The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-05-11
1TEMs--EDIToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.
Missouri is building narrow gauge Rail.

Missouri is building narrow gauge Rail-
roads.
= William Henry Harrison Holden, brother
of Ex-Governor Holden, has been elected May
or of Raleigh, N. c., by the Democrats.
= Experiments in cotton culture on the Gala
ifornia coast, are proving very satisfactory:
Cotton manufactures are projected.
- The State of Maryland has given an order
for a colossal statue of the late Chief Justice
Taney, which is now modelling in Rome. -.
Samuel W. Collins, of Connecticut, wide:
ly known as manufacturer of edged tools;
died recently, aged 68.
- The thirty-6fth anniversary of Texan In
dependence was duly celebrated on the Goth
ult.
- Tie Sultan of Turkey has sent President
Grant carpet worth 10000, to cover the foof
of the East Room of the White Houses Does
he want an Office?
= The venerable Charles Manly, an honored
son Of North Carolina, and one of her former
Governors, died in Raleigh recently, aged ~
years.
- Gen. T. q. Ruger has been appointed su-
perintendent of the West Point Academy. He
has the reputation of being the strictest dis
ciplinarian in the United States army.
j. Marshall Hanna, formerly of the Rich
mond Examiner, died at the residence of his
brother in Belair, Nd, on the Both Of April
aged 3S years. 80.
A subscription is in circulation in Mobile,
having for its object to place headstone of
Alabama marble at each of the thousand graves
in the Confederate burial ground near that city,
= Judge Twigg, of Nashville, has decided
that common carriers have right to regulate
their own affairs, and has non-suited csss
where suit was brought for ejectment of colored
persons
= The oldest naval officer on the retired list
is Rear Admiral Shubrick, who has been sixty
six years in the service, and the Oldest active
been in the navy ffty-nine years. ...sgs,,
John Hancock is the Democratic canGs
date for Congress in the Texas Fourth District.
1t is stated that number of Radicals have
signed declaration of independence and, are
going for him.
= Gen. Malone, the president of the con-
solidated Virginia railroads, says that if neces-
sary he will spend $4,000 in difusing over
Europe information as the resources and ad-
vantages of the South. -
"A secret political society, mostly compos-
ed of working men, has been discovered in
New York. It has been in existence only two
months, and has membership in that city, of
nearly $4,000 and has branches in all the lar
ger cities.
Ex-President johnson has consented to
deliver an address before the mechanics of East
Tennessee on the subject of mechanical skill
and industry during the Industrial Exposition,
which opens at the Fair Ground at Knoxville
on the 9th of May. ~
= The act of Congress repeating the inter-
nal revenue special taxes on nearly all kinds of
business, except Whiskey and tobacco, went in-
to effect on the first of May. 1t reduces the
Government income over a hundred million
dollars annually.
The Washington Chronicle says 'The re-
mains of at least sixty Confederate soldiers be-
longing to South Carolina regiments have re-
Gently been disinterred at Gettysburg. They
are to be in Charleston by memorial day"
"A Rhode Island mans house was struck
by lightning, on Sunday evening, while be was
standing near the mautel-piece in his parlor.
1t threw him on the floor, and made hole in
each of his boots, but he was not injured, and his
stockings were not torn or burned.
At the annual meeting of the cotton buy
ers and brokers of Memphis, motion was
adopted by which committee of three was ap-
pointed to take measures that will hasten the
assimilation of cotton samples or types through
out the Union. s,
= Sam. Dickerson, the well-known colored
Major, from Charleston, recently went to New
York on lecturing tour, but becoming intoxi-
Gated, fell into the hands Of the Philstines, and
was arrested on charge of robbing a fellow
passenger. s,i..
- Count Moltke, with an eye to military
business, has given notice to the French Gov
ernment that he will have all the French oc-
cupied provinces fortified with line of fortif-
cations to guarantee against all attack, until
the indemnity is fully paid, and regular gov
ernment firmly established in France. ::
- England purposes to build large feet Of
iron-clad gunboats for coast defence, and there
is marked disposition among the Englishmen
Just now to throw over the "heavy iron-cladA
principle in favor of vessels of small draught,
in view of the seeming failure of the French
navy against the Prussians in the Late war.i.
- The Illinois Legislature having taken a re-
cess until November, leaving some important.
business undone, it is said that the Governor
has decided to call an extra session in 9 few
weeks. To this many members respond that an
extra session cannot be called during recess,
for it would be session within g session, and
they will probably refuse to assemble at the call
of the Governor
A Savannah paper states that a company
of Southern men, headed by FL. T. Peak, Esq,
we'll known in railroad circles as the Superin-
tendent of the South Carolina Railroad for
many years, and other well known gentlemen
of Georgia and South Carolina, proposed 70
pay the old Port Royal Railroad owners and
contractors 100000 for their right and title,
and finish the line in as short time as possi-
BILE.
There are SO many contradictory reports
regarding the possible action of tie Prussians.
in connection with the French civil war thatit
is difficult to decide what course they will pur-
sue. An officer of the Prussian staff, at St.
Denis, states, however, that Prussia will not
allow the Commune to enjoy its triumph, even
should it gain victory The DAY of its saos tSs
object of which will be the re-establishment of
a stable government.
Few persons, BARRIERS included, probably
know why the barber's pole is red-striped. e