The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-18

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Senate as Treasurer of Abbevile County.
- The Masonic fraternity of Pickens will
celebrate St. Johns Day, 9th of December.
w. L. r. Prince, prominent lawyer and
citizen of Cheraw, has removed to Baltimore.
- The thermometer has been at zero in Bos-
| ton for several days. On the 1st inst. it was
seven degrees below zero.
- Hon Marshall Jewell, United States
Minister to Russia, formally presented his Gre
dentials to the Car on the 9th inst
- Martin F. Conway has been indicted for
| assault with intent to Kill Ex-senator Pomeroy,
of Kansas, on the 10th of October last.
- 1t is now said that the marriage of the
Duke of Edinburgh with the daughter of the
Car of Russia has been postponed until Feb
ruary.
- 1t is thought that there are enough public
plunderers in Congress to form "ring," lrre-
spective of party, to resist the repeal OF the
salary-grab.
j. Fl. James, the great Atlanta banker,
has paid up all his outstanding obligations re-
covered from the effects of the panic and re-
sumed business.
- Gen. Fremont has cancer of the stomach,
but has, until lately, kept the matter secret
/ from family and friends. His physician says
that he cannot live year.
United States army in Arizona, committed sui
eide recently in San Francisco. He WAS for
merly private secretary to President Johnson.
- The Mobile Register learns that Gen.
Forrest has written to Gen. w. I. Sherman,
profering his services, with an indefinite force,
in case of war with Spain.
- Maj. Wilson, of Burke County, n. c., has
flock of three hundred sheep, with regular
shepherd to look after them, and we'll trained
shepherd dogs imported from Europe.
President Grant, in his annual message,
made no allusion to an over-ruling Providence,
which is said to be the first instance of the
kind in the history of the American Republic.
- Senator Casserly, of California, has re-
signed. He was one of the brightest and best
of the Democratic Senators, and we are sorry
to hear of his determination to retire to private
life.
= Hon. A H. H. Stuart, of Staunton, Va,
who was Secretary of the Interior under Presi-
dent Fillmore, is engaged in writing incidents
and conversations of the distinguished men of
his time.
- The Columbia Phcnir reports that the
friends of the late DR.. La Borde have deter
mined to testify their appreciation Of his high
qualities by erecting an elegant monument over
his grave.
~ What with the meeting of Congress and
Legislatures, there will be no dearth of agita-
ton in the political world. The Cincinnati
Gazette very aptly says that, with all these
bodies grinding out laws, there is small likei-
hood of the people being governed too little.
- The President in his message refers hope
fully to the panic as possibly blessing in dis
guise, bringing US nearer specie payments.
Evidently, however, he thinks few more such
blessings would undo lis, for he goes on to re-
commend legislation looking to their prevention
in the future
- The capitalists of Great Britain are turn
ing their attention to the mineral resources of
the South. Recently considerable number
of contracts have been made between English
men and property holders in Virginia, Georgia
and Tennessee, with the ultimate object of de-
velopng the iron and coal resources of these
States.
- The House of Representatives having, by
q vote of Ill to 20, passed bill of general am
nesty, it is to be hoped that the Senate will
readily concur and let the measure go to the
President. General Grant will, of course, sign
the bill. This is step in the right direction,
and goes very far toward securing fraternity
and good feeling.
- The annual meeting Of the Palmetto AS
sociation, survivors of the Mexican war; was
held in Columbia last week, and the following
gentlemen were elected delegates to the Ma
tional Convention, which will meet in Wash
ington on the 18th of January next, viz: R. G..
NJ. Dunovant, James d. Blanding, Joseph B.
Kershaw, Carey w. Styles, Samuel MCGOWAN,
Thomas ]. Mackey, Elias Earle, w. B. STAN
ley. K. G. Billings, c. S. Kirkland, j. II. Will
liams.
- The good people of South Carolina, who
are becoming more and more interested in the
subject of taxation, may be surprised to learn
that there is a State in this Union virtually out
of debt. The State Treasurer of Wisconsin
reports that the State owes to its own educa-
tonal fund s., 233 900, and to outsiders only
$4,000, which latter it is ready to pay on de-
mand. The current expenses of the State
Government for the last fiscal year we're 81,
79so23, and the receipts were 81 ,774,55S.