The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-08-16
News in Brief.

The wife of General John G. Brecll-
enridge was delivered of twins the other
day.
"A young lady in Portland gathered
hailstones enough after one OF the hail
storms Of last week to freeze ice cream
and keep it frozen twenty-four hours.
= Two lovers in st. Louis, named
Henry Easel and Minnie Bush, being
thwarted in their desires to be married,
determined to die together Both took
poison, and Minnie died, but Henry is re-
covering, though he declares he will yet
kill himself
"A young man engaged in drawing
wood from Douglass (Mass.) woods few
DAYS since encountered huge rattlesnake,
measuring nearly six feet in length and
eleven inches in circumference, with eigh
teen rattles which he finally killed with 9
stake from his wagon.
= Attorney General Stansbery has
given an opinion that the nominations for
public offices rejected during the session
of the Senate, can be legally made by the
President during the recess.
- The Petersburg mine "crater" is
now in the midst Of luXuriant corn
field. and is itself planted in melons and
fruit trees The immense excavation
mado bv the explosion is nearly closed to
the surface, as it was converted, it is said.
to the uses of sepulUure.
= Gen Matt Ransom, late of the Con-
fcderate Army, declines to be q candidate
for Governor of North Carolina.
= The Treasury Department deny the
wholesale allegations made by New York
papers, that it's plates have been stolen,
and that hundreds of thousands Of dollars
of bogus currency and bonds are in cir
culation.
"A party of fprominent cotton buyers
in Macon, Ga, purchased bale of new
cotton as a present TO Andrew johnson
President of the United States. The cot
ton, we learn, was shipped to the Presi-
dent by the National Express.
: Henry Isaac Allen, late attorney
general of Iowa, has been taken to an in
sane asylum for treatment.
= Governor Oglosby, of Illinois, is
going to talk and get drunk-or rather,
get drunk and talk-ln Chicago on the
18th Of August. So says the Cairo Demo-
crat.
"A cowardly scamp, few days ago,
cowhided q young lady in the streets OF
Louisville. He escaped arrest. Cause
the young lady did not love him.
= The Knoxville editors, one son OF
Brownlow, the other a friend of Dick
McCann, have been in fight, in which
Brownlow went a long way to lceward,
being badly whipped.
The Raleigh Sentinel learns that the
necessary stock having been taken: work
will be at onco commenced upon q rail
road direct from Charlotte, N. c., to At
lanta, Ga.
= 1t is said that the chances are good
that the Democrats will elect eight OF the
eleven Congressman in Indiana, this fall
= A new bridge is being built over the
Cape Fear at Fayetteville, in place of the
one destroyed at tho time Of Sherman's
visit to that town. 1t will probably be
finished by the fall.
"A negro man, named Jeff: Kirk is
commissioned by the mayor of Columbus
Miss, "to exercise surveillance over the
conduct and manners of the negro settle
ment in the eastern part of the city"
"A Detroit Republican paper advo
Gates the establishment of freedman
bureau in the island of Jamaica. Ihe
Chicago Times says that 1t is somewhat
strange that the radicals In Congress have
not proposed an amendment to the Con
stitution establishing one there before
this.