The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-18
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

= The municipal election in Marion resulted
in Democratic victory.
= The Columbia Phenir has been reduced
in size, but maintains its vigor and interest.
= Rev. John G. Galloway, of Oconee county,
There are no less than five candidates al
ready announced for Sheriff of Barnwell coun
ty.
= Fields Montgomery, Auditor of Newberry
county, died on the 7th inst, after weeks ILL
ness.
The military authorities are still engaged
in the arrest and Imprisonment of citizens in
York county.
Rev. MIR. Perry, of the Episcopal Church
at Gainesville Florida, has accepted call to
Camden, S. c.
The Kings Mountain Railroad is adyer-
tised to be sold the 18th of March next to sat
isfy mortgaged debt.
= Maj. Henry Noah has been appointed Pri-
vate Secretary to Governor Scott in place OF
John Heart, Esq, resigned.
= Richard Dodson, veteran OF 1872, who
had passed his three score and ten years, died
suddenly in Oconee county on the 9Th inst.
= 1t is believed the Columbia Female Col
lege will be re-opened next fall, as it has been
decided to make loan of S20, 900 for that pur-
pose.
= The appointment of J. P. Watts, as Trial
Justice of Laurens County, was rejected in
Executive session of the Senate, on the 9Th in
slant.
= Mr.. Wm. Swoll, the city scavenger of Sa-
vannah, is the fortunate possessor of the ticket
| which drew the Academy of Music in Charles
ton last week.
"A. Y. Lee Esq, has received the silver
medal awarded him by the Cotton States Agri-
cultural Society of Augusta, Ga, for his speci-
mems of architecture.
- The Camden Journal has been informed
that in certain portions of the county the col
ored laborers seem considerably indisposed to
contract for another season.
- Mai. Merrill of the United States army
who has been stationed at Yorkville for some
time past, has been ordered to Washington fol
consultation upon public matters
= Mrs. Rice, highly esteemed and estilna
BILE lady, for many years teacher in the Green
vile Fepale College, has recently deceased
Latterly, she had been residing in Abbeville
County
= The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel learns
from private letters received in that city from
parties in Charleston that the Academy of Mu
sic was drawn by Messrs. Butler, Chadwick
Gary & Co.
. Senator Cardoza, of Kershaw, has intro
duced bill proposing an amendment to the
Constitution of the State, in favor of minority
representation in the General Assembly on thu
plan of cumulative voting.
The following named persons have beer
elected to serve as Intendant and Wardens o.
the town of Laurens for the ensuing year
Intendant, II. B. Crews; Wardens-J. A
Eicheberger, VIM. H. Garret, w. +. BearC
and B. l.. Potter.
- The Charleston Courier states that anothe
paper, in the interest of the Republican party
is to make its appearance in that city, as soor
as the material can be obtained from New
York. Report says that forty thousand dollar
have been raised in aid of the project.
- The seat of J. Banks Lyle, of Spartan
burg, Democratic member of the House of Rep
resentatiyes has been declared vacant by vot
of so to -. He is charged with being tn
Grand Cyclops of the Ku Klux, and has no
been present during the session of the Legsla
ture.
= David Dudley Field, Esq, of New York
has been associated with Messrs. Stanberr
and Johnson to conduct the arguments befor
the Supreme Court of the United States, ii
reference to the constitutional questions IN
volved in the recent Ku Klux trials in thi
State.
The Fairfield Herald proposes a confer
ence of the young men of the State, to counse
together in reference to the future welfare an,
honor of South Carolina. The active partici
patton of old leaders in political affairs is deeme'
unwise and impolitic, under existing circum
stances.
= MIR. Peter X. Coburn, an old and highl
respected citizen of Charleston, died on tn
10th inst. at Summerville, where he has bee
residing since the war. He had been connec
ted with the South Carolina Railroad for man
years, and was an efficient officer. Mr.. Cobur
was a prominent member of the Masonic fra
ternity, and held the Office of Grand Marsha
for long series of years, and in that capacit
participated in the ceremonies of laying tn
cornerstone of the New Temple in Decembe
last He was an upright citizen, true Maso
and unselfish man.
: The Edgefeld Adcertiser says: Maj. Joh
E. Bacon, a distinguished member of the Edge
field bar, and identified with EdgeGeld from tn
cradle to middle age, has departed from anon
US and gone to set up his home in Columbi:
where he will WELD his energies in the inter
ests of the popular Brooklyn Life Insuranc
Company, of which he has become generf
agent for the State of South Carolina. Edge
field deeply regrets the loss of so popular an
and high-toned citizen and this regret is at
companied by heartfelt wishes for his happ
ness and prosperity wherever he may be.