The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-10-05
1rEMs-EDIToR1AL AND OTHERWISE

- Ex-Governor Robert NJ. Stewart, OF Mis-
souri,, died at st. Joseph's on the 21st instant.
1t is reported that a conspiracy in France
for the restoration of Napoleon has been dis
covered.
= Gen. Marmaduke has turned his sword in
to ploughshare, and is editor OF an agricultu-
raj paper at st. Louis.
. Nevada claims that she produces S473 in
gold and silver, annually, for every man, wo-
man and child in the State.
The National Colored Convention, in ses-
sion last week in st. Louis, adopted resolutions
in favor of general amnesty.
Five persons were killed and three woun-
ded by the explosion of the boiler of steam
mill at Montgomery, Alabama.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has
decided that for a lawyer to call a witness a
Pennsylvania Yankee is "gross abuse"
Capt. Libby, whose tobacco warehouse in
Richmond became notorious during the war
as Libby Prison." died recently in New Kent
Co., Va.
= The Little Rock Journal says report is
being widely circulated among the colored peo-
pie Of Arkansas that Horace Greeley belongs
to the Ku Klux.
"A resolution was introduced in the Ma
tional Commercial Convention to connect the
mouth of the Ohio, through rivers and canals,
with the Atlantic seaboard.
"A National Police Convention will be
held in the city of st. Louis on the goth of Oc-
tober. It is thought that every city in the
United States will be represented.
- The Protestant Episcopal Convention will
meet in Baltimore, commencing October 4th.
The Assistant Bishop of South Carolina, Rev.
w. B. w. Houe, is to be consecrated at this
meeting. -,
- Mrs. John Fl. Hamblin, of Nashville,
Tennessee, left home on horseback to visit
friends house in the country, and was found IN
corn field with her throat cut. She was evi-
IDENTIFY ravished, then murdered.
The editor of Gainesville (Ga.) Eagle has
seen an oblong block of quartz, weighing sixty
five pounds, "thickly studded with particles OF
gold large enough for respectable breastpins." !"
It came from the Battle Branch mine, near
Dahlonega, Ga.
= The Republicans of Reading, Pa, having
discovered that Thomas ID. Fistar, their dele
gate to the next National Republican Conven-
tiop, was an ex-confederate, met in convention
Saturday, and revoked the appointment, and
appointed Federal captain in his place.,
: At the sale of delinquent railroads IN
Nashville, the Knoxville and Charleston Rail-
road was knocked down to the Blue Ridge
Railroad at $4,000, but the State Commission
era afterwards refused to confirm the sale, ow-
| ing to the small sum obtained for the States
| interest
= President Grant will visit Boston on the
18th of October, and will be present at the lay
| ing of the cornerstone of the new Post Office
on the 18th inst. He will then join in the fes-
| tivities incident to the opening of the Europe
an and North American Railway, which will
continue three days.
On account of the absence of the Cover
nor of Georgia for nearly three months, the
State treasurer gives notice that he will pay no
more warrants without resident Governor to
approve them, except on the civil establish
ment and special appropriations, when the law
specifies the amount.
= Texas is to have an exhibition of chill
dren at its State Fair, in Houston, and the San
Antonio Herald says it does not believe there IS
another community of its size in the United
States that can produce so many perfectly
beautiful and healthy children as San Antonio
and surrounding country
1t will interest mary Of our readers to
know that the Government, having decided that
the cotton tax should have been collected on
the net weight Of the cotton, and not, as it was,
on bagging, ties ropes, etc., is preparing to re-
fund the excess collected, and offers to pay back
eighty cents on each bale.
= Henry P. Farrow, Attorney General OF
Georgia, was arrested in Atlanta on last Friday,
charged with cheating and swindling. He was
released the next day. Foster Blodgett, late
Superintendent the State Road, has also been
arrested upon allegations of fraud connected
with his management of that concern.
- VIM. Beeler has been found guilty. in Tip
pecanoe County, Ind, of burning the railroad
bridge on the Wabash Road, over Wildcat Riv-
er. He has been sentenced to pay a fine of
| $4,000 and serve term of ten years in the
State prison. He has the privilege, under the
State law, of working out his fine at the rate OF
seyenty-fve cents per day. This will occupy
him seventy-two years.
| - One of the most wonderful arrays of ju-
rors ever got together in North Cardinals that
summoned by the Federal Marshal to try the
political prisoners in Raleigh The whole zen
ire consist of ffty-seven jurors. There are
about 10000 negro voters in the State, and of
this class five have been chosen. There are
| from $4,000 to 10000 white Radicals, and of
these fifty-two have been chosen and there are
about 10000 to 5000 conservative voters, and
of these not one has been chosen.
- Mr.. Samuel G. Howe, one Of the commisee
sioners appointed by the President to visit San
Domingo, is out in long letter on the subject
! of the annexation of that island. The letter is
addressed 10 James heupatu. rloul u para
graph in his letter it appears that Grant has
not abandoned his purpose of annexation, for
Mr.. Howe states positively Chat a new proiet
of a treaty has been initiated, and that deplo-
Lmatic relations, looking to a continued occupa-
tion of Samana Bay, actually exists
= Gen. James H. Clanton, of Montgomery,
Ala, was killed in personal rencontre with
Col. D. NJ. Nelson, of Cleveland, Tenn, on the
night of the 9th September, in the streets of
Knoxville. Both parties were visiting Knox
vile, and were introduced by mutual friends.
In few minutes, disagreement arose between
them, growing out of a total misunderstanding
of each other Col. Nelson was drinking, and
has been deeply intoxicated during the day.
neighboring saloon, and came out with dou-
ble-barreled shot gun in his hand ready to be
brought to bear against his antagonist. Gen.
Clanton then drew his pistol when Nelson fired