The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-02-11
ITEMs-ED1roR1AI AND OTHERWISE.

- The population of Union c. H. is 792-
whites 36l eolored 451.
"A statistician has figured cut the arable land
farms of twenty-five acres each, or 1880, ,0OO 900
acres.
- The Georgia Legislature makes the State pay
each member 50 day.
- General Early gays he will stay in the United
States now, ssif the state of re country will per-
nit"
- In the lower house of the Arkansas Legisla-
turc, there is said to be but one Democrat. He
must have good time voting in the minority.
- Gov Scott has appointed Reuben Tomlinson,
A. ]. Ransier, J. ]. Wright, g. NJ. Widen and
G. ]. Cunningham as Trustees of the State Or
phan Asylum, and the Senate has confirmed the
nomination.
- The Greenvile Mountaueer repels the charges
made by A. S. Wallace, the defeated candidate for
Congress, against the peace and good order OF the
people of Greenville County during the late elec-
tion.
All fine cut smoking and chewing tobacco
and snuff not stamped according TO law of July
90, 1868, will be seized and confscatcd after the
18th instant.
Col. Robert A. Thompson formerly editor OF
the Keouee Courier, and late Commissioner in
Equity for Pckens District, has been appointed
Depot Agent at Walhalla, vice G. A. Magee, re-
cent incumbent
"A bill has passed Congress providing for the
removal, within thirty days after its passage OF
all officers ineligible under the 18th amendment in
Virginia, Mississippi aud Texas.
- The meeting of the Southern Press Associa-
ton, which takes place at Mobile has been post
poned to the 17th instant, in consequence OF a
meeting of the Direct Trade Convention, at Knox
vile, Tennessee.
- John NJ. Langston, 70 negro,) of Ohio, will
be an applicant for tho ministership to Hayti un-
der Grant. This is the same position offered him
by President Johnson but declined for the reason
that he would not dim his political prospects by
accepting an Office under the present administra-
tion.
= California's population is only one-fourth
female. In Nevada there are eight men to one
woman, and the proportion in Colorado is twenty
to one.
= Tbs members of the Rhode Island Legislature
are paid ST. per day. The State is small, and
nearly oil of them live at their homes during the
session, going to the Capitol in the morning and
returning in the evening.
- During the late Term of the Court of General
Sessions and Common Pleas for Greenville, Messrs.
Absafom Blythe, Frank 3. McBce and Augustine
Bacon we're admitted to practice as Attorneys,
Solicitors and Counsellors in the Circuit and Pro-
bate Courts of this State.
ST. Valentines Day fills this year on Sunday.
We presume the sacredness Of the day will not de-
Ter lovesick ones from sending their tender mis-
sivcs, or the ridiculously inclined from posting
caricatures.
"A negro woman was found dead in Columbus,
Georgia, on Sunday last, from starvation md e1-
posure. She had been offered work but refused,
rcn,arking that as she was free she should labor
no more. The coroner jury brought in verdict
of death from sheer laziness.
"A young man while being married was shot
down by the brother of his bride, on Thursday
evening in the Town of Cornersville Giles County,
Tennessee He fell in the arms of the girl, who,
assisted by friends conveyd him 10 bed, where the
marriage ceremony was finished at her request. In
few minutes the newly made husband expired.
The murderer escaped.