The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-30
ITEMs-EDIToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

- The Supreme Court of the United States
meets on the 1st of October.
= The Mississippi State Fair will be held at
Jackson from the 26th of October 10 the Both.
- The Baptist Church ut Avondale lost all its
male members but three by the terrible mine di-
suser.
The Democratic eanddnte for Governor in
Pennsylvania, Asa Packer, is worth twenty mil
lions.
= DR.. Robt ]. Breckinridge has rendered his
resignation as Professor in the Theological Semi
nary at Danvife, Kentucky.
- The Democrats gain..one Senator and four
members of the House in Maine, with five dis
trcts to be heard from.
- Dr.. Joseph A. Jones hos declined the pro-
fessorship of Chemistry in the South Carolina
University.
- Ninety.hands arc employed here at present
making bricks for the buildings of the Blue Ridge
Railroad to be erected in this place.
= Col. J. j. Bryne, Democratic candidate for
Governor of Texas, was formerly pressman in
the office of the New York Herald.
= The Chicago Times Expresses the opinion
that Judge Dents recent scathing letter to Bout
we'll was written by Henry s. Fitch, of Georgia.
1t is stated, on reliable authority. that the in
influence of the Cabinet will be used in favor of
Davis the extreme candidate for Governor of
Texas.
- The census of Columbia shows an increase
of about 1900 in the population of the city since
1860. Total number of inhabitants at this time,
$685.
- The Camden Journal suggests the creation of
another bureau-a bureau to take the census of
the census takers and assessors, and to ascertain
how much they cost.
= Washington, Pa., was the first town named
after our illusrious first President On the 18th
the cornerstone of q new Town Hall was laid
there by President Grant.
- s:Uncle Bob Martin" of Milton, Georgia.
died on the 9th of July last, aged l0S years.
For 70 years preceding his death he was Master
Mason in good standing. He died in the full pos
session OF his mental faculties.
- The first twenty miles of the Air Line Rail-
road will cost 1927, 400 for its construction, and
the available means OF the Company for that pur-
pose amounts to SasO,050.
Col Wm Il. Sneed, one of the oldest and
most prominent lawyers of East Tennessee, and
formerly a representative of the Knoxville Dis
tvict in the United States Congress- died recently
= The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail is authority for
the statement that Ex-Governor James L. Orr, in
conjunction with others, is "quietly Senteriaing
and Walkerizng South Carolina"
= The agricultural report states there will be q
reduction in the yield Of cotton from the Caroinas
to Alabama, and a material increase from Missis-
sppi to Texas. 2,75O,oOO is the estimated crop.
= The Emperor Napoleon has pardoned oil
French political e1iles, without reservation and
without any iron. clad oath. Imperialism is more
magnanimous than Republicanism, in these days.
- The officers of the Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows, at the recent meeting in San Francisco, ex-
hibit gratifying condition Of the order, except
in the interior of the Southern States where it is
pecuiariy bad.
1t is stated that Commissioner Delano, Of the
Internal Revenue Department, will urge in his
report to Congress the continuance of the present
tax laws for further trial, though it is known that
Delano favors some kind of tax on cotton.
- Prof. J. NJ Hughston has been appointed
Superintendent of the Cedar Springs Asylum for
the deaf, dumb and blind. The buildings will be
repaired at once, and the Institute -e-opened at
On early day.
IA Washington dispatch states that the Com
mittee on Elections will visit this Slate the 3rd
of November next for the purpose of taking tes-
timony in the contested election for the 3rd
and 4th Congressional Districts.
1t is stated that Candy recommends the re-
establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau in Vir-
cinia. Among the reasons given for this action,
is the drought, producing scarcity and threaten
ing much suffering among the negroes.
II Gen. Robert Williams, who is much talked Of
as a candidate for United S'- - Senator from
Virginia. is best known to tine general public as
the officer who married the beautiful widow Of
the late Stephen A. Douglas.
/ The New York World regards the present
| condition of the money market rs similar to that
which preceded the crisis of 1857. There is a
great scarcity of small bills, and the national
banks cannot fully supply the demand
- General James B. Steedman, formerly Colec-
| tor of Internal Revenue for New Orleans, and his
sureties, are being sued in the United States Cir
cult Court there for 100000, amount found due
on the books by Steedman to the Government
- Washington College General Lee's) opened
on Thursday, the 18th instant, with larger num-
ber of students than it had this time last session.
iudicious professor has expressed the opinion
that the number this session will reach four hun
dred.
- William B. Collins, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
proposes to establish Land Association, for the
purpose of furnishing land to the freedmen Of the
Sontb The plan is to buy large trecs, divide