The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-08-09
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running down. Tho organization now numbers
only fifty active members.
Gov, Barry of Michigan, was among the gen.
temen who offered to become bail for Mr. Jefferson
Davis.
Gen. R. E. Colston, late Major-General in the
Army of Northern Virginia, has taken charge OF
the Hillsboro' Military Academy.
= George Davis, of North Carolina, Attorney
General of the Southern Confederacy at the time
of its collapse has been pardoned by the President
- AS one of the results of the war, it may be
stated that there are at the present time in the
United States no less than twenty-five manufacto-
ries of artificial legs.
= Colonel w. C. Lankford, of Franklin county,
North Carolina, has grown cabbages the present
season which weigh fourteen pounds and five
ounces.
- Mrs Mary Cotton, who has resided on Scotts
creek, in the county of Norfolk, Va, for naony
years, died few days ago at the advanced age OF
one hundred and two years.
- The session of the House, says tho New York
Tribune, closed on Saturday with three cheers for
.Our noble Speaker" proposed by Mr.. Strouse, a
They must have been very drunk.
- The public will learn with profound regret,
that dispatches have been received in Montgomery
from Baltimore, announcing the serious indisposi-
ZION of Gen. Joseph E. Johnson.
= Mrs. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, who
was, previous to the war, great favorite in the
elite society of Washington is at the Metropolitan.
She visits Washington to interccde with the Gov
ernment in behalf of her husband.
- A fatal duel occurred near Memphis recently,
between Captain Greenlaw and Henderson Taylor.
Taylor had his face slapped, sent challenge, and
was mortally wounded. A woman was in the
case.
= The New York World gives long and de-
tailed account of the sailing from the North river
Of a vessel laden with arms and ammunition for
the Mexican Liberals. Generals Lew Wallace and
Sturms are mentioned as "signi6cant passengers"
onthe vessel.
= Companies Of negro troops, secretly organ
izea by Governor Fletcher, of Missouri, for the
purpose of carrying the next election, drill at night
in the city Of St. Louis Their movements are Sc
cret, but they have been seen by the citizens, and
the popular feeling which they excite is one of
strong indignation.
The wheat harvest is over in Virginia and
Maryland, and the quantity in both States is
greater then was expected, and the quality in
general very superior.
- Two white men and one negro were killed the
other night by the Metropolitan Police, at Chatta
nooga, while attempting to break into residence
= Gen. Grant will wear two STARS and metallic
shield as an insignip Of rank.
= The Secretary of the Treasury has authority
by the recent law to suspend the collection of the
direct tax imposed by the law Of 1851, in any of
the Southern States.
= Rev. D. McNcl Turner, D. D., is about leav-
ing Abbeville, and designs emigrating to Brazil.
He has already preached his farewell sermon.
1T is said the immense quantities of mutilated
currency destroyed has caused scarcity of the
article.
Mr.. jackson, member ofthe Tennessee Legisla-
tsre. has brought suit of 100000 against the
Radical members of the House for false imprison-
ment
It is said that the king of the Sandwich Is
lands, has decided antipathy to everything
American He was called ''nagur" while travel
ling in this country somc years since, and has
never forgiven the affront.
The Navy Department has just been swindled
out Of $4,000 by forged acquisitions. The forger
was very gentlemanlike in his appearance, and has
not since been heard from.
= The idea of having car on passenger trains,
next to the tender so arranged that it Will carry
sufficient watar to sprinkle the track from one wa
ter-tank to another is being discussed by railroad
men, and will probably come into general use
before another season.
- Tho New York T+i6ane endorses the position
of the Augusta COnsGtutionalst in opposition to
the Peoples Convention to be shortly held at Phila
dolphia A nice compliment this to respectable
Southern paper!
= Thomas Ringgold, New York Bohemian,
who represents himself as reporter for the Zion
Reuis,v, has been arrested for assaulting another
eolored individual. Miss Celina Rock, teacher in
colored primary school, was the rock on which
the friendship of the two colored men split.
"A desperate affray took place in Williams
burg, N. Y, lager beer saloon, between Prussan
and an Austrian, during which the former was
badly cut up, his nose being nearly hacked from
his face, Tho eaarrel arose during discussion
relative to the merits Of the existing war between
Prussia and Austria.
Gen. Martin L. Smith died at Rome, Ga, last
week. At the close Of tho war Gen. Smith was
Chief Engineer of the Army Of Northern Virginia,
and was previously an officer of Pemberton's army
at vicksburg. At the time Of his death he was
Chief Engineer on the Selma and Dalton Railroad
: Gov Brown, of Georgia, in letter to friend
IN relation to the Philadelphia Convention, says:
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