The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-11
ITEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

= Emancipation day was generally celebra-
ted in all the Southern States.
= The father of President Grant has been
very i'll, but is now recovering.
F. Col. 8. B. Jones, Sheriff of Laurens Coun
ty, has sent in his resignation to the Cover
nor.
B. F. Gator, Esq, of the we'll known firm
of Armstrong, Gator & Co., Baltimore, died last
week.
= George Washington recently assaulted
Henry Clay, at Omaha, and gave him severe
beating.
- An association las been formed in Rome
to induce the emigration of Swedish laborers
to Northern Georgia.
Warren d Wilkes; Esq, has been admit
ted to practice in the United States Courts Tor
the District of South Carolina.
Gen. VIM. s. Rosencrans is about to me-
morialize Congress on project for the system,
attic development of the material interests OF
Mexico.
The Illinois House of Representatives has
adopted by large majority bill permitting
women to hold Office in the departments of that
State.
= Chief Justice Moses sustained quite Sc
rious injury week or two since, in endeavor-
ing to alight from the cars at Sumter while the
train was in motion.
Mr.. John R. Lilies, late publisher of the
Darlington Democrat, died in Charleston on
the 22nd inst, of congestion of the BRAIN be
was a native of Greensboro, N. G.
- The Greenville Enterprise states that two
or three hundred hands. are busy grading the
Air Line Railroad, within mile or two of that
place, in the direction Of Gainesville, Ga.
Col. George w. Brent, prominent law
YER of Alexandria, Va, and who was adjutant
general of the Army of Tennessee under john
- Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi, who was
counted on as an out-and-out Grant man, has
gone back on the extremists, and ranged him
self with the moderate wing of the Republican
party. ,.,-,.,ro ,roo,,
Ga, on Christmas evening, fre-ball was
thrown into store containing fireworks. An
explosion followed, and four stores were burned.
Loss, 100000.
the recent debate in the Senate, that tle
American people are on the point OF demand
ing an honest government" Well, it is about
time they were making such demand:
"A petition from Connecticut has been IN
troduced into Congress to tax "each and every
able-bodied single person in the United States
between the ages of twenty-one and thirty
three years" the sum of one dollar.
Under the new Arrangement, Capt j..
Clark Wardlaw is to have charge of the depot
at Walhalla. He was polite, afable conduc-
tor, and the travelling public will miss his geni-
al countenance and courteous attentions.
-"Fort Hill" the residence of the late Hon.
John G. Calhoun, was purchased by Col. Ihos.
G.. Clemson for $4,000 "Keowee," the home
of the late Col. James E. Calhoun, was bought
by Mr.. James w. Crawford for S13, ,f20. These
| ~.o5o ~ U1o1bo11o on 1oct sDIp0ay
The notorious Col. James Fisk Jr., OF New
York. was mortally wounded in difficulty
with Edmond Stokes, on Saturday last, and
died from its effects on Sunday morning a
woman was at the bottom of the whole affair
Col. Fisk was President of the Erie Railroad,
and has left an immense fortune.
The Columbia Pheniz learns from COM
munication from Washington, addressed to
John T. Sloan, ESQ.,, that "the Secretary of the
Treasury has at last modified his two-year or
der. and extended the time to June 30, 1872
All cotton, tare and other claims that were
shelvcd by that order will be acted on and paid,
+ Hon. Horace Capron, formerly United
Estates Commissioner of Agriculture, but now
Occupying q high official position in Japan, has
Esent to this country on order for new steamer,
la large amount Of machinery, and full sup
nlv Of live stock. The Mikado of Japan is de-
termined to keep up with the progress OF the
age. .,..
- The year lust commenced Is what is gene
rally known as Leap year, February having
twenty-nine days. It is one of the years in
which the calm, conservative order of things is
. supposed to be overturned very violently, in
which the ladies are supposed to lay aside their
couuetry and the privilege Of saying '"yes," and
to assume the delicately discriminating task OF
selecting their own husbands.
The press of Mississippi unite in calling
a convention of the representatives OF polltlcal
conservatism in that State. The convention
will be held at Meridian, on the 23d OF Janua-
nv. It is to be remarked that most of the pa
pers of the State speak of this meeting as non
partisan. 1t is designed by most of them to
organize q party which may rescue the State
from the hands of those who have plundered
it, and in attaining this end they ignore all par
tisan associations.
Lowrey and his gang of outlaws continue
to rule Robeson County, North Carolina, undis.
turbed. The fruitless campaign waged against
them by the State and Federal troops only
served to render the desperadoes more dessPe-
rate and daring. A correspondent who paid
visit to the locality recently found the lnnaol.
tants in such condition of abject fear that
thew. with one or two exceptions, absolutely re-
fused to converse on the subjsct of the outlaws,
and thereby risk their lives.
= The New York Guardian says: "How
supremely ludicrous is the idea that the great
majority of the people of South Carolina, WITH
all the power of the Federal, State, county and
municipal government in its hands, and with
their majority better armed, and with an armed
militia-that this great majority is in such
mortal danger from minority which has prov
ed powerless to protect itself from any of the
thousand -and-one wrongs daily perpetrated up
on it by this majority, pretending to be in NOR
tai fear of its feeble victims"
= The Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Ledger says: Certain Georgia Rad
icals have been persistent in their efforts to in
duce Grant to interfere in Georgia affairs to
the end that Gov Smith might be prevented
from taking the gubernatorial chair. They