The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-02-01
IrEMs-.EDIToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

for breach OF marriage promise.
= General Mcclellan has sailed from New
York for short tour in the West Indies.
The New York Spirit Of the Times nomi-
mates Hon. Charles Sumner for the Presiden-
: The ST. Paul (N1inn.) Daily Press says that
Gen. Hancock refuses to be candidate for
President.
= Massachusetts, has mile of railway for
every five miles of territory and every 1000
population.
: Representatives of Mississippi farmers are
visiting South Carolina for the purpose of pro-
curing laborers.
"A Society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals has been organized in Raleigh,
North Carolina.
Anderson Baker, a colored man, died in
Mariana, Florida, on the 10th inst, at the adj
vanced age of 119 years.
- The trial of Nelson for the killing of Gen.
Clanton will take place in Knoxville on the
fourth Monday in this month.
- The Kentucky House of Representatives
has voted to repeal the law of that State max
ing insanity cause of divorce.
= The bill has passed both Houses of the
Kentucky Legislature, allowing colored per-
sons to testify in the State courts
- The London Lancet thinks that during
the coming spring, or early in the summer,
cholera will reappear in Western Europe.
DIR. Joseph j. Warlaw, and family, of At.
beville, have recently removed to Walhalla,
with the intention of remaining twelve months.
The Nebraska Legislature has declared by
resolution the Chair of the Executive vacant.
The Governor refuses to recognize the act de-
posing him.
Gen. M. W. Ransom has been nominated
for United States Senator from North Carolina,
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation Of
ex-Gov. Vance.
- President Grant has made good his defal-
cation of $4,000 druing the Mexican war, send
ing his check for the amount, without interest,
to the proper accounting officer.
Hon. A. G. Thurman, United States Sen
ator from Ohio, will deliver the annual address
before the literary societies of the University
of Virginia on the 26th of June next. -
A bill has been introduced in the Legisla-
ture to encourage building on the burnt districts
of Charleston. 1t provides for the exemption Of
all new buildings from taxes for five years. +.
= The resignation of Col. B. S. Jones, SheT=;
iff of Laurens county, has been accepted by
the Gogernor, but as yet there is no intimation
of successor. .r
"A new fifty dollar counterfeit of the last
greenback issue is said to be close imitation
of the genuine. All persons fortunate enough
to handle fifty dollar bills ought to be on their
guard against this counterfeit
Gen. Joseph Lane, of Oregon, the candi-
date of the Breckinridge party in 1860 for Vice
President of the United States, was seventy
years old on the 18th of December. Heiss still
The Charleston papers announce the death
of Col. Joseph Whaley, planter of Edisto Is
land, and man of high and resolute charac-
ter This distinguished Carolinian closed an
honorable life aged eighty-fve years. ~
The Philadelphia Press puts forth as an
argument sustaining the wisdom of the Nation
al Republican Committee, that the nominees Of
National Conventions held in Philadelphia
have always been singularly successful in the,
election following.
= Mai. Martin R. Delaney, colored aide,
de-camp to Gov Scott, has sent in his resigna-
ton to his Excellency, saying that self-respect
and Justice to the cause of his race will not
permit him to hold such a relation to the Gov
ernor without compromise of principle.
The scourge of small poX has never been
so widespread and terrible throughout the.
world as in the present winter. In America,
however, the crisis is passed, and news from all
quarters show its rapid decrease. in England
it seems to be growing.
Gov. Conley, of Georgia, granted forty
three pardons to criminals during the few weeks
that he held office, including Foster Blodgett
and the rest of the Radical ring indicted for
embezzement and other offences in connection
with the management of public funds.
Gen. George w. Cass, of Allegheny coun-:
iy, is spoken of as the most probable Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania
this year. He is nephew of Hon. Lewis Cass,
and is q gentleman of fine executive ability and
great personal popularity, and is Democrat of
the old school. -
Hon. VIM. Allen, of Ohio, is the only
surviving member of the United States Senate
of 1887 and 1888, when Clay, Calhoun and
Webster were members, and when the Senate
contained a galaxy of talent that was unsur-.
passed in Legislative bodies. Mr. Allen is re-
markably hale and vigorous for man of his
years. -.
= Reviewing the year 1871, the Manchester
(Eng.) Examiner states that the cotton districts
have had return of those busy times which
certain prophets told US some years ago had
gone for ever. The cotton manufacture, so far
from having disappeared as one of the staple
industries, has more capital embarked in it at
this moment, and finds employment for a lar
ger number Of work people, than at any former
period.
poisoning Gen. Ketchum at Baltimore last sum-
mer, has at last terminated in the acquittal Of
Mrs. Wharton. The trial lasted six or eight
weeks, and more than fifty witnesses were ex-
amined. The cost of the trial is put down at
$4,000. Mrs. Wharton is to be tried again in
April for attempting to poison Van Ness. -
At the last election in Ohio, it was deci-
ded that a convention should be called for the
revision of the Constitution, and bill is now
before the Legislature providing for the cleo
tion of members on the first Monday in April,
that being the day of the little town elections.
1t also provides that the convention shall meet
at an early. day to enable it to frame Consti-
tober, and thus avoid the expense of special
election.
Gen. R. S. Ewell died at his residence in
Marcy county, Tenn, on Thursday last. His
wife died few days before. Gen. Ewell was