The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-05-01
!TEMs--EDIToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

The town of Camden rejoices in the pos
session of eleven licensed bar-rooms.
Saturday last was the anniversary of the
surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army
in 1855.
DIR. B. A. Bosemon, the newly appointed
| postmaster of Charleston, will take possession
of the Office this week.
Excursion parties are being organized in
San Francisco, to visit Fiji and other islands
in the South Pacific
- John G. SAKE, the poet, has changed his
residence to New York city, which he intends
to make his permanent abode.
- One hundred bales of California cotton,
the first shipment of the kind, have been
shipped from San Francisco to Liverpool.
Liberal contributions are said to have
been collected in England, for monument to
be erected over the remains of Stonewall jack
son.
| Owing to the heavy frost of Saturday
morning, which extended throughout this
State, q vast amount of cotton will have to
be replanted.
- At two recent elections in Galveston,
Texas, lone for municipal officers, and the
other for State SENATOR the colored men voted
in body with the Democrats.
Ohio has passed stringent law against
lottery dealers. Henceforth all aiders and
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whatever name they may be euphemized, must
suffer the penalty of imprisonment.
= DR.. John c. Boyd, of Williamsburg, s.
O., has been appointed, by the direction of
President Grant, assistant surgeon of the
United States Navy. This appointment, due
to individual merit, completes the naval medi-
cal staff in the Union.
DIR. Edward r. Avery, of York county,
who fed while his trial in the United States
Court was in progress, on charges of violating
the enforcement acts, has been pardoned by
the President. It will be remembered that he
forfeited his bail at the time.
The second meeting of the National Ag-
ricultural Congress will be held at Indianapo-
lis, Indiana, commencing on Wednesday, May
Oath. Each State is entitled to two represen-
tatives for every State organization engaged in
fostering agricultural pursuits.
General Candy used to be as famous for
having q cigar in his mouth as Grant, but
unlike the President he rarely smoked, keep
ing, instead, the cigar in his mouth and chew
ing it mechanically till destroyed, when another
would as mechanically take its place.
- The New York Euening Post printing and
newspaper establishment was sold last week for
one million two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. No species of property has advanced
more rapidly in value during the last few years
than that of old established newspapers.
The lease by the Trustees of the South
Carolina University to the Regents of the State
Normal School, of the chapel and wings of the
University for the uses of the Normal School,
has been executed. 1t secures this building
for ninety.nine years at a nominal rental.
- The 10th of May has generally been set
apart throughout the South for the observance
of sad and pious duty. On that day the
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are strewn with garlands and wreaths of early
spring flowers, fitting tribute to the memories
of the brave men who laid down their lives for
our Southern land.
The will Of the late Commodore Matthew
F. Maury has been authenticated by the great
seal of the State of Virginia, preparatory for
its transmission to England, where is located
much of the property devised by the will.
Commodore Maury died in very comfortable
circumstances, and leaves his family with am
pie means for their support
"A special order from the War Department
assigns thirty companies, including all arms,
, with all machinery and supplies, for proong-
ed expedition to protect operations. of the
Northern Pacific Railroad. 1t is the heaviest
expedition ever sent out in time OF peace:
remains in the field until the 18th October.
the Modoc assassination, was prominent min
lister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He
was editor of the California Christian Advocate
for twelve years, and manager of the Book
Concern in San Francisco for several years.
He was a man of high character, great courage
and energy, and was much esteemed for his
personal traits.
= The Chicago Tribune says it is curious
coincidence that the conflict at Colfax, between
the whites and blacks, should have happened
in parish and town "bearing the names of
the President and Vice President under whose
administration were sown the seeds of this
encounter, in the enforcement of the illegal
decision of drunken judge and the recogni-
ton of usurping government"
- An important decision in regard to the
amendatory bankrupt act, passed by the last
Congress, was pronounced recently in the
United States District Court at Lynchburg,
Va, by Judge Rives. He held "that the law
was constitutional, and decided that it gave to
bankrupts the homestead exemptions against
cid as well az new debts, and against all liens
or judgments in the State Courts"
The first steam railroad of any considera-
BILE length in America was the South Carolina
Railroad the first system of public schools
introduced in this country was in South Caro-
lima; the first educational institution endowed
BY any of the States was the College of
Charleston, and the first free Episcopal Church
established in the United States was ST. Ste
phen's Free Church, on Anson street, Charles
ton.
= The Virginia darkies are claiming that
one of their race shall be put upon the Repub-
lican ticket for Lieutenant Governor in that
State. They say that this is necessary in order
to bring out the black vote, as the negroes fur
nish large proportion of the Republican vote
of Virginia. They will probably be able to
dictate their own terms. At the same time the
question will be rather embarrassing to their
white allies.
"A new horse disease has made its appear
ance in Buffalo, New York The veterinary
surgeons pronounced it the result of the epi-
zootic of last fall 1t attacks the animals
hoofs and causes the flesh to swell and burst,