The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-06-09
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appointed Notary Pubic.
= John T. Collins, an industrious citizen OF
Spartanburg, died suddenly on the 9th ult.
Three inches of snow fell IN Virginia
City, Nevada, on the 31st Of May.
- Mr.. John T. Humphreys, a merchant OF
GreenvilIe died suddenly on the 25th ult
The debt of New Hampshire is trife un-
der s20OO,000.
= Ex-senator Wade, more familiarly known
as "Honest Ben," is candidate for Congress
in Ohio.
- Mrs. Elizabeth F. Tew, widow of Col G.
G. Tew, (who losthis life at Gettysburg died in
Columbia on Friday last.
Thirty thousand children recently partic-
pated in Sunday School celebration at Brook
1yn, N. Y.
= Morton, of Indiana, has read Senator
Revels out of the Radical party, notwithstand-
ing he is a Radical dyed in the wool.
- California has now $50 miles of railroad,
and confidently expects to build at least lou
more this year.
The complete statement Of the Fenian
losses in the late raid gives eleven killed and
seventeen wounded--three mortally.
= Gen. Marston, of New Hampshire has
been nominated for Governor of Idaho, in place
of DIR. Samuel Bard, recently declined.
- The Wilmington Star itemizes North
Carolina news under the heading, "Spirits of
Turpentine." Very good reading for the "tar
heels"
Medical authority is responsible for the
alarming statement that Gov. Brownlow's life
can be prolonged fifteen or twenty years, with
careful treatment.
In South Carolina there are five daily
newspapers, four tri-weekly newspapers, one
semi. i.weekly newspaper, forty-two weekly news
papers, two monthlies, one quarterly.
The Alabama Legislature has passed a law
imposing tax of $40 Upon every Georgia
lawyer practicing iii the courts Of Alabama.
The Georgia lawyers threaten resistance.
= Two persons during the past year have
contributed $500 to the endowment fund Of
the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Co
lumbia, S. G.
Ladies refusing to tell the census-taker
their ages are to be fined thirty dollars in each
handsome revenue to the government.
- The Washington Star says that the Re
construction Committee have agreed to amend
the Georgia bill so as to require the election of
new Legislature for that State next fall.
= The Reconstruction Committee met last
week to dispose of the question of reconstruc-
ting Tennessee. A majority of the committee
will oppose any Congressional interference.
= The debate in Congress on the income tax
shows that there is clear majority in favor of
reducing the tax to three per cent. and extend
ing exemption to two thousand dollars.
DIR. ]. w. Stokes, for many years widely
known as President of the Bank of Hamburg,
died on last Thursday. He enjoyed the con-
fdence and respect of large circle of friends.
= Gen. R. E. Lee has returned to his home
at Lexington, Va, from a recent visit South,
improved in health. Many of his friends, how
ever, urge the necessity of trip to Europe this
summer.
"A correspondent of the Charleston Repub-
Hcdn reports that Col. R. F. Graham, of Marion,
has Joined the Republican party. Col. Graham
was one of the Democratic electors Oh the Sey-
mour and Blair ticket
= The cornerstone of a monument to Baron
Won Steuben, of revolutionary memory, was laid
with imposing ceremonies in the town of Steu-
| ben, n Y, on Wednesday last. Hon. Horatlo
Seymour delivered the oration.
: The London Shipping and Mercantile Ga
=ette, a journal of intelligence and extensive in
formation, thinks that the Southern States have
planted too much cotton and too little grain,
and apprehends bad results
| = The Cleveland (Ohio) Pldindedler says q
majority of the men who left the Democratic
party in 1861, to join the "Union" faction, are
anxious to get back to the OLD fold. 1t is
thought that reconciliation will be effected.
The Rhode Island Legislature organized
on the 1st inst. by the election of Republican
officers. A Republican caucus nominated An
thony for reelection to the United States Sen
ate, which is deafeat of the Sprague party in
that State.
= The Reconstruction Committee has adopt
ed a rule not to remove disabilities except up
on written applications. The recommendations
T. L, ,o6 ,o1,
The petition must be accompanied with express
sions indicating proper submission.
1t is said there are ten thousand white
men in the little State Of Rhode Island depriv-
/ ed of the ballot, and the Radical party can do
nothing for their relief If they were negroes,
says the Philadelphia 4ge, something would be
done But white men have no rights which
Radicals are bound to respect.
A steamer twenty-one feet long has lett
Liverpool for New York. 1t is provisioned for
three months, and the captain expects to make
the voyage in fifty days. The crew consists of
one man besides the captain, and New
Foundland dog. is the only passenger. This is
the smallest venture across the Atlantic by
steam power that has ever been made.
- It is reported that the Captain-General of
Cuba has informed the Spanish Government
that he has received offers of surrender from
the insurgent generals, provided that their lives
and property are spared. The government has
replied that if they give up the contest and SIN
cerely desire reconciliation, that they shall be
generously dealt with.
1t was reported that Col. Mosby, ofgue-
rilla fame, was engaged in the Fenian raid.
An exchange says that "Mosby has been very
much surprised on learning that he was on the
Canadian border all last week, organizing Fe
nian cavalry. Until he read the kilograms, he
was laboring under the impression that he was
quietly attending to his law business in War
renton, Va"
The Boston Post declares that with New
York for fulcrum, the national Democratic
party will be able to overturn the mountain of
corruption which now oppresses the land, re-
store the Government to honest hands, relieve