The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-05-02
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begin at Greenvile next Monday.
i = The father of the late Prof Morse was the
frst,publisher of religious newspapers.
+ = 1t is said that over six thousand negro vo-
] ters have left North Carolina since the last
! election.
= Over four thousand young ladies are in
attendance upon the female schools in Staun-
ton, Va.
Sheriff of Charleston County, is in the field for
Governor.
- The annual convention of the Episcopal
Church of South Carolina meets in Charleston
next Thursday.
- Pittsburg, Pa, has over fifteen hundred
manufactures of various kinds established
within its limits.
= The number of cergymen in the United
States is set down at 81 900, and their average
salaries at S7O0 each.
= The finest pair of horses in the West have
Just been purchased in Jackson, Michigan, for
the Emperor of Japan.
= Samuel w. West, one of the Ku Klux
prisoners from Laurens, escaped from the Co
fumbia Jail on Tuesday night of last week.
The horticultural exhibition of the Cotton
States Mechanical and Agricultural Society
will be held in Augusta, Ga, on the 9Th and
9th inst
On the night of the 2Oth of April, John
Red was killed at Granitville S. c., by train
on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail
road.
1t is announced that Mr.. Gil Dixon Fox,
recently appointed an aid-de-camp to Gov.
Scott, will shortly establish a weekly newspa-
per at Sumter.
Hugh F. Oliver, of Madison, Ca, claims
that his father, Thaddeus Oliver, of the End
Ga. Regt., was the author of GAIL Quiet on
the Potomac"
: Hon. Andrew Stewart, prominent mem
Der of Congress in Andrew Jackson's time, still
lives at Uniontown, Pa. He is more than so
years of age.
VI P. Bennett, of Spartanburg, who was
sentenced to Imprisonment by the United States
Court last fall, died in the jail at Charleston q
few days since.
= Ex-Congressman Grinnell, of Iowa, re-
CARDS that State as antiGrant to certainty,
and thinks the Presidents reelection next to
an impossibility.
Men will do a great deal to save their
lives For instance, we are told that citizen
of Cleveland, Ohio, cut his throat through fear
of dying from smallpox.
- Ex-Gov. Clahin, of Massachusetts,, has
been on a visit to Orangeburg, the location of
Clahin University, which was named after his
father, Hon. Lee Clahin.
- The father of Col. Charles T. Ames, the
we'll known Snowman who was murdered at
Dawson, Ga, in 1870, has removed the re-
mains of his son to Syracuse, New York.
= Mr. Thos. P Slider, the late County
Treasurer of Newberry, who was arrested on
charge of Ku Kluxism, has been admitted to
bail in the sum of three thousand dollars.
The citizens of Clinton, Laurens County,
arrested under the Enforcement Act, and who
have been confined in the Columbia Jail, were
removed to Charleston last week for trial.
John G. Waters, Esq, an influential citi-
zen of AbbeviIle County, died recently from
concussion of the brain, caused by being
thrown from a horse. He was seventy-two
years of age.
- The friends of the late Gen. David F.
Jamison, of Orangeburg, are making efforts to
raise sufficient funds to erect monument to
his memory. He was President of the Seces-
sion Convention.
= Jefferson Davis intends moving to Balti-
more, and will make that city his future home.
He contempates publishing at an early win
dication of his administration" while President
of the Confederate States.
- Col. Thos Rhett, who has been connected
with the Egyptian army for several years past,
has been compelled to resign, owing to an
attack of paralysis, and will return to South
Carolina at an early day.
= The Charleston Ners gives circulation to
received from Senator Robertson saying that
Gen. Grant was about to pardon all the Ku
Klux offenders.
Since 1865, the town of Columbus, Ga,
has built cotton factories which now run thirty
three thousand spindles, and will this season
consume six thousand bales of cotton; and
there is talk of erecting another large mill.
"A Washington telegram to the Savannah
Neus states that ut is not believed that the bill
for refunding the cotton tax will be acted on
this session, but should action be reached, it is
the opinion here that the bill will be defea-
ted"
- Gen. Hartrauft has been nominated by
the Grant party for Governor of Pennsylvania.
He is principally known as officiating as
hangman in the case of the execution of
Mrs, Surratt under the sentence of military
commission.
The Board of Directors of the State Peni-
tentiary, on account of the want of funds to
carry the Institution on, propose to hire out
one hundred and fifty of the inmates, and it is
thought this number will be engaged by the
Air Line Railroad.
= VIM. NJ. Lawton, Esq, of Charleston, has
been invited by the Agricultural Congress,
which convenes at St. Louis on the 9th of May,
to prepare a paper upon "the value of immi-
grant labor at the South, and the character of
the labor required"
= Rev. Charles B. Belts, one of the oldest
and most distinguished ministers of the South
Carolina Conference died suddenly at the resi-
dence of his son-in-law, DR.. Edward B. Smith,
in Marion County, two weeks ago. He had
been connected with the Conference ffty-four
years, and was about seventy-two years OF age.
= There has been very general revision OF
the estimates of our Southern cotton crop OF
the growth of 1871. Instead of three and a
half millions of bales, as had been confidently
expected by some, it looks as though the crop
would fall below three millions. In view of
which, the price keeps remarkably steady at a
point little rising fifty per cent. above the
corresponding period last year.