The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-16
ITEMs.-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

have arranged for dinner and address on the
18th of October.
- Maj j. A. Leland, of Greenwood, has accep-
ted the Presidency of the Lourensvile Female Col
lege.
- The Camden Journal announces the deaths of
DR.. T. ]. Workman and Mr. j. s. DePass, old and
esteemed citizens of that town.
- General Sherman has been appointed Secre-
tary of War until the end of the next session of
Congress.
- Gen. E. P Alexander has resigned the pro-
fessorship of mathematics in the South Carolina
University.
- Gen. Robert Toombs has returned to his
home in Washington, Ca, from his trip to the
West, improved in health.
- The State Department has been officially ad-
vised that New York has ratified the fifteenth
amendment.
"A private letter has been received from Sick
les, in which he is sanguine that Spain will sell
Cuba.
- One of our exchanges states that in the death
of General Rawlins, the South has lost its best
friend in Grants Cabinet.
- The election in Vermont on last Thursday
was unusually quiet, and the vote small, with Re-
publican majority of twenty thousand.
"A House in Chicago has ordered an invoice
of fifty thousand Chinese laborers from California
intending to set them at work on Southern panta-
tions.
1t is stated that Judge Bryan has decided to
hold over the United States Court at Greenvie O
week longer in order to hear petitions in bank
ruptcy.
= The Lynchburg Nrginian says that fifty
thousand head of cattle will be sent to the North
ern markets from Southwest Virginia during the
coming season.
- Large numbers of beef cattle from Western
Virginia and East Tennessee passing north
ward in search of pasture, which the drought
ruined.
- The Nashville University is to be re-estab-
lished, and an Informal tender of the Presidency
of the institution has been made to General Joseph
E. Johnson.
w E. Rose the well known hotel propI ietor
of Yorkvile, has purchased Hunts Hotel in Co.
lumbia, and is preparing to open it in handsome
style in November.
= According to the most scientific calculations,
the collision of the earth with comet and the
submersion of our continent by tidal wave from
China will occur simultaneously.
- Another horrible Ku Klux murder near New
Orleans. A truly loyal gentleman has mysterious
ly disappeared-together with some funds which
he held in trust for freedmen.
- General Sicklrs has caused great excitement
in Spain by notifying the government that public
opinion in the United States will shortly compel
the recognition of the Cuban insurgents.
- Rev. Dr. Robert j. Boyd, an eminent minis
ter of the NJ. E. Church South, and for more than
thirty years member of the South Carolina Con.
ference, died at Marion G. Fl on Friday the 3rd
| inst.
- 1t is understood that the conservative Repub-
cans of Mississippi, in order 10 interfere little
as possible with cotton gathering, will not conf
mence active canvassing until after the lst of No.
vcmbcr.
- The National Union Republican Convention
of Mississippi met at Jackson on Wednesday Of
| last week, and unanimously nominated Judge
Lewis Dent for Governor and Judge E. L. Jeffords
for Lieutenant Governor
- The rapid recupcration of the Southern
States is evidenced by the fact that, as shown by
official figures at the Treasury Department there is
now more money in this section than in any other
portion of the country, North East and West.
- The Charleston News announces that the
Chamber of Commerce of that city, at recent
meeting passed resolution offering silver COB
let to the State Agricultural Society, to be given
rs premium for the best ten bales of upland cot
ton.
=. Gov r. X. Scott has commuted the punish
ment of George Simpson, the negro sentenced to
be hanged on the third Friday of this month, for
the murder of DR.. L. Clinton She'll of Laurens, to
confinement in the Penitcntiary during his natural
life at hard labor,
- The new Senate of Kentucky will consist of
two Republicans, two Independents and thirty -four
Democrats. The House of Representatives will
consist of eight Republicans and ninety-two
Democrats. The Fifteenth Amendment will not
stand much of chance in body thus composed.
- The tomb over tho remains of ex-President
Buchanan has been completed, and is now erec-
ting 1t is very unpretentious, but is elegant in
its simplicity The material is Italian marble,
resting on base of New Hampshire granite The
inscription was written by Mr.. Buchanan himself.
- Gen. Hagood President of the State Agricu-
tural and Mechanical Society, has appointed the
following delegates to the Pathological Convention,
which convened in Philadelphia on yesterday
DR.. A. P Wylie, of Chester, H. W. Rayepol, of
Aiken, and B. C. Presley, of Charleston.
- The Charleston Neps learns that Rev. DIR.
Garrett of New York, has been rendered profess
sorship in the South Carolina University. 1t is
also stated that DR.. A. G. Mackey will be elected
Professor of Bellies Lettres, and Mr.. O'Connel, of