The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-05-12
'ITEMs-ED1ToR1AL AND. 0THERWIsl.

the grain crops Will sDe snort.
Humphrey Marshall is candidate for
Congress in Kentucky.
= The Air Line Railroad isprogressing fne-
ly at rate of half mile daily.
The Sheriff of Warren county, Georgia,
has been arrested by the military for receiving
bribes from citizens.
Associations of capitalists and landowners
are being formed in various parts of Mississippi
to encourage immigration.
= The Presbyterian General Assembly will
meet in Louisville, KY, on Thursday next, 18th
inst.
Col. VIM. M. Brown, prominent citizen
of Marion county, Ga, ,.died suddenly in Amer
icus recently, in the Goth year of his age.
= Union County has had only one marriage
in three months. The county must do better
than this or change its name.
= The Boston Traveller predicts that Grant
will be reelected, and that this year there will
be another earthquake in California.
Whittemore tells the darkies he sold that
cadetship for their benefit. They intend to
vote for him so he can do so again.
= Hon. James G.. Blaine Speaker of the
House of Representatives, declines TO becomea
candidate for United States Senator from Maine.
: Fifty-fve million passengers were carried
by the Philadelphia street cars last year. Nine
persons were killed and twelve injured by aeci-
dents.
= John Morrissey appeared in his seat in
the House of Representatives on Monday. He
has not been present at a meeting Of Congress
since early in December.
Parties have recently visited Fort Valley
Ga, in the interests of Northern capitalists,
with the view to the establishment of large
cotton factory at that place.
A telegraphic dispatch announces that
Spc toy,to
their business is to multiply, not enumerate,
the population
= Francis Sorrel, an old resident of Savan-
nah, and long identified with the commercial
and business interests of that city, died there
on the 5th instant.
Rev. Frederick Fremont lowell, pastor of
the Universalist Church in Essex, Mass, has
run off, to avoid tar and feathering for gross liz
centiousness. =. -
= The Abbeville Press states that Capt.
Mann, of the constabulary force; has been ap-
pointed Colonel of the State militia for Abbe-
Vile county.
= Fifteen business houses including. the
Daily Herald Office, in Quincy, ILL.,, were de-
stroyed by fire on Thursday night. The loss
was 100000.
- Both houses of the Georgia Legislature
have adjourned until the first Wednesday In
July next, after adopting the recommendations
of Gov Bullock. -
The Supreme Court has decided the muni-
cipal contest in Columbia in favor of the Raids
cal ticket. The election is declared valid, and
the new officers were sworn in on Monday. last.
The black Lieutenant-G Governor of Louisi-
ana. Dunn, and the New Orleans Police Conn
missioners have been committed to prison TOR
five days and fined S35 each by Judge Cooley,
for contempt of court. s -,
= Judge Carpenter has decided that the
Courts of this State cannot entertain petitions
for divorce under any article of the Consttu-'
ton, until the Legislature enacted Laws Tor
guidance in such cases. .as. .T,ss.s
Gov. Scott has issued proclamation forau
election to be held in the First Congressional
District on the 31st of May, to fill o vacancy
occasioned by the resignation ~ of b. F.
Whittemore.
On Wednesday last, Richmond presented
the appearance of city devoted to worship.
Every place of business was closed, and the
population generally attended Divine service
in some of the churches.
The name chiefly objected to in the PEN
ding Senate disability bill was Mr.. Patrick
Henry Avlett, who, by the recent calamity at
Richmond, has been placed far beyond the
reach of any malice.
"A late canvass of Maryland shows that it
has $4,000 black voters. AS there are about
35, 900 white Republicans, and the Democrats
cannot poll over 10000 votes, the next political
contest in the State will be an interesting one.
Senator Sprague thinks that the effect OF
negro voting in Rhode Island will ultimately
be to make it a Democratic sstate by the .irra-
tation naturally created among the white work
ing men. u;
paid to the New York Trust Company the sum
of So, 900, the amount of sui scripESns receiv-
ed for the family of the late SecretaE Raw
Inns. The company have agreed toact as trus-
tees of the fund.
An address to the people of the United
States in behalf of the sufferers by the recent
disaster in Richmond, states that the number.
of victims has been ascertained TO be not less
than $50 persons, of whom Is have died and
many are seriously injured. ~
The New Orleans Times thinks the first
object of the Dental Convention, about to SIT In
that city, should be to examine into the condi-:
tion of the mouth ofthe Mississippi-no trifing
matter, since the river has seven mouths, all
full of snags and stumps
1t is said that the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad company have earned
over twelve million dollars during the past six
months. Within the period named the COM
pany have paid two million dollars of mort
gage bonds on the Hudson River Road
. The Anti-Slavery Standard, which for
has been %sev ths ba
been changed into monthly magazine, entt,
ed ''The Standard; Journal of Reform and
Literature"
running for Mayor of Virginia city, Nevada.
The Radical supported their white representa-
tive and the Democrats rallied around, the ne
gro. The election resulted in the white Radi-
cal receiving $40 votes and the negro 298 votes.
- Representative Mungen (Dem., Ohio) has
written a letter to the Secretary of War reques-
ting that he cancel the appointment OF the ca
lately nominated BY ha hm to the ms psre n urging