The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-07-07
ITEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

aOQ. ~. w. Voorhees,, VI luu1aud, utt5
been re-nominated for Congress.
= Sir James Clark, celebrated English
physician, is dead, aged 81.
= The Virginia Springs are not yet crowded
with visitors.
President Grant and family spent the 4th
of July in Connecticut.
- Alexander H. Fl. Stuart is named as the
next Conservative candidate for Governor Of
Virginia.
- General Sherman and family have goneto
the Berkley Springs, Virginia, to spend the
summer.
Mr.. John Barker, of Fairfield, died on the
26th ult, aged 86 years. He was soldier in
the war of 1872.
= In North Carolina, railr.ad along the
Tar River is to be constructed on the Welsh
narrow guage plan of two and-a-half feet
- Earl Clarendon, Minister of Foreign At
fairs in the British Cabinet died last week, aged
10. 1t is thought that the Earl of Granville
will-succced him.
The Abbeville Press states that Mr.. I. D.
Gaillard has sold his valuable plantation near
White Hall, in that county, to Northern firm,
for $4,000
= The State Constabulaly force, so long sta
toned at Abbeville G. H., has been removed,
and it is presumed that Gov. Scott at last be-
lieves that "order regns in Warsaw"
= Only two cadets to West Point from the
South were admitted, and these were two ont
of the eight from Virginia ALI the other
nominees were sent home.
: The citizens of Charleston are preparing
to erect monument to VIM. Gilmore Simms,
and preliminary meeting on the subject has
taken place.
= Mr.. Jasper Christensen, q native of Ger
many, but for near fifty years a resident Of
Charleston, died on the 18th of June at Cam
den, S. G.
= The heated term in New York gives the
newspapers busy time in recording sun strokes.
Over thirty casualtiesw were reported last Wednes-
day.
DR.. II. V. Miller, of Georgia, is on visit
to relatives in Abbeville, as we learn from the
Press and Banner He was elected United
States Senator in 1868, but has not yet been ad-
mitted to his scat.
= The total receipts of the United States
government from all sources, since its organiza-
ton, March 4, 1889, to June 80, 1869, period
of eighty wears, were S11 ,402 100000, and the
expenditures Sl1, ,250,0 100000.
= Gen. R. Z. Lee left Lexington on Friday
last en- route North. His health is improving.
At Charlottesville, great demonstration was
made over his arrival by the students, and he
was joined by Hon. George II. Pendleton, of
Ohio
= Col w. L. NJ Burger, late Adjutant- Gem
eral of the Department of the South, and who
since the war has lived in Charleston, has sailed
from New York en- route to Algiers, where he is
to represent the United States as Consul-Gene-
raj.
"A farmer raised three thousand bushels of
Irish potatoes this year on ten acres of land on
Buffalo bayou, near Houston, Texas. At one
Ill, sbo1 fbo ic
worth three thousand dollars. This beats cot
ton at fifty cents pound.
= The City Council of Richmond has de-
clined to receive the jeff Davis mansion back
on the terms proposed by the Uuited States
government, that is, not to charge rent for its
occupancy as headquarters for the military. It
is asked that rent. be paid, and the building re-
stored to its former condition.
- The executive committee of the Union
League of America held a secret session in
New York last week, to discuss measures for
promoting the success of the Republican party
next fall. Ex-Gov. Jewell, of Connecticut,
was the only representative from New England
and the West had but one representative in the
meeting.
= The Post Office Department will shortly
commence the issue of new series of stamped
envelopes, and newspaper wrapper. The
stamps will be of the same designs and colors
as the new postage stamps of corresponding de-
nomination. The shape of the stamps em-
bossed on the envelope and wrapper will be
oval. The new postage stamps are oblong.
- The United States Census Office has sent
out a circular to United States Marshals, d.
recting them to give to the press total popula-
ton of towns, cities and Counties, when COM
plete returns for the same shall have been re-
ceivcd and so far examined as to be satisfied of
the thoroughness and accuracy of the work.
This power, however, must be reserved to mar
shals; assistants are not allowed to divulge the
results of the enumeration.
= Ex-Congrcssman Whittemore has gone to
Boston and has been interviewed by reporter
He emphatically denies that he received money
for cadet appointments, and comments severely
upon his expulsion from Congress, claiming
that it is unconstitutional and establishes
dangerous precedent He says his constituents
will enter strong protest, and thinks the
House will reverse its action, but IN the mean
time it is his intention to keep before the pee
plc the wrong visited upon them through me,
and educate them to the defence OF their rights"
Union County, which was first nominating
her delegates to the Union Reform Convention,
likewise takes the lead of her sister counties in
the promptitude of her organization for the
Measures have already been taken
by her citizens to form clubs in every township,
which clubs are to send delegates to County
Convention to be held at Union Court House,
on Monday, August1. The County Convention
will nominate senator and representative for
the Legislature, besides full county ticket, and
will also elect delegates to a Congressional
District Convention, to nominate proper per-
son for Congress.
= The steamship Tennessee, which left
Charleston for New York on Tuesday OF hast
week, was discovered to be on fire in the lower
hold, forty miles northeast of Cape Roman, Oft
the North Carolina coast, on Wednesday even
ing. Capt. Chichester, her commander, m atonce
ten feet water. The passengers and crew were
safely landed on the beach, and assistance was
shortly at hand. The vessel is valued $780,