The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-10-12
1TEMs-ED1ToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.


There is great need of rain in many of
the Northern States.
- There has been terrible storm in Texas,
doing much damage to crops.
- Josiah Turner, Jr, editor OF the Raleigh
Sentinel, has been arrested under the Ku KluX
act.
"A newly started paper in Louisiana nomi-
mates Mr.. Alexander FL. Stephens for next
President. =
Former Ku Klux prisoners have caused.
the arrest of United States Marshal Carrow, of
North Carolina for false Imprisonment.
= The celebrated Natural Bridge, located in
Rockbridge county, Va, has been purchased by
John w. Garrett, the great railroad king of
Baltimore.
The Democrats of Massachusetts propose
to put their ablest speakers in the field, and to
make thorough canvass of the State before
the November election.
The Republicans evidently fear that the
coming election will lose them the Legislature
of Ohio 1t is conceded that they will elect
the Governor by reduced majority.
The election in Texas last week resulted
in complete victory for the Democrats. The
majority is estimated at 10000, and every Con-
gressional District has been carried.
- Jerry Dixey, who has been In prison
eleven years for murder, died in the Philadel-
phia iail last week. He had been all that
time under sentence of death with the warrant
unsigned.
Brigham Young has been indicted and
arrested for icentiousness. The United States
authorities are proceeding against the Mormons
for various offences involving bigamous prac-
tices, and there is great excitement in Utah.
The municipal election in Savannah on
Monday last resulted in the triumph of the
Democratic ticket, with Col. John Screven for
Mayor, by majority of over 1900. One-half
of the negroes are supposed to have voted the
Democratic ticket.
"A curious incident of the Nelson -Clanton
killing affair in Tennessee, is that an old man,
named w. B. Smith, at whose house the Sher-
iff stopped to ask after the fugitive Nelson,
when informed of the affair, evinced high ex-
citement and died in FIVE minutes.
- The Lancaster hntelligencer says that "the
prospects of Democratic success in Pennsylva-
MIA are very fattering, and they grow brighter
every day. All that is needed to secure mag
nificent victory is full poll of our vote. Let
every Democrat remember and impress it upon
the minds of his neighbors."
- Both branches of the Tennessee Legisla-
ture met and organized on the End inst Gen.
John G. Vaughn was elected to preside over the
Senate, and Hon. James D. Richardson as
speaker of the House. 1t is the first time in
| many years that the Legislature has organized
in less than week.
| "A dispatch from Savannah states that the
story of the recent land sinkin Orange County,
Florida, is hoax. There has been no such
phenomenon in that section. This statement
would seem to be unnecessary, but for the fact
that several respectable and widely circulated
papers at the North have republished the RI
! dicu1ous story with serious editorial comments.
"A sad case is that of Mr.. William A.
Buchanan. killed by the recent collision on
the Louisville and Nashville road. He was on
his way to the dying bed of his aged mother
in Jacksonville, Indiana, whose only hope be-
fore surrenderng her life to its giver was to be-
stow upon her son her last earthly benediction.
ONLY few miles distant that son received the
summons of death first.
Important elections were held in the States
of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Iowa on Tuesday
last, 10th of October. Ohio elects Governor,
State officer and Legislature; the Legislature
will elect United States Senator, to succeed
Senator Sherman. Pennsylvania elects an Au-
| dtor, Surveyor General and members of the
Legislature. Iowa will elect Governor, State
officers and Legislature, which will choose a
| United States Senator, in place of Mr.. Harlan.
= Butler was defeated in the Massachusetts,
Republican Convention by VIM. B. Washburne,
who was nominated for Governor. Butler said
that he abided by the action of the Convention,
and intended, within the Ranks of the Repub-
lican party to carry on "the fight for its reju-
venation, for its publication, for the advance.
ment of labor, for the suppression of vice and
| for its great mission" Think of Butler as a
crusader in behalf of publication and the sup
preston of vice!