The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-04-28
ITEMs-ED1ToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

Fy 1t Is stated that the Facna OF CgyPe Aa'
offered a commission to Gen. Beauregard. ;,
"A colored voter, only a hundred years old,
was registered at San Francisco the other Gay.
- The War Department has threatening ad-
vices from the Indian country.
The Charleston hotels are making prepa-
rations for large crowd of visitors next week.
The First Battalion of Infantry has been
organized in Charleston, with colored officers.
Minister Burlingame was buried at Bos-
ton ON last Saturday with imposing Masonic
and civic ceremonies.
The Ohio Legislature visited Washington
city last week. It called on the President, but
no speeches were made.
The Newberry Herald well says thatprac-
tical, scientific and agricultural enlightenment
is what our people want now.
The Democratic members of the Ohio AS
sembly have published a protest against the
ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment
"A duel with rapiers was fought at New
Orleans on Saturday. One Of the combatants
was slightly wounded.
= The Supreme Court of the United States
is applauded by the London Post for its refusal
to reopen the legal tender cases.
= Last week the bodies of twenty seven
Confederate soldiers from South Carolina were
disinterred at Arlington and transferred to
Richmond.
- President Grant has expressed his inten-
ton of extending his travels to California next
summer, and he will make also a grand tour OF
the Western cities.
- The Galveston Ne,Us says "the health OF
the city is uninterrupted with the exception OF
temporary falling off in commercial transac-
tions."
- The citizens of York are to hold county
meeting on next saleday to discuss the proprie-
ty of raising the sum of 100000 by taxation,
as a subscription to the Air Line Railroad.
= Captain James r. Wheeler, an officer OF
the Kearsage when she sunk the Alabama and
recently United States Consul at Kingston, ia
maica, died on the 9Th instant.
- The colored people of Augusta, Georgia,
changed the day for celebrating the ratification
of the fifteenth amendment, so as not to con-
fict with the sacred memorial ceremonies in
honor of the Confederate dead.
| : The smallpox which has been raging so
extensively in Arizona, has subsidized. The ex-
citement of the new silver mines in New Mex
leo is spreading throughout the Territory OF
Arizona.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has written a let
ter from Germany to President Grant, lnqul-
ring why Congress has delayed in granting her
pension. She says she is not in good health
and needs money.
| = Prof. James S. Henderson, after an abb
sence of more than year in Missouri has re-
turned to this State and assumed his position
as principal of the Cedar Springs Asylum for
the blind
= The handsome mansion belonging to the
estate of the late George Steele, of Yorkvile,
was entirely destroyed by fire on Thursday last.
Furniture saved, but NO insurance on the
building. Loss estimated at from $4,000 to
$4,000
was circulating that President Grant proposed
to visit Europe, and it is reported that prepa-
rations were commenced in st. Petersburg for
his reception before the rumor was pronounced
false.
A resolution has been adopted in the Mis-
sissippi Legislature to appoint a joint committee
to prepare an address to the Governor asking
the removal from Office and the impeachment
of Judge Shackelford for releasing Yerger on
bail.
Snow fell on Sunday, the 18th instant,
along the line of the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad, as far East as Christiansburg, to the
depth of six inches. The mountains near
Lynchburg were also covered with snow on
Monday morning.
"A. B. Caraway, Judge of the County
Court of Calhoun county, Florida, left home
for Tallahassee on the morning of the 18th
instant. and was murdered before he got a mile
| from his house. Luke Lott, citizen of the
same county, was arrested on suspicion.
- The Orangeburg Ne,os announces that the
citizens of Orangeburg, without regard to par
ty race or color, will meet in convention on
saleday in June to appoint delegates to the
anti-radical convention which meets in Colum-
bia on the 10Th of June next.
| = We learn that a telegram has been re-
ceived from Frankfort, Germany, announcing
that the Port Royal Railroad Company has
lust negotiated loan of S2,000,000 at 732
cents. This will be sufficient, IL is said, to
complete the road
| "A number of families in Philadelphia
| have been poisoned by eating cheese, bought
| from a cart. The carter had been engaged by
| a warehouse firm to haul it away and bury it.
Instead of doing this, he peddled it about at
cheap rates. No deaths occurred.
Gen. Logan said recently in the House of
Representatives ut is an utter impossibility
for any set of politicians on earth to make
their records consistent, and they have no busi-
ness to try it." Logan ought to know, as he
has been terribly inconsistent.
| - Mrs. Catharine Marsh, residing in Balti-
more, killed her four young children by cut
ting their throats, and cut her mother in such
a manner that but slight hopes are entertained
for her recovery. The woman was declared to
be raving maniac.
III. T. Peake, Esq, has resigned his posi-
ton as Superintendent of the South Carolina
Railroad Company, which he has held, We be-
lieve, for fourteen or fifteen years past. He
has been all his life in the railroad employ, and
was for some years in the service of the Green
vile and Columbia Railroad Company.
| = The President has nominated General
Adam Badeau for Consul at London, to succeed
the Hon. Freeman 81. Morse, of Maine, for
merly member of Congress from that State,
and gentleman of much ability. General
Badeau was for a long time upon Grants staff,
and is the author Of history of the life and
military career of Grant.