The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-06-27
ITEMs--EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

control of the Charlotte IN. C0 Daily Dis
patch.
Augustus B. Knowlton, Esq, has with
drawn from the editorial management of the
Orangeburg Nsws.
= The New York Eapress says there is no
earthly doubt Of the nomination of Greeley at
Baltimore by a very large majority.
- Within the bounds of the Southern Bap-
tst Convention there are 455 associations, H.
168 churches, 6 6,493 ministers and 1893, OBJ MEM
bers.
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, one of the
purest and ablest statesmen of the Northwest,
has been nominated for Governor of Indiana
by the Democrats.
Maj. L. E. Johnson, formerly United
States Marshal, expects the nomination for
Congressman at large in South Carolina on the
Republican ticket.
= The wheat crop of East Tennessee will
exceed in quality and quantity that of any
year during the last quarter of century, not
excepting the famous yield Of 1857.
- The Commissioner of Agriculture reports
the condition of the cotton crop for June, and
says there is an average increase of thirteen
per cent. throughout the United States.
- Hereafter the Charleston Republican will
be issued every afternoon. While it advocates
opposition to Grant in its editorials, it has low
cred the names of the Cincinnati nominees.
Maj. Sinlons, white school-teacher from
Williamsburg, who was sentenced to the pene-
tentiary for one year, for forgery, made his es-
cape from that institution on Friday night last.
= The Laurens Railroad was sold in Colum
bia on Thursday last for S42,5OO. The pur-
chasers are Dr. J. L. Neagle and Mr.. J. w.
Wiley, of Columbia, and it is their intention
to reduce the gauge of the track, and put the
road in operation at an early day.
Mr.. Sumner is called upon almost daily
by colored men FROM the South, who are an1
ious to know which side he intends to take in
that in no event will he support Grant.
- The colored men of Vicksburg, Miss,
are very indignant because those who decora-
ted the graves of the Federal soldiers at the
National Cemetery the other day failed to adorn
also the graves of the colored soldiers.
= Frank E. 6. Lindsey, of Egyptian corn"
notoriety, has been convicted in the United
States Court ct Abingdon, Va, of robbing the
mail, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment
in the Penitentiary at Albahy, N. Y.
- -Four hundred and fifty pieces Of real es-
tate, including village lots, in the County of
Darlington, have become forfeited to the State
for the non payment of taxes. At the Treas
urer's sale, nc bids were offered on them.
- Rev. DR. Smythe, who has presided over
the destinies of the Second Presbyterian
Church of Charleston as pastor for forty years,
on account of impaired health, has resigned,
and Rev. G. r. Bracket called to supply the
vacancy.
1t is understood that Mr.. Chamberlain,
President of the Columbus Convention, has
officially notified Judge Davis and Joel Parker
of their nomination for President and Vice
President, and that be is to recall the Columbus
Convention, to meet in New York in July, for
conference.
"A revolutionary relic in the shape of a
broken pipe containing the figures 1776 and
certain Roman characters, has been found on
the plantation of Mr. A. D. Darby in Chester,
and now lies upon the table of the editor of
the Reporter. 1t is supposed to be an Indian
pipe, and is of formidable proportions.
= Geo. w. johnson, Esq, formerly editor
of the Beaufort Republican, is out in card
denying moss emphatically the recent report
of his death in New York. He says that he
is not conscious of having been called upon to
ioin the "innumerable caravan" that don't
come back, and believes be is fully alive to the
situation.
- James D. Tradewell, jr., of Columbia,
made an attack upon Niles G. Parker, State
Treasurer, in the law Office of @. d. Melton,
ESQ.,, one day last week. Tradewell assailed
the Treasurer with violent language, and drew
pistol upon him, when bystanders intertered
and disarmed the pugnacious individual, who
was deeply intoxicated.
= The Blue Ridge Railroad is in litigation
again. John Mackey, for himself and other
stockholders, mas brought suit against the Presi-
dent and Directors. alleging fraud and misap-
preparation Of funds, enjoining the transfer of
any more of the bond scrip or other property
of the road, and praying for the appointment
of receiver and full accounting by the off,
GERS. III
- The Baltimore Gazette, which was strong.
ly anti Greeley few weeks ago, at last sue
cumbs to the logic of events; acknowledges
chat the DRIFT of popular sentiment favors a
combination of all the elements of opposition
to put down Grantism," and enumerates rea-
sons as plenty as blackberries for supporting
"any combination Of opposing forces that will
offer reasonable prospect of beating Grant"
= The bodies of 71S Confederate soldiers,
recently disinterred at Gettysburg and carried
to Richmond, were buried in Hollywood Gem
etery on Thursday last The procession was
two miles long, the houses draped in mourning,
the stores closed, and business suspended. An
immense concourse of spectators lined the
streets, and the whole pageant is regarded as
the most imposing spectacle since the close of
the war. @
"A Washington dispatch to the New York
Herald says: "The Department of Justice has
for some days past been engaged in finding the
whereabouts of the person alleged to have
been abducted from Canada in violation of the
Extradition Treaty, and yesterday received in
formation that he was in the custody of the
United States Marshal of North Carolina. 1t
now appears chat Detective Hester had an ex-
tradition warrant for q man named Avery,
charged with violation of the Ku Klux act
but that the Canadian officials delivered up
Bratton, who is also charged with having COM
mitted murder in that State. Our government
will send him back to Canada without delay
and indemnify him for the false arrest"
One of Grants most remarkable appoint
ments has been made in the person of e1-car-
pet-bag Congressman Clarke, of Texas, to be
1t Galveston ot a salary Of 81 000