The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-02-17
1TEMs-EDToR1AL AND OTHERWISE

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Guano produced these heavy results. CO..
ITEMS-EDrTORIAL AND OTHERWISE
,,-New settlers are said to be pouring into Tex
rs, at the rate of hundred daily. ~ n
- With good connections a round the-world
trip can now be made in eighty days ei
90 Fifty out of q hundred students in the Min.
nesota State University are we1nen. si5.1o4 -
Yl4- ID b said two cottages are to be erected at
Saratoga for The use Of the Empress Eugenie next
sumner.
- The crop Of peanuts raised on the South side
Of james River, between Petersburg and Norfolk,
amounts to 1000, 900 bushels.
e = General Lees health is not good, and his
Virginia friends urge him to make tripto Europe
in the spring. ~. 30.
An Iowa man recently got drunk and stuffed
aSl50 roll Of bills in his horses mouth, and COM
PEELED the poor animal to swallow them,
- The eight million acres of Texan soil sold
by GOVERNMENT for taxes realized for the treasury
six thousand dollars-thirteen acres for cent.
The New York Tribune says of the case Of
Georgia, .ssThe main thing Congress has to do, is
TO- hasten the admission Of the State into the Un-
ion" .J.;st sy, sf. 81
- The editor of the Rockport (Texas) Transcript
was presented q few days ago with o ripe straw
bsry, mt a,uring nearly four inches in circumfer
ence. =, e 80
= The completion of the new railroad bridge
at Louisville, Kentucky, renders Il possible for
passengers to take the cars at Philaaephia and to
reach New Orleans without changing seats.
- General Wade Hampton has resigned the
presidency of the Citizens Savings Bank of South
Carolina, his private affairs not giving him sufh-
cent time to attend to the interests Of the nsitu-
ton. The Rev. VIM. Martin has been elected
president in his stead.
= Sir William Denison, brother of the Speaker
Of the British House of Commons, says that ''ii
he were % instead Of 65 pears old, he would emf
crate to America tomorrow" ot,v 5srs e,.t
The eolosed people of Tennessee hold o con-
ysptior ss Nashville on the alst inst. 10 compare
notes roative to the condition Of their race in the
State.
- Four negro women ut Quitman, Georgia, took
. colored sister out to swamp and chastised her
with MANY stripes for turning Radical-in other
words, for stealing.
The editor of the Weston (Missouri) Land
marx asks his readers to excuse the looks Of the
paper, as he is in bed from the effects of fight
with delinquent subscriber.
- Governor Scott has commissioned Samuel w.
Melton, Esq, Judge of the Fifth Circuit; and ap-
pointed J. c. Smith, Magistrate for Newberry {;
John Epton, Notary Public for Spartauburg; s. T.
Richardson, Notary Public for Anderson.
- Miss Susan B. Anthony says shenever heard
Of 50 many men in one place being simultaneously
affected with sore throat as she found in Washing
ton in selecting Congressman to speak at her Suf-
frage Convention.
St Johns Masonic lodge. No. Of Glasgow,
Scotland, lately celebrated the eight hundred and
..elh anniversary of its existence. 1t founded
by King. Malcolm in the year 1853, nine years pre-
vious tothe- Norman conquest Of England.
= Some idea of what the fquor trade Of the
United States amounts to may be gained from the
fact that on the 1st of December last there were
in bond throughout tho country l3,4O2, ,545 gal
lons-enough to make good sized lake. And
this is exclusive of grape, apple and peach bran
dy.
"A man named Kinnish, of Hayes City, Kan
sas, was lost recently on the prairies, during q
Wild snow-storm. He walked in circle for seven
days during which he took not q particle of SUBJ
sistence. When unable TO proceed farther, he lay
down under tree to die. He was found by o
4 od 10 hate
t,-The Baltimore american says the business on
the Southern railroads is reported to be improving
During the past week seven new locomotive en-
gines and. tenders and three passenger cars were
sent South through Washington to various rail-
roads, Shipments of rolling stock are reported to
be passing South in large quantities.
- The New York Tribune declares that for the
first nine months Of the present administration the
national debt was reduced at the rate of o little
over three dollars per second. If Gen. Grant is
anxious TO- pay the national debt at once, let him
stop tha stsalage Of his party for two hours and
half
- The Report comes that gold fields have been
discovered in Clark county, ILL.,, and that the peo-
rlS Of the neighborhOod. are wild with excitement
and leaving all other business to. search for the
precious metal. It strikes us they would fndgold
in larger quantities by sticking to their regular
yocations. -tt. 2n
Mack, the WashiBgtoa correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer. says that The Radicals are
counting on the negro vote of Kentucky, VIXEN the
Fifteenth Amendment is adopted, sending three
or fonr Republican Congiessmen from that State
and advises the Legislature to redstrict thestats
70 prevent this.