The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-07-14
ITEMs..EDIToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

vindication of his administration.
= The residence of D. Jennings, Esq, near
Pendleton, was destroyed by fire recently.
= Alexander H. Stephens now weighs seven
ty-six pounds.
The greater part of the town of Millerton,
California, was burned on the 9rd of Jul y.
= The Fourth of July was celebrated in sew
eral German cities by the American residents;
= The Legislature of Virginia has adjourned
to meet again on the 1st of October
- The rainy season in Arizona commenced
on the 25th of June to the advantage of the
crops and the mining interests.
1t is very generally agreed that an ad-
journment of Congress will take place to-mor-
row, 18th of July.
= President Grant will depart from Wash
ington next week, going to his summer residence
at Long Branch.
Alderman has qualified as Attorney-Gen
cral, secured his commission, and attended
Cabinet meeting last Friday.
= About the only indication of virtue in the
present Administration is the fact that Charles
Sumner has become its enemy.
= A sinking fund is said to be any sum of
public money falling into the hands OF Radical
officials.
= The general disability bill, including five
thousand names, passed the House on Monday
last, and has been sent to the President.
"A Tennessee quack doctor named Young
has eloped with six young ladies, and is sup
posed to have gone to join his namesake III
Utah.
= Vclocipedes, which have almost dsap-
peared from this country, are still all the 60 IN
Europe. Velocipede races are reported from all
parts of the continent.
- DcLarge proposes starting paper in
Charleston at an early day, for, as report hath
it, aiding the colored people in securing their
share of the State and Federal offices.
Eighteen young men have been fined $40
each for habitually 'loafng" on the street cor
ners in Boston. The Loater's Club will take
due notice and govern themselves accordingly
= One rumor is afoat that Whittemore in
tends to oppose Gov. Scott in the nominating
convention, and another has it that the cadet
pedler wants to be Lieutenant Governor. Why
don't he run for Congress?
= The Laurensville Herald says that an cf-
fort is being made in that vicinity to form
company, to be composed of whites, with view
to tender it as part of the State militia organ
ization.
= Gov. Holden, of North Carolina, has de-
clarcd Caswell county in state of insurrection,
but his proclamation assigns no reason for SO
doing. No outrages have been reported, so
The United States Senate has confirmed
John D. Pope as District Attorney for Georgia,
to fill the place made vacant by the promotion
of Mr.. Alderman. He was formerly Circuit
Judge, and is regarded as a good lawyer.
1t is reported that the President of the
South Carolina Railroad Company, MIR. w. j.
Magrath, contemplates an early visit to Eu-
rope for the purpose of looking after the for
eign Indebtedness of the corporation.
= The Winnsboro NeWs predicts that in ten
years the Southern whites, unless the negroes
themselves prevent it, will champion negro suf-
frage as giving them power in the Union,
against powerful anti-negro party at the
North.
- The Columbia Guardian says that the
State at large will be pleased to learn that DR..
John II. Darby has declined the fattering offers
made to draw him from this State, and that he
will continue his connection with the medical
school of the State University.
- 1t is asserted, "on the best authority" i'll
Washington, that Secretary Fish has no inten-
tion whatever of resigning his position that
he will not accept the English mission, and
that, therefore, the name of another gentleman
will soon be sent to the Senate
= The Jackson AIiss.) Clarion publishes a
correspondence which took place in 1861 be-
tween President Davis and General Joseph 4.
Johnston, which shows that Mr. Davis did not
by order prevent the advance of the Contede-
rate forces upon Washington after the battle ol
Manassas.
= The Columbia P&aaie notes the arrival OF
splendid new passenger car, Of the monitor
pattern, intended for the Grecnvile and Co.
iumbia Railroad The car is described rs being
claborately finished, with every modern con-
venience and appliance to render travellers COM
Portable.
= Capt Isaac Davis, formerly Charleston
pilot, but Just before the war master Of the
we'll known steamer Nina, and largely engaged
in the Georgetown trade, died Sunday morning,
in Georgetown, S. c. The deceased had been
in failing health for some time, and was about
50 years of age.
= The juries in Laurens have adopted the
scaling process on all old debts, and debts du-
and one-half the interest to 1st of January
1861 The Herald says that this action of the
iuries gives general satisfaction, and is founded
| in equity and justice.
"A careful and reliable gentleman, who has
! travelled all over Iowa on railways within a
fortnight makes the following statement =
"Ncver before in the history of Iowa have
seen so much land devoted to grain, and never
before at this season has the prospect for full
yield of all grains been as promising"
| - Captain General De Rodas has at last re.
turned to Havana, and reports that no organ
lied opposition to the Spaniards now exist
Per contra, Key West dispatch says that the
Spanish troops have been defeated in several
engagements with the insurgent leaders, and
that their situation in the Eastern Department
is decidedly bad.
- An immense fire occurred in Manchester
New Hampshire, on Friday last. The area
burned over is from five to six acres, and the
amount of property destroyed is not far from,
S250,000, one-half of which is probably covered
by insurance At least two hundred families
are thrown out of their homes By this awful
calamity.
- The Democrats in Congress and elsewhere
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