The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-12-26
1TEMs-EDIToRIA1 AND OTHERWISE.

- It is estimated that the various mission
and tract societies of the United States dis
burse annually S10,000,0O0.
- The assessed valuation of personal prop
erty in the State of Ohio is Sc, ,4S3, 1896, ,641-an
increase of about thirty millions over last year.
- Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon, the distinguished
London Baptist pull pit orator, has been serious
" i'll in Southern France, but has returned
home convalescent.
- Beaufort has three newspapers, four print
ing offices, and only one poor house. A. good
prospect for the last named institution to ln-
crease its inmates shortly.
- Hon. l.. @. @. Lamar, member elect OF
the House of Representatives from Mississippi,
whose disabilities have just been removed, has
been struck with paralysis.
- James Macbeth, ESQ.,, an old and highly
esteemed citizen of Charleston, died in that
city on the 18th instant, in the 63rd year of his
age. Mr.. Macbeth was for many years prom
inent cotton merchant in that city.
- The New York Commercial, which as
sumes to be we'll informed on the subject, says
there are ten different organizations in Canada
having in view annexation to the United
States, and that they are working steadily and
efficiently to that end.
- The New York Tribune closes an editorial
as follows: awe have expressed our hope, and,
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have an administration which we can honestly
support. We certainly shall not be found cap
tiousy and maliciously opposing it,"
- Vice President Colfax, who has been ten
dered the editorship of the New York Tribune,
was once printer boy. He is now interested
in one or two papers, and writes for half doz-
en- more An exchange says: His style is
easy, graceful and simple, and it is in Sunday
school literature that he shines with the great
est radiance"
- The Washington correspondent OF the
Baltimore SIN says that "the President has
concluded to pardon all persons now under con-
viction for Ku Klux offences, where such is
asked for by their reputable neighbors." We
trust that the neighbors of the prisoners from
South Carolina will move at once and secure
their release.
= The Greenyille Mountaineer learns that
Mr.. Henry Gremshaw, of Canada, has pur-
chased $40 acres of the lands of the late Col.
E. S. Irvine, including the family homestead.
The price to be paid for these valuable lands
is $9,12O. Mr.. Gremshaw expects, at an early
day. to bring about twenty families from Can
ada to settle on the place
- The expenses of the November elections
in the city of New York have just been footed
up. One hundred and thirty-six thousand
of holding the election was $780, 900, or nearly
one dollar for every vote polled The expense
to the United States was S400, 900, or nearly
three dollars for every vote polled.
- The Greenville MountGinecr states that
Rev. 2. T. Buist was recently attacked at night,
short distance beyond the city limits, by
some unknown ruffian, and was struck down by
a blow on the back of his head, which rendered
him insensible for some time AS DR.. BUST
was not robbed, and it is not known that ne
has an enemy, the reason for this cowardly at
tack remains mystery.
United States Deputy Marshal Hendricks,
who has just been removed, states that ne was
solicited by his superior officer to resign, on the
avowed ground that the 'presure" tor his re-
moyal, on account of his arrest OF Patterson,
was too strong to withstand. Captain Hen
bricks refused to resign; and the pressure
resulted in his prompt removal. This IS civil
service reform in South Carolina.
- The question of the constitutionality OF
the Enforcement or Ku Klux law has been
thrown out of the Supreme Court OF the United
States 1t will be remembered that the question
was argued at the last term on behalf OF Thomas
Jefferson Greer, of South Carolina, on q peti
ton for haJeas corpus On the 10th inst, the
Supreme Court denied the writ by vote OF
four to four. Greer remains in prison, and
there is no other case of this kind before the
Court.
"A. T. Stewards magnificent mansion, on
the corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth
street, New York city, which he has just moved
into, is large enough for the retinue OF
crowned head. The house, however, is said to
be very damp, and to require fires burning even
in the month of August. 1t is the most ele-
gantly fitted up mansion in the Union. The
carpets and curtains, fitted to each room, were
made in Europe, and the gorgeous furniture
was also made abroad.
= Mr.. Ezra Cornell the founder of the uni
versity which bears his name, purposes to col
| lect and bind in q memorial volume copies OF
all the newspapers which can be obtained CIV
| ing accounts of the death and burial OF Horace
Greeley, or articles on his life and labors,
| This volume is to be placed in the library OF
Cornell University. 1t will have an interest
and value which can hardly be overestlmated'
That it may be as complete as possible, all edi-
tors are earnestly requested to send copies OF
their publications containing memorials OF MIR.
Greeleys life and death to MIR. Cornell, at
Ithaca, n. Y.
= In the Supreme Court, Thursday, petit
ton was presented by James B. Campbell,
ESD. of Charleston, and d. H. Chamberlain,
ESD, in behalf of Robert G. Shiver and others,
for a q writ of nsandamus against the Comptrol-
ler-General, to compel him to lew. the tax
provided for by the fourth section of the Act
authorizing the issue of the revenue bond
scrip. The petitioners set forth that they are
the owners and holders of the bond scrip for
good and valuable consideration, and that they
are entitled to have the tax in question levied
to redeem the scrip which they now hold.
The court granted rule to show cause against
the Comptroller-General, returnable on Tues
day, the End of January, 1873.
The result of the vote in the Electoral
Colleges is now known. The electors in the
seven States that voted for Greeley and Brown
at the polls acted without any unanimity, and
many voted on their own hook. The vote for
President in these seven States was thus divi-
ded: Greeley, g. B. Gratz Brown, "a; I. A.
Hendricks, 49, G. j. jenkins, 2; David Davis,