The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-03
1TEMs--ED1ToRIAL AND OTHERWISE

= Lemons have been grown this season in
Southern Florida.
= The cotton trade of Cincinnati amounts to
S5,O00,0O0 annually.
: The Mormons of Salt Lake have celebra-
ted their oath anniversary.
= Eighteen thousand dollars worth of win
dow glass was broken in Chicago by hail.
= Governor Holden's impeachment trial cost
the people of North Carolina the nice little
sum of SCI $40. ;
= Montpelier, the home of Madison, is ad-
rertised for sale. 1t is one of the most beauti-
full places in the South.
= The President has appointed a commits
sioner to examine the first twenty miles of the
Southern Paci6c Railroad in California.
- The wife Of Gideon Lea grand-daugh-
ter of John G. Calhoun-died at Carmel, N.
Y, on the 73rd of July, aged 26 years.
= Mrs. Jay Cooke, wife of the eminent ban
ker, died recently at Ogonts, his country resi-
dence near Philadelphia, of heart disease
Capt David H. Todd, FORMERLY of Lex
ington, KY, and brother of Mrs. Lincoln, died
recently at Huntsville, Ala, of consumption:
"A biographical memoir of the late Clement
L. Vallandigham is soon to be published by
his brother, the Rev. James l.. Vallandigham.
1t has been determined that the National
Democratic Convention will meet next year in
ST. Louis, but the time of meeting is not fixed.
- The Tredegar Iron Works, at Richmond,
Va, are reported as turning out five tons OF
iron now to every one turned out before the
war.
= The Prince Imperial, son of Louis Napo-
leon, is great favorite with all classes in Lon
don, and is cheered whenever he makes his ap-
pearance.
Alexandria, Virginia, is reported to be
making fresh start in the march OF improve
ment. a large number Of buildings are going
up there.
= The bale of new Texas cotton was sold in
New York on last Friday, and brought forty
three Gents per pound. 1t was shipped to
Liverpool the next day.
Col. Thomas Rhett, of South Carolina,
holds the position of Chief of Ordnance in the
Egyptian Army, and is now engaged in con-
structing powder works at Cairo.
The recent "cold snap" extended over the
whole of the United States. And the summer
has been so rainy and cold in Germany as to
retard vegetation and injure the fruit crop.
- Count Benedict is writing the history of
the diplomatic intercourse between France and
Prussia before the war broke out, and he prom,
ises therein to show how Bismarck precipitated
the event.
= Mcclellan, the Ohio murderer, whose
counsel Vallandigham was when he shot him
self, recently escaped from Jail and has not yet
been recaptured. He was one Of seven prison
ers who dug themselves out and fled.
"A series of terrible earthquakes has vlsi-
ted one of the Philippine Islands, in the East
Indian Archipelago The earth opened and
swallowed up more than two hundred persons.
Sixty bodies of the dead were recovered, after
which the rest of the inhabitants fled the is
land.
= Gen. Ewell, late of the Confederate army,
owns 5000 acres of land in Maury county,
Tenn, of which 1900 acres are in cultivation.
He has 1900 sheep of improved breeds, and
400 head of cattle He works dairy with
fifty COWS, each averaging one pound OF butter
per day.
R. B. MCGEE, prominent citizen of
Franklin, Tenn, and prior to the war Presi-
dent of the Branch of the State Bank at that
place, has been arrested in Memphis on the
charge of passing counterfeit money. On
searching his baggage, 81, 200 in counterfeit
United States notes were found. Owing to the
high social position enjoyed by MCGEE, his ar
rest has caused considerable sensation.
Next fall the people of Texas will vote
upon the question of dividing that large terri
tory into three distinct States, to be called
Eastern, Middle and Western Texas. Eastern
Texas lies east of Trinity river, and contains
over $4,000 inhabitants; Middle Texas ex-
tends from Trinity River to the Colorado River
and ranks next in population Western Texas
lies West of the Colorado and has over 200, 900
inhabitants. The entire State now has sou, 900
inhabitants.
- President Grant and family will remain
at Long Branch through the season. The Pres
ident has abandoned his trip to the West and
California, having been advised by General
Sheridan, General Sherman and many others,
that it is now too late in the season for salts
factory visit through the Western country, the
crops having all been gathered and the coun-
try being in bare condition. He has accord
ingly concluded to postpone the trip until the
latter part of spring, 1872.
= The Ku Klux Committee has adjourned
to the Goth of September, leaving Messrs. Pool,
Blair and Buckley asa subcommittee in Wash
ington to examine witnesses. The sub-com-
niittee sent to South Carolina returned last
week to Washington, and semi -oftcial report
from them gives terrible condition of affairs
in South Carolina. The general tenor of the
evidence shows ineficiency and rascality on the
part of the State government, and the inability
of the more staid citizens to control young men
who Ku Klux white and black Republicans
At Navasota, Texas, on the 29th, a con-
struction train bound north that evening, with
nine cars and eighteen laborers, was precipi-
tated into Navasota river by the derrick of a
wrecked car striking the lateral braces and rods
of the bridge, which caused the accident, The
superstructure of first span was carried away,
and the second, third and fourth spans went to
the bottom with the cars and engine mass of
ruins. Five were killed instantly two fatally
injured and twelve more or less injured. One
man was thrown twenty feet into the air, fall
ing instantly killed
- The Baltimore SIN, of Friday, says "Mrs.
Elizabeth G. Wharton, confined in the Bati-
more City Jail on the charge of poisoning Gen
eral Kctchum, of Washington, and attempting
to poison Mr. Eugene Van Ness, of Baltimore,
continues to evince degree of selfcontrol that
is truly surprising. She converses very freely
upon the subject of the alleged MURDER and in