The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-03-28
PALMETTO.
ITEMs-EDIToR1AL AND OTHERWISE

- The Sons of Temperance organized Dl-
vision at Walhalla on last Friday night.
F. E. Spinner Esq, Treasurer of the
United States, was in Charleston last Monday.
Judge VIM. NJ. Thomas is candidate for
Congress in the Fourth Congressional District.
The fortune of Mr.. A. 7. Stewart, of New
York, is estimated at between fifty and sixty
millions.
= Military arrests are of frequent occurrence
in York, Chester, Spartanburg and Union
counties.
Gov. Andrew G. Curtin, Minister of the
United States at st. Petersburg, has resigned
that position.
John G. Mackey has been appointed So
licitor of Charleston District vice E. B. Sea-
brook, removed.
Andrew johnson is said to contemplate
running as an Independent candidate for Gov
ernor of Tennessee.
Judge Davis, of Illinois, the Labor Re-
form candidate for President, weighs two hum
dred and eighty-fve pounds.
John r. Petty, indicted for the murder of
John Dale, was tried at the recent term OF
Oconee Court and acquitted.
Gen. Longstreet has retired from all Off
cial positions in New Orleans, with view of
an extended absence from that city.
Gov. Jewell, of Connecticut, has designa-
ted tomorrow as day of fasting and prayer.
His successor is to be elected next Monday.
= Mr.. F. w. Wing is the nominee of the
Citizens Party for Mayor of Columbia. The
election occures next Tuesday, End of April.
&C. w. Melton, Esq, of Yorkville, bought
controlling interest in the Kings Mountain
Railroad, and postponed the sale of the road.
= The State Convention of the Conservative
Party of North Carolina will meet at Greens
boro' on Wednesday, the first day of May
next.
- The Legislature established an Inferior
Court in the city of Charleston, and elected
George Lee, colored, as the Judge to preside
over it.
= Mrs. Nancy Harrison, widow of the late
DR.. James Harrison, of Greenville, died sud
denly in that city from an attack OF paralysis,
on the 18th inst.
- The farmers of Hart County, Ga, have
organized an Agricultural Society. F. 3: Hod-
pes. ESQ.,, is the President, and MIR. Q. w. Sell
del is the Secretary.
- Robert B. Davidson, son of Col. Allen T.
Davidson of Asheville, N. c., and nephew OF
Governor Vance, has received the appointment
of cadet at West Point.
= The Presbytery of South Carolina will
meet at Abbeville G. Fl. on Wednesday, 10th of
April. Rev. w. P Jacobs, of Laurens, will
preach the introductory sermon:
= The citizens of Union speak in high terms
of the assistance rendered by the United States
officers and soldiers during the late fire. They
worked energetically and eftectually.
"A Virginian, recently deceased, has left
his farm to ten of his former slaves, who had
voluntarily remained with him until the day of
his death, taking what wages he chose to give
them.
= The annual meeting of the South Caroli-
ma Medical Association will take place in Col
umbia on the 18th of April. Where there Is
no local society, the physicians are requested
to send delegates.
= The Yorkville Enquirer learns that the
Washington and Lee University, at Lexington,
Va, has endowed the Kings Mountain Militia
ry School, of Yorkvile with an annual prize
scholarship in that Institution.
The Greenville Enterprise announces the
death of VIM. Bates, Esq, long identified with
the manufacturing interests of that County,
and the founder of Batesville Factory. He was
seventy-five or eighty years of age.
= Frederick Morer (white) and Charles
Dunn (colored) have been committed to Jail in
Greenville, to answer the charge of setting fire
to various buildings in that city. The evil
dence at the preliminary examination before
the Mayor was very strong against them.
under the administration of Gen. Grant already
foot up the sum of S37 ,454 ,562, according to
the Detroit Free Press. This is all that has
been brought to light, and yet its supporters
declare that this is an honest and economical
administration.
Mr. P. B. Glass has been designated as
Acting Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Third Collection District of South Carolina.
He will act until an appointment is made to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of Mr.. Robert NJ. Wallace, who is now United
States Marshal
The culture of rice is now attracting the
attention of the agriculturalists of California,
in which State 3O0,0OO,O00 pounds of rice, i'm
ported from Asatic countries, are consumed
every year, the average price being seven cents
per pound There are excellent rice lands in
the State, and the climate is favorable to its
cultivation.
- The New Hampshire Patriot declares the
late result in that State was produced by the
most Infamous means ever employed in pop
ular election, and is triumph of fraud, bribe-
ry and coercion, alike disgraceful to the victors
and to the State. BY such means an endorse
ment of General Grant and his administration
was obtained.
A gentleman from South Carolina has
informed the Boston Post that Congressman r.
B. Elliott has made at least S150,0O0 in cash.
on account of the assistance rendered Gov
Scott in fighting off impeachment. He has
been in Columbia all winter, and has not occu-
pied his seat in Congress since the session be-
gan last December.
The following persons have been app,on-
ted trustees of the Estate Agricultural College
and Mechanics Institute" located {; Orange
burg: Judge A. J. Willard Columbia; j. j.
Wright, Beaufort; Hon. John Wilson, Ander-
son W. D. Harris, Columbia; Gilbert Pills
bury, Charleston; Benjamin Byas O. Orange
burg; R. J. Donaldson, Cheraw G. W. Will
der, Columbia; H. w. Duncan, Union.
= The Chester Reporter says that Judge
Mackey has visited that place for the purpose
of making arrangements for pertinent resi-
dence. He is bold and outsPoken as to the
outrageous violations of law that have been
enacted by the Federal authorities under the
.,rotondod sanction of the Enforcement Act,