The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-24
ITEMs-EDITORIAL AND OTHERWISE.
1t is estimated that the corn crop of Iowa
is zeor will onoount to 100. 600 900 bushels

y 1t is estimated that the corn crop OF Iowa
this year will amount to 1O0,000,OOO bushels
The editors of Tennessee intend to make
an excursion to Boston at an early day.
= The drought is doing much injury in Ala
bama, especially to the fruit crop.
= The city Of Chattanooga, Tennessee, is to
have S125, 900 opera house.
feet sharks.
Twenty lives were lost in a recent coal
mine disaster at Pittston, Pa.
- Mexican newspapers are discussing the
annexation of Mexico to the United States.
Vermont's elections are hereafter to be
held biennially There will be no election in
that State this year.
= The City Council of Augusta has decided
to enlarge the canal A vote of the people will
be had on the question.
= Mrs. R. II. Colburn was arrested and bail
ed in Columbus, Ohio, on the l5th5 on charge
of poisoning Bufenbarger.
- Hon. Robert Schenck, the American Min
lister to England, is travelling on the continent
of Europe.
- It is stated that the President has recently
offered to appoint Hon. J. M. Ashley, OF i'm
peachment fame, as Minister to Brazil.
- Ku Klux smoking tobacco IS being man
ufactured in the western portion OF North
Carolira
1t is positively asserted that the Marquis
of Lorne and the Princess Louise will reside IN
Canada for heightened period
Jenny Lind is said to be the authoress OF
a novel, recently published at Stockholm, en-
titled ARTISTS Pilgrimage on Earth"
"A man named Langdon, at Lion, n. T.,
whose wife refused to alienate her property,
beat her brains out and hung himself.
= The first battle of the late war and the
surrender of Lees army both took place on
lands belonging to Wilmer Mclean, of Vir-
gnia.
= The American Institute at New York, in
tend to build permanent exhibition building
at cost of 100000, when proper site can
be obtained.
= Charles Fenno Hoffman, poet and move
list of the last generation, is still living an in
mate of an insane asylum in Pennsylvania,
where he has been for twenty years.
= The Empress Eugene is about to make n
visit to Spain to see her mother. Napoleon is
purchasing property near Geneva, i'll Switzer-
land, with view of residing there
The expenditures of the United States
Government for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1871, amounted to S292, 100000 only, as offici-
ally announced at the Treasury Department..
"A convict in San Francisco, who had
served six out of eight years in the peniten-
tiary, committed suicide by jumping intoa vat
of boiling water.
= The next State election takes place in
California on Tuesday, September 5th, when
the Governor and other State officers will be
chosen.
"A history of the London Times is in prep
aration. This great newspaper was first estab-
lished in 1855 as the Daily Universal Register
Its present namo was not given to it until the
year 1888.
- Five human skeletons were recently found
hanging on tree near tic line OF Hunt and
Hopkins Counties, Texas. 1t is supposed that
| they are the remains of horse thieves captured
and hung by mob in May last.
- The election to decide whether Conven-
ton will be held for forming Constitution will
take place in West Virginia on Thursday, 24th
August 1t is generally conceded that the vote
will be largely in favor of the Convention.
II Boston physician says that four young
girls, full of intelligence and promise, have
been killed outright by the severity of the tasks
imposed upon them in high school in that
vicinity.
We are opposed to the Ku Klux, but we
could not utter word of censure against them
for Ku Kluxing the author of the following
miserable pun: "In writing hymn, don't be
too particular about the matter you use-it's
hymn material"
= The centennial celebration Of the birth OF
Sir Walter Scott was duly observed on the 18th
inst, on both sides of the Atlantic. In New
York, the foundation OF monument to the
celebrated author was laid at Central Park,
with imposing ceremonies.
- The President of Southern bank wished
to send package of $4,000 in bills by ex-
press. To save expenses he marked the pack
age S. 900, and paid freight accordingly. The
express was robbed and tho package lost. The
company would only refund 5000, and served
him right for his meanness.
- Mrs. Scales and Mr. Ford, convicted of
numbering Mr. Scales, were sentenced to be
hanged in Topeka, Kansas, on last Thursday,
but the sentence was commuted by the Gov
crnor to imprisonment for life. The judge and
jury refused to sign petition for comniuta-
ton, and the Governors action causes surprise,
as the convicts confessed the crime, and there
we're no extenuating circumstancests
Senator Morton recently addressed A4im-
mense audience at ST. Louis. He thought Gen.
Grants chance little the best at present; he
opposed State sovereignty as taught by the
Democrats, and says thero was no safety for the
people without Capitalization. The greatest
idea of the Republican party was national
unity if we abandon that we are not nation,
but simply an aggregation of independent
States, which at some time or other will 60 to
= Mrs. Marcy Driggers has been arrested
for cutting the throat Of her sister, Mrs. Davis,
near Savannah. The sister died in few mo-
ments after the deed was committed, beside her
children in the bed, remarking to them "I am
bleeding to DEATH" The cause Of the deed is
said to be the refusal to support the sister, Mrs.
Driggers, by the husband Of Mrs. Davis, who
was absent on fishing excursion at the time
the tragedy was committed.
= 1t is stated by officers Of the Internal Rev
cnue that judging from letters in daily receipt
there not more than one-tenth of the people OF
the United States are aware that under the
modified acts of Congress- in relation to the
revenue, there is no tax imposed, either direct
ly or indirectly, upon any goods, wares, mer-
chandise, or articles made and sold in the