The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-11-14
1TzMs-zDI7oRIA1 AND OTHERWISE

- James NJ. Allen has been appointed
Treasurer of Greenville County, vtce w. Rob-
inson, resigned. -.
The majority for Grant in this State is
estimated by the Republican State Committee
to be nearly $4,000.
- The Grand Duke Alexis will visit the
United States again, in 1876, to be present at
the National Centennial.
= The Rome correspondent of the London
Times says that the Pope is approaching the
close of his earthly ca.eer:
- 1t is estimated that the mere distribution
of Radical campaign documents has cost the
people of the United States S178,OO0.
= The body of the late General John b.
Magruder is shortly to be removed from Hous'
ton for reinterment at Galveston, Texas.
= The books for subscription to the Ninety
Six Railroad have been opened and the pros
poets for the building of the road are favorable
"A special dispatch from Chester states
that John Lee (colored) has been elected State
Senator for Chester County by a majority OF
over 100. :,
- Four hundred miles of narrow gauge rail-
ways are to be built in California, and COM
pany with seven millions of capital has been
organized to do it.
o In counting out the Presidential votes in
Savannah, one vote was found bearing the
names of Jefferson Davis for President and B.
II. Hill for Vice President.
We are pleased to learn from the Presby-
terian and Inder that the sale of the first edi-
ton of DR.. Thornwell's works has realized to
to his family a royalty of 81, 900. A second
edition will be published very shortly.
Mr.. G. E. Elford, who some time since
retired from the publication of the Greenville
Mountaineer, has resumed its publication, and
solicits return of that generous patronage so
freely accorded him in previous years.
Germany claims that she will soon be ln-
dependent of America as regards petroleum.
The crude material has been recently discov-
cred in Galicia in great abundance, and extern
sive preparations are making to fit it for mar
ket.
= Eben L. Chlds, chief clerk in the Post
Office Department at Washington, died sud
denly at Albany, N. Y, on Tuesday night last.
He was 73 years of age, and had been connec-
ted with the Post Office Department for over
forty years.
. Four gin houses have been burned in
Kershaw County this season, the last being
that of Mr.. Thos. W: Lang, a large three story
building, on the Wateree river, containing,
besides machinery, 81 bales, and large guam
tity of loose cotton.
lne NlOutBoilieiy h''oCf cfcCi says onoo q
gentleman in that vicinity planted this year a
R RRalf acre of land, which he considered too
poor for any other crop, in ground peas: 1t
produced 20 bushels, for which he has been
offered $3.50 per bushel. That is equivalent to
a yield of s1oO per acre, which beats cotton
"out of sight"
= Judge Story has written letter stating
his inability to be present at the present term
of the United States Supreme Court, but will
attend the December term. He will retire in
April next after judicial service of over fifty
wears, of which the last twenty-seven years
have been spent upon the bench of the United
States Supreme Court.
- The Treasury Department has issued a
circular to the collectors at the principal ports
instructing them to carefully observe existing
regulations which prevent importation of neat
cattle or hides from country where the hooi
and mouth disease is prevalent. The Depart
ment received information that this disease
had again broken out in the Argentine Re-
public