The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-10-31
ITEMs-EDIToR1A1 AND OTHERWISE.


that Che corn, crop promises to be the largest
ever grown.
President Thiers has prohibited the sale
of caricatures of the ex-Emperor Napoleon
andih family. ~ .
y Hon. VIM. Dougherty, one of the most
distinguished lawyers in Georgia, died in New
York recently.
Chester, with seven bales of cotton, was burned
on the 10Th instant. !.
DAubigne, the celebrated historian of
the Reformation, died suddenly in Geneva on
the 10Th inst, aged 7S years. :,
AA;postofice has just been established in
Abbevill county, at Dry Grove, and MIR. I. A.
Daniel appointed postmaster.
= The South Carolina Railroad now runs
fourteen through freight trains daily, and can
hardly fulfill its engagements.
(, - w. NJ. Nicholson, we'll known as the pro-
prietor;of the Railroad Hotel in Chester, died
at that place on Wednesday morning last.
- The Merchants and Planters National
Bank, of Union, S. c., has been authorized to
increase its capital to sixty thousand dollars.
- The City authorities of Charleston have
taken measures to prevent, if possible, the
appearance Of the dreaded horse disease in that
city, .ioa .*eaaI ~ = ,-.,.5a'''
e. The Rome (Ga.) Courier announces the
death OF. Mr.. John Hume, Sr., a native of South
Carolina, but citizen of Floyd county for
twenty years.
last week, a fat hog was on exhibition, which
was over nine feet long and weighed upwards
of 1900 pounds 1t was raised IN AbbeVllle,
Over thirteen thousand people visited Old
John Robnson's menagerie and, CIRCUS at Ra-
leigh, N. G. last Thursday. Such gathering
was never before seen under canvass at that
place. piij 81 ;H';'9r1 ., i'. iife-
:. Edmund Winston Henry, the youngest
and last of the sons of Patrick Henry, died on
the 11th inst, at his late residence in the coun-
ty of Charlotte, in the seyenty-ninth year OF
his age. 80 ..;n 'l.''l'.
ELIAS Evins and Lafayette McCaw, con-
yicted of grand larceny, and sentenced to the
| State Penitentiary for three years, have been
pardoned upon the recommendation of Judge
| Thomas.
- Miss Nellie Grant, daughter of the Presi-
dent arrived at New York on Tuesday night,
| in the steamship Scotia. The Herald says "she
looks as bright as sunbeam after her soJourn
in Europe"
= A public convention of the Two Literary
Societies of the South Carolina University will
be held in Columbia during Fair week. Prof
W. J. Rivers is expected to preside, and de-
bate is contemplated.
= We learn that Father Ryan, having OBJ
tanned the necessary permission from the blsh'
Cd of the Diocese, will leave Mobile shortly for
tour in Europe and the Holy Land. he Will
be absent about three months.
The President of the State Senate has
ordered elections to take place on Tuesday, 5th
of November, in the counties of Union and
Chester to fill the vacancies occasioned by the
death of Senators from those counties.
- The Governor has pardoned John McCord,
of Abbeville, who was convicted of assault and
battery with intent to kill, at the February
term Of the Court, and sentenced by Judge
Orr to twelve months imprisonment at hard
labor
- One night last week the gin house Of Dir.
J. G. Dunbar, in Marlboro County, was con-
sumed, together with about ten bales of cotton.
The cause of the fire, we learn, was the over
turning of burning candle i'll quantity OF
loose cotton. j..
= John D. Reeks, convicted at the March
term of the United States Court of violating
the internal revenue laws, and sentenced to one
years Imprisonment in the Jail at Greenville,
S. c., has been Internationally pardoned by
the President.
= The Columbia Phenir is authorized by
Comptroller Neagle to say that, notwithstand-
ing the removal of Auditor Gary, the bond
scrip suit will be prosecuted as vigorously as
ever-Messrs Pope Haskell having been re-
tanned as counsel.
DIR. NJ. w. Phillips, editor of the Southern,
Farmer, published at Memphis, Tenn, has
been appointed Professor of Practical Agricul-
ture in the Agricultural Department Of the
University of Mississippi, and superintendent
of the farm connected with this institution.
= The emigration from Germany to the Uni
ted States increases daily. Thousands of emf
grants, including not only farm hands, skilled
laborers, and tradesmen, but people of the
wealthiest class, are constantly arriving at
Hamburg to take the steamers for New York.
= The attention of the State Department is
now being called to the abuse constantly per-
sisted in on the part of petty German states OF
transporting their pardoned murderers and
highway robbers to this country. It is urged
that the Secretary should intervene to promptly
arrest this practice.
THE National Board of Trade closed its
business in New York on Saturday, and ad-
journed to meet in Chicago on the End of DC.
tober, 1873. Among the resolutions adopted
was one asking Congress for revision of the
| National Bank system, looking to the ultimate
resumption of specie payment"
80 A Savannah paper states that Colonel
Jenifer has come from Egypt on furlough
| from the Khedive, in whose service he is en-
gagged. He was an officer in the Confederate
army during the late strife. Several years ago
he went to Egypt, and was given command OF
the cavalry in the army Of the Khedive. -
= A dispatch from Charleston to the New
| York Sun, in reference to our State election,
says: "Governor Scott threw all his influence
in favor of Moses, hoping to secure seat in
the United States Senate Every one is tho
roughly disgusted with his past course. He
has lost all his influence with black and white. "
u - The Marion Crescent was otissued during
election week, and the editor explains that the
result in that County Ia Radical triumph( cas-
tonished, obfusticated, overwhelmed, disap-
pointed, disgruntled and disgusted" him so
much that he didn't care baubee. whether he
ever saw another newspaper, and he went to
| he'd on the strength of it.