 60. S.
= Willie p. Mangum, Of North Caro-
lima, has been appointed by the President
Consul at Nagasaki, Japan. He can take
the test oath that he never aided or SYM
pathized with the South.
: The Governor of Virginia has done
sensible thing. He has appointed q
"Board of Immigration" under an Act of
the Legislature, to promote immigration
into the State The board has met and
organized. 1t has no funds, but it is
going to work without them. lisa good
sign in the Old Dominion, a sign of vigor,
pluck and hope. Never say die is the
right motto.
John Townsend, of Edisto Island,
S. c., the man who gave the Confederacy
100000 in gold in 1861, has not been
more successful in keeping his recently
hired German laborers than he was in re-
tanning his slaves. He says: "They
cost me thirty-fve dollars each to bring
them to Charleston from New York. [
fed them far better than ever I thought
of feeding my hands, even gave them
coffee and sourkrout, when what should
thew do but demand butter for their
bread, and milk for their coffeo, and the
next thing the whole crowd left me-"
= tbs q singular fact what were vast
treeless prairies in Illonois twelve years
ago are now covered with dense growth
Of thrifty young forest trees, comprising
various species of oak,s, hickory, cotton
wood, ash, etc.
: We have now, it is said, three spies
in the country Gen. Sweeney says Ste
phens is an English spy; Senor Romero,
the Mexican Minister. says Santa Anna
is French spy; and Santa Anna char
ges Romero with being an Austrian spy.
- There is an old negro in Danville,
Va, lis years old. He has smoked ever
since he was ten years old, and, the Times
says, has buried seventeen masters, who,
we suppose, did not smoke.
: Hugh Callan, for whose apprehen-
sion reward is offered by the Governor,
and who stands charged with the murder
of Edward Milligan, on the 9th of April
last on the finding of a Coroner's inquest,
and who has been at large since that
time, surrendered himself on Wednesday
to Magistrate Whiting, and was by him
committed to jail to await his trial at the
approaching term of the Court Of General
Sessions. So says the Charleston Courier.
Rev. Geo. D. Cummins, D. D., of
Chicago is elected Assistant Bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, for the do
ccse of Kentucky. DR.. Cummins is ma
tive of Maryland, about forty years OF
age, and reputed to be an eloquent and
learned clergyman.