The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-08-02
News in Brief. :.

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= The murderers of DR.. Webb and son,
at Little Rock, Arkansas, q few weeks
since, have been arrested. The gold
watch taken from Dr. Webb was recog-
nized, and betrayed them. On this a
colored ostler and two colored soldiers
confessed. s'-s &C. . s"s'S
- Dispatches from Washington an
nounce the election of E. G. Ross, editor
of the Lawrence Tribune, to the seat in
the Senate vacated by the death of Gen.
James III. Lane, of Kansas. > ~ ~
= DR.. William A. Darlington, formerly
Medical Director of Virginia in the late
Confederate States Army, died in Char
lotte County, Va, g few days ago, in the
97th year of his age. i
= The editor of the Kansas Tines says
the revenue officer of his town is q man
of the right stamp, although a little two
-cents-itive in some things. This is. Sc
we're for hot weather, butsuch tax must
be expected in Times like this. $ '.s's
"A young lady at Little Rock, Ark.
in somnambulic state, fell from the roof
of house on which she was walking
The fall was about fifty feet. Both her
legs were broken, and she was inter-
nally bruised and is not expected to.res
cover. -
Mr.. Wallwork, of Shclbyville, Tens
nessee, claims title to an invention which
will supersede all other kinds of signals.
in use on railroads. He processes to be
able, by the application of this invention,
to stop q train, if desired, atany distance.
and to shut off steam from an engine five
miles away the same as if he were on the
engine. ~.
"A scientific gentleman in the State
of Maine has written to the Assistant
Commissioner OF the Frcedmen's Bureau,
requesting that a young freedman and his
wife be procured to perform the work on
his farm, and wishes the Assistant Com
missioner to make it specialpoint in the
contract that they will not have any chill
dren. 80
"A little white girl FIVE years Of age,
while playing near the railroad track in
Nashville, Tennessee, on the 9th, became
80 helpless through fear Of an approach
ing train that she sank down upon the
track. and was cut directly in two. Her
= General Sheridan. has earned an un--
enviable notoriety by an order prohibi-
ting the formation, in New Orleans, OF
any commemorative societies, OF the cree
ton of any monuments to- the Confede-
rate dead.
Gen. Gladly, Deputy Quartermastcr-
General in Tennessee, has comeinto open
collision with the civil authorities OF the
State. Damages having been recovered
against him for the rent OF a house. at
Memphis. occupied by him during a por,,
ton of the war, he resisted the professor
collection, and ordered his guard to- put
the Sheriff off the premises. An order
being issued for his arrest, he eluded tho
officer and his posse and escaped from the
town. z4s.,., -
mother came mp in afew minutes in search
of her, and the sight of the manngied re-
mains was the first intimation she had OF
tba M dreadful loss she had sustained. The.
child's father was killed by the cars near
the same spot about two years ago.
- In an address the other day, to the
students of Yale College, Gen. Sherman
is repeated to have said: sLook at the
fac as a Christian object. Obey it's die
tates and follow it's leaders. AS you go
out into life you will find opportunities
enongh to stand mp for it-you may even
have a chance to fight for it. ! tell you
before you pass from the stagethere VII. VIII
be be agbting. in comparison with which
mine will be slight, ana nave nao
enough"