The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-09
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Snow fell in NeuYork on last Thursday

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Snow fell in New York on last Thursday.
- The receipts at the Slate Treasury during
The moath of August were S444,994.
The State election in Maine takes place on
Monday, the 18th of September.
- The New York Sun nominates Horace Greely
for the Chinese Mission.
- The Charleston Courier announces the death
of CD. Carr, Esq, of that city.
-Rosh Hoshana, the Jewish New Year, was
celebrated on Monday and Tuesday last.
The United States Court now in session at
Greenville will adjourn tomorrow.
-Ex.Gov Worth, of North Carolina, died in
Raleigh on last Monday night.
- The New England calico mills have generally
suspended work.. They await the new crop Of cot
ton. -.t
= More than S65, 5,OoO,O 900 worth of boots and
shoes will be manufactured in Massachusetts, the
present year.
B. G. Yocum, late mail agent on the Green
willie Road, has been appointed Auditor Of Abbc-
vile county.
= Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith has
been consul at Birmingham, England, for the last
eight years.
= Spartanburg talks of raising S5o,00O to in
duce the Air Line Railroad Company to run
through that town. & .af..t>
- Senator Grimes, of Iowa, has resigned, the
Resignation to take effect on the lst of October
His term expires in 1871.
"A destructive FIRE occurred in Gcldsboro, n
c., on Sunday night, involving loss of Sl25, ,ooO
Both newspaper Offices were consumed
= is said that about the first of October Sen
ator Sprague will commence work on the Columbia
Canal and proceed to erect cotton factory.
= Mr.. Josephs the Chinese agent, has already
received orders for twelve thousand emigrants
from parties in this Stale and Georgia.
- John Gull has been in the Ohio Penitentiary
for 35 years, for murder. He is insane. and i'm
AGNES himself the richess man in the world.
- A dispatch from Liverpool, dated last Satur-
day, says that the receipts of cotton from all ports
are unprecedentedly heavy.
Zen. Wade Hampton has consented to de-
liver an address ut the opening of the Georgia
State Fair, to be held at Macon in November next.
The Columbia Phenir says that the buildings
which the City Council are preparing for the COM
ing State Fair are in course of rapid construction.
- DR.. T. W. Salmond, a skillful physician and
enterprisng citizen of Camden, died in that place
on Tuesday last, after long and painful illness.
- Mr. Julian A. Selhy, of the Columbia Phenir,
was at the White Sulphur Springs "Press" ball,
the only representative from South Carolina.
= In reply TO paper which called General
Sherman "the coming man,, Georgia journal
says it ..hopes he is not coming that way again"
= The township authorities of Hamburg want
TO charge the Columbia and Augusta Railroad
about S5O,Ooo for passing through that town.
Hon. VIM. Pitt Fessenden, Senator from
Maine, has been lying dangerously i'll for the past
week, with only slight hopes of recovery, at last
accounts.
The Abbeville Press says that Tolberi has
made his appearance in The vicinity of Greenwood,
and seems to be more afraid of the citizens than of
the State Constabulary.
Private letters received from Mr.. Jefferson
Davis say that the unfavorable accounts given of
his health are greatly exaggerated. Hewill proba-
bly reside in Great Britain for the rest of his life
- The one hundredth anniversary of the birth
of Alexander Won Humboldt September 14th)
will be celebrated with imposing ceremonies in
the principal cities of Europe and the United
States.
The elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa
and Colorado take place in October, and those in
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Mississippi and Texas in No
vember.
BIZ. Whittemore, member of Congress from
this State is on visit to California and has been
discoursing in Sacramento on the interesting topic,
"The civil, social Industrial and religious cond-
tion of the South"
- The Laurensvile Herald records the burning
of the substantial residence of Capt. N. o. Ken
nedy two miles from that place, on Wednesday
night last The fire originated from the cooking
stove, it is thought.
The Wilmington Star says that gentleman
from the "rural districts" had enquired at one of
the book stores for copy of Grants speeches.
He was told that they had not yet been published
in book form.
Matthias w. Baldwin, of Philadelphia, mem
Der of the Presbyterian Church, during the last
Eve years of his life has built church every year
at his own expense. 1t is estimated that he has
spent $500 in this way.
- The Judge of the Circuit Court of Amherst
county, Virginia, has decided to postpone all
chancery cases indefinitely, because of recent
order of General Candy denying the right of the
Court to appoint special commissioners.
- The National Temperance Convention, at its
recent meeting in Chicago, adopted platform de-
claring themselves q political party, under the
title of the can't Dram Shop Party" The great
trouble is that they are in such woful minority.
She Washington Express says. ''It is stated
that Cen Canhv is nreparinr report to the Presi.