The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-10-14
ITEMs-HD1ToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

= The President proclaims the 30th of Novem
Der next as day of national thanksgiving
Hon. John Bigelow has withdrawn from the
New York Times, after brief editorial career.
- Ex-senator Frelinghuyseu. of New Jersey
has been rendered the mission to China.
Professors Rivers and Sachtleben, of the
South Carolina University, have resigned their po-
sitions.
-Mr.A. W. Shillito, an aged and respected
citizen of Abbeville died in that county, sudden
lyon Wednesday last.
- President Grant announces his intention Of
visiting Georgia during the State Fair at Macon,
if official duties will permit.
- The Mills House of Charleston will be re-
opened for the accommodation of the public on
the first of November next
Rev ]. N Young and Mr.. F. A.. Connor, OF
Abbeville, have been nominated to ELL vacancies
from that county in the Legislature. -
: The newspapers think it possible that Gov.
Scott may be nominated as Secretary of War.
There's no such good luck in store for us.
= Mr.. Otis ]. Chafee. leading merchant in
Charleston before the war, died ON the 3rd inst
at Aiken. where he had been residing for several
years.
= George Morrison. ticket agent of Robinson's
Circus, was fatally stabbed at Richmond on last
Friday by Charles Spain who mistook him for an
other man.
= Mr. T. J. Noise, for many years Appointment
merchant of Charleston, but since the war en-
gagged in business in New York, died in the last
named city recently.
- The Keowee Courier states that, for political
reasons Dr. A. E. Norman, the efficient postmas
ter at Walhala, has been displaced, aad A. Bryce
Jr, appointed in his stead.
aTell it not in Gath publish it not in the
streets of Askelonp' Gen. Ncorn, who was in
see Confederate army and lost gallant son in the
cause, is the extreme radical candidate for Cover
nor of Mississippi, and glories in the shame
= Tie names of Thomas W. Williams and Da-
yid Jones who went down into the Avondale mine
to relieve their companions, and lost their own
lives deserve to be hoaored for their heroism and
philanthropy as long as noble deeds are remem-
bered.
-Iis said that Gen. Rosecrans win make
SIS, 0O0 900 out of his mining speculations in Cal
iforuia This is better than running for Governor
of Ohio, or even being the chief executive of one
of the reconstructed States, with pickings and
stealings.
= The New Orleans Times announces the death |
of Col. Samuel NJ. Hyams. of Natchitoches, La,
with review of his life and public services. He |
was native of South Carolina, but removed to
Louisiana, with several brothers in 1880, at the
age of seventeen.
- Delegates from. most of the counties of
Northeast Georgia recently met in Athens, to
urge the construction of the Athens and Clayton
Railroad, which is to tap the Blue Ridge Railroad
at Clayton, when the latter shall be completed to
that point.
- An exchange declares that the most ngeni-
ous article on exhibition at the Fair of the Amer
lean Institute is wooden statue of Gen. Grant on
rollers If We couidget Gen. Grant out of the
Presidential chair and this wooden statue into ii,
we would have marked Improvement in the I'D
ministrstion.
= John A. Inglis, ESQ.,. formerly of this State,
but now resident Of Baltimore, has declined the
Presidency Of 0glethorpe College, Ca, recently
rendered him Chancellor Inglis is eminently de-
serving the honor intended to be conveyed. but
we presume that lucrative practice is preferable
to salaried professorship.