The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-05-05
1TEMs-.EDIT0RIAL AID OTHERWISE.


ITEMs-EDITORIALAND OTHERWISE.
= Mrs. Jefferson Davis is still in Europe,
and was in Paris at the last dates.
- Chief Justice Chase is going to Europe
for the summer
= Hon. Sanford E. Church is the Democratic
nominee for Chief Justice of New York. &.
: Illinois has now 5000 miles of railroad,
costing S12O, 100000
= The remains of Gen. Pat Cleburne have
been transferred to Helena Arkansas.
A bill has passed Congress giving pen
sion of $1,000 to Mrs. Lincoln.
John P. Hale late Minister to Spain, is to
have a public reception at Dover, N. r., on his
return home, early in June.
= Count Won Bismarck is recovering from his
recent illness. Baron Liebig, the eminent
chemist, is seriously i'll.
Ex-Governor Manning has been appointed
special agent of the Southern Life Insurance
Company.
= The Manassas (va) Gazette is paper Of
Southern proclivities, all except one column,
which supports Grant.
- warm political campaign, for this sum-
mer and fall, is preparing in Maryland There
are about As 900 black voters in the State.
w N. Hoge has been appointed route
agent over the Greenville and Columbia Rail-
road rice VIM. Griffin, removed -
:. The name of the Wilmington and Man.
chester Railroad has been changed to that OF
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
= The Government at MADRID denies the eup-
rising of volunteers in Cuba, and asserts that :
the late news from Cuba direct is favorable:
= The proprietor of the Working Christian,
published at Yorkville proposes to remove his
paper to Charleston. -.
=. Mr.. James T. Wellsman, an experienced
business man, has been elected to the impor-
tant position of Treasurer of the South Carolina
Railroad. -
= The Richmond capitol was built in 1879,
and is now nearly seventy-eight years old. It
will probably be abandoned as public insttu-
ton. ::
=; The management of the Laurens Railroad
has passed into the hands of Mr.. T. j. Lamotte,
of Columbia, who promises to push the work OF
repairing the road vigorously. = -.
= COL 81. P. Hammett, the retiring Presi-
dent of the Greenville railroad, has been pre-
sented with handsome set of silver by the
officers connected with the Columbia depot:
= Hugh R. Peasants, veteran journalist
for many years connected with the Richmond
press, died in that city on Wednesday, while the
disaster at the capitol was taking place:
D.
citizen of the town of Spartanburg, died sud-
denly at that place on the 18th, from a fit of
apoplcxy, in the sd year of his age.
= Gen. Candy has relinquished command Of
the Department of Virginia, and directed all
officers to report by letter to Gen. Mcdowell,
commanding Department of the East
- The Columbia Phenir is authorized to
state that hereafter there will be neither freight
nor accommodation trains over the Greenville
and Columbia Railroad on Sunday.
- 1t is rumored that in very short time
trains on the South Carolina Railroad will be
run between Augusta, Charleston and Colum-
bia in six hours.
: The Lancaster Ledger says it is reported
that Mr.. C. P. Leslie, late Land Commissioner,
has left the State, leaving an unsettled balance
of 100000. 1t makes the statement as mere
rumor, and asks for information.
A jointresolution passed the United States
Senate on Monday last, declaring the 30th of
May a perpetual public holiday, to be observed
by the people of the United States in decora-
ting the graves of Union soldiers. 7
= In the United States Senate on Thursday
Mr.. Sumner offered a petition asking that
the word "white" be struck out of the NatuEa-
lization laws, and Mr. Ferry stated that a bill
would soon be introduced for that purpose;
= Gen. George E. Pickett denies the story
about his going to Egypt. He is on his way
back to Richmond, and says that he has no de-
sire to quit his native State while he can find q
home within her borders.
= A veritable Ku Klux has been arrested In
York county by one of the State constables.
He is accused of whipping colored man, with
the assistance of twelve others not yet taken.
The valiant cOnstabulary must not rest, now
that thsy have caught live Ku Klux.
= Gen. Jordan has reached the United
States, with two Cuban secretaries, for the pur-
pose of advancing the interests of the insnr-
gents. He enlisted for one year, and is not .
deserter from the Cuban cause, as has been al
legged.
= A lady in Michigan has recently recover
ed her reason after being insane twenty three
years. The interval has been blank, but she
vividly whatever occurred before it,
and sadly puzzles her new friends by her stories
of "what occurred few weeks ago. -
= General Bragg has been removed by the
New Orleans authorities from the Office OF con-.
troller Of the water-works of that city, and
few days ago he turned over to his successor, a.
mulatto, public property to the value OF two
millions of dollars.
= General Fitzhugh Lee has written letter.,
in which he asserts that the late General
George H. Thomas offered his services in wri-
ting to the Governor of Virginia, at the begin
ming of the late war, and was Southern in his
feelings to an "almost bellicose degree"
= Patrick Henry Aylett, one of the most
prominent victims of the Richmond calamity,
has been distinguished as writer, lawyer and
popular orator. He was direct descendants OF
Patrick Henry, and possessed no ordinary pow
ers of eloquence:
death of Mr.. Elijah Alexander, ST., one OF the he
most highly respected citizens OF Plckens conn- %
ty, in the ninety eighth year OF ms age. me
its independence, and through the mutations Of
time. witness its generalization, degradation
and loss of liberty:
- The Union Times shows that the present
cost of the State Constabulary system is $31,.