The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-04-21

"a died near Shreveport on the 18th of Feb
Vice President Colfax is the happy father
of an interesting son and heir, now about ten
days old.
New Orleans were decorated with flowers on the
9th.
= Greeley is the name given to new Col
orado town. although it bids fair to become
place of respectahlity.
New mineral discoveries are reported near
Harney Station, in New Mexico, and the roads
are lined with people going to the mines
Judge Thomas we see it stated, has de-
cided that Union must have six terms OF the
Court this year.
Mrs. Martha Gibbs, the widow of Rev
olutionary soldier, died last October in Allen
county, KY, at the advanced age of l13 years.
The Raleigh Standard says that the In
sane ASYLUM of North Carolina is full to Its
utmost capacity, and more than two hundred
applications on file.
= The agent of company of Tennessee
planters, sent to China to procure laborers tor
the South, has returned with the information
that his mission was not success.
- The colored men of New York, in their
procession celebrating the Fifteenth Amend
ment, carried banner bearing this inscription,
"Charity to all, magnanimity to none"
The Election Committee allows Grafton
until the first of September next to work up
his case contesting the seat of Conner, Demo-
cratic member of Congress from Texas.
"A dispatch from Virginia City, Nevada,
saws the Democrats will make no nomination
for mayor, but will generally support negro
candidate, whose chances for election are good.
"A. B. Southall, late postmaster OF Ham
burg charged with robbing the mail, has been
sentenced to two years imprisonment in the
penitentiary.
- The President has nominated Judge Fish
er-famous for his rulings in the Surratt case
and for his quarrel with Judge Bradley-Uni-
ted States Attorney for the District of Colum-
bia.
= The Attorney General of California has
decided that the Fifteenth Amendment is inert
as against State laws, until Congress legislates
for its enforcement, which will be speedily done
after such decision.
- It is suggested that mass meeting OF
the citizens of Lancaster county, without re-
gard to color, be held at an early day, and that
anti-Whittemore candidates be invited to de-
liver speeches on that occasion.
: Mr. 81. l. Kimball, of Atlanta, Ga, has
offered the handsome SUM of $500 to be award
Il
for the best bale of cotton raised In that State.
Horace Greeley is the only editor in New
York who gets ten thousand dollars per annum.
George William Curtis was offered that amount
to edit the Times after Mr.. Raymond's death,
but declined.
An exchange says: "FAty years ago
there was such noise made about New
Hampshire member of Congress sending home
package of garden seeds under his franz, that
the offender failed of reelection"
General Joseph II. Lewis, who was gal
liant brigadier in the Confederate States army,
has been nominated for Congress in the Third
Congressional District of Kentucky, nice Golla-
day. His disabilities have been removed.
Nebraska and Nevada together do not
have as many inhabitants or cast as many votes
as one Congressional District in other States:
But they have four United States Senators OF
the New England persuasion.
= Although the population of New York
City is estimated at a million, the real estate
holders number only about fifteen thousand.
Nine hundred and eighty-ive persons out OF
every thousand, therefore, occupy hired prop
erty. f
. The saw and grist mill of Capt. L.;Gun-
ter situated on the Lowndes' place, in Lexing-
ton County, was entirely destroyed by fire on
Wednesday last, together with 5000 or 5000
feet sawed lumber. The fire. was accidental.
No insurance.
| -Advices from Havana by the way of Key
West, deny the Spanish reports Of the annihi-
lation of The Cuban rebellion. General Jor-
dan is still in the field at the head of the Cuban
army, and the Spaniards have been whipped In
two battles.
= The engine Laurens, belonging to the
Laurens Railroad, when about to leave New
berry on Saturday morning, burst her fire boxes,
throwing the engine, tender and one box car
about twenty feet off the track. The fireman
was slightly injured.
Representative O'Connell, of York, who
is charged. with being Captain of the Forty
Thieves" in the last Legislature, has been ap-
pointed Deputy Land Commissioner for Ian
caster county His appointment creates dis
satisfaction among the colored people.
= The Mayor of Washington city officially
publishes an approval of an ordinance OF the
City Council allowing all colored persons TO
visit theaters, be entertained at all hotels and
restaurants the same as white persons, and all
persons refusing them such entertainment are
liable to arrest and heavy fine.
- The Democrats in Delaware have resolved
to have nothing to do with the negro vote, Dut
to appeal exclusively to the white vote OF the
State for support. They say that they e1Pec'
in this way to gain over more white Republi-
cans from the working men than are necessary
to counterbalance the negro VOTE
"A prominent Radical Senator who usually
votes with the ultra wing declared the other
day that he would like very much to see the
old Southern Senators back again in Washing
ton; first because he did not like the carpet
baggers; and secondly because the Southern
Senator's, whatever their errors or Shortcomings
could never be bought, and their moral lnfp- ny
ence was always steady bulwark against the
designs of the corruptionists.
Mr. George W. Julian, one Of the !, most mos
earnest and bitter of Radicals, has been delea-
ted in his effort to obtain renominatlon ior s:l
Congress from his Radical constituents IN 1ndl-
ana. This defeat is especially noticeable, since