The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-10-06
1rEMs-ED1ToR1AL AND OTHERWISE

- Gen. Hampton will address mass meet
ing of the Union Reform party In Charleston
on next Tuesday.
The u. S. Supreme Court has abolished
the rule requiring its lawyers to take the iron
clad oath.
= Benjamin Mordecai, a prominent citizen
and old merchant of Charleston, will shortly
remove to New Orleans
= General Ripley and other American Off
GERS, at Paris, are organizing system OF rifle
pits on the plan which proved so successful in
our war.
- Mrs. Jane T. H. Cross, wife of DR.. Joseph
Cross, and widely known as an accomplished
writer, died in Kentucky on Thursday night
last
DR.. Payne, of Newberry, was accidentally
shot on Monday last by the discharge of his
own gun, from the effects of which he died In
about four hours.
= This years cotton crop in Mississippi
promises to exceed anything ever heard OF in
the State since the famous crop of 1860, if, in
deed, it does not exceed the one of that year.
- The Democratic Convention in the Fifth
Congressional District of Georgia nominated
Gen. R. w. Casswell for the Forty-frst and
Judge w. NJ. Reese for the Forty-secon Con-
gress.
plantation of Mr.. David Dickson, near Sparta,
Ga. and set fire to the largest gin house owned
by that extensive cotton planter The loss is
between four and FIVE thousand dollars.
The military preparations of Russia are
proceeding on a gigantic scale. The Moscow
Gazette says Russia loses power because
France is no longer counterpoise of Prussia,
who is now able to assault her neighbors with
impunity."
= At Antioch Church, Edgefeld county,
seven miles North of the Court House, diff
Guilty occurred ON Sunday between Robert D.
Brunson and James NJ. Hoson and others, in
which several of the parties were wounded, one
of them seriously.
M. S. Dover, of Lafayette, Tenn, while
attempting to kill his wife, was shot and NOR
tally wounded by her brother, Andrew Kincade,
aged sixteen. Dover, after beating his wife,
drew pistol and fired at her, when young
Kincade drew pistol and shot him through
the body.
= 1t is said that the present Congress will,
when it meets in December, repeal the act
passed at the last session which removes the ne
cessity of taking the iron-clad oath, by those
whose disabilities have been removed This
will prevent members from taking seats in the
next Congress who cannot take the test oath.
lionel on the Staff of His Excellency Governor
R. K. Scott Josephs exploits as loan bro
ker in the Legislature, and as volunteer
commander of the militia of Laurens, in their
late attack upon carriage containing two old
ladies, are bringing at last their reward
= Gov. Scott made application last week to
the United States military authorities for troops
and a company of regulars, numbering fifty,
were sent to Laurens, with Col. Smith in COM
mand. At the same time three dctachments
were forwarded to Newberry under Maj. Bree-
dan. The Larcnsville Herald report, that su-
preme quiet rcigns in that section
- 1t is proposed to have reunion Of the
graduates of the late State Military Academy
in the city of Charleston, on the Sth day of De-
cember next. Colonel Branch, the president
of the old association, has authorized this no.
tice, and we are requested to state that the Rev.
Joseph B. Cottrell, distinguished graduate,
now of Union Springs, Alabama, will deliver
an address.
= Peter II. Scott, agent of the Southern Ex-
press, tried at Laurcns G. Ii. in October, 1869,
for robbing the company's safe while in his
was sentenced to twelve months in the peni-
Tertiary, his imprisonment having failed to
give bail) in Jail to be computed, and pending
an appeal to the Supreme Court, the prisoner
serves out his sentence.
The surrender of Strasbourg is essentially
the most important success which the Prussans
have achieved since Sedan. The possession of
the city gives them the whole line of railway
from Strasbourg to Paris, thereby shortening
their line of communication greatly, and rem
dering it more secure. In addition, it releases
the large army under Won Werder, which has
been operating against the city, and which is
now free to operate with the armies at Metz or
Paris, if needed.