The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-06-07
News in Brief.

NOWS Ia 1D&4SAs
= Rev. DIR. Pise, pastor of celebrated
church in Brooklyn, died q few days since,
aged sixty-fye,
. The Mexican Times, the late Coy.
Aliens paper, will be kept up by Mr.. J Ohm.
u. Edwards, and will continue to support
the Empire.
- The City Council of Atlanta has
expressed thanks to the City of Louis.
vile for the aid extended to othe poor Of
the former.
= There is large feedmen's school
in Coahoma county, Miss, taught by a
lady of Southern birth and education.
= A correspondent of the New York
Times state that there arc a number of
anative ladies" teaching large schools of
colored children in South Carolina.
= General Trotter, Superintendent Of
the Freedmen,s Bureau, at Chattanooga,
has discontinued issuing rations gratis.
He found it impossible to prevent abuses
of the custom.
= Capt. Terrill and one of his associ-
ates, noted Kentucky outlaws, were cap
tured on Saturday last, near Shelbyyille,
Ky. Terrill was severely wounded and
his accompliee in crime killed.
= Colonel White, of guerrilla fame,
having been elected Sheriff of Loudon
county, Va, reached Washington on
Monday in company with his military CO.
laborer, Mosby, seeking pardon.
= A call is published in Perry county,
Ala, and signed by A. B. Moore, ex-
Governor of the State; J. L.. M. Curry,
congressman; and others, requesting
a meeting of the citizens to dovise some
method of properly encouraging education;
among the negroes.
= Salem butcher, Esq, editor of The
Constitutionazist, Augusta, Georgia, has
been admitted to practice before the
courts of that State. Mr.. butchers name
was presented by Governor Jenkins, who
spoke in high terms Of his attainments.
The Constitstionalist, under Mr.. butchers
management, is one of the best edited pa
pers in the South, and wields q great in
huence in Georgia.
= Lemuel Cook, the revolutionary
soldier who died in Clarendon, N. T.,
was not the last of the heroes of the war
for independence There are two others
still living, viz Samuel Downing, OF
New Hampshire, and James Barham, OF
Missouri.
= The freedmen's courts in Tennessee
have been abolished by the Commissioner
of the bureau for that State, as the law.
making colored persons competent wit
nesses before the civil courts has gone
into effect.
= The Illinois State Democratic Con-
yention will be held in August. -
Three of the Alexandria rioters,
sent to the Penitentiary lastwinter, have
been pardoned.
= At fredericksburg, Virginia, sever
al Factories are being pushed rapidly to
completion.
- Sumner in late speech said the
ballot was the columbiad of our political
life, and every citizen who has it is full
armed monitor.
= Judge Nelson, of the Supreme
Court, delivered decision in tho case OF
q prisoner in the Albany penitentiary,
that the trial of civilian ntime ofpeace
by court-martial is illegal, and their con-
viction void.
A New Orleans paper cries out
against the gigantic increase Of prostitu-
tion in that city, and says that the most
promising men in the community are be-
ing enfolded within the hideous grasp OF
the monster"
= Judge Giles, of tie Baltimore Dis
trict Court, decided the case of Bradley
Bounton, negro, who applied for injunc-
ton against railway company refusing
him transit. The Judge said it presented
no case for equitable action. The case
was dismissed.
= When General Saxton left the De-
partment of South Carolina he took away
all the records, so that there is not a
scrap of paper, showing the acts of his
subordinates, by which Generals Steed-
man and Fullerton can investigate the
corruption, etc., of that department.
THE EpIsoopAI, METHODIST CHURCH.