The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-12-14
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much suffering exists.
= new paper has started at Rock HILL in
York county, to be known as Tile Lantern
Judge II. A. r. Nelson has resigned his
seat on the Supreme Bench of Tennessee.
: Chief Justice Lochrane, of Georgia, has
sent in his resignation to the acting Governor.
= Miss Evans, the author of "St. Elmo" is
to write a biography of Alexander H. Ste
phens.
= 1t is said that there are more brass bands
in Pennsylvania than in any other State in the
Union.
= The editor of the Greenville Mountaineer
is fortunate in having ripe Strawberries in De-
cember.
- The Springfield Mass Republican favors
Colfa1 as the Radical candidate for President
in 1872.
~ The weather in Vermont last week was
the coolest experienced there for the past thir-,
ty-two years. '.''
= The famous American resort the Argyle
rooms in London, are entirely destroyed by
fire.
- DIR. Mendlicott, of Kansas, the murderer
of Rush, has been sentenced to be hung IN
January.
= Governor Hoffman has ordered sufficient
supply of law books to replenish the library i'll
Chicago.
| = The total contribution by printers through
out the country for the relief of Chicago prin-
tiers amounted to nearly $4,000
- The corn crop of the West is reported as
the largest for many years, and in Illinois and
Kentucky, the yield has been beyond all pre-
cedent.
- At the recent municipal election in Au-
gusta, the entire Democratic ticket was success
full. The Radicals offered little or no opposi-
tion.
= The Chicago Journal considers the de-
struction of about cart-load of "orginal po-;
etry" in its office as the most gratifying feature
of the fire.
= Montgomery Blair writes a letter to the
New York World urging the immediate adop-
tion of the passive policy on the part OF the
Democrats.
= For the first TIME in sixteen years there is
not s. Washburn in Congress, Mr.. Washburn,
Governor elect of Massachusetts,, having sent
in his resignation as a member.
| A bill has been introduced into the Hi
nois Legislature proposing that women shall
not be debarred from any occupation, except
the military. We propose to amend by allow
ing them to try the infantry service.
- The Beaufort Republican learns that Treas
urer Grace, of Colleton, has been arrested upon
six indictments, charging him with misconduct
in office, including speculation to the amount
of $4,000 or $4,000.
: The Raleigh Seatinelsays colony OF ltal-
ians are being established at Ashbury, five or
six miles from Raleigh, on place OF two hun
dred acres, where they intend entering largely
into the cultivation Of the fig and grape.
= The members Of the Legislature OF North
Carolina, for the city of Wilmington, propose
to cut the Gordian knot of municipal troubles
by adopting in the city elections the cumula-
tive system OF voting
4 THE election for Governor for Georgia to
fill the unexpired term of Bullock takes place
on Tuesday next, 10Th inst. Hon. James NJ.
Smith, of Muscogce, has been nominated by
the Democrats, and will probably be elected
without opposition. 80,
"A colored man, by the name of Edward
Cleveland, was killed in Spartanburg on sale
day last by the falling Of the entire brick front
of a new store in the course OF erection. Sey-
eral other persons were severely injured by the
accident.
- 1t is reported at Washington that several
eminent gentlemen, learned IN the law. have
carefully examined the ku Klux act, and that
they express the opinion that 1t does give
Grant the power to suspend the writ of Aa6eas
corpus. o,
: Mrs Abraham Lincoln is living in Chica-
no. in the same house with her son, Robert 7.
lincoln in excellent health, though in deep
grief over the lo.s of her second son, Thaddeus.
It is her purpose to make an carly visit to Jack
sonyille, Florida. TO remain during the winter.
= Hon. James Chesnut and A. p. Aldrich
were in Charleston last week, and addressed the
Chamber of Commerce on Friday night. They
reviewed the condition of the finances OF the
State, and expressed their opinion rs to what
remedy should be applied to rectify the evil.
= Mr.. Bruton, Republican Senator, intro
duced resolution into the Georgia Legislature
looking to the payment OF slave-owners 1or
emancipatcd slaves. The Legislature has pass
ed, by an overwhelming Democratic majority,
resolution defeating and condemning Mr..
Bruton's measure, and censuring it as tending
to positive evil. -,
= The Baltimore ,Siua thus refers to the an
nual message of President Grant: "Taken as
whole, the message is of a moderate length,
simple and unpretentious in its style, rather
negative than positive in its merits, and GER
tainlv less aggressive in its tone and recon-
mendations than might have been apprehendcd,
and perhaps, by certain class of political cx-
tremists and factionists, was desired"
- We are pleased to learn, says the Charles.
ton Courier, that the South Carolina Railroad
Company has succeeded in purchasing the con-
troll of tho Macon and Augusta Railroad
With the Grccnvillc and Columbia Railroad
in one hand, and the Macon and Augusta in
the other, it opens up path of enterprise and
prosperity for the future. For this action, Mr.
President Magrath and the company are enti-
tied to all commendation.
- The Baltimore Sun says: "Our report of
the opening proceedings of the Senate on Mon
day noted that the Chaplain in his prayer al
luded to the Justice which had overtaken those
who had been plundering the people-the Tam
many Ring, as the correspondent suggested.
There is no 81 iintimation, however, of asolicitude
that the same justice shall be extended to the
Southern carpet-bagger rings, who have been so
shamelcssly plundering the people in that quar-
ter, and who gave the first demoralizing exam
plies of the stupendous crime"
Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, is
reported to be dying. The latest information
| ca,.c .hat ha i. unconscious and that Queen