The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-12-21
ITEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.


Russia with 500 locomotives.
- A man in Taunton, Mass, has been fined
Sc for splitting tobacco juice on church car
pet.
An Indiana man claims the champion
ship" and says that he can kill and dress an
OK in seven minutes.
= Under the new apportionment bill, South
Carolina will be misrepresented by five Con-
gressmen instead of four
- Twenty-Five thousand dollars worth of
property was consumed and two persons killed
in a fire in Cincinnati on the 1st-
Fifteen thousand women have signified to
Congress their unwillingness to have the re-
sponsibi!ities of suffrage thrust upon them.
An enterprising young dentist IN neigh
boring city advertises: sect your sweetheart
new set of false teeth as Christmas present"
"A Young woman was sent to New jersey
iail day or two ago for drunkenness. Once
she was the belle Of New Haven, Connecticut.
- The ice crop will be very large one next
wear. Everywhere the ice men are already
gathering good supplies of ice, varying from
six to twelve inches in thickness.
"A despatch from Norfolk, Va, to the Pc
tersburg Lader, says that Henry Ghiselin, one
of the editors Of the Norfolk Journal, has
eloped with a young lady of that city, leaving
behind him wife and six children.
MIR. c. Todd was killed in Montgomery,
Ala, on Saturday, by young mule While
attempting to trim the name of the animal he
was paved to the ground and so severely in
iured that he died in few minutes.
= General Sherman renews his suggestion
that the legitimate sphere of action of the army
should be defined by statute. He evidently
does not like the idea of making the depart
ment which he commands mere police force.
- The convalescenee of the Prince OF Wales
has commenced, but progresses. slowly, yet
steadily. AS the Prince is considered out OF
danger, the Queen has returned to Windsor
and the Duke of Cambridge has returned to
London.
- In Fauquier County, Va, little SOD of
James Hinson, about ten years old, lett home,
on Wednesday morning, on rabbit hunt, and
was not found until Friday morning When
found he was sitting beneath tree, stiff and
cold in death.
- Upwards of fifty families, says the Gains
Vile (Ga.) Eagle, arrived in our city, on Satur-
day and Sunday last, from Anderson and Oco-
nee counties, S. c., en- route to the Vest
They represent the country as truly in deplo-
rable condition.
- Two news-boys in Macon, Ga, frolicking
around in a room, accdently knocked loaded
pistol from a SHELF which went off as it fell
sending the ball through the hand of one and
through the brains of the other, causing the
immediate death of the latter.
"A shooting affray occurred In front of the
post office, in Richmond, Va, on Thurday last,
between John Smelling and Andrew Montiero,
both sporting men, which resulted in Smelling
being probably fatally wounded. Montiero
was arrested he is but slightly hurt
- The Territory of Wyoming is still wo-
mans paradise. The bill repeating the woman
suffrage act has been vetoed by the Governor,
so that the women, who were about to see their
hardly earned and highly cherished rights
ruthlessly torn from them, have yet another
and strong hope.
"A lengthy interview is reported between
ex-President Johnson and the correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial. The ex-President
is more severe on Grant than usual and is op-
posed to the "passve policy" as recommended
by some of the Democratic leaders, as being
equal to surrender, which he says is as bad as
defeat.
- Governor Walker, of Virginia, has par
doned ex-Mayor Chahoon, of Richmond, here
tofore twice convicted of completely in the
Haustein forgery. Very general satisfaction is
expressed of this action Of the Governor, who
states that his principal reason for so doing Is
that it was earnestly recommended by very
large number of worthy citizens.
- The Catholic Bishop Barclay, of New Jer-
sey, who lately delivered temperance address
before the Catholic Total Abstinence Union OF
that State, is reported to have declared that he
has "ordered the clergy to refuse Christian
burial to those who die of the effects OF liquor
as we'll as those who sell it to drunkards." He
does not believe in prohibition laws, and thinks
it best to fight vice by the influence of moral
suasion and religious opinion.
The Legislature of Alabama agreed to
paw three LAWYERS, employed in the Stanton
railroad suit at Knoxville, $4,000. One OF
these, Gen. James III. Clanton, was killed and
left his family poor. The other two, Messrs
Stone and Clopton, transferred their interestln In
the fee of $4,000 to Gen. Clanton's widow. A
deed like this, of two lawyers, neither rich, re.
deems an age and country. Selfshness and
love of money blacken every page Of current
history.
Squirrels are SO great nuisance in Cali. ! j.
fornia that a bounty of ten cents per head Is
paid for their destruction. A single hunter
has killed and trapped ten thousand in one sea-
son, for which he got one thousand dollars
bounty. He sent the skins to Paris, where
they sold at fifteen cents each, swelling his re-
ceipts to two thousand five hundred dollars for
his captures The skins are said to be more
valuable than those of the rat or kid in the
manufacture of gloves.
"A correspondent of the New York Jour
nal of Commerce describes project soon to be
submitted to Congress, it is said, by Senator
Sumner for the charter of grand national
bank, to be called 'The Exchequer of the Uni
ted States" and modelled somewhat after the
Bank of England. The plan contains two de-
partments, the Banking" and the tissue" de-
partment, aud provides for 100000, 900 CAPT
tai, to be taken by subscription. Its designed,
also, to take the place of the present sub-treas-
. Florida Indians, so long silent, are begin
ming, so it appears, to grow restive under their
peaceful yoke, and are now preparing to follow
the war trail, or rather they are reported doing
so. The Peninsula says on the night of the