The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-07-15
fTEMs-EpIPoRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

Ofioial!re returns from eighty -four counties in
Virginia give Walker majority of $4,000.
- The Ohio Democrats have nominated General
Rosecrans for Governor.
- John ]. Rawls, an old citizen of Columbia,
died in that city on Thursday.
= Grant has expressed to several gentlemen his
satisfaction at the result and qualification at the
peacefulness of the Virginia elections.
= The Confederate dead are being removed from
the Chckamauga battle field, and reinterred in the
Confederate cemetery at Marietta, Georgia.
- 1t is stated that Hon. John Townsend, of Ed
isto, is making arrangements to hire number of
Chinarten to work on his plantation.
Florida can now boast of negro lawyer.
One was admitted to practice at Alaehua in that
State the other day.
- Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois
and Iowa have enacted statute for tho prevention
of cruelty to animals this year.
-Sixty-two Swiss emigrants arrived al Colds
boro, N. c., last week. They were taken charge
of by the North Carolina Immigration Society.
- President Grant has arranged his summer
excursions so as to be within easy reach of the
capital, and will at no time be absent ever two
weeks.
1t Is said that nine separate and distinct bids
for the completion of the Blue Ridge Railroad
were submitted to the commissioners at their re-
cent meeting
VIM. q. Sanford, cashier of one Of The New
York National Banks, has decamped, being de-
faulter for one hundred thousand dollars, caused
by unfortunate gold speculations.
The President has given assurances that the
administration will be perfectly impartial in the
approaching contest in Mississippi, ard will insist
that the military authorities shall be impartial
also.
- Sickles' instructions as Minister to Spain con-
tain nothing relative to the purchase Of Cuba, and
persons who are qualified to speak for the govern
ment say that it is not in the real estate business
at present.
- Messrs. Wade Hampton, L. D. Ghilds, and ].
G. Cibbes who opposed the recent railroad consoli
dation at Columbia, because "they did not desire
to see the capital wayside station" we're left out
III Inc eleCLlOu VI tuc ucW UOdTu.
- George W. Chids. proprietor Of the Philadel.
phia Ledger, on the 5th of July, carried fifteen
hundred men,. women, and children employees
connected with the Ledgsr) on an excursion to At
lantic City. The affair cost $4,000.
= Letters received in Montreal from President
Jefferson Davis who is now in Paris, stare that il
in doubtful if his health will ever permit his re-
tarn,. Il he RECEIVERS sufficiently to travel he will
spend the summer in, Canada snd the winter in
Mississippi!
- The Washington Chronicle in bitter ariicl,
on the Virginia elections, says: "But all is moi
lost in Virginia. Congress holds this key of the
citadel. The rebel Democrats may boast that they
have elected their candidate, but there is an ult
mate remedy"
- The annual report of the Augusta Cottor
Factory makes the following exhibit as The result
cf the last years operations: Total earnings
S;1Gs;T6S:75; total expenses, S4e,046.37, ne
profits, Sl2O,717.SS. This gratifying result is at
tanned with working capital of S600,000. Wha
stronger inducements can be given to capitalists te
invest in the establishment of cotton mills ali ove
the South?
The stockholders of the Columbia and Angus
ta and Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad mel
in the city of Columbia on Wednesday Inst, and
after session of two days; both companies were
merged into one, under the name Of the Charlotte
Columbia and Augusta Railroad. Vim. Johnston
ESQ.,, former President of both Roads; is still re
tanned in the position for wbichhe is sc1vell fitted
The annual meeting of the stockholders was fixed
for the second Wednesday in April of each year