The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-03-31
ITEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

Columbia has been ordered for April 9th.
The Kentucky Legislature has, adjourned
to meet again in January, 1871.
: - Senator Revels says he was once excluded
from the Senate gallery on account of color
DIR. Townsend, of Sarsaparilla fame, and
DIR. Radway, of the R. R. R, remedies, are both
dead.
= Friday Nixon, (colored,) who was to have
been hung in Charleston on last Friday Tor
murder, has been respited for twenty-elght days
"A Washington despatch states that Bur,
ger, of South Carolina, has been appointed
Consul to Algiers. Who is Burger?
= 1t is stated that Gen. Lees health is quite
bad, and it was expected that he would leave
home for q trip South on Thursday last.
= Gen. James H. Clanton is spoken OF as s.
the probable Democratic candidate Tor Governor
of Alabama.
= Gulian c. Verplanck in former days one
of the most prominent politicians OF New ork,
died in that CITY recently, aged eighty y-threc.
- The New York Herald speaks OF General
John G. Breckenridge as the ''ex-Vice President
of the Southern Confederacy."
= The delegate in Congress from Arizona
has signifed his intention OF appointing an In
dian to a West Point cadetship.
- Harper's Ferry is to be converted into a
watering place, and mammoth hotel Is to be
built there.
= John 7. Ford, Esq, has retired from the
management of the Charleston Academy. OF
Music, and Miss Laura Keene is to succeed hum.
A cotemporary inquiries whether the White
House stewards complaint of the Paucity OF
silyer-plate in that establishment was made be-
fore or after General Buffers visit.
A number of restaurant keepers IN Char-
lesion have held meeting and resolved to test
the legality of the Social Equality Bill, recent
" passed by the Legislature.
: The Wyoming delegate to Congress, IN or
der to carry out the female suffrage laws of his
territory, intends to send young lady cadet to
West. Point.
At the seventh annual commencement of
the New York College for Women, the degree
of M. D. was conferred upon five young women,
one of them negress.
The Columbia Oil Company is now fairly
established, $4,000 of its capital stock having
been paid in. A strong company, whose watch
words are enterprise, industry and intelligence.
"A Massachusetts, town declined to prose-
cute an alleged poisoner because there were
doubts as to the good moral character OF the
woman whom it was attempted to poison.
DIR. Robert c. Austin, a highly respected
citizen of Laurens, died at his residence near
CrOSS I'LL Oh llle llloo.J aieSA =" pANSAS~OS>
illness. Mr.. Vim. Bowen, another esteemed
citizen OF Laurens, died recently.
The Providence Herald announces that
Miss Anna Dickinson will shortly be led TO the
alter bv we'll known Rhode Island literary
gentleman. Whether for matrimony orsacritice
is not stated.
- The Lancaster Ledger states that proml-
nent citizens of several counties have solicited
Mr.. Phin. B. Tompkins, of Lancaster, to ac-
cept the nomination of the Citizens, Party IN
that Congressional District.
- Governor Stevenson, of Kentucky, has
issued proclamation ordering an election IN
the Third Congressional District on the 10Th
April, to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
tion of Mr. Golladay.
"A fellow by the name of -SQuthall, Post
master at Hamburg, in this State, has been ar,
rested for robbing the mail. Southall was well
known as avender of certain cure-all ointment
called "ueni, vidi, vici."
"A man died a few days since in Trenton,
New Jersey, who refused to allow his panta-
looms to be removed during his sickness. AT
ter death the Innings were found to contain
over 81, 900.
= General VIM McRae, for several years the
General Superintendent of the Wilmington and
Manchester Railroad, has resigned that posi-
ton, and will take charge as Engineer and Su-
perintendent of the Macon and Brunswick Rail
road.
- The old homestead of General Sam Hous-
ton at independence, Texas, has been sold by
the administrator of the estate at public sale.
It comprises thirty-nine acres of land within
the town limits of Independence, and was sold
for 81 200
= 1t is stated that 53S persons have gone in
l.. rI
gressional Districts of South Carolina, under
the provisions of the bankrupt act, $50 OF
whom have been discharged. And the number
of persons who have availed themselves OF the
benefits of the act in the Fourth District Is
about 450, of whom 165 have been discharged.
= The New York Express asks Is it mean
ness, or something worse, for Congress, which
has been for ten years Radical all over, and
which has turned out Senators and members IN
order to get two-thirds control of each branch,
to cite the expenses of "the johnson Admins
tration'' as outrageous, when it was the Radical
party alone who voted these hundreds OF mil
lions yearly?
"A telegram from Jackson, Miss, announ-
ces that Yerger has returned and delivered him
self up to the proper authorities. He has writ
ten a letter to the Governor, stating that he
had learned that the Sheriff, his subordinates,
and perhaps the Governor, had been censured
for his escape, and unwilling that they should
suffer for it he had concluded to return. He
also says that worried and tortured beyond for
bearance by what seemed to him unnecessary
delay in bringing his case before the court, he
was possessed of an ungovernable desire to
breathe the air Of freedom but it always was
his intention to return at the proper time and
stand his trial, and that if he violated the law
he will not shrink from punishment.
ANOTHER BUTLER.-The notoriety of tie
hero of New Orleans, Fort Fisher, Dutch Gap