The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-06-13
ITEMs-EDIToRIA1 AND OTHERWISE.

ITEMS-EDIToRlAL AND OTHERWISE.
- Specimens of corundrum have recently
been found in Rutherford County, n. G..
Ex-President Johnson is said to be op-
posed to the election of Greeley and Brown,
and in favor Of straight-out Democratic NOM
ination at Baltimore.
Nazareth Church, in Spartanburg County,
will celebrate its centennial anniversary on
next Saturday. Dr. B. M. Palmer, of New Or
leans, will deliver the address.
- The Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South, have recommended that from
the 11th to the 18th of August be observed as
a week of fasting and prayer.
= The dwelling, kitchen and smoke-house
of Mr.. Charles Thompson, of Pickens County,
was burned on the 31st ultime 1t is supposed
to be the work of an incendiary.
- In reply to the query, "What ought the
Baltimore Convention to do?" the Louisville
Courier Journal thinks that, before proceeding
regularly to business, it ought to adjourn.
George w. Sturgeon, who was recently
elected State Senator from Orangeburg, has
been committed to Jail upon charge of forging
an order on the County Treasury for Sl97.
- A negro was lately shot in Lake City,
Fla, and the coroners jury after careful exam
ination concluded that he came to his death by
having his heart pierced by thirteen leaden
bullets. -,
DIR. II. v. Westmore!and of Greenville,
recently had ball extracted from his right
side, Just below the shoulder blade, which he
received at Upperville, Va, on the 2lst of
June, 1868.
= The examination of pharmaceutists,
apothecaries and druggists, under the recent
law in relation thereto, by the Medical Faculty
of the University of South Carolina, began on
the 18th inst.
The annual examination and concert of
the South Carolina Institution for the educa-
ton of the deaf, and dumb, and blind, located
at Cedar Springs, Spartanburg County, S. c.,
will be held on Thursday, June 9th, 1872.
- Prof. James Woodrow, of the Theological
Seminary at Columbia, and editor of the South
ern Presbyterian, has been compelled by failing
health to give up all labor for the present, and
has gone to Europe on tour OF several months:
= Very Rev. 7. Birmingham, Vicar, General
of the Diocese of South Carolina, died last
week in New York, whittier he had gone to
seek recovery of his failing health in more
bracing atmosphere. He was native of Ire
land, and had just completed his 10th year.
Gov. Scott, on Saturday last released an
other batch of prisoners-twenty- -four in num-
ber-from the Penitentiary, making forty du-
ring the past week. Their terms of imprson-
ment had nearly expired, but scarcity of funds
for the support of the institution was the actual
cause.
- The Grand Chapter of North Carolina
met in Wilmington last week. A resolution
was adopted to resume connection with the
General Grand Chapter of the United States,
which relation was severed in 1857. Hon.
John Nichols was reelected Grand High
Priest.
- The Washington Capital, in an article
| upon the political situation, says: "The wisest
thing the Baltimore Convention can do is to
seperate without action, and, being the wisest,
is the most unlikely and uncharacteristic" :"
National or State Conventions are not apt to
do the wisest thing.
- The Philadelphia Press, of Friday, shows
how the newspaper syndicate" defeated MIR.
Colfax. It saws that Mr.. Cofax snubbed the
newspaper men, who had done 80 much from
1863 to 1871 to help him that they entered
upon this warfare to defeat him, if possible,
and that they are entirely satisfied with the
result.
Hon. Charles R. Buckalew is the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania.
He is conservative in politics, and is widely
known as strong advocate of the cumulative
system of voting. When in the United States
Senate a few years ago, MIR. Buckalew acted
with the Republicans, and it is conceded that
he will poll large share of the Republican
vote
= Gen. Longstreet has recanted his opinions
in favor of Grant, and now comes out strongly
on the side of Greeley. He was under the i'm
preston that Grant agreed with him in politics,
but the Presidents course in reference to LOU
isiana affairs has drawn al impossible line be-
tween them Longstreet believes that the only
way to hit the golden mean between centraliza-
ton and disintcgraton is to support the Gin
cinnati platform and ticket.
- The Laurensville Herald learns of a seri-
GUS difficulty which occurred recently in that
County, in which DIR. A. G. Fuller was struck
two heavy blows upon the head, with bar of
iron % feet long, and weighing some rs or so
pounds. The difficulty was between DIR. Fuller
and one of his employees named Joseph Bald
win. The wound is serious, but not dangerous
and Dr. F. was doing very we'll when last heard
from. Baldwin has been arrested and lodged
in Jail.
= In the United States District Court at
Atlanta, Judge Erskine rendered a decision
last Saturday in the case of II. w. Hendricks,
arrested for kidnapping, and brought before
the United States Court on habeas corpus. The
decision was that the writ of habeaS corpus be
sustained, and the prisoner released on the pay
ment of costs. Attorney General Hammond
at once gave notice of his intention to appeal
to the United States Supreme Court, and Hen
bricks was ordered to be kept in custody until
10 O'Clock on Monday morning. which time was
appointed for - hearine on the question of bail.