The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-06-02
ITEMs..EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

has been completed.
= The post Office at Darlington is now
money order Office.
Nathaniel Willis, the founder of the Port
land Argus, died on Friday last aged 80.
- Richard Stockton Field, of New Jersey,
formerly United States Senator, died last
Thursday.
1t is again reported that Senator Sprague
is going to establish cotton factory in Geor-
gia.
The Laurens Railroad is being rapidly put
in good condition, under the energetic manage
ment of Mr.. T. j. Lamotte.
- 1t is rumored that general muster OF the
militia of this State will be ordered to take
place on the 4th of July next.
Rev. R. J. Wilson, of Georgia, has been
elected Professor of Pastoral Theology IN the
Seminary at Columbia.
A new phosphate company has been or
ganized in Charleston, with F. Porcher, Esq,
as its President.
South Carolina, with a population of 703,-
70S, has ffty-three newspapers, which is one to
every 1926 persons.
SENATOR Anthony, of Rhode Island, has
been elected President pro tenn. of the United
States Senate.
Daddy Gains paper, the Missionary Record,
nominates r. K. Scott for reelection as Govern
or OF SOutn Car0llna.
A Sunday School has been commenced in
the Baptist Church at Kingstree-the first one
in that village since the war.
= Mrs. Bieman, wife of Senator Bieman, of
Walhalla, was thrown from buggy, on the
22d, and had her arm broken.
= Beverly Nash, State Senator from Rich
land County, has been appointed Colonel OF
the Second Regiment of Militia.
1t is said that Assistant Adjutant General
Elliot (colored) will oppose Congressman Hoge,
at the next election. :,
- The negro cadet from Mississippi created
great cornmotion on his arrival at West Point,
and the hotel refused to entertain him.
The Office of the ST. Louis Republican was
totally destroyed by fire on the Oath ultimo, in
volving loss of S160,000. Insurance, S100, ,OOO
- Gov. Scott offers reward of $500 for the
apprehension of Thomas 81. Milling, who muir
dered John P Milling, of Fairfield, on the 18th
of May.
1t is said that the Know-Nothing move
ment is being revived in Washington, with the
omission, however, of the tenet against Catho-
icism.
Fifty thousand tons of phosphates, shipped
from Charleston to various parts of the South
about 81, 500 900. !,
= The Abbeyille Press reports an unusual
amount of sickness in that village during the
present season, and an unprecedented mortality
among the colored people.
"A Boston merchant expresses his opinion
that eff Congress would adjourn for ten years,
business would start up, and the country would
soon be in prosperous condition"
IS. J. Townsend, Esq, formerly member
of the Legislature from Marlboro, died in Jack
sonyille. Florida, on the 21st. He had filed
several important positions in his District.
= Eleven hundred hands are employed at
work on the Port Royal Railroad. The work
is progressing simultaneously at both ends, and
the rail is being laid at the rate of half mile
The Elberton (Ga.) Gazette has boy in
its employ, nine years old, who can set one
thousand ems per hour. That boy ought to be
watched, or he will "set up" in the White House
some day.
= VIM. Henry Hurlburt, who has been wri-
ting series of letters to the New York World
from various parts of Europe, has returned to
this country, and resumed his place on the ed
itorial corps of that paper.
-Revels the negro Senator from Mississip-
pi, would not attend the fifteenth amendment
celebration in Baltimore, as he objected to the
men who figured at the head of the movement
including Postmaster General Creswell.
w. w. Walker, Esq, an old resident of
Columbia, died in Union county on last Mon
day. aged about sixty EIGHT. He was native
of Darlington, and had lived in Columbia
about forty years.
A Convention is called to meet at Cincin-
natl on the 25th day of October next, to con-
slider the question of the removal of the nation
al capital and to take such action thereupon as
shall be deemed wise and proper.
- DeBow's Reuiew takes the ground that the
people of the Southern States did more in
century to civilize and Christianize the African
race than all the professional philanthropists OF
the world have done since the birth of Christ
= Two sons of Henry Clay yet survive him
IT. H. Clay ex-Minister to Honduras, now
residing on his place, Mansfield" near Lex.
ington, and John NJ. Clay, the raiser of the
racehorse, Kentucky, and the greatest turfman
living.
the place for holding Court in that county, in
stead of Blackville, as interpolated by the Sec
retary of State in the new code. The county
records and county officers are ordered to re-
move at once to Barnwell.
= The Edgefeld Advertiser states that Rob-
ert D. Bryan, Esq, formerly of that District,
now living near Waldo, East Florida, acciden-
tally shot himself through both hands short
time since, losing two fingers from one hand,
and one from the other. 1t further states that
the injury is not thought to be serious.
- The New York Tribune frankly admits
that "the South offers one of the finest fields
to European immigration to be found in the
Union, and any effort to disseminate in South
ern Europe correct information touching its ad-
yantages, and thus induce an increased annual
accession of foreign laborers, deserves encour-
agement."
izen of North Carolina, died at Raleigh on
Thursday last. Mr.. Bryan was born in New
bern, in 1899, and, consequently, was in the
seventy-second year of his age. He was
graduate of Chapel Hill, was lawyer by pro-
fession. and had represented his county in the
es1a4s 7 oe.;slatnre and the State in the United