The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-11-24
IrEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

Snow fell to the depth of four inches al
Harrisburg, Pa, on Saturday last
: The Democratic majority in Maryland is
officially reported as 19067.
= The State of Nevada elects Democratic
Governor
= Alabama goes Democratic, and elects three
out of four Congressman.
= Missouri goes Conservative by 1000 ma
|! jority.
There will be fifty-three Sundays in 1871
the year beginning and ending on Sunday.
= The Emperor of Brazil, it is said, contem-
plates visit to the United States.
Ex-Governor Vance is prominently named
for United States Senator fr1m North Carolina.
= Pleasant T. Gossett, of Spartanburg, COM
mitted suicide by hanging, one day last week.
= The strength of the United States army is
thirty-four thousand eight hundred and seventy.
The explosion of the cartridge factory at
Birmingham, England, hurt twenty-five per-
sons, some fatally.
= Among many others, Hon. Charles j.
Faulkner is named for United States Senator
from West Virginia. H -.
"A colored lad fell into sixty feet deep
well in Abbeville, few nights ago, and was
rescued uninjured.
Athens, Ga, voted almost unanimously on
the 18th inst to osubscribe 5000, 900 to the North
eastern Railroad, from Athens to Clayton.
= The Supreme Court of this State convened
in regular session at Columbia on Tuesday, 22d
inst
= The United States Circuit Court will meet
in Columbia on Monday next 2Sth of Novem-
ber Judge Bond is expected to preside.
= The result of the election in Virginia is
an immense triumph for the Democrats, to the
e.. 1,r.
- There are two William Williamses elected
to the Forty-second Congress-one from Indi-
ana, a Republican, the other from New York, a
Democrat.
- John F. Farnsworth, one of the authors
of the recent Reconstruction Acts, has been de-
feated for Congress by Jonas c. Stroughton, an
independent candidate.
"A clubhouse and twenty-three bales cot
ton, belonging to Mr. H. H. Easterling, near
Barnwel c. H., was accidentally destroyed by
fire on Wednesday last.
- The Duke of Aosta has been rendered the
Spanish crown, and the Cortes has adjourned
to wait his decision in regard to its acceptance
or rejection.
AT the opening of the 41st Congress, the
Democrats had only 81 members in that body.
BY the recent elections on the assembling of
the 42nd Congress they will have 1OS members
only IA less than majority.
= President Grant and Cabinet have been
invited to be present at the celebration of the
two hundred and fftieth anniversary of the
landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock, on
Wednesday the Dist instant.
- Hon. VIM. H Seward is enjoying his visit
to Japan, and has been received with marked
distinction The first interview ever granted
to private individual by the Mikado was given
to Mr.. Seward.
= The election of Gen. Gusts Lee to the
Presidency of Washington-Lee College seems
to have given general satisfaction, and cor
of the Louisville C0uricr-Journal
says that he is peculiarly qualified for that po-
sition. He was first in all his classes at West
Point, and considerably resembles his father in
appearance, manner and character. Young,
vigorous and earnest, he will devote himself
to the work before him.
The contest over the vacancy in the Uni
ted States Senate from this State, which occurs
by the expiration of Mr.. Robertsons term in
March next, is likely to overshadow more inn
portant matters in the Legislature. Among
the aspirants are Robertson, Chamberlain, Nea-
gle Cardoza, Niles G. Parker, and perhaps
Whittemofe.