The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-11-28
ITEMs-ED1ToR1A1 AND OTHERWISE

- Governor Yarmouth has convened the
Louisiana Legislature in extra session on the
9th of December.
- Missouri gives Greeley his largest majori-
ty, and elects larger number OF opposition
Congressman than-any other State.
= Captain Tucker, son of Mr.. George B.
Tucker, of Newberry County, committed sui
eide on the 18th instant, while laboring under
some alteration of mind. ...i ..r.s.!..,.- ..
= Samuel F. Phillips, Of North Carolina,
has accepted the appointment of Solicitor Cen
eral to the Department of Justice at Washing
ton, in place of Gen. Bristow, resigned. =.
= The newspapers of the country are urged
to warn advertisers that post masters are for
hidden By law to deliver letters addressed to
initials or fictitious names, unless sent to the
care of some responsible person.
.- The Boston Post says that Mr.. G. A. Tren.
holm, of Charleston, s. c.; late Secretary of the
Southern Confederacy, has sent SlOO for the
relief of sufferers by the fire, with kindly lex
pressions Of sympathy for the afflicted. =.
"A move has been made by Rock Hill
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, to petition the
General Assembly to repeal the law concerning
fences, and in lieu thereof to enact stock Law
for the eastern section of York County.
The Congressional returns. indicate that
the Forty-third Congress will stand l89 Re
publicans and 96 Democrats and Liberals, not
including the members from New Hampshire
and Connecticut, who are yet to te elected.
= The names of Mr. Leroy F. Youmans and
Mr.. d. II. Chamberlain, are suggested as the
probable candidates for Judge of Fifth Circuit,
soon to be made vacant by Judge Melton's as
suming his new Office of Attorney General.
The Atlanta correspondent Of the Savan-
nah News writes that the Atlanta and Rich
mond Air Line Railroad will be completed and
in running order to the Savannah River by the
25th of December, and to Charlotte, n. c., by
March.
Miss Kate Barton, young lady Of Phila-
delphia, who has penchant for practical me-
chanics, has invented an Improvement on sew
ing machines which will adapt them to the
manufacture of sails and other heavy goods,
something heretofore impossible.
R. w. Cousart, member of the last Leg
islature, has been indicted by the grand jury of
Lancaster County for perjury in presenting
false affdavits relative to the contested election.
Several county officers are also indicted for
malfeasance in Office.
- The Western Union Telegraph Company
operates 63,032 miles of line with 49,, ,199 miles
of wire, and has 5,237 Offices. The gross re-
ceipts for the past year were S8,437 ,O95.7 /;
expenses for the same period, $3.50, 1868. is /;
making the net receipts amount to S2,77O, ,z32.-
81.
- The Missouri Republican, the paper that
started the Liberal movement among the DEM
ocrats, says Mr.. Greeiey's Endorsement at Balti-
more was ill-advised, as it extinguished the
Liberal movement before it became revolt,
and made it an insurrection of leaders without
followers. @'fr'''t-' '" t''rr ri'7 So ~
"A Washington telegram to the New York
Herald says: ut is probable that Judge Settle,
of North Carolina, will succeed Justice Nelson
of the Supreme Court, who is about to retire
on account of old age The South has had no
representative on the Supreme Bench since the
death of Justice Wayne, who was from Geor-
gia"
foothold throughout the country, when it Is
announced that there is q new chicken disease
prevailing in the North 1t arises from colds
contracted by fowls, when the head begins to
swell, and very offensive slime is discharged
from the mouth. The chicken malady ls said
to follow in the track of the horse disease.
- The New York Tribune thinks that the
approaching session of Congress will be very
quiet, and that the general disposition will be
10 postpone things to the next session. 1t
anticipates no action upon the Ku Klux laws
and no general amnesty. Investigating COM
mittees will not be in vogue, and Congress will
probably stick pretty close to business, steering
clear of politics.