The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-08-19
ITEMS-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

- Hon. John Bell is lying dangerously Ill al
his residence in Stewart County, Tenn.
- Rev. D. Mcneil Turner has been elected
President of the Laurensyille Female College.
- The cotton worm has, appeared on many
plantations in Mississippi.
- The Winnsboro Neps urges 'formalion and
drill of conservative party in South Carolina" J"
after the manner of Virginia and Tennessee.
- The Emperor of China is to. be married this
year. He is fourteen years old, and has been en-
gagged good while.
- The present population of Atlanta is thirty
five thousand, and there are eleven hundred new
houses IN process OF construction.
Two gentlemen left Selma, Ala, few days
since for San Francisco for shipment of Chinese
They had orders for FIVE hundred laborers.
- George Dusenbury, q member of the Lcgisla-
ture from Abbevlle, died recently of pulmonary
affection.
= Williamson, the colored postmaster of Abbe-
Vile has declined to accept the appointment
cause, insufficient salary, only $50 per month.
- General Jordan, who is now commanding in
Cuba according to the Third Auditors books,
owes the Government $4,000.
= Gov. Scott was in Washington last Saturday,
looking after the quota OF arms for this State from
the government.
VIM. Fitzgerald, charged with the murder of
Lee Nance in Newberry last year, has been arres-
ted in Arkansas.
- The first bale of new cotton in Montgomery
brought 5S cents The first bale in Mobile sold at
As cents, and in Savannah at ~ cents.
- DR.. F. s. Lewie, tried for the murder of j.
Elliott Drafts, in Lexington county, has been
acquitted, on the ground of justifable homicide.
- Andrew Johnson, in the last speech he made
before the Tennessee election, took open and unc-
quivocal grounds in favor of national repudiation
- The Canadians are again excited over rumors
of another Fenian raid Orders have been issued
to get the gunboats on the Lakes ready for active
service
- Admiral Charles Stewart "Old Ironsides, is
ninety-one years of age. His general health is
good and mind vigorous, but he has what is sup
posed to be cancer in the tongue.
- Isaac Josey, colored convict from Darling
ton, while attempting to escape from the peniten-
tiary was fred upon and killed by the colored
guard.
- Hon. W. B. Rowell, of Marion County, for
merly State Senator and in the 10th year of his
age has, this year. cultivated fifteen acres of corn
and cotton with his own hands.
- There are eleven licensed taverns in Darling
ton, where liquor can be bought, and the popula-
| ton is only 50O In other words, one drinking
| saloon to every twenty adult males.
= George Peabody has donated to the trustees
of Washington College, of which Gen. Lee is pres
dent, 100000 to establish additional professor
ship recently proposed by the General
- Geo. W. Rutter, President of the First Ma
tional Bank of Memphis, has been arrested in New
York and lodged in Jail, charged with the embez-
element of 100000 of the Tennessee school fund.
- Chief Constable Hubbard advertises reward
of $1,000 FOR the re-arrest of the confessed mur-
derer, William K. Tolbert, who was suffered to
escape from the State Penieniary short time
ago.
- Chicago is 10 have great Chinese laundry,
Francisco to do the work. The Chicago merchants
now in California are very generally engaging
Chinese men as house servants to take the places
of the Bridgets now employed.
-Itappears from the annual report of the Angus
ia cotton factory that the net profits of that esab
lishment, for the year ending on the 30th of June
last, were Sl2O7l7, and that the capital invested
is SG00,00O From this statement it will be seen
that the dividend on the capital invested in the
Augusta cotton factory amounted last year to more
than twenty per centum.
&C. p Leslie, the Land Commissioner Of this
State, gives notice of the opening of the land
office created by act passed at the last session
of the Legislature. Mr.. Leslie is ready to receive
proposals from persons having good land for sale at
fair market prices, and will pay cash for oil pur-
chases made for the State.
- The Orangeburg News announces in lis last
issue change of ownership-Mr. I. c. Andrews,
the principal proprietor, having transferred his in
terest to W. A. Edwards Its proprietors are dis
gusted with Radicalism, and avow determination
to support hcnceforth any independent organiza-
iion that pledges itself 10 universal suffrage and
universal amnesty.
- The list of premiums to be awarded at the
State Agricultural Fair has been published and
embraces premiums for nearly everything valuable
in mechanical and agricultural industry, art,
science and taste. Copies of the list may be OBJ
tanned from the Secretary, CoonelD Wyatt Aiken,
Cokesbury, S. C. The Fair will he held in Coum-
tia ou the 10th, llth and 12h Of November