The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-06-21
News in Brief.

Hon Stephen R. Mallory, late Conted-
crate Secretary of the Navy, is in Rich
mond; SO also is Head Centre Stephens.
Strawberries are just coming into sea-
son in Now York city. The Times says
New York eats $1,000 worth of strawber-
ries every day.
- The tax on cotton, two cents per
pound, collected at New Orleans for the
year ending May 4, amounted to s5,l7l,-
536 78.
- The death of General Cass, of soft
ening of the brain, is daily expected. The
General is in his eighty-fourth year.
= Judge Lawrence, of the Supreme
Court of illinois, has decided that tho gift
enterprise of Chicago arc lotteries.
= A Texas editor was recently shot in
street rcncontre. Fortunately for the
man, he carried his misfortunes about
him. The ball lodged in bundle of un-
paid bills. Ho was on a collecting tour.
= A woman at Louisville committed
suicide by taking morphine. Cause said
to be grief at discouraging news from
Canada. She strongly sympathized with
the Fenians
= The press records tho recent death
at Preston, England, of George Ward,
giving the fact that he was one of the
signers of the first dispensation" in
America, and was the reputed Oldest Odd
Fellow in the world, having been connect
ed with the order half a century. Where
upon the Columbus (Miss.) Inder says
"Esquire Wostenholme, of this place, is
an older Odd-Fellow than was the above
person. He is now seventy-one years OF
are. Joined the order in 1915, and has
consequently been a member ffty-one
years"
- The grand jury at Richmond indict-
ed Gen. John c. Breckenridge for treason
and high crimes.
- DR.. Hale, of Rock county, Wiscon-
sin. was last week mulcted in S7S6 S6
damages for kissing the wife of Mr. Ha-
vens, of the same county. Very expen-
sive kissing.
- The New York Times notices that the
President of the United States is the only
person a member of Congress can abuse
and villify, without getting out of order
and incurring rebuke from the speaker.
- The editor of the Raleigh Sentinel
saws on the authority of letter from
Gen. Lee to himself, that the General de-
sires to write history of the war, but
has has not thus far made satisfactory pro-
gross, because of the loss of his papers.
= Tho Mississippi Press Convention,
now in session at Jackson, Mississippi,
have passed resolutions declaring that the
people accept the arbitrament of arms in
2 good faith; will support emancipation and
elevate the freedmen, and endorse the
Presidents policy Demonstration. They
saw Stevens, Sumner 6 Company are en-
deavoring to destroy the Constitution and
establish despotic government.
- The celebrated Confederate vessel
CAickamaauga, sunk at Wilmington when
that place was evacuated, having been
raised and brought to Portsmouth, was
sold last Monday for $4,000. She cost
in England, in 1868, 100000 in gold.
= Gen. J. B. Slaughter, of the late
Confederate army, died recently in Mex
leo.
- Gen. R. Chiffon, late OF the staff Of
Gen. Robert e. Lee, is connected, at pre-
sent, with manufacturing interests at
West Point.
- The lovers of remarkable coinci
dences" will not fail to note the fact that
the Fenian invasion of Canada occurred
in the same region where Gen. Scott wor
his first laurels and on the day when hi
remains we're consigned to the grave;
The Republicans Of New Hampshire
haye nominated James W. Patterson, th'
present Congressman, for United States
Senator.