The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-02-03
ITEMs-ED1ToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.


- The next Texas Legislature will have two ne.
groes in the Senate and seven in the House.
- The Sheriff of Clarendon county, white
scaawag, has absconded, leaving his securities to
foot q considerable balance.
- The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the South Carolina Railroad will be held in Char
lesion on next Tuesday.
~ Elliott, the colored Assistant Adjutant Gen
eral, is spoken of as the probable successor Of
Judge Boozer in the Fifth Circuit.
- Gen. Candy has issued an order turning over
the administration of Virginia affairs to the civil
authorities.
"A concurrent resolution has been adopted by
both Hous es of the Legislature to adjourn on the
1st of March.
- Gen. McGowan has purchased the fine resi-
deuce of the late James NJ. Perrin, in the town Of
Abbeville, for $4,000.
- George W. Waterman has been appointed Re-
cefver Of the Laurens Railroad. The road is or
dered to be sold on the SOth of March next.
- Many fashionable young ladies in New York
ore said to be suffering with assesses on their
feet, caused by the high French boot-heels now in
vogue
= The name of VIM. s. Groesbeck, of Cincn-
natl, is mentioned by some Western papers as
possible Democratic candidate for the Presidency
in 70.
- DR.. Hunter MCGUIRE, formerly Medical Di-
rector of stonewall Jacksons army corps, has been
elected President of the Ricmond Academy Of
Medicine.
- The extreme Radicals triumphed in the elec-
ton of Speaker of the Georgia House of Repre-
sentatives last week. McWhorter, the former
Speaker, was reelected.
= The Constitutional Convention of Tennessee
has fixed the Governors term of office at four
years, and provides that he shall not be eligible
for but one term in eight years.
Gov. Walker has appointed John L. Marye,
jr., of fredericksburg as Lieutenant Governor of
Virginia to fill the vacancy occasioned by the cleo
lion of Lewis to the U. s. Senate.
- Oberlin University, an institution under the
auspices of the United Brethren, located in Wes-
terville, Ohio, has been entirely destroyed by fire.
Loss, SS5,000; insurance, $4,000.
- The Laurens7ille Herald is in ecstacies over
o turnip weighing II lbs. Anderson has already
thrown this in the shade by one weighing just
eleven pounds.
- Capt. Smith, who commanded at Galveston
when the "Harriet Lane" was captured, was killed
in Alaska recently by drunken Indian, who was
hanged by mob. Alaska ought to be reconstruc-
ted for this Ku Klux outrage
= College students have legend of mechani-
cal and perhaps sleepy parson at morning prayers,
who prayed that "the inefficient may be made eff
cient, the Incorporate temperate, and the indus.
trious dusrious."
Col. Wm. S. Rockwell, for many years
prominent citizen OF Georgia, but recently resi-
dent of Baltimore, died recently. He was dis
tinguished among the Masonic fraternity for his
learning and ZEAL
"A cnse has just been decided by the Supreme
Court of Alabama, which is regarded as settling,
in principle, that oil the marriages which took
place in that State during the war nre null and
void, and that the issue of such marriages are ile-
gitimate.
"Captain Jinks, of the Horse Marines"
whose history has often been heard in the rich
melody of song, has been supplanted by beauti-
full and refined production, bearing the classic
title of "shoo, Fly Don't Bodder Me-" The
world is all agog with the information that this
latter song is native of Charleston.
= The expression seeing light, often found in the
Columbia correspondence of the Charleston papers,
is Radical English for downright bribery. When
money is used to secure votes, light is said to be
Mrowa on the subject, and when it is stated that
member sees light, The meaning is that he has been
paid his price.
- Married women in this State will soon acquire
control Of their own property. The Legislature
has passed q bill which provides that no real or
personal property held by woman at the time of
her marriage shall be subject to levy or sale for
her husband debts but shall be her separate prop
erty-and that she may manage and dispose of the
same in all respects as though she were man.
- Disturbances in York county are reported,
and it is rumored that an engagement had taken
place in which eight men were killed. The con-
stabulary and "loyal citizens are arrayed agninst
the Ku Klux from North Co arolina, who ore said to
have been whipping and outraging innocent per-
sons for some time. This is from Republican
source and must be taken with some grains Of al-
lowance.
- The Washington correspondent of the Balti-
more Sun thinks that Congress is not very anxious
to admit the unreconsructed States, and says:
"It is all sham that they are disturbed by the
cry of rebels. The truth is that they fear the
political power of the Southern States on fnapcial
and other questions and this makes New England
so much opposed to admission. The cry of rebel
is convenient one for them to use to cover up
their real motives"
. - During the debate ON the Educational bill in
the Legislature last Thursday, DeLarge (colored)
intimated that all the school commissioners had