The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-10-11
News in Brief.

= The Oregon House of Representa-
tives has passed the Constitutional Amend
ment by vote of 25 to %.
- Gen. Pritchard, who captured Jeff
Davis, is Republican candidate for Con-
gress from Michigan.
"A barbecue was recently given in
Carroll county, Miss, for the benefit of
the Confederate Monument Association,
at which $1,000 or $4,000 was contribu-
ted.
= There is reason to fear that the edi-
tor of the N. Y. Herald will presently an
nounce his adhesion to the Republican
party. "And at last Satan came also."-'
Tribune.
- The announcement that Mrs. Abra-
ham Lincoln had engaged quarters at the;
Metropolitan Hotel, New York city, and
would remain there during the coming
winter, is not true.
Gen. Beauregard, who arrived i'm,
New York from Paris by the steamer
from Brest on Thursday, is stopping at
the New York Hotel, and is quite lion
among the many Southern boarders at
that establishment.
= The Raleigh Sentinel learns that
Gen. Dockery, recently nominated for
Governor by the Enthusiastically loyal
men of North Carolina" has accepted the
nomination Dockery was a great anti
reconstructionist in 1868.
"A returned soldier, supposed to be
dead, found his wife in Usage, Mo-, re-
married. He quarrelled with her hus-
band, shot him dead, and was Immediate
ly lynched by irate neighbors. They do
business promptly out West
At wedding recently in Person
county, North Carolina, a large number
of persons were made seriously ill, and it
is said some have died, from eating GUS
tard prepared in q brass kettle.
Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, re-
ports in his annual address that the theo-
logical department of the Vermont Epis-
copal Institute is without students Tho
treasurer also says, in his report: "There
are no young men in the diocese looking
forward to the ministry, or preparing to
enter"
- Charles Beader, ofPhiladelphia, who
years ago compromised with his credi-
tors, and received legal discharge, re-
Gently invited them to dinner at the
Continental, and paid each creditor the
full amount of his indebtedness.
Maynard, member of Congress from
Tennessee, said in recent speech, "that
the negro will soon intermarry in your
families and be welcomein your parlors."
This is Mr.. Maynard's complexion, politi-
cally and socially.
a Jersev Gitv neoro pirl fell dis.
tance of twelve feet, head foremost, strik-
ing her head on some rocks. She was
insensble tor few moments, but recov.
cred in season to attend colored ball
that night, and danced till morning. -
"A series of fights, lasting through
ten days, have taken place with the Indi-
ans near Fort Halleck. The Indians were
in large force. Fourteen Federal soldiers
were killed, and the rest driven back into
the fort, which, at the last advices, was
surrounded by Indians.
"A fend in human shape named Will
liam Rutledge, of Appomattox county,
Va, committed an outrage on the person
of his own little daughter, aged IL years,
on Thursday. The fend fed, and had
not been arrested up to last accounts, and
the child is in very critical condition.
= Ralph Hill, ninety.one years old, and
resident of Forest county, Pennsylva-
MIA, passed through Cory recently, on
his way to Boston to find friends he has
not seen for fifty years. He never saw
steamboat nor q train of cars till last
week, and has lived ten miles from any
neighbor for the last fifty years.
A fearful visitation of Providence
happened at Chicago on Saturday last.
A tailor was accused of having stolen
some money, which he positively denied,
calling upon God to strike him dead if he
was not speaking the truth. The fearful
imprecation had hardly been uttered be-
fore he fell to the floor dead man.