The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-11-02
ITEMs-ED1ToRrAL AND OTHERWISE

- The famous race horse Lexington is twen-
ty-one years old and blind.
st. Louis has provided homes for twenty
thousand destitute people from Chicago.
A son of Gen. Roger A. Pryor was drown
ed in New York on the 23rd of October.
st. Louis desires the next National Repub
lican Convention to be held in that city.
"A number of women are said to have been
made insane by the Chicago confagration.
1t is now said that the wood pavements in
Chicago were about the only thing that resisted
the fire.
Dispatches announce the death of General
Robert Anderson, Of Fort Sumter fame, at
Nice, Italy.
= A notorious gang of counterfeiters has
been arrested in New York State; their plates
were also captured.
- Efforts are making in different quarters 10
held in Cincinnati.
Albert George, colored man now in jail
in Houston, Texas, is said to have committed
no less than seventeen murders during the last
five years.
"A great riot occurred in the Chinese quar-
ter a. Los Angeles, California, on Wednesday
last. Several Chinese were hanged and their
houses burned.
VIM. G. Scott was executed in Jackson
vile, Florida, on the 9th ult., for the murder
of Rosamond Carolind and two small children,
on February 9Th.
More lives seem to have been lost in the
prairie fires in Wisconsin than in Chicago
Senator Carpenter estimates the number at from
twelve to eighteen hundred.
- It is stated that Washington has given
more ($2O0O00) to the Chicago relief fund In
proportion to its population and assessed wealth
tto :, onx, ofbor ostxy ha Tynsfad Stafaq
= The Mayor of Macon, Ca, has offered a
silver service premium worth fifty dollars, to
the prettiest girl in the State, under seventeen,
who appears ut the State Fair in q homespun
dress.
The planters of Louisiana have expert
mented largely with the Chinese as laborers,
and pronounce them failure. They are not
only unfaithful to- their engagements, but are
vicious, crafty and full Of lies.
- Ex-Gov. Wise, of Virginia, has nearly
completed the writing of book at the request
of the faculty and board of directors of Will
liam and Mary College, to be called "Seven De-
cades of the Union, including Narrative of
the life of Tyler"
: The great Floridan land-sink is pronounc-
ed hoax. There is, however, no disputing
the great Congressional land-sink in Washing
ton, through which more than 1900, ,00O,O 600
acres Oi Tie peOpleS iduUo udfo SOnuy anu
uoiselessly slipped out of sight.
The Democratic Union and Reform Asso-
citation of New York City having nominated a
ticket of the best men in the city, irrespective
of politics, the Republicans have endorsed
their action, and all the elements of reform are
opposed to the thieves and corruptionists.
: Hon. Thomas Ewing, ST., one of the old
Wing leaders Of Ohio, died last week. He be-
longed to the Cabinets respectively of Prcsi-
dents Harrison and Taylor, and served for
short time in the United States Senate, from
whence he retired from political life and re-
sumed the practice of law.
"A frightfu! collision occurred on Friday,
miles west of Cumberland between the mail
train west and freight train east. The mail
agent was killed, brakeman had his leg
broken, the engines wrecked, and other per-
sons were injured. The body of the agent was
burned.
= 1t is estimated that two-thirds of the cap
ital invested in buildings in the entire city OF
Chicago perished in the dreadful fire. The un-
consumed part of the city consists chiefly of
private residences, many of these cheap wooden
centrted the great bulk of the wealth and pop
ulation Of Chicago.
1t is Us a remarkable fact, that notwith-
standing Grant halls from Illinois-he claims
Galena as his home-and is reputed very
wealthy, he has not given dollar for the re-
lief of the Chicago sufferers. lie has directed
that supplies belonging to the people be distri
buted among the sufferers, but he has not shown
the warmth of his heart by contributing as
much as one dollar from his private fortune.