The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-05-23
17EMs--EDI7oRIA1 AND OTHERWISE.

DR.. John L. Wilkes of Linconton, has
been elected President of the Augusta and
Hartwell Railroad.
- Andrew johnson proposes to be candi-
date for the Goyernorship of Tennessee on the
Greeley platform.
MIR. Peter Rowe, of Lexington County,
celebrated his one hundredth birthday on Sat-
urday the 11th inst. by giving Masonic dinner
to his many friends.
= Work is being rapidly pushed on the Port
Royal Railroad, and trains are now regularly
run from Beaufort to the end of the road, forty
miles toward Augusta.
= That noble soldier and sterling patriot
Gen. John G. Brcckinridge, whom the whole
South delights to honor, urges the support of
Greeley and Brown by the Democracy.
= A man named Lowell in Washington
pistol in the hands of his son and ordered him
to shoot an idiot step-daughter. The boy fired
and killed another sister. There is great ex-
citement in the ncighborhood.
= The State Democratic Convention of New
York, in session last week at Rochester, has in
effect endorsed Greeley and Brown. 1t has
fairly and enthusiastically committed itself 10
the Cincinnati platform. "New York casts her
sixty-sx votes for Horace Greeley"
= The ST. Louis Republican makes capital
suggestion to the Baltimore Convention. As
President Grant is the representative of nine
tenths of the opponents to Greeley, it thinks he
ought, by all fairness to receive the nomination
at Baltimore, if they are obliged to oppose
Greeley.
- Horace Greeley has withdrawn absolutely
from the editorial conduct of the New York
Tribune and will henceforth, until further nc
tice, exercise no control or supervision OF its
columns. The good sense and propriety Of
this action on MIR. Greeley's part is apparent to
all.
= The Columbia correspondent of the
Charleston Necs states that the project of form
ing a State ticket, upon the Liberal Republican
platform, gains strength every hour. The can
didates are not yet agreed upon, but the names
of two prominent Judges are mentioned In
connection with the movement.
- William Lucas, convicted of numbering
John Sampson, of Columbia, and Edward Har-
ris and B. Johnson, convicted of numbering
Patrick Murphy, ten miles below the city, on
the line of the South Carolina Railroad, have
been sentenced to be hung on the 10th of Au-
gust.
= Horace Greeley has received letter from
Hon. Jefferson Davis congratulating him on
his nomination and promising to support the
Cincinnati ticket. Mr. Davis says that he does
not expect the South will have justice in his.
life time, but he thinks it will have better
prospect for obtaining it under the Cincinnati
ticket than any other, and consequently will
give it his support.
= Hon. George W. Julian, of Indiana, in
letter favoring the liberal movement, says :;
ave must destroy the military rings and or
ganized thieving, and this preliminary work
will open the way for reconstruction OF par
ties on the real issues which the course Of
events and the logic of politics will necessitate.
The master is the builder. The work of de-
struction must precedc that of construction" !"
- The Trustees of the Southern Baptist The
illogical Seminary, recently in session at Ra-
leigh, N. c. are discussing the question of re-
moving the Seminary from Greenville, S. G..
There are several propositions before the Irus-
tees, and q committee has been appointed to
visit the different localities in kentucky, Fen
nessee and Georgia competing for the location.
The removal will take place next year, it IS
thought, and the fall session will begin as usu-
al at Greenville.
= On last Wednesday young man riding
upon mule had Just time enough to reach hrs
fathers place about three miles from Winns-
boro, whittier he had been on business, when it
began to rain heavily. Stripping the saddle
and bride from the mule, he jumped into the
piazza of the house out of the rain, and let the
animal CO. The latter walked off few yards,
and was about to enter the door. of the stable,
when flash of lightning came, and it fell dead
in its tracks