The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-09-19
I7EMs--ED1ToRrA1 AND OTHERWISE.

Boilers, can't you trot out one honest man.
ITEMs-ED1ToR1A1 AND OTHERWISE.
Mr.. L. T. Potter formerly of Charleston,
died in Rhode Island on the 9TH instant.
= The Peace Convention of South Carolina
will meet in Columbia on Tuesday, 22nd OF
October.
= Elections take place on the Sth of October
in the States of Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Nebraska and Iowa.
The Georgia State Fair will be held at
Atlanta beginning on the 18th and closing on
the 10Th of October.
= Hon. Charles Sumner has been nomina-
ted for Governor of Massachusetts by the Dem
ocrats and Liberal Republicans.
= A writer in the Columbia South Caro-
Hnian suggests Prof. James H. Carlisle, OF
Spartanburg, for Governor of the State.
= NJ. G. Bartlett, Esq, formerly general
ticket agent of the Greenville and Columbia
Railroad, has been appointed general freight
agent.
-. n. Rainey the present incumbent, has
been re-nominated for Congress by the Radical
Convention of the First District of South Car
olina. -,
Mr.. Henry Sparnick, editor of the Aiken
Tribune, has been nominated by the Republl-
cans of Aiken County for the Office OF Probate
Judge.
shipments of cotton from that place for the
year ending September 18th, 1872, aggregate
5,233 bales.
= Henry L. Perrin, of Charleston, was shot
and instantly killed by Trial Justice l.: ); J;
Woolf, on the night of tie 9th inst Wooli
has been committed for trial.
"A Washington dispatch announces that
the "Bank of Charleston National Banking
Association" has been authorized to commence
business, with q capital of 100000.
= The official vote for Governor OF North
Carolina at the recent election gives Caldwell
(Radcal) a majority of 1,945 votes. The elec-
ton will be contested before the Legislature
- Horace Greeley has accepted an invita-
ton to visit the Fair of the Carolinas, which
| will be held in Charlotte next month. Col. d.
| WYATT Aiken is to deliver the annual address
- The Conservatives of Spartanburg have
nominated the following ticket: For the Sen
ate-D. r. Duncan. House-Dr. r. NJ. Smith
Gabriel Cannon, 7. J. Moore, DR.. William
Compton. -.
The Democrats and Liberal Republican;
have united in forming electoral tickets in
New Hampshire, New jersey, Connecticut and
Maryland. Both parties in Kansas agreed up
on State and electoral ticket.
= The Radicals have quietly dropped theil
congratulations about West Virginia, since they
have become convinced that Mr.. Jacob, the
successful Independent candidate for Governor
repudiates Grant to support Greeley.
- The Sumter Ne1cs suggests the name OF
Gen. James Chesnut, of Camden, as man pos,
sessing every qualification for the position OF
Governor. and as one to whom all classes of the
community could commit their interests with
safety.
The following named persons have been
chosen municipal officers for the city of Green
Vile: Col. H. P. Hammett, for Mayor, and j.
NJ. Sullivan, Wm Beattic, T. w. Davis, Fiel-
der Gossctt, J. C. Alexander and j. l.. Haw-
kins, for Aldermen.
- A few weeks ago, the creek under the
great Natural Bridge, in Virginia, suddenly
disappeared, and subsequent investigation de,
monstrates the fact that the stream emptied
itself into the Garth through number of new
Informed issurcs of unknown depth.
= EX-Gov Perry having accepted the NOM
ination for Congress, the Greenville County
Convention has been called together to nomi-
nate candidate for the State Senate, in his
place. Col. G. F. Townes and Maj. T. B. Fer
guson are suggested by their friends.
= A planter in Muscogee County, Ga, mas
realized two thousand bushels of oats from tf-
ty-four acres, and sold the straw for sufficient
to repay the cost of the fertilizers used a flne
pea crop was afterwards made on the same
land, and in addition twenty-five or thirty tons
of superior hay were gathered.
: Gen. A. r.. Wright, chief editor of the
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, has been NOM
mated for Congress from the Eighth Georgia
District. Patrick Walsh, ESD, one of the as
sociatc editors, was nominated on the first bal
lot for the Legislature. Both will be elected
and serve their county with ability and fidelity
= The GrcenvilIe Jomtainrer says: Judge
Orr and his associates have always asserted
that reform could only be accomplished within
the ranks of the Radical party; now they have
placed in the field reform ticket for state
officers which they know cannot carry single
county in the State, without the help OF DEM
ocrats.
= The New York Financial Chr6niclc pub
fishes a statement of the cotton crop Of the
United States, for the commercial year ending
August 81, 1872, in which the grand total Is
set down ut 2,974,3j1 bales. The toSal exports
for the year are ,957,3l4 bales, and the stock
on hand 1st of September IS o4,o2l bales
against IA, 300 bales same time last year,
p We regret to chronicle the death of Col
B. S. Jones, of Laurcns, which occurred on the
10th inst, from injuries received few days
previous by his being thrown from buggy
Col. Jones was native of Laurens, and held
the Office of Sheriff for two terms during his
life. He served in the State Senate for one
term, and was very popular anu Justly esteemed
by Ill Glasses.