The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-03-13
rTEMs--EDI!oRTA1 AND OTHERWISE.

= On Friday last, Spencer was sworn in as
Senator from Alabama.
- The State tax of Tennessee is sixty cents
on the one hundred dollars valuation.
= Rev. John P. Newman has been reap
pointed Chaplain of the United States Senate.
Levy B. Luckey succeeds Colonel Robert
Douglass as private secretary to President
Grant.
: Gen. R. E. Colston has accepted the offer
of employment in the service of the Khedive
of Egypt
Hon. R. NJ. 7. Hunter and Hon. James
Barbour are spoken of as candidates for Gov
ernor of Virginia.
= By the recent Act of the Legislature all
men between the ages of 18 and 55 are required
to perform road duty.
: The small farms in the blue grass region
Of Kentucky are being gradually absorbed by
wealthy land owners.
II Mr.. James j. Richardson, of Marion, has
obtained letters patent for an improved truck
barrow invented by him.
- The Raleigh papers mention the arrival
of another lot of Immigrants from England
They will settle around Raleigh.
"A rumor is current in Washington that
Gen. II. G. Worthington has been appointed
Collector of the port of Charleston.
- Hon. John J. Patterson, Senator elect
from this State, took his seat in the Senate of
the United States on Wednesday last without
a dissenting voice.
: L. Cass Carpenter, of the Columbia Union
has been reelected President of the Southern
Republican Press Association, at its recent
meeting in Washington.
= The stockholders of the South Carolina
Railroad and Southwestern Railroad Bank,
will hold their annual meeting in Charleston,
on the 9th and 9th of April.
= The Houston (Texas) Union says that
more cattle have perished in that State, this
winter, by cold and starvation, than in any
former equal duration of cold weather.
= The Sumter News says five fatal cases
among negroes of disease, having the appear
Iance and presenting the Identical symptoms of
the epizooty, have occurred in Middleton town.
ship of that county.
u Rev. James Bonner Foster, of Cummings
Vile, Ohio, died at the residence of his relative,
Rev. j. T. Bonner, in Due West, on last Thurs
day, of consumption. MIR. Foster was native
of Abbeville County.
- Hon. Alfred Iverson, formerly Senator
from Georgia in the United States Congress,
died at his residence in Macon last Wednesday
morning. Mr.. Iverson had been in declining
health for some months.
The Laurensville Herald chronicles the
death of w. G. Harris, Esq, of that place, who
died rather suddenly, as he was walking about
the street only short time before his death,
which was caused by dissipation and exposure.
: Ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour, of New York,
who is now on visit to Florida for his health,
has been invited to deliver an address before
the Agricultural Society of South Csrolina," !"
in the city of Charleston, on his return from
the Land of Flowers.
= Colonel Lewis Merrill, who has been in
command of the post at Yorkville, has been
relieved of the command of the troops and
ordered to report to the Attorney General for
service in the pending Ku Klux trials. Cap
tain John Christopher succeeds him in the
command.
About 300 citizens of New Orleans are
reported to have armed themselves with pistols
and made an attempt to capture the District
Court rooms. The rooms were guarded by
soldiers under General Longstreet who fired
several rounds, killing one man and wounding
twelve. Order was then restored.
= The example of France and Spain is be-
coming contagious. The question of fedora
tive republic IS being mooted by the Scandna-
vians, and we may soon have to record OF
Norway, Sweden and Denmark that they are
united under the simplest, least expensive and
lost sensible form of government.
: The Port Royal Railroad, running from
Augusta to Port Royal, was completed on the
lst of March, and trains are now passing regu-
larly over the entire line. Itconnects with the
Savannah and Charleston Railroad, at the
Salkehatchie River, about half way between
the cities of Charleston and Savannah. There
are few curves on the Road, and there is a
single stretch of forty miles in perfectly
straight line.