The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-10-03
ITEMS EDITORIAL AND OTHERWISE

ITEMS-EDIToRlAL AND OTHERWISE.
Mr.. J. Wesley Smith has retired from ed
itorial control of the Marlboro Times.
Horatio Seymour, the Democratic candi-
date for President in 1868, has taken the stump
Phineas T. Barnum, the great Snowman,
offers to wager 100000 that Connecticut will
vote for Greeley and Brown.
Ex-Presdent Davis is said to be in fine
health and spirits, and looking younger than
he did in the stormy days of the Confederacy:.
- Rev. Peter Cartwright, the pioneer OF
Methodism in the West died at Chicago last
week, at the advanced age of eighty-seven
= Col. R. Barnwell Rhett, jr, formerly edi-
tor of the Charleston Mercury, has recently as
sumed editorial charge of the New Orleans
Picayune.
DIR. David G. De Leon, who acted as Sur
peon General of the Confederate States for a
short time, died at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on
the 3rd of September.
Gen. E. P. Alexander has accepted the
position of President of the Savannah and
Memphis Railroad, and will assume the duties
of his Office immediately.
Hon. Charles Sumner has left London for
Paris, where he intends remaining two or three
weeks. He will return to the United States
some time during November.
= Col. D. Wyatt Aiken has imported lot
of twenty-four horses, including several fine
blooded animals, purchased during recent
trip to Canada for that purpose.
The Andes Insurance Company, at Gin
cinnati. has gone into the hands of receiver.
The Superintendent of Insurance in Ohio shows
that it has deficiency of over 100000.
Ex-Governor Andrew G. Curtin accepts
the Liberal nomination for delegate at large to
the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania,
and declares in favor of Buckalew for Cover
nor
- The official vote at the recent election in
Montana Territory for delegate to congress
gives the Democrats majority of 3l9. Ihe
Republicans had a majority of 413 in the elec-
| tion last year.
= There is no political excitement in Oeo-
nee County. Both Radicals and Conservatives
have decided against making nominations, and
there are forty-ffye candidates in the field TOR
the various county Offices: /.
L. Cass Carpenter, Esq, of the Columbia
Union. has been appointed one of the corpora
| tors for this State of the Centennial Interna-
tional Exhibition, to be held in the city OF
Philadelphia in the year 1876.
- Telegrams have been received In Colum-
bia from p. T. Barnum, the prince of humbugs,
to the effect that his great show will visit all
the principal cities and towns IN the entire
South during the coming winter. :.
ity of Columbia, has offered to donate her
homestead-containing about 81 acres-to the
trustees of the Palmetto Orphan Home, provi-
ded they will erect the house upon the said
premises
- Horace Greeley he's consented to deliver
the annual address before the Agricultural So
ciety of Maryland on the 9Th of October. The
! CITY Council of Baltimore tenders him the hos
pitalites of the city on the occasion OF his con-
templated visit.
- Prof. M. M. Farrow, native of Spartan
burg, and for many years well known as
teacher and professor in various institutions OF
learning in this State, died at Chappelps on
the 18th ult. he was a printer by trade, and at
one time was the editor of the Abbeville Bdn-
ner.
! = The next meeting of the National Board
! of Trade will be held in New York on Tuesday,
| October 18th. Delegates will be present from
all parts of the United States, and all the
Chambers of Commerce and mercantile bodies
| in the country will be appropriately represen-
| ted: .2E--;' - :.
- Mr., Greeley's journey from Indianapolis
to Cleveland, o., was one perpetual ovation,
and the excitement was 80 intense that cor
respondent of the New York WorM likened
his progress more to the march of some con-
| queror than the journeyings Of amere Presiden-
tial candidate. -
- This is an age of great railroad enter
prises. The road in process of construction
| from Lima Oroga across the Andes has tun-
mel 5000 feet long, and is built at an altitude
of 500 feet above the level of the sea. Near
| ly all the employees in the process OF construc-
ton of the road are Yirginians. /. q"
! = Carl Schurz had a grand ovation in Phil
| adelphia last week. Fifteen thousand Germans
turned out to hear him speak in German at
Concert Hall, and every inch Of room was
densely packed. Afterwards he was escorted
| to La Pierre House, was serenaded there, and
addressed some 10000 people in English from
the balcony of the hotel.
- The Legislature of Georgia has passed g
law exempting from taxation, either county or
municipal, for period of two years, all cotton
and wooden mills that may be built in that
State. The exemption includes the real estate,
building, machinery, and other property en-
ployed in the business. The State is already
prospering more than any other of those lately
in rebellion, and this wise measure will doubt
less give fresh impulse to the development of
its manufacturing resources.
- The Yorkville Enquirer says: A gentle
man who was at Chester g few days ago, in
forms us that Judge Thomas j. Mackey ex-
pressed to him purpose to resign the judgeship
of this circuit, to which he was elected at the
last session of the Legislature. The reason
which induces Judge Mackey to this course is
that he prefers legislative to judicial honors,
and will therefore be candidate for the Leg
islature from Chester County. Whether the
judge proposes to resign before or after his
election to the Legislature, we are not in
| formed.