The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-01-07
ITEMs-ED1ToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.


agement of the Charleston Hotel.
= There have been thirty-three hundred bank"
rupt cases in Virginia to date.
- Charleston has forty seven miles of street,
for lighting which she pays $4,000 per annum.
- Mrs J. Foster Marshall; of Abbevile, died
at her residence in that village on the 23d ut.
: Wednesday evening last, Father Ryan gave
poetical reading in Charleston. His efforts met
with great applause.
- Mrs. ]. R. Boyes died near Ridgeway, South
Carolina, Sunday last, from the effects ofacci-
dental burning.
Captain a. p Irby, of Winsboro', had bis leg
broken on Monday last whilst wrestling with a
friend.
= There will be four eclipses this year. two of
the sun and two of the moon. One of the latter
will be visible here on the 27th January.
- The returns, SO far as they appear in the pa
pers, though meagre, indicate that Florida has
cent Hamilton, the Radical candidate, to Congress.
= The Sheriff of Richland furnished the prison
ers under his charge with an excellent dinner op
New Years Day.
- The up passenger train over the GrecnviFle
nd Columbia Railroad ran off the track, near
Newberry, on Friday, demolishing TWO cars and
slightly injuring several passengers.
- The issue of the S2,OOO,OOO of bonds in aid
of the Chatham Railroad, granted by the North
Carolina Legislature, has been stepped by writ
of injunction.
Emancipation day January 1st) was celebra-
ted in Columbia, Charleston and other cities, The
colorcd people in the country are more anxious 10
work, we believe.
- Tho Orangeburg Ne,es has changed hands,
and likewise politics, Samuel Dibble, Esq, has
sold this staunch Democratic journal to Thad. C.
Andrews, moderate Republican.
A new hotel will be built at Niagara Falls
next summer, on the Canada side. 1t will he
short distance above the Clifton House, and erec.
ted by joint stock pany, at cost of S3Oo,OOo.
The bill authorizing the militia in North
Carolina, South Carolina Florida, Alabama and
Louisiana, passed before the recess, will be signed
by the President.
= The Augusta Chronicle and Seminal begins the
year with an agricultural department, presided
over by p. ]. Berkmans, on experienced agricul-
turist.
Mr.. sd. Chcsterman has purchased the good
will and property of the Southern Opinion, the late
Rives Pollard's paper in Richmond, Virginia, and
will resume the publication during this month.
- Col. Daniel H. Hamilton, native of Charles
ton and formerly Colonel Of the First South Caro-
lima Regiment died in Morrstown, New Jersey,
on the 29th ultmo, aged So years.
- The Camden Journal, since its re-appearance
on the stage of action, gives evidence prosperity
and renewed energy. We must congratulate the
proprietor upon its improved typographical ap-
pearance.
- 1t is stated that supply Of railroad sleeping
cars, of the most approved pattern, similar to
those used on the best Northern roads, have been
ordered by the South Carolina Railroad Company,
and will be placed in all the night trains.
- The petition of Michael Lesser George W..
Razor, James Gambrell: Joseph Tucker and ]. j..
Lewis-all of this Disrict-for voluntary bank
ruptcy, were filled in the United States Court on
or before the 1st instant
- paragraph in the Charleston Ners states it
is rumored and generally believed in Columbia
that Mr.. Joseph Purcell, late of the Mills House,
has leased the extensive building on Main street,
and will open frst-class hotel Immediately.
= 1t is stated that Mr.. Davis is urged to surren-
der himself to Imprisonment again, when q haGeas
corpus will bring him before the Supreme Court,
whereby the potency of the Presidents amnesty
can be fully tested.
- The usual homily upon the New Year is
omitted in this weeks fntelligcnccr, as there are
1888 newspapers ahead Of US in announcing the
advent of 1869. We beg leave TO wish the reader,
however, happy New Year
- The President of the Grccnville and Cclum-
bia Railroad gives notice that the Board of Direc-
tors, have decided TO pay the six months interest
upon the mortgage and guaranteed debt falling
due OH the 1st of January.
= The Columbia PhGnir began tho New Year
by widening its columns, which is q decided i'm
2rovement in taste and convenience. We hope
friend SELDY will have IN increased patronage, in
order that he may feel justified in charging the
size Of his sprightly journal.
- The New York Tribune announces rs if au-
thoratively that General Grant has emphatically
declared his opposition, in so many words, to the
old Jackson doctrine that to the victors belong the
spoils. In other words, he is opposed to turning
men out of Office merely for opinions sake.
- is stated that Senator Sumner is preparing
speech on the finances, and is said to favor
speedy resumption of specie payments. General
Butler is also preparing speech on the same SUBJ
ject, and holds thata resumption of specie pay
ments is impossible
- II is estimated that the Masonic Order at
present contains about 1,25Ooo members. Of
this number 100000 are in England, 100000 in
Scotland, and $4,000 in Ireland There are about
600, 600 on the continent of Europe, 100000 in
the United States, and $4,000 in other parts of the
world.