The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-09
ITEMs--EDIToRIAL AND OTHER Use

Rev. John Stout has accepted q call to the
pastorate of Society Hill Church, in Darling
ton county, S. Q.
- Extravaganza has been the ruin of the
country, North and South. Economy for the
future, is the true remedy
- The American Colonization Society are
preparing to send out their fall expedition to
Liberia, and have 5000 applications.
1t is said that Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, at her home in Florida, hss kept open
a school of fifty scholars during the summer.
The number of students entered this ses-
sion in Erskine College is already about equal
to the whole number of last year. This is
encouraging.
Diptheria is very prevalent in Columbia
at this time, and the recent deaths of many
children in that city is attributed to this ter
rible disease.
- The large dry goods men of New York
are reported as doing an immense business, in
spite of the crash. The bulk of this business
is for New England and the South.
- Missouri has been under Democratic rule
for two years, and during that time the State
debt has been reduced from thirty-eight mil
lions to eighteen million dollars.
1t has been definitely decided that an
extra session of the Legislature will be called
about the 10th instant There was some oppo-
sition, but majority of the officials deemed it
necessary.
David Jacobs, of Columbia, has been
awarded $4,000 by the British American COM
mission, now sitting in Washington, to cover
losses sustained by him in the destruction of
Columbia.
- The wealthiest man in Russia, excepting
very few of the nobility, is NJ. Steiglitz, mer-
chant and banker, who retired from business
few years since after having accumulated fifty
millions of dollars.
- Admiral John A. Winslow, of the United
States Navy, whose death at the age of sixty
two occurred on Monday evening, at Boston,
was native of North Carolina, where he was
born November 9, 1911.
- The Laurens Branch of the Citizens Saw
ings Bapk of South Carolina has suspended.
1t is confidently believed, however, that this
Bank is perfectly solvent, and that the sus-
pension will be only temporary.
- There is defalcation of $4,000 and up
wards in the post office. at Pittsburg, Pa. Rob
berry of letters and abstraction of the public
funds brought about the defalcation, and the
postmaster has been suspended from Office.
= Col. r. B. Jeter, the retiring Superin-
tendent of the Spartanburg and Union
Railroad, has been presented with handsome
English saddle, bride and blanket, by the
officials of the road, as testimonial of their
respect
= The Atlanta Herald has positive informa-
tion which warrants the assertion that Foster
Blodgett will come back to Georgia in less
than thirty days from this date, and stand his
trial for the several offenses with which he is
charged
The Columbia Phpnic says: "The South
Carolina Railroad fare tickets are current, be-
ing everywhere received along the line of the
Greenville and South Carolina Roads at par,
and are bankable. They range from one dol
lar to twenty"
- During last week, the city of New York
received 2, ,953 ,122 bushels of wheat-the largest
number by nearly one million bushels ever re-
ceived during that time. Nearly one hundred
thousand barrels of flour also arrived, which is
a mnch larger number than usual.
- The public debt statement tor October
gives the national debt as S2,19S,793, 1898,
the reduction for September as 81 sol ,467 and
the coin in the Treasury at $50, 246, ,757-a bet
ter showing, under the circumstances Of the
time than was generally anticipated.
A wealthy widow lady, of Richmond, Va,
member of a Protestant family, has entered a
Catholic convent in South Carolina and taken
the black veil. She was yet young, quite hand
some, seemingly happy in her domestic rela-
tions and we'll endowed with this worlds goods
1t appears that ex-Governor Wise has
been writing too many letters. One has been
produced pledging his support to Hughes, the
republican candidate, for Governor OF Virginia,
and affidavit has been made of another pledg-
ing his support to Kemper, the democratic can
ddate
- The New York SIN says the present state of
financial affairs is not favorable to the scheme
of saddling the United States with the debts of
the carpet,,bag governments OF the Southern
States, and making the whole people of the
country pay the few hundred millions that
have been taken by government robbers in
that quarter.
- The Rome Commercial says: "It would
be exceedingly ungrateful in the farmer to
withhold his produce, if by bringing it for
ward he can help through the crisis. He will
want goods on time and advances one of these
days when he has no cotton-then will he have
use for the merchant and banker, as the mer-
chant and banker now have rse for his strong
arm to aid and sustain them"