The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-10-19
ITEMs..EDIToR1AL AND OTHERWISE

"A good portion of Galveston was sub
merged by the recent storm.
The yellow fever is reported to be epidem-
ic at Tampa, Florida.
"A good part of the town Of Urbana, ILL.,,
has been destroyed by fire.
The fire at Chicago melted the gold in the
Custom House.
- Gen. Sherman was among the heaviest los
ers by the Chicago disaster.
There has been an unprecedented freshet
in Maine, blocking railroad trains.
1t is reported that Mr.. Jefferson Davis will
hereafter permanently reside in Baltimore.
+ Over 500 Ku Klux were indicted by the
grand jury of the United States Circuit Court
at Raleigh.
= Mrs. Wharton, the Baltimore poisoner, is
to be tried at Annapolis, and the trial has been
postponed until November.
- Numerous brilliant meteors, passing from
southeast to northwest, have been observed in
all parts Of California within the past week.
= John Kenny, formerly citizen of Angus
ia, Ga, has drawn a prize OF $4,000 IN the
Royal Havana Lottery.
- The first rifle cannon ever used in Amer
lea was presented to the Confederates by an
Englishman.
- The Southern Express Company has gen
erously determined to carry free all contribu-
tions for the Chicago sufferers.
= The Cincinnati Enquirer favors constl-
tutional amendment, making foreign born citi-
| zens eligible to the Presidency.
"A Democratic paper in Indiana HOSTS the
name of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Geor-
gia, for President in 1872
= Gen. Wade Hampton delivered q eulogy
upon Gen. R. E. Lee, at the Concordia, in Bal
timore, on the evening of the 18th instant.
- Active measures were promptly Instituted
| throughout England, and even on the continent
of Europe, to relieve the sufferers from the
Chicago fire.
- The Montgomery Advertiser estimates the
present crop of cotton at 2,42O,0OO bales, or
eleven this year where there were twenty last
year.
= 1t is estimated in the internal revenue
Office that the collections in Chicago will be
decreased over four millions of dollars during
the present fiscal year by the fire.
- Extensive fires have been raging through
ont the Rocky Mountains since August 26. The
Typographical work of the geological expedition
has consequently been stopped.
| 1t is rumored in Louisville that General
S. B. Buckner has just gained suit in Chicago
involving property to the amount OF one mil
lion dollars.
Paymaster Hodge, of the United States
army, whose recent defalcation in Office excited
such general comment, has been sentenced TO
the penitentiary for ten years.
"A Washington dispatch states that there
was full Cabinet meeting last Friday, except
Akerman. Afterwards, our peripatetic Gov
ernment left for Boston and will not return un-
til the last of this week.
= The citizens of Virginia are about to erect
q monument to the memory of John Smith, the
man Pocahontas rescued from the savages-
Other John Smiths will be attended to in due
| time.
: The inhabitants along the coast of North
Carolina were so much alarmed by the predic-
tion of "tidal wave" that they sent emissaries
all over the State to learn, if possible how pray
er-meetings are conducted: =,
= According to the Philadelphia Ledger, the
recent riot in that city was caused by drunken
negro youths insulting ladies, and killing ne
gro who voted the Democratic ticket. Five
persons were killed and more than twenty
wounded.
There are four candidates for Governor OF
Massachusetts Quincy Adams Demo
cratic; VIM B. Washburne, Republican; Ex-
Gov. Chamberlain, Labor Reform, and X. Z.
Pittman, Temperance candidate. The two last
named organizations are offshoots OF the Radi-
cal party, and if the disafection amounts to
anything, there is hope that the Democratic
candidate will be elected.
DIR. w. H. Tutt President Of the Cotton
States Fair Association, has resigned that po-
sition. and Mr.. P. J. Berckmans has been
unanimously elected to fill the vacancy. DR..
Tut removes to New York, where he will con-
duct the business of manufacturing his stan
dard medicines on large SCALE
Tremendous excitement exists IN Meridian,
Mississippi, over the arrest and releasing OF
some murderers and taking them from town.
The citizens soon overlook the Sheriff, and a
desperate fight occurred. Guns and pistols
were freely used, with terrible effect. The
Sheriff, the two deputies, and the two prisoners
were killed outright.
- The returns from the Iowa election, and
details of the fires in Wisconsin and Michigan,
are delayed in part by interruption of tele-
graphic communication ut Chicago, but more
BY the ravages of the confagrations, which
are sweeping through the fields and forests OF
the Northwest Efforts will be made to obtain
communication by crcuitous route.
Colonel Lewis w. Washington, the near
est blood relation of George Washington, died
at Charleston, West Virginia, on the lst in
slant, in the ffty-ninth year of his age. He
was the first man taken prisoner by John Brown
during his raid into Virginia, and was rescued
from the old engine-house when Brown surren-
dered to the United States troops under the
command of the then Colonel Robert E. Lee.
= The last issue of Peterson's Counterfeit
Deteetor notices the appearance of new spu-
rious twenty dollar greeDback, against which
business men should be on their guard. 1t is
almost fautless in execution, the only weak
point being the central figure, which is little
coarsely done. Aside from this defect, howev-
err the bill will stand the test of the strongest
sight, and is one of the most dangerous speci-
mems of the "queer" yet issued.
A Chicago merchant now in town, (says
the New York Journal of Comnaerce,) evinces
the enterprise and courage of his class by buy
ing sugars and syrups to stock the new store
which be is going to open in Chicago-his old
place being now in ashes. He says in his note
now before us, 1--WE shall strain every nerve to
start again at once, and believe we can have a
store built and in operation by the time we can