The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-17
ITEMs-ED1ToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

- Augusta is about to have al ice manuiac-
tory on large scale.
= The pillsburg Past proposes Gen. George
B. Mcclellan for the Presidency.
= 1t is rumorcd that Napoleon will take up
his residence in Switzerland.
"A London letter says the Emperor OF Bra
zl still intends to visit the United States.
More mackcrel are caught this season off
Halifax, Nova Scotia, than they have salt to
cure.
- The Ku Klux evidence, taken before the
Southern Outrage Committee, will make two
thousand printed pages
= Mrs. Catharine Toucey, wife of the for
mer Secretary of the Navy, died suddenly in
Hartford. Conn, on Sunday last
1t is stated that the occupation of French
territory by German troops will entirely cease
at the end of the year.
- The New jersey Democratic State Con-
yention, for the nomination of Governor, meets
in Trenton on the 30th of September.
The Democrats have carried Kentucky by
about 10000 majority. All the Democratic
candidates for the Legislature are elected.
- Mrs. Vallandigham is still at her brothers,
in Maryland, confined to her room, and lndul-
ges in a melancholy which borders on insanity;
The negro vote of California is estimated
at 1000, and will be cast solid for the Republl-
\
carrying the State
: President Grant will remain at Long
Branch about five weeks, and will then visit his
father in Kentucky, returning to Washington
for the winter in October:
= Mrs. Clement L. Vallandingham died at
Cumberland, Md, on last Saturday. She had
never recovered from the prostration caused by
her husbands untimely death.
The wives of General Sherman and Ad-
miral Dahlgren, with Miss G. E. Beecher, have
started paper in Baltimore, in opposition to
woman suffrage. 1t is called the True lpo-
man.
"A remarkable family lives in Dallas coun-
ty. Arkansas The father is los years old, the
mother LOG, and the two are the parents OF
twentv-nine children-hfteen boys and four-
teen girls :, ,,.-, -,
address from an imaginary body, which she
STYLES "The Victoria League" imploring herto
become candidate for the Presidency against
Grant. Mrs. Woodruff takes occasion to write
an elaborate letter of acceptance.
- An accident on the Houston and Great
Northern Railroad, near Houston, Texas, on
Thursday last, resulted in the killing of DR.: g.
G. Young the president, and William NJ. Will
son. the assistant civil engineer of the compa-
ny, and the serious injury of several others.
= The Agricultural Department Will NOT
make another crop report until September
Returns received since the report for July IN
dicate more favorable crop of cotton and corn.
A letter from Arkansas says although the acre
age is less than last year. the yield OF the pres
eHt year will be equally large.
- Although there are yet men in arms
against the royal authority in Cuba the Span,
ish government has decrced an act of universal
amnesty. In the United States, though not a
run has been fired against the Federal author
ity for six wears, there is no general pardon
: vet. Republican mercy is harder than Spanish
hate.
- The National Labor Union party appears
to be the first in the field. The President. OF
that organization has issued call for political
convention Of the representatives OF the InIon'
to be held at Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday,
the 18th of October next, to nominate candl-
dates for President and Vice President tor the
election of 1872. -,
he started in Washington about the lst OF Sep
tember, as the organ of the Southern Radicals,
and that it will support the present admins
tration. favor the reduction of taxes, oppose
the payment of the national debt by the pres
ent generation, and insist on having full share
of the federal spoils.
- President Grant says thatif he had known
as much about ex-senator Warner when heap
, pointed him Collector of the Port of Mobile
as he knows now he would not Rave given him
1.-THE place lie saws if he removes him now
that it will reflect unf;ivorably upon the adj
ministration for not being sufficiently cautious
in such matters. Here you Lave real moral
courage. 49,,
= The Springfield (Ills.) Register says: "To
travel over the State at this season, stranger
would come to the conclusion that Illinois is
one immense cornfeld. There isas much again
f breadth of corn planted this year as usual the
crops looks fine, and, if nothing unusual hap
pens, the biggest corn crop ever. raIsed any
where will ripen on the prairies OF LIMOS the
, coming fal!.'
- It is proposed to hold Taxpayers Con-
yention in Florida soon, and the Radicat vui-
lures of that State are dreadfully alarmed ABOUT
it. The property owners OF the hepuollca,,
party are as deeply interestedin the movement
~ the Democrats, and it is intended that the
Convention shall have nothing partisan about
it. 1t is simply a conference of honest men OF
nil parties on the best plan for eXpelling thieves
and saving the property Of the people from
wholesale confscation..
- Miss Barbara Cassell, of Virginia, has
inst recovered $4,000 damages for breach o
promise of marriage from Randall Waddell
: A correspondent writes that the address OF the
Young and rapidly rising counsel for the tail
plaintiff was characterized by the most striking
arguments, the finest sense of delicacy, the
widest range of thought, the purest principles
of morality and social life, an irresistible force
of statement, and an oratory as brilliant as was
ever listened to in the Wythe Court House:
= The cholera, which has been raging with
unprecedented vrulcnce for some time past IL
Persia, in connection with famine and plague
) has passed into Prussia and Germany. one OF
two cases are reported i'll Hull, England III
and will, probably, during the next twelve
months, spread throughout the countries sub
icct to this terrible scourge. We may soon look
for it on this continent. No sanitary or quaran
tine precautions seem ever to stay its progress
The prospects for Democratic victory, il il
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