The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-01-27
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= orangeburg is reported to have more dogs
than any county of the State.
- The Radical majority on joint ballot IN the
Texas Legislature is eighteen.
R. P. Mayrant, IN old resident of Columbia,
died last week.
- President Hammett has reduced the fare for
emigrants over the G. & C r. R. to one cent per
mile.
A movement is brewing in Mississippi to re-
move the capital of that State from Jackson to
Vicksburg
Rev. Christian Hanckel, DID,, the oldest
Episcopal minister in this State, died in Charles
ton last Thursday.
- VIM. B. Seabrook, an old and respected plan
ter on Johns Island, died suddenly on the 18th
inst from congestion of the lungs.
= Henry Ward Beecher has declined to allow
an increase of his salary from $4,000 to $780,
900, recently rendered him by his congregation.
- The New York Tunes says "the demand for q
reduction of the taxes has now reached point at
which no government could afford to disregard it,"
= Gems Loring and sibley, ex-Confederate
Generals, have been appointed Generals by the
Egyptian government in its war with Turkey.
They have already sailed for the seat of war.
"A joint resolution has been introduced in the
Kentucky House for the removal Of the remains of
ex President Taylor to Louisville, and the erection
of monument over them.
Mr.. F. W. Bruggeman, the agent of the New
berry immigration Society, has returned from
New York with goodly number of immigrants,
and can fill orders for two hundred morei handed
in before the 18th of February.
- 1t is stated that Governor Walker, Of Vir-
ginia, has declared that he has positive assurance
that Sl9, 100000 of Northern capital, to be in
vested in that State, is contingent on the admis-
sion of the State.
= The Barnwell Journal will hereafter be issued
semi-weekly, in consequence of increased business
and greater demands of the public. The proprie-
tor has won good reputation as an enterprising
journalist, and we wish him every success.
= Recent kilograms and mail advices from Cuba
establish the fact that the Cuban revolution is not
yet terminated. Notwithstanding the recent boast
full proclamatons of the Spanish generals, nothing
worth recording has been accomplished.
- The Nashville Unlon and american tells us
that not single member of either House of the
Tennessee General Assembly is disqualified by
the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States
= Hon. Lot ~ Morrill, hos been elected United
States Senator from Maine by both branches of
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occasioned by the death of Senator Fessenden.
Senator Morrill's term will expire March 8, 1871.
- Several citizens have been arrested by the
military in Warren county, Georgia, for alleged
offences committed several months since. Great
alarm prevails in that section, and many persons
are reported as fleeing from the district where
martial law prevails, embracing FIVE counties.
: At the regular quarterly meeting of the board
of Directors of the South Carolina Railroad Com
pnny, held on the 10Th instant, General Daniel
Tyler, of New York, was unanimously elected
director of the company, to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the death of the late Mr.. James Rose
- Admiral Dahlgren has for his family coat Of
arms, on his carriage panel; two Dahlgren guns
q telescope an anchor and furled flag, with the
motto, Quorum pars yfai." Butler should have
for his field of Bethel, gallows perspective,
rogue pendant, two spoons rampant; motto, "Et
III Brute"
= The planters of Mississippi ore canvassing
the feasibility of establishing cotton factories on
the cooperative principle in all the principal
towns of the State. This is the common sense
plan, and will admit of planters and persons of
small means sharing in the benefits to be derived
from the manufacture of the great staple raised at
heir doors.
= The Savannah Neps says it is wonderful to
witness the amount of travel TO Florida. Every
steamer and train from the North brings hun
dreds of persons, all bound for some point in
Florida People seeking pleasure, conSumptives
and those sneezing with catarrh, some on crutch-
es, and others with Saratoga" old and young,
nurses and children, are all journeying toward
what they coll this ''promised land"
- The Polish Land Emigration Company, of
which Hon. Caleb Cushing is President, has just
purchased $4,000 acres of land, lying on both
sides of the James river, in Amherst, Rockingham
and Bedford counties, Virginia. 1t is proposed
to place q colony of Poles on the purchased tract,
and the transportation of such emigrants to this
country will at once be begun, under the charge
of General Smolenski, the Director Of Emigration.
A Ngw BANK FOR CoLUMBIA.-The correspon-
dent of the Daily Republican writes:
For some time past o new bank has been talked
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