The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-09-15
JAMES L. ORR.
1TEMs-ED1roR1AL AND OTHERWISE

- The death of Gen. Robert Anderson, of
Fort Sumter notoriety, is reported.
= Samuel H. Kingman, of Charleston, has
been appointed consul to Brindisi, Italy.
The nominating convention in Oconee
county selected Messrs. o. NJ. Doyle and j. l..
Shanklin as candidates for the Legislature.
A duel is imminent in New York between
Generals Jordan and Quesada, in consequence
of an article in the Spanish paper of that city.
The total Cotton crop for 1S69is now re-
turned at 3,29S, 900 bales, against 43S 900 bales
for the year 1S6S,-an increase of 1850, 900 bales.
- The Republican State Convention has
nominated Stewart l.. Woodford for Governor
of New York.
= The Brooklyn Union prints letter from
Schuyler Colfax, announcing his definite and
unalterable retirement from public life.
= Chief Justice Chase is recovering from his
recent illness, and is now reported to be out OF
danger.
Is = A disastrous fire occurred in Yorkville on
the 9Th, and the loss is estimated at $4,000, on
which there was no insurance.
- Thea annual fair of the Georgia State Ag-
ricultural Society begins October 18th, in the
vicinity of Atlanta.
- Col. O. w. Dudley is the Union Reform
candidate for Congress in the First Congression-
al District Of this State.
In a private letter to friend, Hon. Alex
ander H. Stephens says that he is slowly re,
gaining his health, and is busiiy engaged
writing a school history of the United States.
The election in Maine was held on Mon
day last, and the indications are that heavy
Democratic vote has been polled, resulting in
probable gains for that party.
- John L. Taylor, ex-member of Congress
from Ohio, dropped dead in the General Land
Office at Washington, on Tuesday. He was
seventy years of age. ~
= The Republicans in Idaho elected their
delegate to Congress on last Thursday by a
small majority. The women voted generally
throughout the territory.
Texas exported last year 100000 bales of
cotton, 100000 of beef cattle, 100000 of
hides, 100000 pounds of wool, besides other
products, amounting altogether to S5O,OOO,0OO.
= The Reform convention in Pickens county,
on saleday in this month, nominated w. +.
Holcombe, ESQ.,, for the Senate, and James E.
Hagood, ESQ.,, for the House of Representatives.
Both will certainly be elected.
- The Revenue Department has decided
that, except tobacco, snuff, segars,, wines and
LIQUORS, the sales of wholesale dealers are not
taxable after the 3Oth instant
= The carpet factory of James Bromley q
Brothers, Philadelphia, was burned on Friday;
loss S1O50OO One hundred and fifty men are
out of employment. Ten thousand unfinished
carpets were burned. -
The military career of King William 1 of
Prussia, extends over period OF tifty-fye years
His Majesty, who was born in 1797, was present
at the battle of Waterloo, and was. then but
eighteen years of age.
- Senator Trumbull, of Illinois, recently
said of the European war: ut can be OF no
possible benefit to this country. 1t Is the light
of despots, and the people of both Germany
and France will be the losers.o'4 49,
= The people at Nashville will soon boast of
one of the largest cotton factories in the South.
A company, with capital of 100000, has
commenced the erection of building for the
purpose.
II Rev. Nathan Lord, the once famous Pres
ident of Dartmouth College, n. e., and who
was celebrated as pro-slayery writer, died at
Montpelier, Vermont, on Friday last, aged ~
years.
elected president of the Valley Railroad, at
meeting of the stockholders held in Staunton,
Va, on Thursday last. The salary is five thou
sand dollars.
"A Cypress Manufacturing Company has
recently been organized in Georgetown, in this
State, The business of the company is to make
cypress shingles with an improved machine,
and we learn thatthe enterprise is full OF prom
ise to the parties concerned.
- The Edgefeld Adertiser records the death
of Mrs. Rebecca Griffin, relict of the late Col.
Richard Griffin, in the 84th year of her age.
Also, the death of DR.. w. NJ Burt who're
moved from Edgefeld to Louisiana some four
years ago.
- The Camden Journal states that crazy
colored man is confined in the jail of Kershaw,
because the County has not funds sufficient to
nav for his maintenance in the Lunatic Asylum
the Governor having ordered Suspension OF
the payment of taxes until after the election.
The Darlington Democrat says: We have
never known more sickly season than the
present. Bilious fever seems to have assumed
an epidemic form. The cases generally, are
obstinate, and many of them fatal. The color
ed people, who were once considered compara-
lively exempt from fever, suffer most
Mr.. William Jervey, of the law firm OF
Memminger Jervey & Pinckney, of Charles
ton, died few days ago, at the farm of kins.
man in Virginia. He was formerly Captain OF
the Washington Light Infantry, and, we be-
licve, went as an officer of that company to
Florida during the Indian war.
Am awful catastrophe has occurred on the
coast of France The new British iron-clad,
the Captain, went down in a gale on Wednesday
morning taking with her all on board, five
hundred souls. The Captain was regarded as
the finest vessel in the British navy, and was
out on an experimental trip.
The election of State and county officers,
members of Congress and the Legislature, took
place in Vermont'on the 9th of September.
The results the electionsof the entire Repub-
lican State and Congressional tickets: The
,,o4 on n nj fl,o Houoo will prOblDly