The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-09-14
Every month this year Salem, N. H., has

= Every month this year Salem, N. H., has
received visit from Jack Frost.
- There is a cave in Effingham, n. H., in
which sufficient quantity of ice freezes III win
ter to supply the wants of the neighboring far
mers all summer.
"A collision on the Bridgeville and New
Jersey Railroad has occurred three killed and
several hurt. The brakemen escaped. ALI
asleep at the time Of the accident.
"A collision occurred between two passen-
Ger trains on the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road, on Thursday night last, by which one
person was killed and two others fatally in
jured.
= 1t is rumored that the President contem-
plates declaring martial law in South Carolina.
AS such proceeding would be entirely uncon-
sttutiona, there is probably some truth in the
report.
WI. Cain, late of Atlanta, Ga, has been
missing since the late war. ANY information
as to his whereabouts will be gladly received
by his daughter, Mrs. S. A. Yates, at Jefferson
Vile, Ind.
Persons engaged in orange culture in
Florida are threatened with great losses this
season. More than onc-half Of the crop is on
the ground, and much damage has been done
to the groves.
The Galveston Meus thinks that the Re-
publicans will nominate coored man for Vice
President next year, and 1t names Lieutenant
Governor Dunn, of Louisiana, as the man most
likely to be nominated.
The wife of Nathan Baker, of Notaway
county. Mo-, during fifteen years of married
life. has become the mother of nineteen chill
dren of whom thirteen are still living Mrs
Baker is thirty-seven years old.
The only place in the United States where
cotton blankets are manufactured is Columbus,
Ga. These blankets are very popular at New
Orleans, and over twelve hundred pairs were
ordered from one factory recently.
= Carl Schurz, in response to formal invi-
tation from the citizens of Nashville, irrespec-
tive of party, has consented to deliver an adj
dress in that city on the Goth of September up
on the condition of public affairs.
Heigoland, the small island at the mouth
of the Elbe, which has recently given rise to so
MANY predictions of war between Germany and
England, has population less than three hun
dred. The island itself is slowly decreasing in
size.
Col. Eockett, planter of Southwestern
Georgia, has $500 acres in cotton and 3,50O
acres in corn, and it is estimated that he will
clear $780, upon his cotton alone. He Is
said to have the largest cotton field in the
South. -
attention to the fact that while Spain, "before
the throes of revolution have entirely subsld,
ed - is proclaimng an amnesty for all political
offences, Gen. Grant is preparing to illuminate
new bull against South Carolina:
September the 4th was the first annlver..
sary of the downfall of the French empire. and
the establishment of the republic, and military
In ris
pns demonstrations. But tho day passed
quietly, and no disturbances h"Plehe" any
where. III.
- The Chicago Tribune Republican, calls
attention approvingly to the fact that the plat
form of the late Wisconsin Republican State
Convention CONTAINS no endorsement OF tue
Ku Klux bill or of any of the schemes of Ben
Butler and the carpct-baggers, for keeping the
South under martial law ad intnifum."
"A. r. Stewards new hotel for women at
the corner of Fourth avenue and Thirty-second
street, New York, is rapidly progressing to-
wards completion. S2.06O,000 have been APP
pronriated for it, and another million will be
reouirel to complete it. This is the largest
sum ever given by single individual for any
edifice for benevolent purposes.
j Forncy has at last and reluctantly discov-
cred a truth. He says: "lt is Il fact which cam
not be disguised and which we have never S at
tempted to conceal. that large ana influential
norton of the men who represent the Rcpub-
iican party in the South are mere adventures,
without any interest in the success of the Or
ganization other than money making"
= Point-a-Pitrc, Guadeopc, West Indies, is
unfortunate In 1S43 the town was destroyed
bv an earthquake The inhabitants, being in
dread of another ailiiction of the same kind,
rebuilt the town entirely Of wood. On the 18th
of July nearly the whole city was destroyed By
fire, the work of an inccndiary, and from twcn-
ty to thirty thousand persons rendered home
less