The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-03-24
ITEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.


eel for few weeks.
Vermont has elected three female superin-
tendents of schools.
W. B. Smith has been reelected President
of the Union Bank of Charleston.
= Three million dollars in silver is coming
from Canada for the New York banks.
Paper petticoats, at fifteen cents retail, are
the latest sensation in Boston.
- The Democrats of New York talk of NOM
mating Ben Wood for the next Mayor of that
city.
: Alexander Isaacs has been reelected
President of the Charleston and Savannah Rail-
road.
The New York Independent nominates
Susan B. Anthony for next Governor OF New
York;
- The Southern Baptist Convention meets in
Louisville KY, on Thursday the 9TH of May
next.
-W.C. NJ. Irby, of Laurcns, has graduated
at the Jefferson Medical College of Philidel-
phia.
= Robert D. Holmes, q prominent member
of the Masonic fraternity, died in New York
recently.
A negro named Richard White is said to
be the Democratic candidate for Mayor of De-
catur, ILL.,
George Wakeman, editor of the New York
World, is dead. His disease was pnuemonla-
age 80.
The cotton tax cases in the Supreme Court
of the United States have been continued for
reargument.
= The Democracy have carried the city of
Burlington, in Vermont, for the first time in
the history of the State.
F. G. DeFontaine, Esq, has been appoint
ed photographer to Judge Platt's circuit-a
position for which he is admirably qualified. .
- In obedience to orders from the President,
Gen. Candy has sent two companies of soldiers
into the insurrectionary districts of North Caro-
olina.
jeff Davis is writing novel to be pub
lishcd in England. Its scene is laid in the
Mexican war, and it will not touch recent poll
tics.
Supervisor Perry reports that the assess
ment for the Third South Carolina District for
the years 1S69-70 exceeds that of the previous
year SS735 0S.
DIR. R. H. Nisbet, of Eatonton, Georgia,
contends that meningitis and malignant typhus
fever are the same, and that they have the same
characteristics
At radical caucus, held on the 18th inst,
John Alexander, Esq, received the nomination
for Mayor of Columbia, under the law provi-
ding for an election in April.
= The passage of the homestead exemption
bill by the Virginia Legislature is received
with great delight by the people of that afflic-
ted State. The bill exempts $4,000.
-Syndney Armstrong, sentenced to two
wears Imprisonment at hard labor in the peni-
tentiary for manslaughter, by killing Samuel
d. Owens, of Laurens has been pardoncd by
Governor Scott.
"A dispatch to the Charleston Neaos says
that the Military Committee will make a re-
port this week showing that Solomon L. Hoge,
now misrepresenting this Congressional Dis
trict, appointed cadet outside of his district.
= The Barnwell Railroad Company obtained
charter at the last session of the legislature
authorizing the company to build the road from
Sumter to the Savannah river, running through
Blackville and Barnwell.
- Mrs. Morris, the new Justice of the Peace
in Wyoming Territory, was called upon in her
first case to fine her predecessor for refusing to
deliver up the archives. She, with great pro-
priety, ruled that as she was an interested par
ty, the case did not come within her jurisdic-
tion.
- The Charleston Ne,cs has received letter
from Mr. George F. Mcintyre, a member of the
General Assembly, in which he denies that he
was connected with the organization known as
the "Forty Thieves"
-Whittemore attempted to speak in Camden
on Monday night of last week. He was inter-
rupted at the outset by John A. Chcsnut, COL
ored Representative, who said: "You sold your
cadetship." This broke up the meeting, but
the parson had hearing on Tuesday, when
Chestnut replied to him.
= The New York Worlds Havana CORES
pondent says that the reported resignation of
Gen. Jordan as ommander-in-chef of the Gu
ban insurgents is untrue. He is working vigor
ously to increase the efficiency of the army,
and devotes special attention to the quartcrmas-
ter and commissary departments.
- The State Board of Education was in ses-
sion last week in Columbia. Among other
things, they adopted memorial to Congress
asking that portion of the public lands be
set aside for educational purposes in this State;
and also that the Hilton Head abandoned lands
be sold at once, and the proceeds be devoted to
public schools.
= There are in Baltimore thirteen manufac-
turers of -phosphates, who produce from
5000 tons down to 1000 tons, making in all
about $4,000 tons. There are also four or five
who grind bone dust, and one poudrette compa-
ny, the whole representing an annual produc-
tion of about 81 100000.
- Mr. n. P. Trist, famous in the Mexican
war for having lrresponsbly negotiated the
treaty which closed hostilities, and who has
long been lost to public sight, now re-appears
as memorialist to Congress for compensation
on account of his important diplomatic services
in the matter aforesaid.
The Charleston Ne1cs says that South
Carolina Railroad stock has been very active
during the last two or three days, and con-
siderable advance in price has been established.
Friday about fifteen hundred shares changed
hands, and, at the close, the market was finn,
with an upward tendency.
- The Postmaster General has directed the
Appointment Office to make the usual biennial
revision and REIMBURSEMENT of the post Offices
with view to re-arranging the salaries of post
masters. The reports sent in from all parts of
the country by the twenty thousand post
masters, show very considerable increase of
business.