The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-06-20

i Hon. J. R. Parrott, Judge of the Superior
Court of Georgia, died at Montvale Springs,
Tenn, last week. He was President of the
Georgia Reconstruction Convention, and resi-
ded at Gainesville.
- The New York Tribune supports Mr..
Buckalew, the Democratic candidat for Cover
nor of Pennsylvania, and urges the Liberal
Republicans to rally in his behalf, in opposi-
ton to the regular Grant candidate.
= The political disabilities of Ex-Gov. u.
B. Vance, of North Carolina, and Hon. George
| S. Houston, of Alabama-these gentlemen be-
longing to the excepted classes under the Am
nesty Act-were removed by Congress just be-
fore adjournment
= An Iowa Democratic journal expresses its
unadulterated views in the following ticket at
the head of its editorial columns: For Presi-
dcnt-A Democrat, on Democratic platform
for Vice President-A Democrat, occupying
the same position.
= Miss Rebecca Sanders, aged II years, liv-
ing in the vicinity of Barnwell, was terribly
burned several nights since, by the explosion
of a kerosene lamp The accident occurred
while filling the lamp. from three gallon can,
which contained about gallon of oil. She is
expected to recover.
= Mr.. William L. Haskell, for many years
the cashier of the Planters and Mechanics
Bank of Charleston died on Saturday afternoon,
after an illness of less than twenty-four hours.
Apparently in robust health, he was attacked
on Friday night by congestion of the lungs,
and breathed his last on the following after
noon, in the sixty-seventh year of his age.
= Luck, who killed his wife near Asheboro'
N. c., few weeks ago, was convicted at the
recent term of Randolph Superior Court, and
sentenced to be hanged on the 1lth of next
month. Should the sentence of the court be
carried out, this will be the first judicial excu-
ton that has ever taken place in the county,
although it is one of the oldest in the State.
= Mr.. Peter Rowe, of Orangeburg County,
the oldest Mason in the State died at his home
last week, aged 1e2 years. His remarkable ac-
tivity permitted him only few months since
to have his teeth examined and treated by a
pdentist and hundreds of his friends and kim
dred Joined him in celebrating his last birthday,
where his usual hospitality and vigor were not
abated.
= Hon. August Belmont, Chairman Of the
National Democratic Executive Committee,
while declaring that Horace Greeley is the
most Objectionable person whom the Liberals
could have nominated, so far as Mr.. Belmont
personally is concerned, holds that the best
polcy at Baltimore will be to endorse the Gin
cinnati platform and ticket. He thinks the
New York delegation almost certain for Gree
ley.
leased from custody in Atlanta last week, and
on his return to Charleston, he signalized his
advent into that city by brutal and cowardly
assault upon Mr.. John 4. Moroso, local editor
of the Charleston Courier, for publishing the
circumstances of his Arrest in Georgia. Hen.
dricks was arrested on charge of assault and
battery with deadly weapon, and gave bond
for his appearance
= James Lyons, of Richmond, Va, who
was the personal friend of Jefferson Davis, and
who, with Horace Greeley, was on the bail
bond of Davis, has written.a long letter to
Col. Mosby, the guerilla chief, in which he
agrees with the latter in his opposition to
Greeley. and uses the strongest argument
against the support of Greeley as Presiden-
tial candidate by the South. He will vote Tor
Grant in preference to Greeley, upon the very
liberal assumption that the worst OF Grants
administration has passed.
= The Spartanburg Spartan records the mar
row escape of Col. 7. ). Moore and family from
instant death, while returning from church the
Sunday previous A violent storm of wind and
rain overlook them, and while Col. Moore
turned to one side to fix the curtain of his car
riage so as to keep the rain from beating in, a
dead tree by the roadside fell across the pole of
his carriage, killing both horses, but leaving
the inmates unframed. The horses were trot-
ting rapidly at the time, and the providential
escape of Col. Moore and his family is most
wonderful.