The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-31
ITEEs--EDJToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

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= The Masonic Order has q total member:
ship in the United States Of 466S03.
= Lookout mountain, near Chattanooga:
Tenn. is crowded with visitors this season.
= a monument is to be erected in Paris to
Alexander Dumas.
= BY continuous travel, trip around the
world can now be made in eighty days.
= Senator Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts,
is quietly enjoying life in Paris.
= y cotton crop Of considerable amount has
been raised this gear in California
1t is reported that Asiatic cholera has ap-
peared in New York and Philadelphia
f,,--sThe cotton worm is doing much damage
in Arkansas.
More troopsin South California are called
for to fight Indians
= Berlin's festival to Emperor William on
his return from the war cost that city SLOT, 600.
= -Four persons were killed and two injured
by collision on the Erie Railroad on Satur.
day
: A terrible railroad accident happened near
Boston on Saturday, twenty-one persons being
tiled and three times as many wounded.
: One man and three women, in a row in
New York city on Saturday, merc. wounded at
single shot, by another drunkard
= The army and boil worms have appeared
in great numbers in the richest cotton fields Of
Mississippi and Alabama.
: The potato bligh has developed to an
alarming extent in Ireland, it is feared that the
crop is almost ruined.
: The tobacco crop in Rockingham and Cas-
well counties, n c., is said to have been seri-
ously injured by tie long drought.
: The small pox is prevailing among the
colored people at Yorktown, Va. AT latest
dates it had not attacked the whites.
\
ally abandons California to the Democrats in
the forthcoming State election.
= The New York Tribune comedies that tho
election in Pennsylvania this fall is doubtful,
and likewise the result of the contest in Ohio
= The American Colonization Society has
more than two thousand applications already
for passage to Liberia in the vessel which will
be sent out in November next.
- Amelia Garcia, q beautiful young actress
who was great favorite in New Orleans hav-
ing been crossed in love, killed herself recent
ly.
= Governor Potts, of Montana, apprehends
an Indian war, and is organizing the people,
but will not call them into service unless au-
thorized By the Secretary of War.
: Mrs. McWiliams, Of Memphis, because
she loved another man better than she did her
husband. took poison and died. She was ma
tive Of Scotland, and only % years old.
New York city claims the property upon
which the "Times building" stands, and an
ejectment suit has been commenced. The
property is valued at S1000,Q00.
= The New York MyalPs latest Presiden-
tal sensation is to bring out the name of Hon.
Wm. II. Seward for u Conservative -Republi-
can nomination.
Queen Victoria's statue in Montreal will
be unveiled, it is said, by her daughter and SON.
in-law, the Marchioncss and Marquis of Lornc,
on their arrival in Canada next month.
the race on Wednesday at Saratoga, strained Il
tendon of one of his fore legs, and is lamed for
life Two hundred thousand dollars changed
hands OH the quarter stretch alec.
"A planter named Gratis was killed in No
vembcr last in Heard County, Georgia. His
daughter and man named Thomas Teal, sus-
pected of the MURDER have just been arrested in
Arkansas and taken to Georgia for trial
- The vote in North Carolina on the Con-
vention question was unusually heavy. Last
year the total vote for Attorney General was
173,063. The vote on Convention will not fall
short of 1S064S.
= Reliable reports from all Mississippi,
North Louisiana and West Alabama mention
Picking has just commenced, and the early ap-
pearance OF the worm will shorten the crop.
There is speck of war still lowering
over Europe. Report tell us of an alliance
between France and Russia against Germany.
Germany and Russia are actively engaged in
strengthening their war materials.
- Dr. Ii. T. Helmbold, the Buchu man. at
tempted to commit suicide ut Long Branch, on
2lst inst. He alleges that the gun went off ac-
cidentaly His business affairs are said to be.
environed with difficulties, and this led to his
attempted suicide.
= Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and other late officers
of the Confederate army have issued call for
the organization of the army of Northern Vir-
gnia, for the purpose of preparing its history
in the late war, and taking steps to have mon
ument erected to the memory of the late Gen.
Il. E. Lee.
= The sugar crop Of Louisiana, it is repor-
ted, will be large, as very encouraging reports
have been received of the growing cane, which
is in splendid condition. 1t is predicted thatif
the latter portion of the year be favorable for
cutting and grinding, a crop may be anticipated
equal to those raised before the war.
= Texan papers represent that in one week
the A1eXicans on the Rio Grende border stole
cattle valued at 100000 in Texas, which would
have been worth double that amount in Kan
sas-the nearest market They want to know
whether troops would not be more usefully en-
ployed protecting that border than in protect
ing negroes from imaginary Ku Klux Klans.
= The ex-Empress of Mexico, Carlotta tits
positively stated, cannot live through the COM
ing autumn, as she now has periods of perfect
prosration lasting forty eight hours and her
death is expected almost any day. She is only
thirty-one years of age, having been married
to the unfortunate Archduke MaXilnillian when
she was but seventeen years of age.
- Ex-Governor Pcase and others, of Texas
have issued Il call for q State Convention in
Austin on the 22d of September, to express the
sense Of Tie people in regard to the exorbitant
expenditures and enormous taxes to which they
IRE subjected, to memorabilia the authorities
to reduce the taxation and to call general
election"
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