The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-04-27
1TEMs..ED1ToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

been discontinued after thirty years existence.
"A train Of cars was blown off the track at
Springfield, Illinois, by the gale of Friday.
The people of louisiana are giving serious
attention to the financial condition of that
State.
: The Emperor of Russia has become con-
frmed drunkard. All efforts to reclaim him
have proved fruitless.
= The Michigan Legislature has just passed
in that State.
= It is stated indirectly, but reliably, that
the official count of the Connecticut election
gives English clear majority of forty.
. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church South will meet at Huntsville, Ala, on
May. Goth. 5,'-9e .sag;.l.v
= There were only fourteen thousand votes
cast for Governor in the late election in Rhode
Island.
- The Georgia Press Association will meet
in annual convention at Augusta on the 10th
of May. ~
= The Executive Mansion at Richmond,
formerly occupied by President Davis, Is being
fitted up for public school purposes. -
= Both Houses of Congress adjourned on
Thursday last The Senate will be reconvened
for executive business on the 10th of May.
= Iowa Radicals are suggesting that Gen.
Belknap, Secretary of War, be elected to the
United States Senate to succeed Mr.. Harlan.
= 1t is estimated that there are $4,000 Chi
nese in California, and that they constitute
more than one-twelfth of the entire population
of that State. -
= The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the "Atlanta and Richmond Airline Rail
way Company" will be held in Charlotte, N. O.,
on the Oath of May.
= The Legislature of Connecticut will meet
OIL the 3rd of May, when the vexed question as
to who have been elected to the State Offices
will be settled.
= Senators T. J. Robertson and Joshua Hill
were the only Republicans who voted against
the Ku Klux bill on it final adoption by the
Senate.
= The colored people of Richmond celebra-
| ted the anniversary of the fifteenth amendment
on the Goth instant and were addressed by
George T. Downing Of Washington. =
= Henry Harris (negro) has been convicted
of murder in the first degree, at Marion, Ark,
for killing ]. D. Crockett grandson of Davy
Crockett. some months since.
= Gen. A. G. Darlington, formerly of South
Carolina, but now of Atlanta, Ga, will deliver
the annual address before the literary societies
| - Kansas City, Mo-, must be delightful
and secure place of residence. It is two miles
square, contains 10000 inhabitants, and has
force of only nine policemen.
! -One-half of the town of Pennington, on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, is burned. A
drunken party playing cards in a carpenters
shop caused the disaster.
= Reports from different portions of Georgia
say this is the earliest spring for twenty years.
and that the stand of corn was never better
than the present.
- There is bill pending in the Senate of
Texas providing for division of the State, and
the erection of new State west of the Colo
| RADIO River.
The Republican Senators in Caucus, a few
days before adjournment, decided not TO take
up the House bill proposing general amnesty,
and thus defeated that measure until next ses.
sion.
= The people of Wilkes county, Ga, in the
vicinity of Petersburg, have recently Struck
ile," as genuine petroleum or coal oil has been
discovered exuding from the earth in that To-
cality.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has deci-
ded that the discharge of bankrupt does not
relieve his securities from liability on his paper;
that the discharge kills the debt as to him, but
not as to his securities.
General Fitz Lee, the celebrated Cenfede-
rate cavalry general, was married in Alexan-
dria, on Wednesday evening last, to Miss Nellie
Fowle, of that city. Several eX-Confederate
Generals were in attendance.
= The next is to be very important election
| in Ohio. Besides full State ticket, there is
to be chosen Legislature, which is to appor-
ton the State for members of Congress for the
next ten years and elect United States Sena-
tor in place of John Sherman.
= Hon. Thomas A. Marshall, of Kentucky,
who represented the Ashland District in Con-
gress from 1881 to 1885, and who was one of
Henry Clay's executors, died on the 10Th inst.
Judge Marshall was " years old, and was en-
inent for his culture, ability, and high chsrac-
| ter.
= The Secretary of War has ordered the
| transfer of a soldier convicted Of murder by o
court-martial in Alaska to the civil authorities,
on the ground that murder, being capital Of
fence, is not equitable by the court-martial-
which sentenced the murderer to fifteen years
imprisonment.
= Justice Davis, Of the q. S. Supreme
Court, and resident OF Illinois, is spoken of
as the Democratic candidate for President in
1872. He is conservative Democrat and 8
gentleman Of fine abilities. He is native OF
Maryland, and an uncle of the late Hon. Hen
ry Winter Davis, of Baltimore.
: Col. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, of the
American branch of the late ruling dynasty in
France, has arrived at his home in Baltimore.
This gentleman, who was born in America, en-
tertains no hope for Republicanism in France,
and is of opinion that tho Emperor will be ul-
timately restored.
A Washington letter, in noticing the
manner in which the Ku Klux bill was finally
passed, says: "Some appeals were made to the
president by letter from New York to veto the
bill, but he signed it in five minutes after re-
cciving it, and informed Republican Senators
that Immediately on his return from st. Louis
lie should proceed with its vigorous enforce
ment."
A case has recently been decided by the
Supreme Court of Ohio involving the validity
of subscriptions for church purposes. The