The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-04-01
ITEMs-EDITORIAL AND OTHERWISE.

Tuesday next, April 9th.
- The mortalityin Charleston, during 1868, was
1,2Os-S9O whites, and S18 colored.
= The Charleston Nesrs says that city will soon
have q new Theatre, commodious and we'll arrang-
ed, suitably located and prettily decorated.
- COL Allen Mcfarland, of Chesterfield, for
many years member of the Legislature of this
State, died in Charleston on the 2lst ut.
- Gen. Stonemau has issued an order removing
Gov. Wells, Of Virginia, and assuming the duties
of the ofiec himself {; -gf-r i-gf=
Ger. Ames'has been appointed Commissioner
of the Frecdman's Bureau. for Mississippi, and
Gen. Reynolds for Texas
- To have a man as Secretary of the Treasury
who will honestly collect the revenue, is said to be
worth S75, 100000 year to the country.
= Josh Billings in an essay upon courting says
that the more advice you undertake to follow, the
less amount of good courting you can do.
= Alexander Hamilton, formerly Secretary of
the Treasury, has the honor of being grandfather
to Hamilton Fish, the present Secretary of State.
- The Charlottesville (va.) Chronicle says there
is not the slightest foundation for the story that IN
attempt wos made to assassnate Brownlow at that
place.
- The Athens (Geo.) Watehmon notices the death
of Capt. John C. Turner, of that place. He was
soldier in the Mexican war, and served as Captain
in Gen. Toombs' cavalry regiment in 1864
- Prof. Francis W. Capers has been elected
Professor of Mathematics in the Charleston Col
lege He is graduate Of that institution. and
was formerly professor in the Citadel Academy.
. Mr.. Boggs, who was Gen. Grants st. Louis
partner in the real estate business ten years ago,
died in that city on Monday. He was to have been
made Surveyor of the Port by Gen. Grant.
R. B. Elliott, (colored,) Representative from
Barnyell County, has been appointed by the Gov
ernor Assistant Adjutant- General Of the militia,
under the Act to organize and govern the militia.
- The Charleston Ne,c:s refers to W. A. Bishop,
of GreenxiAa, as go colorad representative. The
Neus ought to- be indicted for SANDER upon the ne
groes, as Bishop is said to be the meanest sort OF
white man. stf.
-ANew Orleans pnper says that United States
troops are being rapidly concentrated in Texas on
the Rio Grande border, and additional barracks
are being built 1t is thought that movement on
Mexico is contemplated.
- Geo. T. Downing, Frederick; Douglass, and
other negroes have issued proposals for publica-
tion of irst-class weekly journal in the city of
Washington, in the interest of the colored people
in America.
- Forty Swiss families, supposedto possess ST.
900 apiece on an average, are about to settle in
Grundy county, Tennessee. They will engage in
agricultural pursuits, and have already begun to
arrive at their new home.
= Mr.. Sprague, of Rhode Island, recently sad
in the United States Senate, that he had seen q
cotton mill in Augusta, Georgia. which surpasses
the best mill in New England, in the success OF lis
operations. He is one of the largest manufacturers
of TINT section, and ought to know.
- The Bishop Of New Jersey, it is said, has
given notice that he will refuse at confirmation to
lay his hands upon the piles of false hair and chig-
mons which dis6gure The heads of so many young
ladies seeking admission to the church and COM
munion.
There has been Stewart case in the British
Parliament Sir Sidney Waerlow, rich London
contractor, has been obliged to retire from business
in order to hold his seat the law imposing penalty
of s5OO day upon any one sitting in the House
while interested in q government contract
= The first official act Of Secretary Cox, of the.
Interior Department.'was the removal Of Charles
H. Mcknight, of Alexandria, Va. who was en-
ployed in the Secretarys Office under Mr. Brown
ing Mr.. Mcknight had served in the Confederate
army, where he lost an arm.
= The New Orleans Picayuns has reliable au-
thority for stating that the announcement that Mr.
Jefferson Davis was in dangerous condition from
disease of the heart is unfounded. Letters received
from him state that he is in better health than he
has been for years.
- The Chester Reporter learns that the election
in the Third and Fourth Congressional Districts
for members Of Congress, are likely to be declared
illegal, and new election is to be ordered-at
least this is the opinion of Republican, who has
Just returned from Washington.
The Edgefeld Adcertiser recently announced
the death of Mrs. Mary A. E. purisoc, mother of
D. R. Durisoe one of the proprieOrs of that paper
The Adverhser one of the best of our State ex-
changes, has been in the hands of the Durisoo
family for thirty years, descending from father to
SOD.
= The Legislature passed joint resolution pro-
viding that no County shall be subdiyided for the
purpose Of creating new ooanties, unless the same
meets the approval of the inhabitants of the sec
ton to be effected thereby. The question in all
cases is to be submitted to vote of the people Of
the counties it is provided to divide.
- The complaint that Massachusetts is absorb
ing more of the important positions under the
Government than she is entitled to, is becoming
quite general. In addition to having TWO Of the
most important Cabinet officers, she has two ofthe
leading committee chairmanshps i'll the Senate
Foreign Relations and Military Affairs-beside
l.saua.ol i'm nortant chairmanships in the House.