The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-07-13
ITEMs.:ED1roRIA1 AND OTHERWISE.
Col. John p Sanderson, a prominent citi-
;en Of Florida, diedsat New York on the 28th


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= The recent elections in France are looked
upon as permanently fixing the Republic of
-M =. Hon. James B. Shepard, of North Caro-
lima, died at Raleigh en.the Oath ult, in the
56th year of his age.
Geo. w. Gray, of-New Richmond, Ohio,
while drunk, insulted some ladies, when the
by-standers killed him. : y
A gang of dozen counterfeiters has been
arrested in Cleveland Ohio, and some $4,000
in counterfeit money captured. =
~-zAVoman suffrage has been defeated in the
lower house Of the Legislature of Washington
Territory by "a vote Of II. to S.-=---z-z,....
1t is stated that the house in which John
Calvin lived and died, in; Geneva, is now occu-
pied by a Roman Catholic, school,
= The Chicago Republican. n6ninates Mr..
Horace Greeley for President, and Mr.. Robert
Toombs, of Georgia, for Vice President.
Prof. Watts, Of Carlisle, Penn, who, ,haas
been appointed Commissioner of Agricultdfe,
will enter upon his duties on the 1st of Au-
gust 60.
= California papers say that the sentiment
of the people is averse to the execution of Mrs:
Fair. imprisonment for life is the popular
sentence. =, ,7
CcUalOT NOTlOu, vi luuiduat, UCCu
made an LID. by the Northwestern Chris
tian University, and is now preparing for q
trip to the Pacific coast. III =
= Washington is about to lose: one. Of its
most ancient landmarks. feWillard's Hotels to
be dismantled and its well-worn furniture sold
to the highest bidder. .n,.
: Wisconsin now puts forth its claim to the
"oldest Mason" in the person of David Styles,
of Prescott, aged 105 years, and who was raised
to the sublime degree 10 years ago. -.
= The New York Herald, always speculaJ
ting upon politics, suggests tlrat Chase and
Hancock would be the most popular Presiden-
tial ticket the Democrats can nominate in 1872.
= A man in Hall county, Ga, who left his
family thirty eight years ago and went to Cali
forna returned last week. He found his wife
still faithful to him, and his children all mar
ried. -
Judge Dwinelle, of San Francisco, has
again refused to grant new trial in the case
of Mrs Laura Fair There seems to be very
little doubt of her execution at the time fixed
by law ~
- Arkansas is fearfully excited over o large
hole. A tract of about q hundred acres of
Clinton mountain has sunk, carrying big trees
entirely out of sight, andthe hole continues to
enlarge its borders. ..z.s -, *
gusta, Ga, where he isIeported to have accu-
mulated nearly 81 100000, committed suicide
in New York on Thursday last lie had. lost
his fortune by spcculating.
Mr.. Horace Greeley he's arranged and
published in pamphlet form his letters CON
tanning fnl reeord,ofiwhat he knows about
Texas and the lower Mississippi, including his
speech on his return to New York; ga.i..
I5el- The Democrats of Arkansas, who. had no
regular organization since Governor Clayton's
martial law in 1867, have appointed o. State
committee, and propose towork vigorously III
order to carry the State next year.
= Galveston, Texas, is so much encouraged
by Mr.. Grceley's recent visit to that State, that
lit is proposed to erect hotel worth $50, 600 to
accommodate all the readers of the n. Y. Tri-
bune likely to visit that region.
= Another ku Klux outrage is reported
from Illinois Martin Mera, charged with muir
dering his son, aged 10 years, was taken from
the jail of Watsaka;and hung by mob of one
thousand men, women and children.
= Rev. Thomas h. Beechcr in his letters
from England to the Christian Union, "is sur
prscd to find women at work in greater num-
bers and at n greater variety of avocations here
in England than in the United States"
= A movement is being made in Madison
county, Miss, among the colored voters to sup
port none but home folks, white and black, as
against the "rascalv adventures" and SCALA
wags. A paper containing this declaration is
being unanimously signed.
Mr.. Joseph T.: North. of Kentucky, has
sued an Odd Fellows lhodgeiof which he is a
member, for sick allowance of So. week
during his prolonged confinement in a lunatic
ASYLUM. OH the ground thatihe was very odd
fellow all the while he was there.
The bottomof the canal near Wilkesbarre.
Penn fell out on;the 4th of'Juy, draining the
entire level and flooding the mines over which
it is built The mines were deserted in con-
sequence of the national holiday; otherwise,
the loss of life must have been fearful.
= The following States will hold their regu-
lar elections the coming fail: New York,
PENNSYLVANIA. Ohio Iowa. California; Ken
tucky. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Massachusetts,.
Vermont New Jersey, Maine and Maryland.
These State elections will have an important
bearing upon the Presidential election next
year.
of a splendid squadron, will leave Cronstadt
about the last of September for the b United
States His suite will be composed Of the MOST
,illustTious youths of the Russian nobility17a
very interesting item of information to Ameri-..
can ladies ambitious of arstocratic alliances and
imperial distinctions. -
= The New York papers state that Mrs.
Lydia Sherman was arrested at New Bruins
wick. n. J., on. Friday last, by officers from
Connecticut, who charge her with having pois--
oned at different times, three husbands and
two step-children, the offspring Of the last hus-
band by previous marriage. She has been
taken to New Haven for examination.
Prince lismark, il. addition to his quality
as statesman, is something of "a philosopher.
Having been asked by o. nervous member of
the Imperial Parlinent what, in his opinion,
would be the condition of Alsace and Lorraine
three years hence, he replied that he didInot
permit that question to trouble his mind, as,
perhaps, in three years the world Will have
ceased to exist
49, 49, Paris now exhibits few traces of the re-
cent struggle. The barricades have been level
- -, go i,oyn heon nlanted and the dam