The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-05-19
ITEMs..ED1ToR1A4 AND OTHERWISE.

- Gen. Jubal EARLY is to settle down perma-
nently at Lynchburg. and practice law.
:. - Gov. Bullock has sued the Atlanta (Ga.)
Constitution for libel.
= The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has been
leased to the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad.
: Benjamin Fleming, the last of Commodore
Perry's men, died at Erie, Pa, aged eighty
eight years.
The sufferers by the recent fire in Fincas-
tie, Va, are in great distress, and an appeal for
aid has been issued.
- Alexander Benson, an old and prominent
citizen of Philadelphia, is dead. He leaves
$S,OO0,060.1x
The jail of Kershaw county is said to be
very insecure. Twoprisoners made their escape
last week. .e;as
= Smallpox of very malignant form IS
prevailing in Havana and in many OF the In
terror towns of the @eyer-faithful isle" 20
Mr.. Christopher Jones, Of 0conee, has do
mated property to- the value of 5000 to the Ag-
ricultural Society of that county.
There is considerable excitement In Cali
fornia over the rich silver mines lately discov-
cred in Arizona ,.se,5 H..
- The California Emigrant Union has de-
cided to appoint agents in the principal cities
of Europe and a travelling agent for Germany.
The people of Savannah have voted sub
scription of 100000 to the capital stock of the
Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad. /,
= Col. John S. Calvert, late Treasurer OF
Virginia, died on the 10th from injuries recelv-
ed in the great calamity on the 9th ult:
-J.H. Rainey, colored Senator from George
town. has been nominated in the Republican as
a candidate for Congress in the First District.
The destruction of timber and fences In
the woods and mountains in Orange and ada
cent Counties in New York, by recent extern
sive fires, will amount to 81 100000.
= Mrs Mcfarland has published her version
of the.story concerning Albert D: Richardson
and herself. 1t occupies nine columns OF the
New York Tribune.
- Gen. Longstreet appeared in the process
sion gotten up by the negroes in New Orleans
in honor of the passage of the fifteenth amend
ment.
= On Friday last, negro named Paul
Brown, convicted of murder at the last term OF
the Darlington court, was executed, in the
presence of large concourse OF people.
= Captain General De Rodus claims VIC
tory over the Cubans, in which ninety OF them
were killed, and only two of the Spanlards
wounded.
= The Nashville Banner learns that Hon:
Gustavus A.. Henry, the great Whig orator of
ante-beUnm times, is lying seriously Ill OF can
Ger of the stomach.
The newspaper men of Washington are
raising fund for the relief of the family of
DR.. Brock, of the Richmond Enquirer, who was
killed.in the recent disaster.
- The entiee amount so far collected in Bal
timore for the relief of the Richmond sufferers
amounts to 5000, including $4,000 derived
from the benefit at the Holiday-street Theatre.
The bar and people of Camden are highly
pleased with Judge Melton, and the legal ira
ternity has formally expressed qualification at
his elevation to the bench.
About 13O negroes voted at the recent
charter election in Cumberland, Md. The re-
suit was Democratic gain OF two councllmen,
making the council unanimously Democratic.
The town of Yorkville has voted sub
scription of $4,000 to the Air Line Railroad.
The vote was unanimous In favor OF the sub
scription, as there was not solitary man in the
town opposed.
It is said that many members of Congress
are despairing of an adjournment before the
first of August. 1t may be added that the peo-
pie are in more despairing frame OF mind than
Congress.
Arrangements are making to organize a
society of the officers commanding celored
troops during the war. Sampson and Metcalt
ought to ioin the society. "And the colored
troops fought nobly."
= Mr.. Franklin J. Spann, of Sumter county,
died on Wednesday morning, the 4th instant,
leaving a wife and four children. He was at
tackled on Tuesday night with meningitis, and
expired after an illness of twelve hours.
Mr.. William Rogers, highly esteemed
citizen of Sumter county, residing at Bishop
vile. who was stricken with paralysis on the
3Oth ultimo, died on the following Tuesday, the
3rd instant.
- The census return for GreenvilIe County
shows that the white voting strength OF the
County exceeds that of the colored 1850 and
the total white population is Sc 632 in excess OF
that of the colored, being nearly double.
- Mr.. Charles S. Young, of Washington, has
been appointed to the responsible position OF
resident engineer on the section of the Blue
Ridge Railroad running through the north
eastern part of Georgia.
Luke D. Chadwick was accidentally shot
and killed by a pistol in the hands OF bus
Younger brother, on Wednesday last, at the
plantation of their father on Wadmalaw Is
land.
= Col. Hough, member of Gen. Thomas
staff, now in San Francisco, publishes card de-
nying the assertion made by Gen. Fitshugh Lee
that Thomas offered his services in writing to
Virginia, at the beginning Of the war.,
1t is suggested that the reason why wo-
mems teeth decay sooner than men'sis the per-
petual friction of their tongues upon.t the pearl
This is gross libel, and the true cause lies In
the sweetness of their lips.
- Massachusetts Lodge of Free and Accep,,
ted Masons, founded in ITO, when General
Joseph Warren was Grand Master of the State,
celebrated its one hundredth anniversary in
Poston Loot Wednesday,
"A frightful accident to the night express
train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad near At
Crimson, Kansas, on "Wednesday evening,
slaughtered nineteen people, and wounded
about forty more.
= Mr.. f. G. Brown, of Oconee county, died
suddenly on saleday last. He was at Walhaila
during that day, returned home, eat his dinner
late; and in the midst of lively conversation,