The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-18
ITEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

= The first bale of new cotton was sold in
Montgomery last week, and brought IS cents.
Two colored women have recently been
murdered in Marlboro county, and the husband
of one has been arrested on suspicion.
= On the 10th inst, there was slight fall
Of snow at Helena, in Montana Territory. The
thermometer at noon was down to the freezing
point.
: Commodore Junius ]. Boyle, of the Uni
ted States Navy, died on the 11th inst. at Nor
folk, Va. He was a native of Maryland, and
first entered the service in 1928.
A gold nugget, weighing ninety-three
pounds, has been found in California Great
excitement has been created around and about
the mine where this huge nugget has been
found.
David D. Fisk, one of the Oldest newspa-
per editors in the South, died at Portsmouth,
Va, last Friday morning. He was sixty-three
years of age, and had for forty years been con-
nected with newspapers.
= The Philadelphia Age insists that General
Sheridan should be allowed to witness the OPP
erations of the French army, as by so doing he
might learn humanity, courtesy and conduct
becoming an officer and gentleman.
Letters from planters in North Carolina
to their factors in Norfolk, unanimously
agree that the crops, both of corn and cotton,
are finer than they have been at this season any
year since the war.
- Mrs. Sallie j. Clements, of Albemarle
county, Va, near Scottsville, who had reached
the remarkable age of about ITO years, died on
the 24th of July, 1870. She retained all her
faculties up to the hour of death.
"A warrant has been issued for the arrest
of Hon. R. R. Butler, Radical member of
Congress from Tennessee for forgery. Now,
send for Whittemore.
= The Columbia Ph4nir says that the Re-
form meetings at Laurens and Newberry, on
Saturday and Monday last, were enthusiastic
gatherings. Thousands of persons were pres
ent, and the speakers were warmly applauded.
"A Republican meeting was held at Green
Vile ON Saturday, which nominated G. G.
Puffer, recently of New York, as candidate
for Congress in the Fourth Congressional Dis
trict The meeting was composed of "bolters"
from the Convention nominating A. S. Wallace
for reelection, and is another Radical split.
tional currency note of the new issue has just
the genuine. The paper used in the genuine is
pink tinted The counterfeit is slightly green
ish in color, and the face is somewhat blurred.
The words fractional currency and stamps are
darkly shaded, which is not the case in the ger
uine. There is also difference in the back of
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the notes.
= The Baltimore Gazette states that a con-
tract has finally been completed for the erection
of the colossal equestrian statue of Stonewall
Jackson, which was originally, ordered by
friends of the deceased, of Frederick Volck,
the sculptor, in 1863 The model is already
completed, and is now at Munich. 1t is in
tended to cast it forthwith in bronze, and when
finished, it will be placed on the parade ground
in front of the Virginia Military Institute at
Lexington.
= Attorney General Akermans letter on the
status of Georgia is out in full, and is COM
pete review of the long pending muddle in
which the affairs of that State have been kept
so long, without, at the same time, being So
luton of them. The principle point of the
letter is, that it favors an election in Georgia
this fall. The result will be, if the administra-
ton permits a peaceable election, virtual
triumph of the Democrats in the State and
Congressional tickets.