The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-03-10
1TEMs-EDIToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.


= The seat Of government of West Virginia is
changed from Wheeling to Charlestown.
= First-rate salt is made at the salt works near
Weatherford Texas.
= Mr.. David r. Stroth er, an old and prominent
citizen of Edgefeld, is dead.
e. M. Spencer, one of the oldest journalists
of Cincinnati, is said to have become insane.
= Several firms in Rochester, New York, have
resumed specie payments.
= The election for Governor of Connecticut.
takes place on the first Monday in april. q
- Edgefeld county has been added to the Fifth
Judicial Circuit, now presided over by Judge, Mel
ton.
Gen. Jordan has resigned the command of
the insurgent forces in Cuba, aud Bambetta sue
ceeds him.
WA. Turner, who hos been the court-crier
of Edgefeld for twenty-five years, departed this
life last week.
= Town lots in Jefferson, Texas, which were
valued fifteen months ago at $4,000, are now val
ued at $4,000.
- At the recent term of Court in Laurens,
Thomas NJ. Wilkes was admitted to practice law
in this State. ........s :e~
= John C. Breckenridge is about to take edito-
rial charge of one of the Lexington (Ky.) news
papers.
"A negro named Paul Brown has been tried
at Darlin ston for the murder Of ]. L.. Dickson,
and found guilty.
"A colored man named Dave Harvin was kill
ed at Sumter on Wednesday last by the accden-
tai discharge of an old gun.
= Gen. R. H. Anderson, o distinguished Con-
federate officer, and we'll known to many Of our
readers, now resides in Sumter.
Judge Orr will hold the next term Of the
Court at spartanburg, beginning on Wednesday
after the srd Monday in this month.
- The Charleston and Savannah Railroad is
now completed. and trains are running over the
entire distance between the two cities.
= On dit, that Benjamin F. Butler will come to
South Carolina to stump Whittemore's district with
q view to securing his reelection to Congress.
II After passing twenty mine bills-mostly le-
CALLING marriages, making divorces, and loaring
the States credit to rairoads-the Legislature of
Alabama has adjourned. --5
- The election for Governor took place in New
Hampshire on Tuesday last. Four candidates
were in the 6eld-Republican, Democratic Tenn
perance and Labor Reform.
= Auditor wicklife, Of Louisiana, has been
impeached by an unanimous vote of the Legisla-
ture for malfeasance in Office, and has been COM
mitted to jail in default of $4,000 ball.
A resolution, amending the constitution, has
passed both branches of the West Virginia Legis-
lature, enfranchising negroes and ex-rebels Un-
der it enfranchised rebels will vote in October,
1872
Woman's rights has broken out in Volusia
county, Florida Ten strong-minded females and
nine hen-pecked males petitioned the Legislature,
at its late sitting for suffrage without regard to
sex. ~
= The Southern Railroad bill has been defeat
ted in the Kentucky Senate by vote of % TO To-
This is the enterprise Of our Cincinnati friends,
intended to connect with Southern railroads, in
cluding the Blue Ridge road.
- The Hartford Comm Times tells US that the
Fifteenth Amendment has been ratified by the fol-
lowing vote: Nineteen States, six Military Dis
tricts and three Major Generals, making the con-
stitutional number of twenty eight
A dispatch from Nashville, dated last Satur-
day, says that there is no quorum in the Tennes-
see Legislature, nor will there be during the bal
auce of the session. No provision has been made
to pay the interest on the State debt.
- Vice President Oolfax has appointed Reyels,
the negro Senator from Mississippi, member OF
the committee on education and labor, which some
are disposed to regard as sarcastic reference to
the proverbial ignorance and Incidence Of his race
"A destructive FIRE occurred in Marion on the
night Of the 2Sth of February. A large amount
Of property was destroyed, including the Office Of
the Marion Crescent. A gentleman by the name
of Iseman lost his life in endeavoring to rescue
some ladies'
u If the rule by which Whittemore, Devices
and Golladay were kicked out of Congress for
rascaty is to be universally applied, at the rate
of three expulsons week, how long will it be
before the House of Representatives is without o
quorum
- The Legislature of North Carolina has re-
pealed the acts authorizing the special tax on
bonds or requiring taxes TO be levied to pay the
interest on them. The House has also refused to
provide for the payment Of any interest either on
the old or the new bonds.
- Within the limits Of Houston, Texas, there
are seven organized colored churches, owning FIVE
buildings, and containing in the aggregate q
membership of $50 communicants. Five of these
churches have pastors who receive partial sup
port from their people, and one is sef-supporting
Aaron Alpeoria Bradley, who hos made him
self conspicuous in negro riots about Savannah,
and was once IN inmate of Sing Sing prison in
New York, has been admitted to practice law in
this State. lie is o turbulent negro, and we wish
TINT Georgia had kept him on that side of the