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

ITEMS-EDITOR1AL AND ULdEh w 1oh'
Gen. q. H. Kinard, prominent citizen OF
Newberry died in that place on the 18th inst. He
was coroner and magistrate of Newberry at the
time of his death.
-AThe Investigating Committee appointed oy
the Legislature to investigate all matters pertain
ing the last Congressional election were IN session
with closed doors at Abbevlle last week as We
learn from the Banner They will probably reach
Anderson in short time.
The New York Sun, in referring to the tact
that Vim. H. Seward is now on visitto Californs
and possibly Alaska, says: "Before starting on
his present tour he stated, very explicitly, that
within wear there would be breakup OF Presl-
dent Grants administration, which he pronounced
the weakest administration the country has ever
had; and he assigned as one reason for going away
that he wished to be as far off as possible when
the break up takes place"
= Senator Sprague having failed to comply with
the conditions upon which he purchased the Co
lumbia canal, it is thought that the property will
aeain be offered for sale at an early day.
- Horny District will have to pay upwards OF
$4,000 tax this year.
Professor John LeConte has been elected
President pro tsn of the University of California
= Mr.. Jefferson Davis intends returning to his
home in Mississippi in short time
General Lee has had house built for him
by public subscription at Lexington, Virginia
= Ben Pitman the celebrated photographic re-
porter, is ct Jackson Mississippi, reporting the
Yerper trial for the United States Government,
- Colonel ". D. Mann, proprietor of the Mo
bile Register, has been nominated for Congress by
the Democrats of the First Congressional District
of Alabama.
- There are seventy i've last manufactures in
the, United States, turning out annually from
1900, 900 to 100000 lasts. One pair of lasts
will, on an average, make sixty pairs of boots or
shoes. The best wood for making them is persim-
mon.
New York is more densely populated than
any other city. In one portion $4,000 persons
reside within square mile. London cannot fur
nish parallel
- The largest owner of personal property in
the United States is Commodore Vanderbilt, who
is said to hold twenty mllnons.
In the Virginia registration for the approach
ing election, it is said that much larger number
of whites than blacks are being registered
General Frank P. Blair, Jr, has gone to Cali
fornia to organize Pacific branch of life Assu-
rance Company.
"A steam plough experiment in New Jersey
lately was entirely successful In view of the
scarcity and changed condition of labor in the
South, the probabilities are that eventually far
ners having large tracts OF land to cultivate there,
will riturae the soil with ploughs driven by steam
Why should not every very large farm have its
steam engine, the power to be applied to multi
tude of services upon the place: little ingeuui-
ty might make a small portable steam engine to do
so much general work that farm of thousand
or two acre. could be ran by very few hands.
= Two young women recently fought duel in
Puebla to decide their claim to the possession of
male Mexicau's love and person. One Of the com
batants was killed.
- An English chemist has discovered prepa-
ration which will purify human bodies, and sug-
gests that by his method one can make excellent
building materials of his ancestors.
- The Western lands, it is stated, rapidly
becoming exhausted from the neglect to apply
proper manures. The journals Of chat region as
sert that the grain-growing districts Of Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri and Minnesota are yielding small
ler crops to the scre every year.
= A soldier who lost his scalp with Custer 1t
Wbashita tells how it felt. First an Indian cubb
ed him as he lay wounded. Then squaw squat
ted on his breast, and pulled his hair ou. by hand
fulls as she screeched his death song or something
else; and finally this was the process: ''The Indi-
an stepped one foot on my chest, and with his
hand gathered up the hair near the crown of my
head. He wasn't very tender about it, bu: jerked
my head this way and shat, and pinched like Sa-
tan. My eyes were partially open, and could see
bead-work trimmings on his leggings Suddenly,
felt the swfullest biting, cutting flesh 60 round
my head, and then it seemed to me just as if my
whole head had been jerked clean off. l never
felt such pain in ell my life; why, it like pull
ling your brains out. didn't know any more for
two or three days, and then came to fed that
had the sorest head of any human that ever lived.
/ was shipped down to Laramie after bit, and all
the nursing got hain't made the hair grow out on
this spot yet"
TIE NATIONAL ISrELLIaENcER.-Thc following
announcement issued from the Office of the Nation
al Inteligencer at Washington, on Thursday night,
was the only notice of the suspension of that able
and time-honored journal:
Temporary arrangements have been made to
merge the National Intelligeucer with the Wash
ing Express. The necessary preparations for the
separate publication of these newspapers in morn
ing and evening editions are in process Of perfcc