The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-12-12
1TEMs-EDIToR1A1 AND OTHERWISE,

VIM. German, Esq, purchased the Colum-
bia Hotel last week at public sale for S56, 100.
Z = "Sunnyside," the home of President Mad
ison in Virginia, has been lately sold for S.,
700.
= Due West Female College is in very
fourishing condition, with larger number of
pupils than usual.
= Judge Nelson, Of the United States Su-
preme Court, has resigned, and Hon. Ward
Hunt, of New York, has been appointed to fill
the vacancy.
DIR. VIM. S. Reynolds, second son of Prof.
]. L. Reynolds, of the South Carolina Univer-
sity, died in New York on the 1st inst, from
congestive chills.
- 1t seems that there are still Revolutionary
widows upon the pension rolls to the number
of 57S, a decrease of but fifty six over the
number last year.
= number of ladies in Nashville have
signed an agreement to abstain from all out
ward adornment on Sundays, wearing only the
plainest sort of apparel.
= Tobacco culture will probably become,
within few years, one of the most important
industries of California. The experiments this
year in its production have been remarkably
successful.
= The dwelling house of Rev. Fl. T. Sloan
at Cedar Springs, was totally consumed by fire,
on the 22nd ultimo. The family lost nearly all
of their clothes and furniture. Loss about
IS 900 and no insurance.
= The Nickerson House, so long q favorite
stopping-place in Columbia, has been closed,
and possession given to Rev. S. B. Jones, who
will open the building in January next, under
the name of the Columbia Female Collse.
: The Greenville Enterprise chronicles the
death of Mrs. T. C. Cover, which occurred in
that city on the 2Sth ult., after an illness Of
lady, whose place in society will not be easily
filled.
= Mr.. Mallory J. Thornton, a young farmer
of Elbert county, claims to have made thi:
year, with no other help than horse, seven
teen bales of cotton, and thinks he could have
cultivated four more acres of ground In tht
same staple.
= The New York Herald proposes the rais
ing of press fund for the benefit of Mr.. Gree
ley's children, subscriptions to which shall be
twenty-five dollars from each of the daily pa
pers, and ten dollars from each of the weekly
papers of the United States.
= According to the report of Superintendent
CIapp, the public printing of the United States
cost more than one million of dollars last year
The mass of matter sent from the capitol build
ing to the printing Office has become so i'm
mense that pneumatic tubeis being construc
ted to transport it thither.
- Rev. Whiteford Smith, D. d., who has beer
stationed in Charlston the past year as Pastor
of Trinity (Methodist) Church, has moved back
to Spartanburg, and will again resume the
duties of Professor in the Wotford College, {
position he has filled many years with great
credit to himself and benefit to that institu'
ton.
u From the auditors return for the yea
1871, the fact is taken that there are taxed II
this State six hundred and eighty miles o
railroad, not including the Charleston snt
Savannah and the South Carolina roads. The
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, the Cheraw
and Darlington, and the Greenville and Colum
bia roads each are assessed at SIC, 900 per mile
the Kings Mountain road is assessed at St, ,OO(
per mile; the Laurens road at s., $50 per mile
the Blue Ridge road at $500 per mile, ant
the Spartanburg and Union at $4,000 per mile