The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-05-22
ITEMs..EDIToRIA1 AND OTHERWISE.

Capt. E. L. Parker, formerly of Anderson,
has been elected Cashier of the Citizens Say
ings Bank at Abbeville.
Judge Pierrepont, of New York, accepts
the appointment of Minister to Russia, recently
rendered to him by the President.
- The excursion from Greenville to Char
lotte, over the Air Line Railroad, has been
Until Thursday, 29th inst.
= The Abbeville Medium states THAT the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad is to be laid
with new iron the approaching summer.
"A divorce has been granted Hon. Charles
Sumner, on the ground Of his wife's desertion,
by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts,.
= Daniel Pratt, the pioneer manufacturer OF
Alabama, died last week at his home in Pratt
Vile, which is fourteen miles from Aontgorne-
ry.
- The patent office, it will be remembered,
lis self-sustaining. There are now in the treas-
ury nearly one million dollars to the credit OF
this Office.
- Bishop McTyeire will preside at the next
meeting of the South Carolina Conference,
which will be held in Sumter on the 10th OF
December next.
- Ten thousand persons attended the memo
rial exercises in Atlanta, Ga. Gen. A. @. Gar.
lington delivered the Grafton in honor Of the
Confederate dead.
- Hon. Cincinnatus Peoples, prominent
lawyer of Atlanta, Ga, was recently fined SIC
by Judge Hopkins for not having his papers in
Court when case was called.
- The State Insane Asylum, at Raleigh, N.
c., is filled to its utmost capacity, and there
are now on file, in the Office Of the superinten-
dent, 200 applications for admission
Capt. Jack, the Modoc Chief, is full
blooded Indian, and about 35 years old. He
talks good English, and had until recently
about $500 deposited in the Yreka Bank.
Southern newspapers, it is said, are max
ing much better living than before the war,
and there are many more of them. The South
ern editors will be glad to hear that news.
Col. D. Wyatt Aiken is to lecture in
North Carolina, for the purpose of introducing
oranges of the Patrons of Husbandry. His
first address will be delivered in Charlotte on
the 18th of June.
- Gen. John c. Breckinridge has been se-
lected to deliver the address before the annual
meeting of the Association of the Army Of
Northern Virginia, at Richmond, Va, during
the next State Fair.
u The following is going the rounds as
very proper amendment to the Constitution:
"Eve1y seoundrel shall have the right, as Con-
gresham and Senator, to vote himself an in
crease of salary whenever he feels like steal
ing"
= Leprosy still prevails to an alarming ex-
tent in the Sandwich Islands. The doctors
can find no remedy for this fearful disease.
The lepers are isolated and live in large COM
munities by themselves under rigid laws of
exclusion from other mortals.
= In the case Of the State against G. L.
Butler, charged with the homicide of Butler
Fair, colored, which was tried before Judge
Cooke, at Greenville, the jury returned YER
dict of not guilty. General M. C. Butler and
Colonel ]. S. Cothran defended the accused.
President Grant will not make an appoint
ment of a successor to Chief Justice Chase
until next winter. 1t was not the intention of
Judge Chase to make his circuit this summer,
and the President desires confirmation by the
Senate before the new Chief Justice is seated.
= Information has reached the Department
of State from the United States Consul at st.
Petersburg that the remains of Judge Orr, late
United States Minister, will be sent to this
country, via Hamburg, in charge of his son on
the opening of navigation, which will probably
be in about ten days.
Work has been commenced on the western
end of the Texas and Pacific Railway. Ground
was formally broken at San Diego, CAL, on
the 2lst of April, amid much enthusiasm. The
work will be completed in three years. This
great trunk line will be the shortest route
across the continent, and one wholly below the
snow line.
All the reports from the South, except
Louisiana, indicate much quieter feeling
among the people than at any time previous
since the war. Very little interest, compare
lively, is taken in public discussion, and a
great deal of interest in the next cotton crop
agricultural fairs, and railroad lines and gen.
eral progress.
and the Legislature, Democratic, have come to
an agreement for general election in October,
everybody to go out of Office, in order that new
terms may begin at an even date. There is
new apportionment, and voting is all to be
done in one day at precinct polls, instead of
running through four or five days at the county
The langley Is. C.) Manufs turing Com
pany have recently received frtm Chicago
house an order for 200 bales of the superior
cotton goods manufactured by them. The
order is to be filled in eight months, by the
delivery of $50 bales per month. This is
gratifying evidence of the high appreciation Of
Southern manufactured cotton goods in the
great Northwest.
- Captain Williams, of the lost steamship
Atlantic, has published a defence of mis- man
agement of the ship, reviewing the errors of
statements made against him, and alluding to
the influence of vacilating currents and foggy
atmosphere, and concludes by declaring that
there were on board the ill-fated ship as able
set of navigators and seamen and officers as
ever navigated ship or sat as pilot commits
sion.
- The State Department has received a
letter from Minister Nelson, stating that the
Mexican Government had informed him that
they would use their best endeavors to remove
the Kickapoo Indians from Mexican soil as
the raiding of the Kickapoos into Texas ena-
bles the Mexicans to effect raids, and lay the
mischief to the Indians. It is thought at the
State Department that this report should be
taken Gun, grano sails.
- 1t seems now that Stokes will be hanged.
The Supreme Court has denied his application
for new trial. He has, it is true, one more