The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-01-28
ITEMs-EDrTORIAL AND OTHERWISE.


$3.50, 900 proftlast year.
= Cold water, drank freely when one is taking
q cold, will generally arrest the disease at once
- Monday last, January 25th, was the llOth
birthday of Robert Burns, Scotlands favorite poet
- Ice has formed an inch thick at st. Angus
tine, Florida, this year, the weather having been
colder than for thirty-three years.
- The Supreme Court. of the United States has
decided that grccn5acks and certificates of indeot
edness are not liable to State taxation.
- The popular vote for President in November
last stood as follows: Grant, 2,97s,55l; Seymour
2,S44, ,Gl2-majori.y for Grant, 5a4, $50.
- Gen. Mower has been assigned to the COM
mand of the District of Louisiana, rice Gen. Ros-
seau, deceased.
Mr.. II. Thornton Axson, who died in Charles
ton on the 2Olh, dreamed several weeks ago that
he was TO depart this life on that day.
= Commodore Tatnal1, who commanded the
Confederate "mosquitO fleet" has returned to this
country and is in New York.
- Grant has written letter to the Republican
Inauguration Committee, that if they consult his
wishes, there would be no Inauguration bail.
= Theodore B. Randolph, the successful Demo-
cratic candidate, has been inaugurated Governor
of New Jersey.
- Three of the negro militia were court mar
tailed and shot for rape at Marion Arkansas, re-
Gently.
There are twenty y-eight thousand miles Of
telegraph wries in the United States, all but four
thousand of wfich are held by the Western Union
Telegraph Company.
j. S. Shuck intends to start a new paper in
Barnwell County, S. c., to be styledNhe Barnwel
Journal. He expects to issue the first number
about the first proximo.
= The Marion papers record the death of Mr..
Asa Godbold sr, on the 18th inst. lie was one
of the oldest citizens of that County, and served
for many years as Ordinary.
= Lieutenant Braine, Of the Confederate navy,
who has been imprisoned for nearly four years on
charges of piracy. has been released, under the
recent amnesty proclamation.
| = The Memphis property of Gen. Beauregard
has been restored to him, and it is stated thnt his
private papers in the War Department will also be
restored.
= Ten thousand dollars worth Of Greenvlle
and ColuRbia Railroad bonds, guaranteed by the
State, were sold in Charleston last Thursday for
fifty cents on the dollar
= Judge Vernon, holding court at Abbeville, is
reported to have given the highest satisfaction to
the members of the bar and the people generally
| = Mrs Cox, of Macon, Geo, has ctfucated sew
cnty-fve orphan children for the past two years
1rovdnc them With books and stationery at her
own expense.
= 4 resolution has been introduced in the Kan
sas Legislature, asking Congress, to submit an
amendment to the Constitution giving suffrage
without regard TO race or color.
- At the reception at the Executive Mansion in
Washington on the 18th instant, we observe that
that the newspapers mention the presence OF Hon
I. J. Robertson, Of South Carolina!
= The Charleston Ner, has learned that g rich
deposit of phosphate rock ha, been found in tie
neighborhood of Blufion, and e1claims, ''More
millions for South Carolina"
The electoral votes of Ill the States for
President and Vice President, except the S ate OF
Nevada, have been deposited with the President Of
the Senate.
- 4 fine. ripe watermelon has been presented
to the Ocala (Fla) Banner. The melon VAS taken
from the vine about the 18th inst. Rather early,
we think, for watermelons.
| = The Democratic State Convention Of New
Uamp.hire nominated John Bcdcll for Governor.
Short resolutions were adopted declaring adhe-
renee 10 the Consution and in favor of the taxa
ton OF bonds
- The Marion Crescent says Mr.. Charles Hasel-
den of that County, last week killed two of his
hogs, which when dressed and hung up, weighed
one thousand and twcpty-fr pounds. One of them
weighed six hundred md one pounds.
! - Hannibal Hamlin is elected United States
Senator from Maine; Charles Sumner from Mas
snchusctts; Reuben Fcnton from New York ;
Carl shurz from Missuri !; Zach. Chandler from
Michigan, and Hon. John Scott from Pennsylvania.
= Gen. Henry A. Wise, Col. Marmaduke john
son, and other influential gentlemen of Virginia,
arc out in letters cncrseticaly opposing the move
ncnt for settlement on the basis of universal am
ncsty and universal suffrage.
- The Sumter Republican states that bona fde
subscriptions to the amount of 81 ,0OO,9o have
been subscribed to the building of cotton facto-
ry in Amcricus, Georgia. meeting of the stock
holders will be held in that city on the Ath proxi-
mo 10 elect officers.
- John T. Sloan, jr., the correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, has been expelled from the
House of Representatives by a vote of 63 yeas to
% nays. II is supposed that this action was taken
on account of some reference to Whipper in one
of his letters, and which Mr.. Sloan charges is
strictly true.
- Col. Thomas NJ. Key, formerly on the staff
of Gen. Mcclellan, and member of the Ohio
Legislature before the war, died at Lebanon, Ohio,
recently. He was the author of Gen. hcClelan's
famous military orders, whose conservative senti-
.. A ...anal 20 thn rndicnl snirit of the