The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-02-08
1rEMs-ED1roR1AL AND OTHERWISE

- Inc snow Is 10 IeeC Qeep on AeNei aI lu0
top of the Sierra Nevada.
A daughter of General Banks is the belle
of Washington this season.
Hon. Joel Foster, Senator from Spartan
burg, has departed with bis family for Texas.
- 1t is announced that Gen. Wade Hampton
comtemplates removing to Baltimore at an ear
ly day.
Mr.. David r. Phifer has received the ap-
pointment Of postmaster at Newberry, uice S. p.
Kinard, resigned
The National Bark of Greenville has been
organized, with capital of $SO.OOO. H. Beattie,
ESQ, is the President.
Governor Joel Parker is the first man who
has held the Office of Governor in New jersey
for two terms under the present constitution.
- Mr.. John Mcqueen has been appointed
to the position formerly occupied by Major
Noah, as Assistant Private Secretary to the
Governor.
= The Governor has appointed John H. Lit
tie, ESQ.,, as Sheriff of Laurens County, to I'LL
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation OF
Col. B. S. Jones.
1t is rumored that United States Marshal
Johnson is to be removed, and Fred. Bush,
ESQ.,, formerly President of the Greenville and
Columbia Railroad, appointed in his place. =,
The Republican State Convention will
meet in Columbia on the 10th inst, for the pur-
pose of selecting delegates to the National Re-
publican Convention in Philadelphia on the
first Wednesday in June.
"A. NJ. Holbrook, the veteran editor and
one of the proprietors of the New Orleans PIC
ayunc, announces his withdrawal from that pa
per. He has been editor and manager OF the
Picayupe for more than thirty-fve years.
Mr.. John Heart, who has been, by turns,
editor of the Charleston Mercary, Congression--
al printer, State agricultural commissioner, and
secretary to Governor Scott, is now employed
in the Treasury Department at Washington.
Samuel White, colored, was hung in
Charleston last Friday, for the murder of W..
B. Fidea last summer. His accomplice, a. negro
named Belden, had his sentence commuted by
Gov. Scott to Imprisonment for life when under
the gallows.
The Columbia Cdrolinian is informed that
the debt of the Blue Ridge Railroad Company,
which the Ring wanted the State to assume,
amounts not to FIVE or six hundred thousand
dollars, but to eight hundred thousand dol
lars.
= James Slough and his wife, two old and
respectable citizens of Richmond, KY, quar-
relied, and the husband stabbed the wife fifteen
or twenty times. He was drunk and jealous.
The wife lived only long enough to tell her ter
rible story.
= Messrs. Butler, Chadwick & Gary have
presented the home for the mothers, widows
and orphans of Confederate soldiers, with the
handsome sum of $500. We learn, also, that
$4,000 has been invested by that firm in the
stock of the State Agricultural Society.
= The bill aboishing the office of State
Auditor has at length passed the Senate not
without hard fight, with an amendment which
carries its provisions into effect after the next
general election. The duties of the office will
be devolved upon the Comptroller, General
- At the solicitation of several prominent
Georgians, Col c. w Howard, editor of THE
Plantation, has consented to go 20 Europe for
the purpose of negotiating the sale of farms,
wild lands water powers or mineral interests,
and to set forth the advantages of emigration
to Georgia.
- The cotton manufacturing business at Fall
River, Mass, is expanding at an unprecedented
rate New capital to the amount of about Sl6,-
100000 has been invested, and twenty new
mills have either been, or shortly will be add
ed TO the producing power of that enterprising
city.
= The Governor has nominated Ex-Gov.
James L. Orr as delegate and Archibald Cam
eron, Esq, as alternate, for appointment by the
President of the United States to the ccntenni-
al celebration of Independence Day, which
takes place in Philadelphia on the 4th of July.
1876.
- Marshal Johnson, of South Carolina, son
of Hon. Reverdy Johnson, has been removed
from Office This is the sequel of the fight be-
tween the opposing factions Of South Carolina
Republicans, which has been going on for over
year, and in this last move Senator Sawyer is
out-done, and the extreme Radical wing has
succeeded.
= The New York journal Of Commerce has
recently published a very able and judicious ar
ticle, recommending an amendment to the
bankrupt law, by which the estates Of bank:
rupts will be secured to the creditors, instead
of being gobbled up by rapacious officials The
Jou,nal gives numerous illustrations of the
evil workings of the law, as it now stands, and
we arc satisfied that the same will apply, with
more or less force, to almost every section of
the country A change will evidently result
to the benefit Of creditors.