The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-10
ITEMs-ED1ToR1AL AND OTHERWISE

- The smallpox is reported in the vicinity
of Salt Lake, and three deaths have occurred.
- The announcement is made that the Mar
uuis of Lorne and the Princess Louise are to
visit this country next autumn.
- Marriages between cousins are permitted
in Kentucky, and the result is an increase in
the idiot and insane population of the State.
= The wedding trousseau of Miss Throck-
morton, who was married few days since in
New York, cost twenty-nine thousand dollars
i'll gold.
"A woman crazed from nursing her sick
child took it just outside of Lacygne, Kansas,
choked it with rags, then strangled herself,
tying the rags around her throat.
= The Lowry gang are still carrying on their
bloody work. DIR. Daniel Smith, prominent
citizen of Robson County, was fatally woun-
ded by one of the gang, few nights ago.
- Three negro children were burned to
death, few nights ago, in McDonough, Henry
County, Ga. The mother went to church,
house took fire, and everything in it consumed,
children included.
The population of New Jersey is officially
shown to be 906, 1872 against, in 1860, 672,024,
an increase of 2340SS, or nearly 35 per cent,
which has taken place chiefly at the prosper
GUS manufacturing centres of that State;
- An exchange from the gold diggings Of
Colorado says: Zone of the prettiest sights the
human eye ever rested upon is gold in liquid
state" The human eye in this vicinity would
be glad if it could see any in the solid state.
= The first bale of Louisiana cotton, new
crop, was received in New Orleans last Friday,
The cotton crop along Red River looks better
than was expected after the spring rains 1t is
believed fair crop will be made in the river
parishes.
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on the 18th inst. in celebration of the centenary
of Sir Walter Scott. Hepworth Dixon will
preside, and it is anticipated that 400 of the
most distinguished people of Great Britain and
the continent will be present.
- \ negro entered the residence of Ger
man in Burlington, Indiana, for the purpose of
stealing but finding the Germans daughter
asleep, attempted a darker crime. The girls
screams brought the father to the room, when
the negro shot him through the heart, and es-
capped.
The New York Journal Of Commerce has
had its attention called to amovement in Men,
phis, which is designed to operate upon Con-
gress to obtain a return of the tax levied upon
cotton a few years ago. That paper says it
never regarded the tx as constitutional, and
thinks there is no chance for the success Of
such an effort.
= On the first Tuesday in September, Yer
mont and California will elect Governor and
Legislature. Maine will hold general cleo
ton on the second Monday of the same month.
Next come the October elections in the States
of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa--all
voting on the second Tuesday of that month,
These elections will have decided effect upon
the national campaign in 1872.
= Among the many sad features of the ter
riblc ferry-boat explosion in New York, is that
involved in the almost entire determination of
several families of three or more persons who
were passengers on the boat at the time. In at
least two cases, the list of the dead and injured
shows that father, mother, and children were
or scalded that recovery Will be impossible.