The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-06-16
ITEMs--EDITORIAL AND OTHERWISE

John FL. Anthon has been elected Grand
Master of the Grand Lodge of New York.
"A severe drought prevails throughout the
agricultural districts of France.
= Garfield, Republican, is elected delegate
to Congress from Washington Territory.
= Hon. VIM M Shipp, of Mecklenburg, IS
the Democratic candidate for Attorney General
of North Carolina.
Mr.. Richard Watts, an old and much es-
teemed citizen of Laurens, died at his residence
on the Saluda recently.
= Judge Green has decided that the act OF
the Legislature authorizing the appointment OF
Trial Justices is unconstitutional.
The New York Sun (RadicaD states that
Secretary Fish will soon be succeeded IN the
State Department by Senator Morrill,, OF Name.
When such men as Whittemore go INTO
Congress, all honest men should go out OF it,
which they could do, it is feared, without re-
ducing either House below a quorum.
: Emory, the conservative Republican can
didate, has been elected Mayor of Washington
city by over 5000 majority. This is triumph
over extreme Radicalism.
= President Grant is off on a trout-flshlng
excursion into Pennsylvania with Senator Cam
eron, leaving Congress to make laws and tinker
at reconstruction.
: A West Virginia paper declares that
within circuit of one hundred and twenty
five miles around the White Sulphur Springs OF
West Virginia, there is more iron ore than in
the whole of Great Britain.
Hon. T. G. Clemson has been invited to
deliver an address before the Oconee Agricul-
tural and Mechanical Society on the first Mon
day in July, on the subject of Agricultural
Schools.
The SYNOD of the Reformed Presbyterian
Church of New York has declared against Free
Masonry and other secret societies as Pagan
in their character, infdel in their tendency, and
perilous to the liberties of the State and the
Church"
= One hundred and thirty-nine subordinate
lodges, besides the members of the Grand Lodge,
participated in the ceremonies of laying the
cornerstone of new Masonic temple in New
York, on Wednesday last. 1t is estimated that
twenty thousand craftsmen were in the process
sion, which occupied three hours on the march.
= Estimates of the coming cotton crop have
already been made, even before the first bloom
has made its appearance. The highest estimate
is four million bales-the lowest three and
half millions. The number Of caterpillars and
boil worms, frosts and heavy rains are not estl-
mated. >.
on Tuesday morning last. Before the war, DR.
DeSaussure was one of the leading physicians
of Beaufort He removed to Camden when
Beaufort was occupied by the Federal troops,
and had obtained large professional practice
at that place.
= Pleasant Goode, a respectable colored man
of Columbia, who was known in the canvass ol
1868 as Democratic orator, died on Monday
last. He was kind, obliging and faithful. lie
was the body servant of Gen. MaXcy Gregg,
and was greatly attached to that gallant gentle
man.
= The Charleston Neavs announces the death
of Samuel J. Burger who has been connected
with that office since its establishment. He
was Confederate officer, and served gallantly
until the close of the war. He died last week
in Gainesville, Ga, where he had gone only q
| few days before for the benefit of his health.
A French surgeon has discovered pro-
cess of performing operations without pain
He uses instruments heated to white heat by
means of electricity. He was led to the dis
coverv by observing that burns caused by IN
tense heat produced no pain. The absence OF
pain is owing to the destruction OF the nerves
by the great heat.
An informal canvass of the House shows
that Whittemore will hardly get the seat to
which his colored constituents have returned
him. Members very generally say that they
cannot consistently vote to admit him when
they have voted at the same session that he is
unworthy to be representative OF the people
in Congress. General Logan wili.take the po-
sition, It is said, that Whittemore's reelection
is an insult to the House.
- Mr.. Anthony w. Dozicr, formerly Of
Georgetown, died at Rio Vista, California, on
the Cd instant. The Georgetown Times says
that "he held leading position at the George
town bar for more than twenty years, in those
days when Petigru, Hunt, Legare and Bailey
we're regular attendants on the court, and was
Justly held in high regard aud esteem by the
people of this community. He possessed al
those noble qualities and feelings which digni!
fled the name of an old Carolina gentleman
Ea, tLc dnderson IutelLioencer.