The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-18
1TEMs..EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE,


sentatives was once Confederate colonel.
- The father of Col Jim Fisk went crazy
on hearing the news of his sons assassination.
= The colored people are said to be leaving
Illinois for the South, going chiefly to the Gulf
States.
Senator Brownlow publishes letter in the
Knoxville Chronicle in favor of the reelection
of Grant.
In London they are about starting new
journal, devoted exclusively to recording births,
marriages and deaths.
Hon. James Brooks, editor of the New
York Enpress, has Just returned from his jour-
ney around the world.
- The Russian fleet has been ordered to Pen
sacola, whence Alexis will embark after his
Western and Southern tour.
= The Richmond papers announce the death
of the Hon. VIM. II. Macfarland, one of the
most prominent citizens of that place.
= Gen. Butler, it is understood, will cham
pion the declaratory act in Congress for women
suffrage under the fifteenth amendment.
| "A Covington dispatch states that Mr.. Jes-
Sc R. Grant is still confined to his house, and
there is but little probability of his getting out
this winter.
= Joseph elliott, the great steel pen maker,
of Birmingham, is dead. Mr.. elliott, whose
manufactures are known all the world over,
commenced the manufacture of pens in 1922.
= The Richmond (Va.) Wig says: "Ihe
South Carolina Land and immigration Society
lottery was drawn the 18th instant. 1T is re-
ported that Charles B. Young, typo in the
Dispatch Office, of this city, drew prize OF
100000"
- The citizens of Rhode Island who are dis
franchised by the property qualification for suf-
frage are signing a petition to Congress, asking
the National Government to enforce in that
State the amendments to the Constitution OF
the United States.
- Hon. Geo. II. Pendleton having been in
vited to attend celebration of Democrats, at
Worcester, Ohio, wrote long letter, in which
he thinks two great dangers imperil free instl-
tutions, viz: the spirit Of centralized military
government and corruption in Office:
= Hon. j. NJ. Smith has been inaugurated
as Governor of Georgia for the unexpired term
of Bullock The people of the Empire State
are rejoicing that an honest man once more
fills the Executive Office, after enduring six
years of Radical thieving and plundering.
= The proposition by the Hon. Daniel Voor-
hees, of Indiana, that National Convention
be held on the 22d day of February, to give an
authentic expression of principles, which are
to guide the Democracy in the future, as in the
past, is meeting with earnest advocacy in high
circles of the Democratic party in this coun-
try.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald writes that Mr. Dawes be-
lieves that G. G. Bowen is ineligible for the
seat in the House of Representatives for which
he is endeavoring to oust Robert G.. De Large,
the colored member from South Carolina, on
the ground that he has accepted, and exercised
the functions of member o. the State Legis-
lature.
= The Cincinnati Gazeae publishes the sub
stance of an interview with Hon. Henry Stan
berry, who denies certain statements IN relation
to his experiences during the Ku Klux trials in
South Carolina, and especially to the alleged
discourtesy shown him and his associate coun-
sell Hon. ReYerdy johnson, by leading cti-
zens, ahd the report that they had retired IN
disrust from the defence of these cases.
We learn by private information from
Tallahassee that the notorious George w. Swcp-
son was arrested in that city on Saturday by
the Florida State authorities on charge ofenl.
bezzlement. We learn also that $500, 900 bail
are required. Swcpson will be remembered as
one of the North Carolina railroad developers,
who. in connection with his partner Littleheld
came near bankrupting the State.
= The Hon. Willard Hall, Judge of the
United States District Court for Delaware, re-
signed his position recently, at the age OF 81
years. He has been for nearly half century
continually on the bench. Sixty-ninc years
ago he entered upon the practice of the law
In 1916 he was elected to Congress, and i'll 1919
reelected In 1923 President Monroe appoin-
ted him United States District Judge, and he
has has SER, served without intermission to the present
time, except that within the last year failing
health has prevented him from regularly at
tending to the duties of the place.
The South Carolina bond-holders, the New
York Herald says, have commenced to organ
ize to compel the State to fulfil its obligations
At a meeting of the stockholders of Baltimore
last night, where fourteen persons present repre-
sented 100000 worth of the stock, it was gen
orally conceded that Gov. Scott, Parker, the
Treasurer, and Kimpton, the Financial Agen
in New York, were responsible for the amount
issued A committee being appointed to hunt
up the bond-holders all over the country, We
may soon expect to hear some heavy inancia
artillery firing at Columbia.
In the Supreme Court of the United
States, on Monday last, Mr.. Justice Strong de
livered an opinion of the Court, which over
rules its former decision of the legal tende
question, which held that greenbacks were no
legal tenders for the discharge of contracts
made subsequent to the passage of the act, ant
held that treasury notes are a legal tender, il
cases except where the contract calls for some
specifically named money. Mr.. Justice Brad
ley read concurring opinion, and Justices
Clifford and Field read dissenting opinions
The Chief Justice stated that Mr. Justice Mel
son, who was not present, also dissents from
the majority view.
The death of Gen. Henry W. Halleck, o
the United States army occurred at his resi-
dence in Louisville, KY, on the 9th inst, from
congestion of the brain, superinduced by dis
ease of the liver, with which he had been af
fiicted for some time. He was born in Oneid:
!, County, New York, in 1919, and was graduated
at West Point, with honors, in 1889. He wa
made second Lieutenant of Engineers ON grad
uation, and assistant professor at West Poin
the same year, promoted to first Lieutenant ii
1916, and brevetted Captain for gallant ant
meritorious conduct in 1S47. He served witt
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