The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-11-21
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1t is stated that Boutwell, is to succeed
Summer in the Senate.
Col. Robert Cowan, prominent citizen
of Wilmington, N. c., died last week.
Timothy Hurley, of Charleston, and S. J.
Lee, (clored,) of Aiken, are candidates for
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The military organizations in Charleston
are preparing to have an oldfashioned celebra-
ton of Washingtons birthday next February.
Mr.. Joseph Thornton, of Virginia, is said
to have succeeded in establishing his claim to
property in England worth over million ster-
ling.
= Hon. E: B. washburns, now upited States
Minister to France, is to Be candidate for
United States Senator from Illinois, in place of
Senator Trumbul.
Judge Graham, of Charleston, has ordered
the Solicitor of that Circuit to prepare indict-
ments against the County Commissioners of
Charleston for neglect of duty.
- Judge Bryan has dismissed the petition of
certain residents of New York for decree of
involuntary bankruptcy against the Greenyille
and Columbia Railroad Company.
= The bar of Yorkville has passed compli-
mentary resolutions to Judge 7. j. Mackey,
testfying to his ability, courtesy and patience
in the discharge of his duties on the bench.
= The Governor has pardoned Lee Brown,
who was convicted of bigamy at the July term
of the court in Fairfield County, Judge Rut-
land presiding. Both the jury and citizens re-
commended the pardon.
= The stables of Mrs. Williams, of Green
vile, were destroyed Friday morning, about S
o'clock, by an incindiary fire. Her horses had
been fortunately removed from the stable the
day previous Loss about $500.
: = DR.. Edward Smith, Demonstration of
Anatomy in the South Carolina University, has
rendered his resignation. His successor is DR..
of the Baltimore Medical College.
- Incendiarism seems to be the order of the
day in Greenville, as that city has suffered fire.
quently of late from the incendiary's torch,
last weeks Mountaineer recorded two instan-
ces, but the fires were fortunately discovered in
time to prevent much damage.
= The Signal Office at Washington has just
made an important meteorological discovery by
tracing out the course of an atmospheric wave
through which the approach of winter can be
known, and showing the origin of our winter
storms in the Rocky Mountains.
The Columbia PhGnir learns that petit
ton has been prepared and numerously signed,
to which Gov. Scott and F. J. Moses, jr., will
append their signatures, requesting President
Grant to pardon the Ku Klux prisoners now
confined in the Albany Penitentiary.
u The United States Circuit Court will meet
in Columbia on next Monday. Forty-fve or
fifty citizens of Laurens, besides number from
for trial, on charges of conspiracy and MURDER
under The several Acts of Congress known as
the Ku Klux law.
= The Welsh Neck Baptist Association,
which was in session at Darlington at the time
of the Boston confagration, received the It'd
ings of the great calamity with the warmest
expression of sorrow and sympathy. A hand
some collection was Immediately taken up, and
the proceeds sent to the stricken city.
= Judge Melton has issued an injunction
restraining Treasurer Parker and County Treas
urers from paying any other claims out of the
proceeds of the new taxes except the regular
appropriations made at the last session of the
Legislature. The effect of this movement will
be to delay the collection of taxes until the
new administration.
The horse malady has prevailed in but
mild degree in this State, but few deaths have
occurred, and the inconvenience arising from
it has been comparatively small, when we think
of the ravages it made in those cities further
North. 1t continues its course Southwark, the
principal cities of Georgia are complaining of
the disease, and we may reasonably expect all
the States to be visited.
- Judge Maher, who was elected Judge of
the First Judicial Circuit last winter, has deci-
ded that witness can claim only one; dollar
and a half per day while detained at Court,
no matter how many cases he may be subpu-
naed in. This ruling also decreases the fees of
the Clerk, Sheriff and Solicitor, and has already
effected a saving in the Court expenses of Beau
fort County alone of two thousand dollars.
- Twelve iron enterprises are in operation
or projected in Rome, Ga. Five of these are
in operation yielding forty tons per day. ALI
of them will be in operation within six months,
and the probable yield will be one hundred and
twenty tons per day, or over two millions of
dollars per annum, in the value Of their pro-
ducts, and giving employment to over one thou
sand men. At the present rate the net profits
from these twelve furnaces will not be less than
one million dollars per annum. s':sfa'' T..
= The Washington Star says: "The first
offer of sympathy and aid to Boston in her.
great calamity came from the South let that
fact be remembered as evidence that, however
much the different sections of our common
country may differ politically, the mystic cord
of brotherhood still exists, and only requires
some peculiar emergency to exhibit itself in
generous words and deeds. Raleigh, North
Carolina, was the first city in the Union to ap-
preciate necessities of suffering Boston"
The TEoRNwELL ORpHANAGE.-The trus-
tees of this institution about to be founded in
Clinton, Laurens Co., S. c., make an earnest
appeal to every man, woman and child IA the