The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-25
1TEMs--ED1ToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

= The agricultural land scrip of Georgia has
been sold for S243 ,000
: Ex-Governor Bullock, late of Georgia, is
said to be in Montreal, Canada.
- Right Rev. John McGill, the Catholic
Bishop of. Virginia, died in Richmond last
week.
= The Democrats of Connecticut are conf
dent of success at the coming election in that
State.
"A bill has been introduced in the Missis-
sippi Legislature for the benefit Of "worn-out
old negroes"
= The Presidents father, Jesse R. Grant,
has rendered his resignation as postmaster at
CovingtonJKy.
= Published statistics show that ninety thou
sand emigrants left Germany last year, nearly
all going to the United States.
The New Orleans Times thinks Alexis
should not be allowed to leave America with
out being shown the Louisiana Legislature.
x Gen: j. r. Lewis, Superintendent of Pub
lie Schools in Georgia, has resigned that posi-
ton. Gov. Smith has appointed Prof Gusta-
Yus ]. Orr to succeed him.
John Mitchell, the distinguished Irish pa
triot, has been invited to visit Savannah, Ga,
on the 18th of March next, as the guest of the
Hibernian Society of that city.
There is young girl in Virginia who
wears four bullets made into the form of Nal
tese cross, which were extracted from the bod
les of her father and brother, who were killed
in the siege of Richmond.
= ALI of the prisoners recently tried in Col
umbia under the Ku Klux law, who received
sentences for less than one year, have been sent
to the Counties in which the crime with which
they are charged was committed, for confine-:
ment in the jails.
The Washington Star says: "1t is said
that the House committee on elections will
shortly report to the House in favor of admit
ting G. c. Bowen as the representative of the
First District of South Carolina, in plac of De-
Large, who now holds that seat"
Col. A. A. Franklin Hill, native of
Athens, Ga, and at one time co-editor of the
Southern Banner died at his plantation near
Eufaula, Ala, on the 10th inst COL Hill was
agenial, kind gentleman, and met the
last great enemy Of man as an humble Chris
tian.
1t has recently been discovered, in the
War Department, that Grant has been de-
faulter. ever since the Mexican war to the
amount of five thousand dollars. AS lieuten-
ant acting comnrissary and quartermaster, he
| was entrusted with public money, of which he
| bagged the above:stated amount.
| : = For the benefit of those who are thinking
of getting situations as governors, it may be
stated that Louisiana offers the greatest induce
ments, the salary there being So, 600 per year;
California pays $1,000, Nevada 81 1000, and
Wisconsin, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida,
New jersey, Kentucky, and Massachusetts eaeh
S., 900. New, Hampshire, Rhode Island, Yer
mont, Michigan, and Nebraska do not aspire
to chief magistrates who are worth more than
81 900 per year.
| - A prominent railroad official informs the
Augusta Chronicle that the number of families,
emigrantsi chiefly from North and South Caro-
lima, passing through Augusta during the first
| fifteen days of this year, exceeded six hundred
About two-thirds of this number were en- route
for Arkansas and Texas, the remainder settling
in Georgia. Included in this number are eigh-
ty negroes from the single County of York, IN
South Carolina, who following the fortunes OF
three white families, were removing to Texas.
- The Washington Patriot says: "The de-
fciency bill of $4,000, lately introduced in the
House to remedy the costs of the ku Klux in
vestigation in South Carolina and elsewhere, is
entirely too modest. Such bill, to be honest
and effective, ought to provide for the lost cot
ton crop in nine counties in South Carolina {;
for damages for false imprisonment of hundreds
of innocent and unofending citizens, and for
compensation for the grief terror, and disor-
ganization occasioncd to at least one poor coun-
ty which was, confessedly by mistake, embraced
in the Presidents proclamation of outlawry.
| Let members see to it and have this Bill prop
erly amended"
1t is rumored that Congress will soon pro.
mote Colorado to the dignity of State, includ-
| ing in it's boundaries the Territory of Wyoming,
although the combined populations ofthe two is
far from being legally sufficient to sustain that
dignity New Mexico, on the other hand, has
a population legally sufficient to entitle her to
admission, and her early admission was strenu-
ously advocated at one time, but now not even
a whisper is to be heard about it. The fact
that New Mexico went Democratic last fall
perhaps explains the decrease in enthusiasm,
while, as is well known, Colorado is Radical,
which may have something to do with her llle-
gal exaltation.
= The Luzerne Union records another terri
Bile accident resulting from the too common
practice of blowing down lamp chimney TO
extinguish the light The casualty occurred in
Cleveland, Pa q few nights since. Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Stark disrobcd to retire about ten o'clock.
She attempted to distinguish her coal oil lamp
in very common manner, by blowing down
1 the chimney. The lamp exploded, throwing
over her the blazing liquid, and in an instantshe
1 was envolved in flames, and was terribly burn
ed There seems to be no end to accidents, re-
sulting from the careless use of kerosene, and
the people cannot be too careful how they man.
age and handle their lighted lamps.
| lfapes Phosphate-Large Results from Late