The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-05-25
1TEMs-ED1ToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

ana plantations.
Snow fell in Anson county, North Caro-
lina on the 10th inst.
= The Emperor of Brazil again meditates
the abolition of slavery.
Mrs. Julia Tyler Spencer, daughter Of the
late President Tyler, is dead.
= The Bowen bigamy case is set down for
trial at Washington on the 23rd inst. :.
Dr. Daniel Watson, q noted physician of
Rhode Island, died on the 18th instant.
- Mrs Julia Ward Howe has been appoin-
ted Justice of the peace III Boston. =
- Rain, cold weather and caterpillars have
done great damage to crops in Tennessee.
= About three -fourths of the lead used in
the United States is said to be imported.
= The prospects of wheat crop in the wes-.
tern counties of North Carolina are excellent
The University of Kentucky has purchased.
Ashland, the home of Henry Clay, for sec, 900. =
"A dispatch from Paris reports the death Of
Auber, the great musical composer, at the age
of 49,:
In the vicinity of Springfield, Illinois,
vegetation is suffering from the greatest drought
The CROP prospects in California, except ?.
wheat and barley, are immense" owing to
the recent general rains. ..,...
= 1t is reported that Mr.. Bancroft has re-.
signed his post of United States Ambassador
to the German Empire.
1t is a curious fact that in many sections
of North Carolina and Virginia the apple trees
have this year failed to blossom.
- Gov. Hoffman, of New York, is on brief
visit to Richmond, Va. He is seeking relaxa-
| ton from severe official labors
There was an immense German peace pro-
cession in Philadelphia on the 18th inst, which
required four hours to pass any given point.
= The Atlanta Agricultural and Industrial
Association have decided to hold their fair op
4 the 10th of October next at Oglethorpe Park
- It is stated that the President has ordered
the military authorities to assist the civil au-
| thorities of South Carolina in enforcing the
laws.
= The Air Line Railroad has been compile
ted to Gainesville, and the citizens of that place
are making preparations to celebrate the event
at an early day.
= General N. B.. Forrest has subsidized into
cotton planter in Mississippi, and intends to-
pass the remainder of his days in "patriarchal
peace"
= The New England manufacturers are again
troubled by an insufficient supply of water, and
are anticipating serious interruption during
the summer months.
= The London Atheneun, announces that
American Biblical scholars have been invited
to cooperate in the New Testament revision
| now IN progress IN lInglanQ.
= The Lilliputian State of Rhode Island has
but 2S9,030 acres of improved land; its farms
are worth twenty-one millions; and its farm
products nearly five millions
| : Prince de Lynar, distinguished Prussian
nobleman and diplomatist, was recently mar
! rie in Columbus, Ohio, to Miss Amelia Parsons.
| q belle of that city. - 80
- A tornado in the southern part of Chi
cago, on Wednesday last, killed three persons
and injured others, besides demolishing the.
Catholic church and other buildings.
= The Adams Express Office at Columbus.
Ohio, was entered by burglars, two persons
sleeping in the office were drugged, and fifty
| thousand dollars in current funds stolen.
= The citizens of Charlestown, Mass. are
raising the sum of $4,000 to entertain the Mar
Eshall Fire Co. of Savannah, Ga, who will at
tend the next anniversary of Bunker Hill. a'i
= The Emperor of Brazil will visit this
country in September, and remain two months,
| He leaves home this month, and makes the
tour of Europe before visiting the United
States.
= Statistics show that there is about nine.
times as much coffee consumed in the United
States as in Great Britain, and nearly three,
times as much tea consumed in Great Biitaim
as in the United States.
= The remains of Bishop General Polk are
to be removed from the churchyard of St.
Paul's in Augusta, Ga, where they now lie un-.
dermarked, to Louisiana, where u monument,
will be erected over them. - =
/ - Wendell Phillips proposes to single out
the most conspicuous of the Confederate Gen
erals and hang them, as the most effectual mode
of putting down the Ku Klux and carrying the
next Presidential election for the Radicals.
x Gov. Jewell, of Connecticut, was inaugu-
rated on the 10th inst. The Radical Legisla-
ture declared him elected, and the New York
World says "thus consumated one of the most
impudent frauds ever devised by Radicals in
their most reckless moods"
On the first Wednesday of October next,
the Triennial Convention of the Episcopal.
church in the United States will assemble in
Baltimore. Its sessions will attract to the city
a large number of clergymcn and laymen Of
that church. ..- -.
= The Emperor of Germany is reported to-
be practical printer All the members of the
royal family of Prussia are required to learn
some trade, and William chose Typography as
the most desirable craft and spent three years
at the case. -,
: The st. Louis Republican says that the un--
constitutional Ku Klux bill is the answer. of a
Republican Congress to tho New Hampshire
election and the object of it was not to sup
press marauders at the South, but to prevent
the recurrence of the New Hampshire result
in 1872. -
- James NJ. sarums, colored member of
the Georgia Legislature has obtained a verdict
for 81 800 damages against the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Compa:
ny for ejecting him from the peoples cabin Of
the steamer Keyport between Washington and
Richmond
: The Hon. David A. Wells, in the course
of recent lecture on the financial and COM
mercial condition of the country, in the Cham
Der of Commerce, Cincinnati, declared that
there are but three things that we can produce
in equal advantage with other nations-gold,
cotton and petroleum.