The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-11-07
lTEMs-EDIToRIA1 AND OTHERWISE

PlckenS at nifty Genus per OuSnel.
= The Israelites of Wilmington, N. G., are
preparing to build synagogue in that city.
- COL John @. Miller, of Kentucky, inven-
ted the rife now used in the Prussian army.
= Kansas is getting immigrants at the rate
of $4,000 q year. and now has population of
100000.
: The Governor has appointed Walter NJ.
Woodin Trial Justice for Oconee County, v'ce
Isaac Wicklife, removed.
- 1t is believed that they are still voting in
Barnwell County. No official announcement
of the vote has yet been made.
DIR. R. P. Huger, of Charleston, has been
elected assistant physician to the State Lunatlc
Asylum of Alabama, located at Tuscaloosa.
Eighteen years ago the place where Oma,
ha, Neb., stands was a piece of untouched
prairie. 1t now contains 10000 inhabitants:
: Hydrophobia is raging to an unparalleled
extent in the northern counties OF England,
where many men as well as animals meet their
death by it. =
- The south side of the Arkansas River is
reported to be lined for one hundred and nifty
miles with vast herds of elk, buffalo, wild hor-
ses and deer.
Thousands of the best citizens of Arkan-
sas are disfranchised by Radical legislation.
Nearly eight years have elapsed since the close
of the civil war.
Mr.. w. T. Jones, former resident OF
Aiken, where his parents atpresent reside, was
recently shot and instantly killed IL the town
of Baldwin, Miss.
1t is rumored that Gen. Gurney is to be
the next Collector of the Port of Charleston,
and J. l.. Neagle, Esq, the successful candidate
for the United States Senate.
= One of the results Of the presence of wo-
men in the Michigan University is said to be
the appearance and behavior of the classes
now in attendance are better than ever before
known.
"A fearful hurricane recently swept through
the province of Syracuse, in the Kingdom OF
Sicily, blowing down several houses, and it is
reported that thirty-two persons were buried IN
the ruins.
= The Union Times chronicles the suicide of
Mr.. Charles Fl. Giles, of that place, on the 29th
ult. He was well known throughout the South,
and was young man of generous impulses and
genial disposition.
Among the prominent attractions of the
Georgia State Fair recently held in Atlanta,
were female tripets under one year of age.
They are natives of Cherokee County, and are
POLITICALLY named Cordelia,2 Ophelia and Au-
relia.
"A recent interview with General Ryan,
the alleged Cuban leader, develops the informa-
ton that another expedition for Cuba is being
fitted out, from which startling developments
are promised in ninety days. Ryan proposes
to accompany the expedition.
The Columbia papers announce the death
of Mr.. Preston D. Sill, which occurred on
board the Denmark" en- route from New York
to Liverpool, on the Sth ult., in the 33rd year
of his age. He was talented writer, posses
sing fine, literary and poetical taste.
Herbert Garmany and H. W. Southern,
convicted of illicit distllery and sentenced to
imprisonment at Greenville, S. c., are to be
removed to the Charleston Jail for confinement
during the remainder of their term, as the au-
thorities apprehend an attempt to escape from
the Greenvile Jail.
The Memphis Savings Bank, which has
been regarded as one of the safest in the coun-
try, has suspended. 1t is reported the liabili-
ties are $4,000, though they may exceed that
amount. The heaviest losers are the Southern
Railway Security Company and the Carolina
Life Insurance Company-the former losing
nearly S150,000.
The Laurensyille Herald announces the
arrest of seventeen citizens since its previous
issue, including a number of prominent and
highly respectable gentlemen. The prisoners
we're taken before the United States Commis-
soner, and released upon giving bail i'll the
sum of S., 1000 each to appear for trial at the
United States Court, at Columbia, on the fourth
Monday in November.
United States troops are reported to have
been sent to Alabama from various sections,
under the plea of aid for enforcing the En-
forcment Act at the Presidential election this
week, but really for the purpose of erdeavorlng
to carry that State for Grant Troops have
been sent into the Fourth Congressional Dis
trict especially, to prevent Democratic tri-
umph there for Congress
= The forthcoming report of the Postmaster
General will show that The expenses OF the
Department was increased during the year as
compared with the preceding year by about
So, ,252 900, mainly for increase of transporta-
ton and other postal facilities, foreign and do
mestic, and that the increased receipts have
nearly kept pace with the expenses, their IN
crease being little over S20OO,OOO.
= The Marquis of Ripon, who presided over
the High Joint Commission which framed the
Alabma treaty at Washington made speech
on Tuesday evening at Ripon, Yorkshire, upon
the result of the arbitration. he spoke most
emphaticaly in favor of the peaceful and
amicable arrangement which had been conclu-
ded between the two nations, and pronounced
it great step towards the preservation OF the
peace of the world.
| - Inc StcdElSnlp MlSSouII, S"Pl"ih N'CVi,
which left New York for Havana and Mas
sau on the 18th inst, was burnt at sea in gale
on the 22nd, about twenty-five miles from
Abaco. BY despatch received from Nassau
by the Atlantic Mail Line, itappears that only
seven of the passengers and five of the crew
were saved, and it is reported that over eighty
lives were lost. The accounts of the disaster
thus far received are heartrending
- Illinois elects her next Legislature under
the cumulative system, through which the elec-
tor can distribute his votes among the several
candidates in nomination, or concentrate them
all upon one. This will secure what is so de-
sirabie in republican form of governments
minority representation. The new system has
already been tried in several localities, in cleo
tions of minor importance but this. is the first
instance in which it has been applied to Leg
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