The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-07-29
ITEMs-ED1ToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

- Boston is to have new Post Office, built Of
granite.
Gen. James Conner, of Charleston, is at the
Virginia Springs this summer.
twill be 90 years before the fourth of July
will again fall upon Sunday.
= Yellow fever, it is stated, prevails to an
alarming extent at Pensacola, Fla
The Republicans have elected delegate to
Congress from Washington Territory by lab ma
jority.
- Commodore s. s. Lee, brother Of General 4.
e. Lee, died at his home in Stafford County Va,
recently.
= General Ames, commanding the Department
OF Mississippi, has been called to Long Branch by
President Grant.
- Old Ben Wade says that the result in Virginia
viii AFFECT Northern elections unfavorably for the
Radicals.
- An extra term Of the Circuit Court will be-
gin at Abbeville on the third Monday in August
Judge Orr will preside.
- The Petersburg (Va.) Ind:z announces the
death Of George H. venable, one Of the editors OF
that journal, on the 18th inst
u. Wood Davidson, Esq, over the signature
of e.Corsair," is the racy Columbia correspondent
of the Charleston Ne,Os.
DIR. James E. Hix, prominent citizen OF
Union, died in that village on the 18th instant
eyed IS years.
= The Supreme Court of North Carolina has
decided that bond given in 1864 for the price OF
slave ia valid and can be collected at law.
A package containing $4,000 was recently
STOLEN from the Office of John Craig, broker, at
Augusta, Ca, by an edroit thief, who still eudes
the detectives.
Ed C. McLure, of the Chester Reporter, is
rusticating at Cleveland Springs, N. c. He says
the company there now numbers about seventy
among these are no notabies.
The Investigating Committee is still in session
at Abbeville C. H. About fifty negroes and half
as many whites have been summoned before the
Committee.
= Solomon l.. Hoge made speech in Abbevilie
eight or ten days ago, and as usual took to lying
as his best forte. He was contradicted OH the spot
as to one of his statements, but did not reply.
Prominent Radicals at Washington declare
that there is no possible hope for the success Of
that party in Tennessee at the approaching elec-
tion. Conservatives claim the State by 10000 or
$4,000 majority.
Prentice says that one murder in The South
creates more excitement among Northern people
than ten murders in the North, and assigns as
reason that one murder here is more uncommon
than ten in the North.
- The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel regrets to
learn, through private sources, that Hon. A. ID.
Stephens does not recover rapidly. The second
volume of his crest work continues to receive
daily attention 10 the extent Of his strength, but
progress is necessarily slow, in consequence of his
physical weakness.
= Mississippi is practicing the same tactics as
Virginia. The Democracy are going into volun-
tary eclipse, and will support Gen. Dent, Presi-
dent Grants brosher-in-law, o Republican, and
claim that they will elect him by thirty-fve or
forty thousand majority.
"A man who has worked for years in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard as machnst, has learned,
in leisure hours to speak, read and write Hebrew,
French. German and Italian, and obtained .
thorough knowledge Of geology and botany. Out
of his savings he mas purchased library Of LOO
volumes.
- The public debt Of the United States amounts
to more than $3.50 minute for every ruinute that
has elapsed, day and night, Sundays included,
since the beginning of the Christian era or about
SIX dollars IN hour for every hour since the crea-
tion of the world, according to the Mosaic chrome
logy.
A dispatch from Havana says that sickness is
Increasing in the ranks of the Spanish and rebel
forces. The mortality is frightful. It is estima-
ted that the deaths amount to fifteen per cent.
monthly of the men in the field on both sides.
The Spanish troops are afflicted most with vomito,
while the insurgents suffer from cholera and
diarrhea, caused especially by want and exposure.
- Philadelphia is 10 have bigger musical jubi-
lee than Boston has had. It is proposed 10 cele-
brate the centennial anniversary of the signing Of
the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of
July, 1876, by 8 gigantic musical festival in
building especially erected in Fairmount Park,
capable of accommodating 100000 spectators and
$4,000 performers.
The official returns in Virginia show that the
vote for Walker will fall twentysix thousand short
of the white registration, and that for Wells
eighteen thousand short of the colored registra.
tio.. The Objectionable clauses in the Constitu-
tion were defeated by forty thousand. There ap-
pears to have been an entirely deal in politics
as only six members of the elected Legislature
have been there before.
Every one should prepare well for turnip
crop, says the Walhalla Courier and seed largely
as possible The effects of scarcity of breadstufs
may be greatly abated by good crop Of this vege
table, which is probably the quickest and most
profitable of all the root crops, and requires less
Labor in its cultivation. Apart from its value as
sable vegetable, it may be made to subserve the