The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-11-02
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

- Holders of excursion tickets from Charles
ton to Anderson, Greenville and Walhalla are
notified that their tickets will be recognized, in
returning until December 1st.
The surater Neacs notes, as singular his
torical facts, that che cackling of geese saved
Rome, and the kick of a cow destroyed Chi
cago.
new paper to be issued at Abbeville c. H., the
press and material for which has arrived
Messrs. r. R. Hemphill & Co. are the proprie-
tors.
The recent insult to Gov. Scott at Char
ductor on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad, and not any of the citizens of that
city.
. The seventh volume of the Keoauee Courier
began with the Inst issue. The proprietors re-
turn thanks f3r steady and increasing patron
age, which is worthily accorded by the people
Of Oconee County.
w. w. Vance and J. Walter Gray were
admitted to practice law at the recent term Of
the Abbeville Coure, after creditable and sat
isfactory examination before Judge Orr in open
co,.rt.
The Spartanburg Spartan says that recent
developments prove that all ku Klux are not
Democrats, if some who essSa, to be Ku KluA
are not mistaken. A number of white Radi-
Gals have surrendered to the authorities, and
profess to know all the inner workings of the
mystic clan. -,
= The Lutheran Synod of this State, which
has latetely been in session at Frog Level, has
resolved to snstain the Newberry College, at
Walhalla, Oconee county. 1t is stated the
College is in more thriving condition than
ever before since the close of the war. James
II. Murrell, ESQ.,, of the Charleston Courier,
has been elected trustee.
- The wholesale arrests made by the militia
ry in York county have had very depressing
influence on business and industrial pursuits
generally. Crops remain in the field unhar-
vested, and on account of the general feeling
iof insecurity, business is nearly at stand-sti,
while large number Of persons have left the
county, rather than to incur the unpleasant and
uncertain consequences of arrest
i Dr. L. M. Asbill, of Edgefeld, has in
vented the Cotton Picker's Velocipede. Hence
forth, says the Adrertiser, the man who obtains
one of these machines can sit on cushion,
under an umbrella, with his cotton basket at
hand; and when the basket is full, by simple
reversion convert the machine into wheel
barrow, on which his cotton will be carried to
the place of deposit, without even the labor Of
bringing it to his shoulder. This valuable in
vention will cost very little, and will be exhib-
tied next week in Columbia at the State Fair.
= The Sumter Watchman says the Rev. j..
B. Hartwell, China missionary, entertained a
large and intelligent congregation at the Bap-
tist church OH Sunday evening last, for an hour
or more His sketch of Chinese character,
worship, faith, forms, ceremonies, &C., was deep
ly interesting, and his familiarity with these,
and with the general literature of the teeming
Celestial Empire, seemed a sustaining proof of
his assumption that the Chinese are an igno-
rant and illiterate people. In this respect, Mr..
Hartwell expressed establishment at the state
ments from time to time made in the religious
and secular press of this country.