The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-06-06
1TEMs--ED1ToRrAL AND OTHERWISE.


age in affluence and in excellent health.
- The machine and work shops of the Air
Line Railroad are to be located at Atlanta, Ga.
"A periodical, edited by young lady, has
been started in North Carolina under the title
of the Dolly Narden.
- The Masonic Lodge at Winnsboro has
resolved to contribute s25 annually to the Pal
metto Orphan Home of Columbia.
= The Independent Order of United Breth-
ren is meeting with very cold comfort with the
colored people of Abbeville County.
Il French colony in Franklin County,
Kansas, has established q velvet mandatory
at that place, the first in the United States.
- Information has reached Beaufort, S. O.,
of the death in New York of Mr.. George W.
johnson, late editor of the Beaufort Repubh-
can.
- The Arkansas Democracy decline sending
delegates to Baltimore and have raised the flag
of Greeley and Brown on their own response
bility.
The ladies of Spartanburg have raised the
ting new steps, &C., to the entrance of Wotford
College.
DIR. H. B. Maxwell of Greenwood, Able
vile County, is to deliver the next annual ad.
dress before the Association of the Alumni of
Erskine College.
- The Baptist Church at Walhalla will be
dedicated on next Sabbath, June 9th. Rev.
DR.. Reynolds, of Columbia, will preach the
| dedication sermon.
- Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi, denies the
published statement that he will take the stump
for Greeley and says that as between him and
Grant he will support the latter.
| - Gen. J. B. Gordon, of Georgia, will deliv-
er the annual oration before the literary socie-
ties at Davidson College N. c., on the 26th OF
June during commencement week.
kansas has declined to send delegates to the
Philadelphia Convention, and adopted resolu-
tions fully endorsing Greeley and Brown.
= Gen. D. H. Hill, editor of the Southern
Home, published at Charlotte, N. Co. is in favor
Of the election of Greeley and Brown. /, He be-
lieves that it would be better for the South to
keep away from Baltimore.
= Mrs Sarah Colt, who established the first
Sunday School in the United States, died re-
Gently in Paterson, N. J. The school was or
ganized in 1898 for instruction of the factory
children in reading and writing.
- Mr.. Samuel Bryce, Of Spartanburg, was
stricken down with apopleXy on the oath ult.
and expired in few minutes. He was son
of Mr.. Robert Bryce, formerly of Columbia,
and was an exemplary young man.
= The contract for the erection of the mon
ument to the Confederate dead, in Charleston,
has been awarded to Messrs Heath q Roberts st
stone masons of Columbia, for the sum of 81,
700. The monument will be of native granite.
President Lncoln's Cabinet was composed
of Messrs. Seward, Chase, Blair, Smith, Wells,
Stanton and Bates. Three of these distin-
guished men are now dead, Of the remaining
four, not a single one is supporter OF Gen.
Grant.
= Thaddeus S. Bennett and William r.
Howle INDUCED in a shooting. affray at Rich
mond last week. resulting in the latter being
killed The difficulty originated in conse-
quence of an alleged intimacy between Bennett
and Howle's wife.
= Senator Ferry, of Connecticut, newly eec-
ted by coalition of the Liberal Republicans
and Democrats, says the election OF Greeley
would be "mere midsummer madness" and
he expresses his determination to continue IN
the old Republican track"
The accommodation train on the Whining
ton, Columbia and Augusta Railroad ran OH
the track, near Crisis Station, on Thursday last
Three cars were wrecked, and seven persons
wounded, two of them seriously. 1t is hoped
none of the injuries will result fatally.
4 Mr.. S. N. Latham, Senator from Fauquier
County, Va, who has not been in his seat the
past session, on account of illness, has notified
the Clerk that he does not consider himself en-
titled to draw his per diem, and has voluntari-
" relinoushed about $500 that the law allows
him.
- The Aiken Journal says: eve hear of
more deaths than usual this season, of parties
who have been bathing in creeks and mill
ponds, without caring whether they were heat
ed or not before plunging into cold water
Better be careful, all ye parties who will
SWIM"
- Horace Greeley has written letter to an
old friend in Congress, stating positively tnaI
he will withdraw from the field unless endorsed
by the Baltimore Convention. In the event OF
a straight out Democratic nomination, ne Will
support the strongest Republican ticket IN the
field, thereby meaning the Philadelphia noml-
nee. -.
1t is asserted that the Liberal Republi-
cans in Congress expect all the principal offices
in making combination on the State tickets,
and that the Democrats are merely to be called
upon to do the voting. Western Congressman
Of the Democratic faith object to this proceed
ing, as they are not yet ready to retire from
public life.
= Gen. James Shields, of Missouri, supports
Greeley and Brown. General Shields is we'll
known all over the country as hero-statesman.
He fought through the Mexican war, and has
been lifelong Democrat. His heart is as
brave as his head is clear, and he is second on
ly to Gratz Brown in the influence he wields
with the people of Missouri.
Mr.. G. L. Isaacs, gentleman we'll known
to persons passing over the Greenville and Col
umbia Railroad, besides many others at both
ends of the line, as polite and attentive con-
ductor, has been connected with that public
institution for twenty-one years, nearly all OF
which time he has occupied his present posi-
ton. This time will almost if not quite cover
the entire history of the road.
= Southwestern Missouri has been visited
by terrible tornado. Several farms, with
, their houses, barns, orchards, and fences, were
completely destroyed, and besides two persons
killed, twelve were wounded, and some of them
it is feared fatally. Added to this there was a
heavy fall of rain at Verona in the same State
Immense damage WAS done and three persons