The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-04-20
o. R. BROYLES.
1rEMs-ED1ToR1AI AND OTHERWISE.
= The Amnesty Bill goes over till next ses

- There is a colored youth, seventy-fve
years old, attending school at Americus, Ga.
- Montgomery, Ala, Is about to commence
the erection of new 100000 hotel.
-Napoleon's hair is said to have turned
gray during his sojourn at Wilhelmhohe.
= The building of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road is being pushed ahead with yigor.
= The new Minister of the German Empire
has arrived at Washington. ~.
Accounts from all parts of the country
speak of the unusual heat on the 9th inst.
An Indian cave, containing many aborigl-
nal relics, has been discovered in Floyd county,
Ga.
= General Changarnier is said to be dying
of broken heart, caused by the troubles in
France.
: The law fixing the time for the meeting
of Congress on the 4th of March has been re-
pealed.
= The Southern Baptist Convention will
meet in St. Louis during the first week in May
next.
"A Chicago genius proposes to build a rail-
road bridge across the Atlantic and run two
trains each way daily.
There has been comparatively heavy fight
ing in Cuba. The Cubans seem thoroughly
organized for guerilla system of war.
= It's proposed to erect a monument to the
memory of Bishop Andrew in Elbert county,
Ga, where his>youthful days were spent
= Only rough board, with his name in
scribed, marks the grave of General Albert
Sydney Johnston, in the cemetery near Austin,.
Texas
A narrow gauge railroad, between Gaines
vile and Dahlonega, Ga, is seriously contem-
plated, and is attracting much attention in
that region.
{ = The election for members of the conven-
tion to revise the constitution of North Caroli
ma has been called for the first Thursday in
August
- Accounts from France state that there has
been great waste of the provisions sent there
as contributions from the United States and
England.
Judge ]. J. Wright of the Supreme Court
of this State, compromised his suit against the
Richmond and Danville Railroad, for being
elected from the cars, for 1900.
The Southern Express Company warn the
public against being imposed upon by litho-
graphed letters, inducing orders for counterfeit
money to be sent by Express C.. o. d.
= Holden, whe is afraid to go back to North
Carolina, on account of the warrants for his
arrest for false imprisonment, &c, is going to
take lid his future residence in New jersey.
= The President has deferred his visit to the
Pacific coast until fall. The enforcement of
the Ku Klux bill, soon to become a Law, will
require his personal attention at Washington.
= Gen. Albert Pike, of Arkansas, has been
the editor and proprietor of no less than %
different newspapers, and succeeded in killing
two-thirds of them.
"A suit for $4,000 has been entered in the
United States Court, in Washington, by Sam-
uel Strong, against Hon. Richard T. Merrick,
on account of the former receiving q Gaming at
the hands of the latter.
: St. Louis, which wants to be the capital of
the United States, and seems to be grabbing
after everything else, now sets UP to be the
place for holding the National Democratic
Convention.
= The late editor of the London O6seryer,
who recently died in his ninety ninth year, is
said to have been tho oldest journalist in the
world, having been an active member of the
profession for over sixty years.
= Gen. Duff Green, an almost forgotten oc-
togenarian, is resident Of Dalton, Ga. He
was notable man in his younger days, and as
an editor did more to elect Jackson and after
wards more to thwart him than any other man.
- Hon. Charles Reemelin, of Cincinnati,
now travelling in the South, says in recent
letter: "A more despicable lot of scamps than
the human locusts, which the war sent upon
the Southern States as rulers, can not be found
anywhere"
= It will be interesting to our readers to
know that the Internal Revenue law now ex-
empts from taxation all professions, manufac-
turers and all branches of business, except
liquor and tobacco dealers. The income tax is
81 per cent. on the excess of $4,000.
-. The Wilmington Star says: "Fair Of the
Carolinas" is the title of a jofnt stock compa-
ny incorporated at the last session of the Leg
islature, by which it is proposedto effect an or
ganization to hold yearly agricultural and me;
chanical fairs ut Charlotte.
"A farmer in Talbot county, Georgia, has
in the past derived great increase in crops, by
cutting up guano bags into strips, and laying
them in the furrows. Where this has been
done, the crop has yielded more than that
where the guano was sown.
- Mrs. Sarah Hand, of New Jersey, the last
survivor Of the young girls who strewed flowers
in the pathway of Gen. Washington, when he
passed through Trenton in 1889 on his way to
New York, died at Cape May recently, aged
SO years.
A terrible hail storm passed over Jack
son, Miss, last Friday night, lasting fifteen
minutes. many of the stones measuring six
inches in circumference. Several thousand
window lights were broken, sheet-iron roofing
perforated, gardens, fields, crops and fruit seri-
ously damaged, forest trees stripped of their
foliage, aud hundreds of birds killed.
= Captain Samuel Noah, late U. S. A., died
few days since at Mount Pulaski, LOGAN coun-
ty, ILL.,, aged 92 years. At the time of his de.
mise he was the oldest surviving graduate OF
West Point and served with distinction during
the war of 1925, in New York. He re-
tired from the United States Army many years
since, and resided in Illinois for the past TWEEN
ty-one years. -,
Sergeant Bates, the soldier of the Union
army who marched with sln she stsrs and stripes
to disprove the Radical assertion that it was
unsafe for any one to do so, has written letter
in which heistates that when he reached
Greensboro, N! O., OH his travels, he was sp-
preached by Governor Holden on behalf of