The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-11-27

- Four counties IN Iowa nave elected WO-
men for school superintendents.
- The official vote of Virginia gives Kem-
per majority of 2S, 146 for Governor.
= The McDufie (Ga.( Journal nominate' min
Hon. A. H. Stephens for President in 1876.
- Laurens, Union, and Chester report a
light fall of snow on Wednesday, 18th inst.
= Mrs. Edwin NJ. Stanton, the widow of the
late Secretary of War, died in Philadelphia
on the 18th inst.
= Ex-Judge Rutland, of Winnsboro, was
recently stricken down with apople1y, but
is now improving and likely to recover.
| - Mai. Clarence j. Prentice, son of the late
George D. Prentice, was killed in Kentucky
recently by being thrown from buggy.
"A Washington special to the New York
Post says that an attempt will be made during
the next session of Congress to restore the
franking privilege.
- President Grant says that he has not yet
indicated the appointment Of Chief Justice,
which fact would not be publicly known until
the meeting of Congress.
- The South Carolina Conference of the
Methodist rch South will meet at Sumter
on the 10th y. December. Bishop McTyeire
is expected to preside over its deliberations.
Hon. John P. Hale died at his home in
Dover. N. H., on the 10Th inst, in the 67th
year of his age. He represented New Hamp-
shire in the United States Senate for many
years, and was Minister to Spain since the
war.
- Messrs. James W. Fowler & Co., of Alb
beville, have made an assignment for the bel-
eft of their creditors. Their failure is attribu-
table to the financial panic and an unfortunate
cotton speculation.
- Twelve years has passed since specie pay.
ments were suspended, and it is estimated that
at this time, at least, one-third of the popula'
ton of the United States are absolutely unac-
quainted with the national coins.
- The Executive Committee of the Southern
Historical Society have secured the services Of
Gen. Wade Hampton, who will begin an active
canvass to enlarge the membership and collect
material for the archives of the Society.
Captain Matthew G. Perry, of the United
States Navy, nephew of the famous Commo-
dore Perry who gained distinction during the
war of 1912, died in New York on the 18th
NJ. c. Perry.
1t is understood that Secretary Fish has
made an imperative demand upon Spain for
the immediate restoration of property captured
from American citizens in Cuba, as he desires
to report to Congress that the stipulated restor-
alton has been made.
- Putting the current crop Of cotton down
at four millions of bales, it is estimated that
the shrinkage i'll cotton since the opening OF
the present season has been fully twenty five
dollars per bale or S100,000,000 lost to the
cotton planters by the decline of the staple.
Columbus Carter colored, who was con-
victed at the recent term Of the Court of Gen.
eral Sessions at Chester, of the murder of Green
Estes, and sentenced to be hung on the 2lst
instant, has had his sentence commuted to
imprisonment for life, and has been taken to
the penitentiary.
- Secretary Delano is reported to have
written letter since the Ohio election in
which he declares that under no circumstances
will he be candidate for United States Senator
from Ohio. 1t is barely possible that the
Democratic majority of II on joint ballot in
the Ohio Legislature had something to do with
this resolute determination.
- William B. Taylor, who has just been
elected Governor of Wisconsin, is native OF
New England, and has been living in the State
of his adoption for twenty-five years. He is
wealthy farmer and is President of the Wis
consin Agricultural Society. He belongs to
the simon-pure Democracy, and was copper
head" during the war
- Ex-senator R. NJ. T. Hunter,.,o Virginia,
has written letter explanatory of his propo-
sition that the Federal Government shall COM
pensate the late slave holders of the South for
the loss of their slave property. His scheme
is that 100000, 900 be deposited with the
Southern State governments to be loaned with
out interest to the ex-slaveholders.
- Captain Joseph Fry, the commander OF
the Virginius, was native Of Florida and was
forty-si1 years of age. He entered the Naval
Academy at Annapolis in 1884, and remaiEed
in the navy until 1861, when he resigned and
entered the Confederate service. He leaves q
wife and seven children, the Oldest cripple
and the Youngest only four years of age.
- The Augusta Constitutiondlist says: Ii
the United States seriously desire to take Cuba,
of course it can be done. But it may not be
either cheap or q bloodless undertaking.
Spain has generally found friends, in her hour
of need. She may not be without hacker on
the present occasion. And II that backer
should be great naval power, the complica-
ton would prove q serious one indeed.
| - The President will recommend in his
message that an amendment be made to the
constitution, comforting upon the President the
power to veto a portion of bill should he
deem such portion Objectionable, and approve
the remainder, making the act law as thus
amended also that no bills should be sent 10
the President for his signature within twenty
| four hours of the adjournment OF congress.
- The Cincinnati Gazette says Some think
we ought to 60 to war with Spain because we
could beat her so easy. The latter notion is
mistake. Spain is stubborn customer; sup
bose we take Cuba, what then? It will be the
end of the hurt we can do tc Spain; One
Alabama was found enough to sweep the seas
of our ships. Spain could send out as many
Alabamas as she liked. She could keep it up
for n generation, and it would be just like her
~ do it. Meantime we should be sinking our
hundreds of millions in impotent efforts to
raise raise a navy to carry war into Spain. War
with Spain means an addition of 900 millions
to our debt, and new greenback imitation that
will send the gold premium up where it was in
! the civil war.