The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-02-16
1TEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

= The New jersey Legislature Is just now
ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment, which
passed in the lower House by 81 to "a.
= On Sunday night, 5tl1 ilfst., with the moon
shining brightly and blue sky overhead, rain
fell in Sumter, says the Nccs.
= Gen. Ripley, who fired the first gun at
Sumter, recently commanded one of the out
posts at Paris
: Can't. w. II. Williams, well-known con-
ductor on the Georgia Central Railroad, died
suddenly of heart disease, on the 9Th.
= London dispatches say that Queen Victo-
ria's unpopularity has never reached such an
alarming point as at present.
= The German Patriotic Fund, raised in the
United States, and entrusted to the North Ger
man Consul General, amounts to S314, ,164.
1t is said that timber cut in February will
last three times longer than that cut in the sum-
mer months.
- Governor Alcorn's ginhouse, in Missis-
sippi with four hundred bales of cotton. has
been burned Loss $4,000; insured for $780,
600.
: The posts for the telegraph line between
Columbia and Greenville, along the line of the
J Grecnville and Columbia Railroad, are HOW
being erected.
= Newspapers die young in San Francisco
Thirteen daily papers have failed there in the
last ten years, after an aggregate expenditure
of one million Of dollars.
Since Queen Victoria took her place OH
the English throne, thirtv-three years ago, ev.
cry other throne in Europe, from the least unto
the greatest, has changed occupants.
= In New Orleans and old Creole died re-
Gently, who had lived for years in extreme
poverty, and who bequeathed to distant rela-
tive property worth $4,000 or $50 900.
Chas NJ. Swagcr of Louisville, KY, died
in Paris on the 21 instant from a wound in
licted by shell fired during the lombard
ment.
-"Gonc the way of all hesh," according to
Bro. Bacon, of the Edgefeld 4drertiscr, means
into the Insurance business. But, then, what
lie says about it is only for policys sake!
- Mrs G. Fl. Noise of Sumter, died on the
9th inst, in the 82nd year of her age, after
short illness. She WAS native of Charleston,
and was buried there.
"A Presidential election, revolution, an
insurrection and several volcanic eruptions are
combining to render the inhabitants of Mexico
supremey happy.
= The negroes around Macon, Miss have
banded together and burned portion of that
city. Murder, rapinc and arson are of daily
occurrance.
= Mr. Thomas Sweeney, for the past twenty
years prominently connected with the CONNER
ccial interests of Augusta, Ga, died recently of
consumption.
"A man who loves his family, and who has
regard for their mental culture as well as physi-
cal wants, will always take newspaper, and a
man who respects his family will pay for it.
-"Rev." G. S. Green, one of the managers
of election on ST. Helena, has been sentenced
to the Pcnitentiary for six months, and 4 fine
of 500, for election frauds.
= The way a Colorado lover expressed adj
miration for his fair: ''She's peeler she is.
She killed barr when she was fifteen. and a
Digger Indian when she was eighteen and now
she'll whip her weight in wildcats"
Those tircsomc Alabama claims have so
far advanced toward settlement that Queen
Victoria congratulates Parliament, among 9th
err things, on satisfactory settlement of
american questions"
Some benevolent young ladies of Boston
have made up a fund of 81 600, the interests Of
which is to be devoted to taking the inmates of
the Home for Aged INDECENT females out to ride
occasionally on pleasant afternoons.
- 1t is authoritativcly announced by the
Washington Chronicle "that there is no truth
in the statement that President Grant contem-
plates re-organizing his Cabinet" OH the 4th Of
March next, or any other time.
= On Wednesday last, the House of Repre-
scntatives passed bill establishing Aiken
County and bill compelling County Treasu-
rcrs to collect the taxes at the different pre-
cncts.
An army officer thinks that the troubles
in Robson County, n. c. have nothing to do
with political affairs. lie believes that it will
take concerted action on the part of the in
habitants to put down the miscreants.
= Tic increase of our population is simply
wonderful when we consider that seventy-!our
thousand Doctors find subsistence in the United
Statcs-onc for every five hundred and eighteen
of the people.
= The Senate of Kentucky has defeated the
Cincinnati and Southern Railroad bill by q
vote of % to u. This is the second defeat of
the great railroad project in the Kentucky
Legislature.
A petition, with $4,000 signatures against
the removal of Gov. Vance's disabilities, has
been referred to the Reconstruction Committee,
with Instructions to verify the genuineneSs of
the signatures, whole pages being in the same
handwriting.
- Hon. Hiram Revels finds the prejudice on
account of color very great in this country, and
fears it is increasing. He thinks it the duty of
the nation to discourage this prejudice, because
it is wicked and not approved by Heaven
Alas poor Hiram!
An engineer in the employ of the Turkish
Government has planned railway tunnel
made in sections, to be submerged thirty-four
feet below the surface of the water, and moored
to the bottom by chain cables. He proposes to
sink it across the Bosphorls, and thus connect
Europe and Asia by railway.
- Ben. Buffers friends seek now to excuse
his spoon stealing propcnsitics on the ground
that "there is nothing handler to steal than a
spoon" They also say that it has recently
been shown that Prussian officer of high rank
is guilty of the same parlaity for spoons,
which has so distinguished the American Beast
"A man by the name of Owens, now con-
fined in the Penitentiaryy, was carried before