The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-08-12
1TEMs-ED1ToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

ITEMs-EDITORIAL AND OTHERWISE.
- The recent rains in Virginia arc estimated to
have been worth many millions of dollars to the
State. They saved the corn crop.
An act of the Legislature of Tennessee now
makes habitual drunkenness cause fer divorce
the part of either man or wife.
Street cars in New Orleans are run by en-.
gines driven by compressed air.
p. E. Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, collect
lected $4,000 in England for the Southern Epis-
copal University.
= The whole number of immigrants that ar
rived in this country for the eight years ending
June, 1867 was ,4s7,5G8.
= Chief Justice Chase has gono to Parkersburg,
Virginia, to hold brief session of the United
States Circuit Court.
= The Democratic gain il Kentucky reaches
10000.
- The accession of the Republicans to power
brought on the war. Their aim in retiring from
power is to bring on more war.
= Ten thousand Germans in one ward in Phil
adelphia, disgusted with Radcalism, say they will
vote for Seymour and Blair.
= Two serpents in a Paris menagerio attempted
to swallow the same cat. Their jaws met half
way, when one quietly solved the difficulty by
swallowing both cat and snake.
"A dispatch from Baltimore says that Mrs.
Lincoln has abandoned her intention of visiting
Europe at present, and will spend the summer in
the Pennsylvania mountains.
= Middle Georgia is likely to receive large
body of immigrants from Lombardy. They will
engage in the culture of the olive and silk worm.
: The coffin containing the body of Mrs. Sur
ratt was recently opened by the members of the
family, and the remains of the murdered lady
were found to be in perfect state of preservation.
= 1t is reported that Butler wants to join the
Democracy to steal the silver lining of the cloud
| in the political sky.
= The Loyal League of Mobile on receiving
notice from their landlord to quit their room, set
the building on fire as they took themselves of.
- 1t is said thu; Joe Brown is going to Wash
ington to contest the election of the &c orgiA
ators, on the ground that they were voted for by
negroes.
= Mount Vernon, the burial place Of Washing
ton, is in dlapidated and disgraccful condition !;
but it is visited by hundreds constantly, and every
visitor has to pay fee of fifty cents. The sum
of money thus collected must be great, and it
would be but decent on the part Of those who get
it to put at least the tomb in order.
"A paragraph in the Charleston N>trs states
that that the political disabilities Of Ex-Governor
Orr have been removed He is now on o visit to
Arkansas and Iowa, for the purpose of looking af-
ter some lands entered by him in 1857.
: In recent speech in Cincinnati, ex-senator
pugh described the carpet-baggcrs who infcst the
South as 80 class of vermin, meancr than the
meanest thing ever before known on tho face of
the earth"
At Oxford, Miss, few days since, ". S.
Mckee, on returning home from adjoining
county, stopped to bathe in the Tallahatche river
His feet touching something smooth in the bottom
several times curiosity at length led him to exam
inc closely, when lie found small iron chest
Procuring assistance, he took it to Oxford, broke
it open, and found three thousand dollars in gold
twelve hundred in Mexican DOLLARS and four thou
sand dollars in Confederate money. There were
no papers in the chest to show It's ownership.
= The Edgefeld Adrertiser relates The following
mysterious rob berry, ''The Sheriff7s office of this
District has been robbed of thirty-one hundred
dollars. During the past week. between Thurs
day night and Saturday morning, this sum was
stolen from the iron snfe in which the Sheriff de-
posits his moneys and valuables. The Sheriff
sleeps in the Jail adjacent to the Court House, and
every night the key of the Sheritf-s ofico is with
him in his sleeping apartment. And yet the key
is not known to have been one moment missing ;
nor do the doors or windows of the Office or the
lock of the safe bear the slightest trace of having
been tampered with. There is no trace clue to
the robbcr all is mystery. Maj Boles, our trust
worthy Sheriff. is however, leaving no stone un-
turned to bring to light the manner and perpetra-
tor of this robbery. We have no doubt he will bo
ultimately successful; we earnestly hope so for
such loss would now fall very heavily upon him.
"A man in New York has invented and patent
vessels The device is to mako carriage move
forward on its own wheels, turning against the
carriage and not against the ground that being
touched only by series of feet which come to
the ground and rise from it with the rotation of
the wheels, which run sort of endless rail un-
der the carriages and attached to it. The contri-
vance is believed to be applicable to farm uses and
heavy freight as we'll as to ordinary passenger
carrying, md to be specially adapted to swampy
and boggy lands, into which wheels sink readily,
for the feet of this carriage, which alone touch the
ground, can be made as broad as necessary to