The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-11-13
ITEMs--EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

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- It is proposed to secure an appropriation
from Congress to build navy yard at Port
Royal.
A large number of colored families are
about to emigrate from East Tennessee to Lii
IBERIA.
- The Abbeville Press and Banner announ-
ces the death of an infant child of Mr.. S. A.
Breazeale, formerly of Anderson.
- The knowing ones in New Orleans who
bet upon the cotton crop are offering wagers
that the crop will fall under $3.50, 900 bales.
The result of the Ohio election may be
well said to be mixed" The Democrats have
the candidate for Governor, Republicans all
the other State officers, and the Democrats the
legislature
- The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel states
that op Saturday last seventeen shares OF Lang
ley stock sold at S110 per share, cash. This is
encouraging for Southern manufactures IN the
face of the unfavorable accounts from North
ern cotton manufactures.
"A New Orleans letter says it is currently
reported in that city that Longstreet is now
busily engaged in organizing an expedition for
a descent upon Cuba, and that he is doing it
with the knowledge and countenance, if not
the actual assistance, of Grant.
Icf. w. IL. SpCdko, VI OSOuCO SouAVy3
died at his residence On the 22nd inst. For
number of years. Mr.. Spears had been engaged
in teaching, and was remarkably successful in
that pursuit. His death was preceded, only
few weeks, by the death of his son and wife.
- Miss Annie Rogers of Lexington, KY,
died at Ninety-Six, on the 1st instant, of pneu--
monia. Her illness was of short duration, and
although the best medical aid was in atten-
dency, yet all efforts for her recovery were un-
availing, and she fell victim in the very
morning of life.
- 1t is estimated that there are at least
10000 working girls oat of employment in New
York at the present time, rs one of the depres-
sion of all kinds of business, and especially
such kinds of business as straw sewing, artlh-
cial -four making, and the lighter description
of printing Office work.
- Senator Whittemore proposes to pay each
member of the Legislature $500 for months
work at the extra session. This is to quadru-
pie the present pay. The estimated cost of the
extra session is S275, 900, whilst before the war
the entire cost of regular session was only
$40, 900 or S50,OOO
- 1t is estimated..that some 10000 operatives
will be thrown out of employment during the
coming winter in New York. Men, women
and children, with the utmost Willingness to
labor, and yet unable to obtain work, which is
their only means of subsistence, form the sad
dest and darkest picture Of the present 6nan-
cial pressure.
= A proposition, favored in administration
circles, is to have the Inauguration day of the
March till the first of July, so as to have it
and the w'fscal year begin on the same day.
It is not impossible that the President may
advocate in his annual message Constitu-
tional amendment making this change.
- In consequence of the failure of the cot.
ton crop, from various causes, the inhabitants
of number of Alabama counties are seriously
threatened with starvation. The idea of any
body starving in Alabama is startling one.
And when this starvation is threatened in
consequence of almost exclusive cotton plant
ing the moral is easy to understand.
= Senator Whittemore, who appears to be
the financial agent of the Moses administra-
ton, has introduced deficiency bill amounting
to $750000. At the last session, deficiency
tax of FIVE mills, estimated to produce $780,
900, was levied, and has been collected, and
already another levy of a like amount, for the
same period of time, is called for.
- Mr.. a. T. Stewart has returned from Eu-
rope, and although he was dangerously i'll dur.
ing the voyage, is said to have quite recovered
was to personally supervise the conduct Of his
immense business branches in the various parts
of Europe, and arrange vaster and more COM
plicated system of importation than ever be-
FORE
= The Washington Chronicle the organ of
Grants administration, gives a remedy for the
financial troubles of South Carolina, in the
following pertinent paragraph: "The inan-
cial affairs of South Carolina are in a bad con-
dition. If one-half of her statesmen were put
to work on some Of her uncultivated planta-
tions, she would soon get out of debt. This is
the true course of her relief"
= The Memphis avalanche says: AS a part
of the history of the ravages of the scourage
in North Memphis, we place on record the fate
Of the inmates of the boarding house known
as the Mississippi House, corner of Market and
Front streets. The landlord is Joe Sanford,
whose family consisted of wife and two chill
dren. In his house were eighteen boarders.
Of all these there were only Joe Sanford and
one boarder who survived all the rest (20)
died.
- The Knoxville Press and Herald an
nounces resumption of silver specie. 1t says:
"Already in Knoxville the retail dealers are
receiving the small silver coins in payment of
purchases made by the country people, who are
IOTCcu NY Vic StIlHBcilCy vi Iue paper luOuey w
empty out their boarded coins from old stock
used to say, the way to bring about resumption
is to resume"
- The Providence Journal declares that
printed calico is handson1er article than an
India shawl, and that if prints were two dol
lars yard no woman would rest quiet until
she had dress of them. 1t adds that it would
be easy. to name hundred women Of social
position and fashionable leadership, who by
resolving to dress for n year in American fabrics
might give an impulse to industry and produc-
tion that would be felt all over the country.
- The st. Louis Republican having remark
ed that practically there is no such thing as a
national democratic party" the Cincinnati
Enquirer (democratic) subjoins that "practi-
cally there is an organization going by that
name which, we all expect, will elect the next
President of the United States"