The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-03-17
1TEMs-EDIToR1AL AND OTHERWISE

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yune, is dead. aged IS.
- The Mechanics Bank of st. Louis has re-
sumed specie payments. 1t has circulation of
$4,000.
- The Governor has appointed Simeon Corley,
of Lexington, Commissioner of Agricultural Sta
tistics, vics Henry Sparnick, removed.
&C. E. Kanapau1, Esq, we'll known magis-
trate of Charleston, died in that city last week, af-
ter o short illness.
- Gen. Morris S. Miller, deputy ouartermaster
General of the United States army, died suddenly
in New Orleans on last Friday, aged 56.
A Washington dispatch announces that troops
will be sent to Tennessee, to aid the revenue off,
GERS in the enforcement of the laws.
- Ben Cooley, colored man, was hung at
Waynesboro, Georgia, on Friday last for the mur-
der Of Adkins Lewis last summer.
- Baron Nathaniel Rothschid, distinguished
member of the famous family Of wealthy bankers,
died in Paris on the 10Th of February.
- Boutwell, has assured Revels that he shall be
allowed to take out his share of patronage in Off
cial appointments for colored men.
- The Legislature of Virginia has passed the
homestead BILL which exempts two thousand dol
lars in property from taxation.
- Hon. John W. Leftwich, member Of Con-
gress from Tennessee died in Lynchburg on the
9th inst He was native of Bedford county, Va
- The post Office at Georges Creek, in Pickens
county, has been re-cstablished, and Miss Helen
E. Hawkins appointed postmistress.
- Thomas S. Metcalf, prominent citizen of
Augusta. died recently, aged IL. Hewasa native
of Rhode Island, and had been a resident Of Au-
gusta for more than fifty years.
A religious revival is progressing in Ciucin-
natl, and over 1000 persons have been added to
the converts, as many of them have not yet joined.
Mr. F. c. Brown, of Oconee county, has rails
ed some good hogs AT nineteen months old, the
lightest weighed 276 pounds-thc heaviest, 9O4
pounds. One, two years old, weighed 60pounds.
- The Governor of Minnesota has vetoed the
woman suffrage bil for the reasons that it vas to
be submitted to the women of the State, who ore
not legal voters and that public sentiment has NOT
called for it,
= The Republicans were successful in the New
Hampshire Election last week, by reduced mo-
iority. This State has voted the Republican tick
ct for sixteen years, and it is not strange that he
Dutch have taken Holland"
w. Il. Mann, proprietor of the Mobile Regis
ter, has been arrested the charge of defrauding
the government, while he held the Office of inter-
nal revenue assessor, and has been released on
bail.
Gen. George T. Anderson, of Atlanta, will
probably receive the appointment of Superintcn-
dent of the Air Line Railroad. The numerous
friends of "Old Tige" on this side of the Savan-
nah will he glad to greet him in that position.
After three night sessions debate in the Mis-
souri, Legislature on the proposition to submit tc
the people the constitutional amendment extend
ing suffrage to women, the whole matter was in
definitely postponed by vote of sixty-three to
thirty-seven.
= Gen. Butler has appointed Charles Sumner
Wilson, colored youth, hailing from Massachu-
setts as o. cadet at West Point What happy
commlnglng of names-Butler, Sumner and Will
S0n-ln lnlS appoiut tiueuI WI tuV uiS' SoiN'S ~ O
to the national military academy.
An extra court for Laurens is ordered for the
second Monday in April. The purpose of IN ex-
ira court is to get Mt the civil dockets without the
Intervention Of the sessions. The civil dockets
have on them over eight hundred cases, exclusive
o. the equity side.
- The Lancaster Ledger learns from on officer,
that the Newberry immigration Society has brought
into South Carolina since its organization,a little
over yenr, FIVE hundred immigrants, mostly from
Germany, and these are now settled mainly in New
berry county.
- General John C. Breckenridge. in denounc-
ing, at Lexington, Ky, the men who belonged to
the Ku Klu1 as either idiots or villains, asserted
readily respond to summons from the Sheriff as
one of posse to arrest and bring these men JUS
tice.
- The Jacksonville (Ala.) Republican announces
that party Of men in Ku Klux disguise who had
severely beaten q negro man near Alexandria, Cal
houn county, and outraged his wife, were caught
during the commission Of the crime aud stripped
of their paraphernalia, and 10 and behold, they
were I've negroes.
- The Philadelphia Ledger says: sit is an
nouuced, on reliable information, that President
Grant has decided not to issue the proclamation,
declaring the adoption of the fifteenth Amend
ment as part of the Constitution, until Georgia is
admitted TO representation in Congress, and Off
cinl notice has been received of the ratification by
the Legislature of Texas"
- Gov. Stevenson of Kentucky, refused to nc
cept the resignation of Mr.. Golladay as member
of the House Of Representatives, on the ground
.that duty to his State, his constituents and his
own honor demands full investigation of the
charges against him, in relation to the sales Of
cadetshipe, by the only tribunal to which he is
amenable under the circumstances" How stri-
in contraut with o11 GnyprpOr's trent nt