The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-03-30
1TEMs-ED1ToRIAL AND OTHERWISE

| - The State election in Connecticut take;
place on Monday next Srd of April.
- Atlanta is grati6sd at the prospect ofhav.
ing a street railroad at an early, day.
: The Wyoming papers say that the people
of that territory are about to abandon woman
suffrage as both mischeyous and impracticable.' >
"A London correspondent of New York
paper states that Napoleon and ex-Enlpress
Eugenie intend to come and live in America
- VIM. Johnson, British soldier At the bat.
tie of Waterloo, died recently at Evansville
Indiana, aged 81. He had been married seven
times.
- The Arkansas Legislature has passed bill
for a Commissioner OF Immigration to travel
North and induce colored people to 60 down
there.
= John W. Johnston Conservative has
been elected United States Senator from Vir-
ginia, for the term of six years from the 4th Of
March inst.
: Trains are now running regularly over
the Air Line Railroad from Atlanta to Buford
distance of thirty-fve miles. Buford is six-
teen miles from Gainesville.
= The Cincinnati Commercial nominates the
following ticket: For President, Charles Sum-
ner, of Massachusetts for Vice President, B.
Gratz Brown, of Missouri.
- The Southern Baptist Educational Con-
vention will meet at Marion, Ala, on the 18th
Of April. Schools and colleges throughout the
South are requested to send delegates.
= VIM. Hertig died recently near Salisbury,
N. c., aged 101 years. He was native o1
Germany, and participated in the battles of
Jena and Austerlitz against Napoleon Bona
parte.
= McKean Buchanan, one of the oldest pay
masters in the u. S. Navy died at his residence
in Charlestown, Mass, on the 18th inst he
was 70 years of age, and had been on the re-
tired list since 1862.
= Hon. E. w. Nesbet, formerly Judge ofthe
Supreme Court of Georgia, member of the
United States Congress in 1888 and 1S40, mem
ber of the Confederate Congress, and lawyer
of distinction, is dead-aged 6S years.
General Beauregard's only son, young
man who is said to inherit much of the energy
and ability of his father, has gone to Kansas
City, in which place he intends to make his
fortune by his own labor.
Eight and half to nine cents was the
price of cotton in Tyler, Smith county, Texas,
on the 4th inst, according to the quotations o.
the Reporter, q newspaper published in that
place. Those afflicted with the Texas fever
might proftably ponder over this fact.
= Grant has appointed one Smith, of Iowa.
Receiver of public moneys" at Sioux City
Smith was in the last Congress, but his consti-
tuents, who differ with Grant, thought he had
received enough of the public money, and re-
fused to re-elect him.
- 1t is now thought that Beast Butler will
be a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts,
next fall. 1t would be hard on the decent peo.
pie of the Bay State, but we could wish fol
anything to take such mon out of Federal poll.
tics, and sincerely hope that he may be elected
= A newspaper in Nevada bade goodbye to
the Legislature of that State in endearine
terms, asserting that a majority of. the mem
bcrs are as graceless q set of scoundrels as ever
sold their votes to the highest bidder in de,
Lucrative body. The editor ought to make an
exception in favor of the South Carolina ME-
nagerie!
= Princess Louise, sixth child of Queen
Victoria, has just been married to the Marquis
of Lorne, Scotch nobleman. Rumor has it
that the Princess Beatrice, youngest child oi
Victoria, is shortly to marry the Marquis oi
Ely. These parties are quite young, as Be.
atrice is only fourteen and the Marquis twenty
one years Of age.
- Chief Justice Mason, of Nebraska, has
delivered an opinion against negroes sitting as
Jurors in that the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments grant rights to negroes but i'm
pose no duties upon them and that jury service
is burden, and not privilege; and that the
State constitution can be changed only by the
same power that enacted it; that Congress
could not confer such authority to change upon
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