The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-10-17
l7EMs-EDIToR1Al AND OTHERWISE.

tenced 10 Ten years imprisonment for rObblng
the mail, has been pardoned by President
Grant.
= In the local elections which took place in
Connecticut on the 9th INST, the Liberal gains
were uniform throughout the State, aggregating
nearly 1000 votes.
= Mr.. William B. Figures, editor of the
Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate since 1S41, died OF
the 1st instant, after long and painful illness.
He was an able editor and pure man, and
leaves family. He was about 6fty-foa years
OF age.
: Mr.. James Jones. one of the most enter.
psisiDg farmers in Fairfield County, raised this
year on seven acres of river bottom land, sever
hundred and eleven and a quarter bushels corn,
eighteen thousand pounds fodder, and the land
now is covered with pumpkins,
- An unfinished building fell at Louisville,
KY, on Saturday, crushing an adjoining house,
in which father, mother, a girl of six years
and baby, were Killed at the supper table.
Two others died from injuries received. J. G.
Webb's printing office was also crushed.
= Statistics, in the matterof dogs, show that
in this country thereare something like q, ,O00-
600 animals of this specie Estimating that
the cost of each dog per year is So, the result
is an annual expenditure of $16S,000,0OO for
the maintenance of the canine. population.
DR.. Ensor communicates the gratifying
intelligence that he has succeeded in making
arrangements whereby the Lunatic A.ylum
will be amply supplied with provisions ard ALI
medical supplies for the balance of the year.
No one need now feel any anxiety. The trou-
BILE is over for this year, at least.
= Rev. James P. Boyce, d. D., left Green
vile on the 1st instant, with his family, for
Louisville KY, where he will spend the winter
in working for the endowment of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, which is to be
removed from Greenyille to Louisville next
summer, If the necessary endowment is secured.
- A new branch of industry has been star
ted in Florida, which bids fair to prove exceed
ingly remunerative It is the manufacture of
feather flowers that will not fade or change
color under any circumstances. The flowers
are made of the plumage of the white heron,
while the leaves are taken from the paroquet-
They are unusually rich and attractive.
"A woman met her death in England re-
Gently under very singular circumstances She
was cracking nuts by striking them with q
knife when a small piece of nutshell few into
her eye. She did not take much note of it at
the time, but sometime afterwards the eye
became very painful and inflammation set in,
which was followed by dehriun, and the poor
woman died.
= The walls and roof of portion of the
new market house in process of construction
in Montgomery, Alabama, fell on Wednesday
afternoon last, instantly killing Mr.. William
O'Brien, gas filter, and one OF the most pop
ular mechanics in Montgomery. Six or seven
others, at work ON the building, were severely
injured, some of them having t6eirlegs broken.
Mr.. Anthony Barclay, the former English
Consul at Savannah, Ga, has brought suit
against the United States for the sum Of two
hundred thousand dollars, for the destruction
by General Sbermar's army, of his residence,
near Savannah. The suit comes up before the
mixed American and British Claims Commits
sion, in a few days, and is looked upon as vastly
important, as being the first of that class to be
considered
Mrs. Laura Fair, who two years ago muir
dered Col. Crittenden, noted lawyer of San
Francisco, has stood her second trial for the
ofense and been acquitted. She was the para
mour of Crittenden, who was married man,
and shot him in the presence of his wife as he
was landing from a steamboat on crowded
wharf. On her first trial she was convicted OF
murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be
hung.
miles from Columbia, on the Saluda River,
runs at present nearly 1000 spindles, and con-
sumes 1900 to 1000 bales of cottonper annum-
At present, the busy spindles are awaiting the
insertion of new and powerful turbine water
wheel, of the Lafelle pattern, by which the
power or capacity of the factory will be in
creased fifty per cent. This factory is owned
by Messrs. Childs, Johnston & Palmer.
= The Southern Presbyterian Church occu-
pies thirteen States, in which there are eleven
Synods, ffty-fve Presbyteries besides one in
foreign feld,) nearly one thousand ministers
and more than fifteen hundred churches, with
about ninety thousand members in the gross
aggregate. Last year there was reported for
the cause of Sustentation and Domestic Mission
the sum of S51, 600; for foreigh Missions, S22,-
600, which this year has been doubled; and
for all other purposes something nigh one mil
lion.
- There was curious instance of tamper-
ing with witness and the results thereof in
recent murder case in Kentucky. A man,
named Roberts, was accused of killing one
Coates, and was committed for trial without
bail on the testimony of sister of the deceas-
ed. After indictment Roberts was released on
bail, and Immediately commenced TO pay his
addresses to the dangerous witness, and before
the trial came on had married her. He was
acquitted for want of evidence.
- The Signal Office has just had another
very decided success in its new. role of adapting
its probabilities to the wants of agriculture.
This time it got nearly two days ahead Of jack
frost, whose visits have been very extensive
within the past twenty.four hours. 1t is be-
lieved that this new ability of the weather re-
ports, by premonishing severe frost, will enable
horticulturists and farmers generally to save
many of their, products from untimely blight,
and greatly enhance the value of the probabil-
tiles in the eyes of the entire rural public.
= The Charlottesville (Va.) Intelligence.
states that two students of the University of
Virginia-Mr. F. P. Dunnington, of Baltimore,
and Mr.. James B. Adger, of South Carolina-
have been honorably mentioned by Professor
Mallet in the proceedings of the Royal Society
of Great Britain in connection with an analysis
made by them in the chemical laboratory of
meteoric stone which fell in Augusta County,
Va. Other analyses by the same two gentle
men were presented before the British Associa-