The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-03-27
1TEMs-aDI4oR1A1 AND OTHERWISE.

menced in Lexington.
= The institutions of learning at Cokesbury
are in most fourishing condition.
- The epizootic is raging throughout North
ern Arizona and Southern California.
= Gen. j. B. Dennis has been commissioned
as Superintendent of the Penitentiary.
: The Abbeville Agricultural Society has
declared dividend of ten per cent. upon IFS
capital stock
= In 1862 Texas had but twenty-one con-
victs in her State prison. In 1872 there were
nine hundred and forty. four.
= Bishop McIlyaine, of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church, died at Florence Italy, recently.
Ills body will be-brought home for interment.
Gen. John G. Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
has been elected to deliver the anniversary ad
dress before the literary societies of Princeton
College. - -s.".. = '.7 "
= Meningitis prevails to an alarming extent
in Newberry, and several deaths are recorded.
Among the whites, it is confined altogether to
children. t:'-ri e,fs<
A rumor is aRoat that President Grant
has asked the Senate to reconsider the con-
firnation of Dr. B. A. Bosemon as Postmaster
at Charleston.
= Reports from, all parts of the South indi-
cate that the people will go more largely into
the cultivation of cotton, this year, than they
ever done before.
- The Charlestonians have inaugurated q
strenuous effort to rebuild the Circular Church,
which was burned in the great fire-in that city
during the war. r f,e -
= The number of Singer Sewing Machines
sold in the United States during the year1S72,
was two hundred and nineteen thousand seven
hundred and ffty-eight.
Judge Permendus Reynolds, who has been
hopelessly i'll for several weeks, died at his
home, in Covipgton, on Wednesday moning
last. Judge Reynolds was one of the rcpresen-
tative men of Georgia
= The New York Independent, a strong sup
porter of the Grant administration, is forced to
confess that "a corrupt man can hardly be
expelled from the Senate, or even censured,
because so many members have secured their
seats by the abuse Of money"
1t is rumored that II. T. Peake, Esq, 80
long and favorably known as General Superln-
tendent of the South Carolina Railroad, is
about to form connection with the Port Royal
Railroad, commencing on the lss proximo, IN
the character of its General Superintendent
The election to decide upon the location
of the Court House, held in Baruwell County
on last Saturday, resulted in majority OF
thirty in favor of Barnwell G.. ii. The entire
vote was about $500. Blackyille and Allen
dale were the competitors of the place selected.
New Workers are seriously discussing the
question of organizing Vigilant Committee,
to rid the city of the bands of desperadoes who
who daily imperil human life. Hardly q day
passes that some outrage is not committed.
The police seem to be powerless to repress the
increasing crime.
| of those who voted for the bill increasing
the salaries Of Congressman, in the House Of
Representatives, fifty-one were Republicans
and forty-eight Democrats; of those who voted
against it, sixty were Republicans and thirty
seven Democrats. In the, Senate the PropoE-
tions were similar. i'-.7sS1' ''.t''i .-7'' .s.f
- Arrangements for the celebration Of the
one hundredth anniversary of the Declaration
Phiiadelphia. On the 22nd Of April next
there will be meeting in that city of the
subscribers to the stock of the Centennial
Board of Finance" for the purpose Of electing
Board of Directors.
= It is generally believed that General 81.
G. Worthington, Honest John Patterson's right
bower will succeed Collector Clark, of the
Charleston Custom House; james F. Green,
of Charleston, will be made Assistant United
States Treasurer, uice J. d. Geddingsl; Ex-At-
torney General Chamberlain will be appointed
United States District Attorney in place of D.
T. Corbin.
The Edgefeld Adrert;ser wants thatltown
to be one of the great links by Identifying
itself with the newly chartered Anderson,
Aiken, Port Royal and Charleston Railroad,
which is to run from Anderson, through Abbe-
vile and Edgefeld to Aiken, and thence to
Port Royal-not to point on the already COM
pleted Augusta and Port Royal Railroad, but
an independent road entirely to Port Royal.
| - ST. Patrick's Day was celebrated In
Charleston with unusual eclat All the Irish
Societies and military companies paraded In
the forenoon, and were addressed by Right
Rev. Bishop Persico, and at night gave BAN
ouets at their respective halls. Atthe Hibern-
! ian Society, Governor Moses was received as a
guess and made brief bat eloquent speech,
which was greeted with hearty and prolonged
- The French INDEMNIFY to Germany,
amounting to 5000 0000, 900, is about to be paid.
This transaction represents the most extraordl-
nary financial transaction in history. When
this last payment is completed, one Thousand
millions of dollars will have been paid by
France in thirty-two months, an average OF
thirty-two millions per month, atording q
striking commentary upon the wonderful re-
sources of the French. This speaks well for
the patriotism of the people, and their devotion
to the Republican Government which they
- The New York Tribune, by way of edito-
rial comment upon theme Assistant Secretary,
of the Treasury, says: ''The appointment OF
ex-senator Sawyer, of South Carolina, to be
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, is another
of those surprises which the President probably
enjoys Mr.. Sawyer has not been specially
prominent in financial affairs since he has
been in the Senate. He distinguished himself
however, by opposing the thieving rings OF nus
for exact honesty that he goes into the Treasu-
nv Department with great deal to be said in
his favor" ISs
The laws of this State in relation to the
sale of property for the nontpayment of taxes,
are of such character as efsctually to'deter
capitalists from making investments. If.
through inability to raise the amount Of the