The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-11-30
ITEMs-EDITORIAL AND OTHERWISE
: The New York Tribune counts up 17,7S7

: There are twenty y-three colored men in the
present Legislature of Georgia-six in the Sen
ate and seventeen in the House.
- Oscar j. Dunn, the colored Lieutenant
Governor of Louisiana, died last Wednesday,
from congestion of the brain.
= Louis Kossuth, the well-known Hungarian
patriot, has been elected member of the Lon
don branch of the international Society.
= Mrs. Laura Fair, during berimprisonment
for the murder of Judge Crittenden, of Cali
fornia, has dramatized Owen Meredith's poem,
Lucille"
- Nearly one million inhabitants of Persia
have been starved to death during the terrible
famine which afflicted that country the present
year.
An Ohio man is said to have offered the
government $50, 900 for the privilege of adver-
tising on the backs of the postage stamps for
neyear. .a.' ~
Mexico is said to be in such dreadfully
unsettled condition that change in the exist
ing form of government is expected before the
end of next month.
- The smallpox is ON the increase in New
York city. 1t is not confined to any particular
locality, and cases are reported from almost ev-
cry quarter.
Mrs. Sophie Schley died at her residence
in Augusta last Friday. She was the widow of
Gov VIM. Schley, who was Governor of Geor-
gia from 1885 to 1887.
Col. Marmaduke johnson died in Rich
mond, Va, on the 10th inst. He was promi-
nent lawyer, and served with conspicuous bra
very in the Confederate army.
- The Legislature of Georgia has passed
bill, over the acting Governors veto, ordering
an election to fill the unexpired term of Bull
lock on Wednesday, 18th of December.
AT the Columbus, Ga, fair, stocking was
exhibited darned so perfectly that the judges
pronounced it not darned at all. The lady who
did the work was highly complimented.
! - Hon. r. P. McCord, an octogenarian citl-
zen of Lowndes County Mississippi, danced
with his second daughters grand-child, in
Florida, the other night, where he Is paying
visit to his relatives.
- The American State Department has sent
| in England and on the continent, thanking
them for their efforts in behalf of the Chicago
sufferers.
- The National Democratic Executive Com
mittee, appointed by the National Convention,
will meet in Washington in January to decide
OH the time and place of holding the next con-
yantion.
= The cultivation of tobacco is spreading
in North Carolina, especially west of the Blue
Ridge, which region is found to be highly
adapted to the production of the finer qualities
that bring the highest prices.
- The Lexington Gazette says that the
chapel of Washington and Lee University will
soon receive large and costly organ, now be-
| ing constructed in New York, as an offering to
the memory of General Lee, from certain ladies
of Texas.
"A call has been issued converting the Ma
tional Republican Executive Committee in
Washington City, on the l1th day Of January
next, to decide when and where the National
Convention shall be held to nominate candi-
date for the Presidency.
- The Cincinnati Enquirer says: "a new
political organization, known as the Sons OF
America, having for its object opposition to
East. Well have to fight the battles of our
.fsaP." saP1Di''An ''N4A l'''I
The public schools of Texas, according to
a recent act of the Legislature of that State,
are to be supported by the proceeds of the sales
| of the public lands, and one-fourth of all the
taxes raised are to be applied to the same OBJ
ject
- Masquerading mobs in South Carolina are
assaults against the Republic, and to be put
down even at the cost of lawsnd liberty; mas
querading mobs in California and Indiana, that
hang and burn and shoot and ravage the inno-
cent and guilty promiscuously, are only the
hasty indignation of justly angered people.
| = After the first of January, pieces of treas
ury notes less than half the size of the whole
note will have no value without evidence being
furnished that the larger portion has been de-
stroyed. Pieces between one-half and FIVE
eights will be worth half, and pieces over FIVE
IL A. I. ,b..l4 Goo of fho
note.
80 1t was we'll said by an actor, on some re-
cent public occasion, that in South Carolina
the people were fleeing from the stars and
stripes-once an emblem of pride and glory to
| alHiAmericans-as from horrible monster,
while the same flag was about to be dipped in
In salute TO Prince Of the most despotic gov
ernment on earthl ~ .-rl-Lr -''-- .aa4 =
"A New York paper says "David Dudley
Field has been employed as Republican coun-
sci to assist Reverdy johnson in the argument
of Ku Klux cases in South Carolina. 1t is ex-
pected that Judges Bond and Bryan will disa-
gree in opinion, which will have the effect of
bringing the case before the Supreme Court at
Washington and thus test the constitutionality
of the law"
= John Nugent, a brother of the Mrs. Whar-
ton, of Baltimore, who is charged with murder
by poisoning, recently attempted 10 Kill nlmseiI
at the residence of relative, near Chester, Pa.
Depression of spirits, arising from his sisters
position is said to have been the cause of the
act. He stabbed himself in the throat, and is
said to be in critical condition.
- The fact that Governor Scott has "gob-
bled" a cord or two of South Carolina bonds
tsays the Washington Patriot ought not to be
used against him to the extent that we regret
! to see, some of our contemporaries are carrying
| it. These bonds are only worth twcnty-eight
cents on the dollar, and with the prospect of a
square reputation, will soon be worth nothing
and like owning land in Vermont, the more he
has the worse he is off.
= At the last Cabinet meeting, Akerman re-
portee that he had two thousand prisoners in
South Carolina alone who were captured under
the Ku Kux act. A debate followed as to the
validity of the courts and the right of the
General Government to try so large proper
t;oo sc tLo ,,oDulot;ou apd q Oanaral disOOgi-