The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-03-06
ITEMs.-EDIToRIA1 AND OTHERWISE.

female suffrage.
= This month has five Saturdays, five Sun
days and five Mondays
"A bale of cotton weighing GIG pounds was
sold Last week in Spartanburg-
= Louisville announces its intention OF
building the largest hotel on the planet.
A revolution is momentarily expected at
Hayti, and Port au Prince is already in state
of siege.
= Gen. E. M. Law, of Yorkville, has recent
ly moved to Alabama, which was his home just
before the war.
7 - The labor market in Texas is said to be
over-stocked by The immense immigration from
other Southern States.
= A company Of bankers from Chicago have
recently moved to Atlanta, Ca, and propose to
open an Office in that city.
4 large and beautiful engine, with train
Of cars, passed over the Greenville and CoIum-
bia Eaiiroad the other day, for the Air Line
Road.
= ,7udge Cooke was kindly received by the
people of Abbeville and he was the recipient
of frequent hospitalities from his professional
brethren.
-,She Mardi Gras carnival in New Orleans,
last week. is regarded as the most brilliant and
successful of all the efforts of this mysterious
organization.
= George Washington has been arrested in
Buffalo, N. Y, for stealing pair of trowsers,
and John Quincy Adams is selling gnano at
Eatonton, Ga. ...
- It is estimated that total of 100000
bales Of cotton, valued at $400, 900 600 in gold,
is now consumed every year in Europe and
the Uaited States. .......--....a.s
- The Edge6eld Adrert;ser chronicles the
death of Mrs. Holeombe, the mother of Mrs.
Ex-Gcv. Pickens, which occurred at her home
in Texas few weeks since.
= Hrs. Matte Ready Morgan, widow Of the
celebrated Confederate General John III. Nor
gan, was recently married to Judge William
81. Williamson, of Lebanon, Tenn.
= Bishop Paine is suffering greatly from
rheumatism, and has been almost helpless for
some time, which will prevent his attendance
upon the Baltimore Conference on the 5th inst.
= Hon. Alexander a. Stephens has been
elected to Congress from the Eighth Georgia
District, to supply the vacancy occasioned by
the death of Gen. A. r. Wright. No opposi-
tion. ..
= Stephen Lowrey, the only remaining
member of the outlaw gang, visited his old
haunts liz Robeson County, n, c., few days
since. His hiding place is supposed to be near
the South Carolina line. trs
The recent heavy rains have seriously In
iured ahat portion of the Air Line Railroad
running through Georgia. Eight embankments
have been washed away, and, at last accounts,
the train was running only twelve miles this
SIDE of Gainesville.
- The salaries of the Governors of New
York and Ohio have been increased, the former
from four to seven thousand dollars, and the
latter from FIVE to ten thousand dollars. The
Governor of New York is also to be furnished
with ala executive mansion. nm. .y ~.
= The James River and Kanawha canal ,
now partially completed, is to pass under the
Allegheny mountains, the proposed tunnel for
the purpose being over eight miles in length.
The engineers estimate the cost of the compile
tion of the work at S37, ,000,0 900.
= Robert Lytton, who succeeds bis father,
Edward Bulwer Lytton, in the peerage and
estates, has been for some years Secretary OF
Legation at Vienna. He is known to literature
as a poet of considerable merit. under the as
sumed r,ame of "Owen Meredith"
: TIE Legislature elected Macon B. Allen,
of Charleston, as Judge of the Inferior Court,
TO fill tie vacancy caused by the death OF Judge
Geo. Lee, colored. Allen is an intelligent COL
ored man, and was the nominee of the Boilers
for Secretary of State in the late canvass.
Greenville, was entirely destroyed by fire on
the 25tt uit. The kitchen and other outbuild-
ines were likewise destroyed. The property
belongs to Rev. DR.. Manly, who is now in
Georgetown, KY, and whose loss is estimated
at $4,000. No Insurance. ri. u
The President has not positively aban-
doned his projected Southern tour, as has been
stated, if the Senate gets throug h with the e1-
ecutive session in week or two, and there is
nothing else of Importance to require his pres
ence in Washington. he still entertains the
idea of coming South during the ensuing
spring. tl,e t,s..::. - ..
--The editor of the Louisville Carier-Jour-
nal, whe has recently been in Washington, as
certainei when there, that Speaker Blaine
would b. a candidate for President st the next
election. :. The Cincinnati Commercial, lon the
ether hand, says that Elihu B. Washburne will
certainly be the next republican candidate for
the Presidency. ~
- Ths Charleston .News hints thas tberecent
sale of twenty-five hundred shares of stock In
the South Carolina Railroad was by Mr. John
H. James, of Atlanta, and that his recent adj
vertisement for proxies was an ingenious device
to procure bidders, so that he might get rid OF
his stock at good price. The stock brought
from $24 to $50 per share.
=. On Tuesday night of last week, o disas-
irons fra broke ont in Chicago, at the north
east coraer of Desplaines and Carol Streets,
which resulted in the destruction Of the extern
sive payer box manufactory of P. B. Parrott
& Co., and the partial destruction of the sash
and blind factory of. @. II. @. Williams & Co.
The loss will probably reach $4,000. :,
-OaEes Ames is to have q monument, and
Congress is expected to aid in erecting it. AT
least this is the purpose circular which has
been sens to the members of both houses. This
document states that bronze statue, to be
erected Mt the national capital by public sub
ucription. is to be raised to "Oakes Ames, build.
er of the Pacific Railroad and grand Congress
sional detective"
"A oorious instruction has broken out
among the Socialists in the Russian provinces
of Volhynia and Podolia, where the insurgents
are reported to have committed frightful exces.
ses. The Russian Government has dispatched
troops fo. their suppression, and it is thought