The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-01-06
ITEMs--ED1ToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

rheumatism of the heart.
- Charles Sumner is candidate for the Presi-
dency.
Earthquakes are again becoming frequent in
California.
= Richardson, assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury, has resigned his office.
u DR.. James Dove, well known physician Of
Richmond, died last week.
= The regular session of the Louisiana Legis-
lature began on Monday last.
1t is asserted that the President will refer the
alleged Irregularities in the Texas election to Con-
gress
= There are thrty-two thousand "drummers'
from the North engaged in selling goods in the
Southern States.
= Lewis Adkins was shot and mortally woun-
ded at chicken fight in Warren county, Georgia,
on the 9th of December.
- The Mississippi Legislature will elect three
United States Senators-one to fill out the term
which will expire in March, 1871, and two for full
terms.
- The Agricultural report just out makes the
cotton crop, 100000 commercial bales, fully
equal TO three million bales Of four hundred
pounds each.
- Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert, mother of our friend
and brother A. a. Gilbert, editor of the Sumter
Watchman, died at Florence on the 21st of Decem-
ber -e.~.
C. S. Cady, Sheriff Of Culpeper county, vir-
gnia, has been tried by military commission for
embezzng about $4,000, and sentenced olive
years in the State Penilentiary.
- The February number of the Nmeteenth Gen.
turv will contain the opening chapters of new
Southern romance, entitled "The Storm and the
Sunset" by Henry Cleveland, of Georgia.
- James H. Hackett, the only worthy represen-
tative of the doughty Falstaf on the American
stage, will appear in legitimate drama during the
winter at the Academy of Music in Charleston.
A negro couple in Kentucky have had twenty
two children in thirty-one years of married life,
and the county RENTS their taxes in consideration
of distinguished services done to the State"
There were 1877 deaths in Charleston last
year-of which 424 were white and 853 colored.
In 1868 there were 1908 deaths-390' white and
s18 colored The colored race is dying out gradu-
ally.
- Some one adveriscs in the New York Herald,
of December 23rd, in the Financial column, for
Confederate Bonds. As many of our readers are
still possessed of this commodity, we give publ
city to this ''want'' without charge.
- William Johnson, farmer in Jackson Coun-
ty, Missouri, has twenty hogs, the average weight
of which exceeds FIVE hundred pounds, gross. He
has been offered fifty dollars head or one lhous-
and dollars fer twenty hogs.
A difficulty occurred in Columbia county,
Georgia, on the 9th ultimo, in which two men
named A. n. Hodo and Ellis Adams were killed,
and brother of Hodo wounded. The affray was
entirely personal, and bad feeling existed between
the parties prior to the difficulty.
= General Hamilton, in his late speech at Waco,
Texas, said that he had travelled over 1900 miles
during the present canvass, and that within the
past month he had passed over enc thousand emf
grant wagons on the road hunting their future
homes in that State.
= The sgift enterprise swindlers' are about to
be hoiscd on their own petards. The Postmas-
ter General has issued instructions that all letters
addressed to the swindling concerns, well known
to the employees of The postoce, shall be sent to
the Dead Letter Office at Washington.
= The Alabama Legislature has been in session
four weeks, and about $4,000 OF the peoples
money has been expended. As yet only six or
eight bills, and they for divorce, bigamy and al-
lowing certain persons to marry, have been pre-
sentcd to the Governor.
In vii 1o;p cfn fba Ghricf
mas turkey of the editor of the Sumter Neus, but
while he was lamenting his grievous disappoint-
ment, some "good Samaritan" supplied the defci-
ency and the aforesaid editor went on his way re-
joicing.
= The Atlanta Intelliyeneer, in speaking of the
first passenger train on the Air Line Railroad,
says that twenty miles more of this road will be
completed and in running order in q few weeks.
The fifty-three miles to Gainesville is under con-
tract and will be pushed rapidly to completion.
- An examination has disclosed the fact that
each member of Congress had four tons of books
and documents to send out under his franklin two
years. Itis estimated that it would require over
seven hundred thousand dollars in postage stamps
to have these documents transported to the per-
sons for whom they were intended.
= George Franklin, (white) and John Cannon,
(colored,) charged with being implicated in the
murder of Mr.. Dunwoody, at Newberry, were re-
Gently brought before Judge Willard, on writ of
habcas corpus, and discharged. Chief Constable
Hubbard was severely censurcd by the Judge for
making the arrest "a.
= Colorado will be admitted at IN early day
of the coming session. says the Washington cor
respondent of the Baltimore Gazette. A Bill for
that purpose has twice passed Congress- but was
vetoed by President Johnson. Two more New
England Senators will thus be added to the pres
ent twenty four, making twenty six in all.
= The Columbia Phenir learns, authoritative
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