The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-07-06
ITEMs--EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

Washington, is dead.
= Kossuth, it is rumorcd, intends making
another visit to the United States
= Newton Booth is the Republican candi-
date for Governor of California:
= The Legislature of Connecticut has appro-
priated $50O,000 for the erection of a new State
House.
- France pays Prussia a splendid compli-
ment in adopting the army corps system Oh the
latter:
= 1t is proposed to erect amonumcnt to the
late Clement L. Vallandingham in Dayton,
Ohio.
= Watermelons are 50 numerous and cheap
in Florida that an enterprise has been started
for their shipment north in large quantities.
- The establishment of female suffrage in
Wyoming is said to haye brought political ruin
upon all male candidates who are not good
looking.
- It is reported that the Democrats of Iowa
are opposed to the "new departure" and have
called q convention to meet on the 10th OF Au-
gust.
1t is said that 10000 of the inhabitants
of Buenos Ayres were carried off by the late
epidemic, or about one-third of the entire body
of inhabitants.
"A wealthy citizen of New York has been
missing three weeks. 1t is supposed he has
been murdered for q three thousand dollar dia-
mond pin.
John @. Breckenridge is again. Vice
President. This time, however, it is not of the
United States, bit of the Big Sandy Railroad
in Kentucky.
: Twenty-eight citizens are on trial at Ok
ford, Miss, for hanging negro while disguised
as Ku Klux The best legal talent in the State
is employed in the case.
-Rev. G. Wilson McPhail, President Of
Davidson College, died last week. The COM
mencement exercises, in consequence OF this
sad event, were necessarily suspended.
= The late Robert Ct. Shaw, of Massachu-
sets, was one of the most philanthropic OF
men. During fifty years he gave to objects of
public charity not less than 100000.
1t is a curious fact, demonstrated by the
recent British census, that the population OF
Ireland is actually less than the number OF
Irish who are now il the United States.
- The cornerstone of $4,000 monument
to the Confederate dead of Georgia, is to be
laid in Augusta, on the 18th of October, the
anniversary of Gen. Lees death.
: The Emperor of Prussia has granted am
nesty to all natives of Alsace and Lorraine
under sentence for political or military oflenses,
except where such offenses are combined With
ordinary crimes.
= The Democracy of New Mexico have
nominated Hon. Jose NJ. Gallegos for delegate
to Congress, and adopted platform accepting
the political situation. The election in the
territory takes place September IL.
Accounts from Pennsylvania give : very
satisiactorv report of the canvass in that State.
1t is said there is little doubt of Democratic
success in tie fall. The party is united, and
the Radical are fighting over the spoils.
= Governor Gratz Brown, of Missouri, has
been on visit to his friends at Frankfort, Ky,
where he was born and raised. While there
the citizens We'd with each other, without dis
tinction of party, in paying him attention.
People in Fairfield, Iowa, were startled
from their beds about one o'clock on the morn
ing of June 18th by the explosion Of meteor,
Which streamed through the heavens from
southeast to northwest, and Illuminated the
town as in broad day light.
= Hon. S. S. Cox has written a letter to
Cincinnati paper in which he claims to have
delivered the speech against the "conscription
bill" in 1868, which, he says, was enormously
attributed to Vallandingham, and for which
that distinguished martyr was sent into exile.
= The Small Pox is still raging in London.
The deaths from this loathsome disease amount,
weekly, to two hundred and forty. 1t Is slngu-
lar that London physicians are so unskllltul IN
the treatment Of this malady. In this country,
the mortality from small pox is very tritling.
= The Republicans of Maine nominated
Sidney Perham for Governor last week. The
resolutions affirm that they have no cause tor
consigning the past with its eventtul memories
to oblivion, and no desire to forget the lessons
of patriotism and loyalty, and the teachings
revealed
n. r. Turner. a negro member of Con-
gress from that district, informs the editor OF
the Selma (Ala.) Tines and Messenger that he
has appointed said editors pet waiting boy,
John Gee, a cadet to the Military Academy, at
West Point. Both tho Congressman and his
appointee were once, slaves OF DIR. Gee, OF
Selma. ,rss
"A robbery cf the express car on the Mo-
bile and Ohio railroad occurred a few nights
apo-the robbers having seized S1S0,OOO at one
haul. It is said the robbers broke through the
top of the car while the train was in motion
and the messenger asleep, and, lifting out the
safe, succeeded in making their escape without
detection. >,
- On the pretence of negotiating the new
loan, the leading officials of the Treasury De-
partment at Washington are, one by one, leav-
ing for Europe, thus'getting their summer holl--
day. at the expense of the Government, which
paws them at the rate OF ten dollars day
while on these missions, besides ten cents a
mile for the cost of travel.
- The State Department has received large
numbers of letters from parties in different
parts of the country asking to be supplied with
some Of the cundurango, the recently discover,
ed cancer remedy brought to the attention of
the government by the Ecuadorian minister
As the supply is exhausted the requests cannot
complied with.
= General Sherman mentions, IN converse
ton with friends, that everywhere he went on
his recent tour Of inspection he met with warm
receptions from tie people, especially in Lou
isiana and Texas. The Governors of those
States informed him that the peace and order
therein would favorably contrast with any pc
riod previous to the late war. :. q
= The President has offered the position OF
Commissioners of Agriculture, made vacant py
the resignation OF General Gapron' 70 'ne