The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-24
1TEMs-EDlToRlA1 AND OTHERWISE.


Greenyille will soon be in operation.
Heavy storms were again prevalent IN
Ohio last week, damaging crops and fruits.
= A movement is on foot to repeal the
bankrupt act at the next session of Congress.
President Grant has promised to visit the
White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia, this sum-
mer.
- The Legislature of Connecticut has re-
stored the usury law, which was repealed last
year.
- The noted guerilla leader Quantrell is re-
ported to be leading retired life in South
America.
= Hon. John Forsyth, the distinguished
editor of the. Mobile Register, has gone to
Europe.
California, after electing Legislature in
September, will elect Supreme Court Judge
in October.
"A movement is on foot for the erection of
q statue to the late VIM. Il. Seward in Central
Park, New York.
= General Thomas Ewing has written
letter declining TO be candidate for Demo-
cratic Governor of Ohio.
The merchants and business men of New
berry are organizing home insurance compa-
ny, with a capital stock of 100000
Col Green, of the Boston Posi-, will prob
ably be nominated for Governor of Massachu-
sets on the straight Democratic ticket
- Judge Thad. G. Andrews is spoken of as
candidate for the Senate from Orangeburg
County, made vacant by the death of Senator
Jamison.
Corn was sold few days ago in Chicago
at twenty-seyen cents bushel, which is said
to be the lowest quotation in that market for
twelve years.
= The first bale of cotton of this years.
growth was sold in New York last week at
thirty-six cents per pound. The cotton was
grown in Cameron county, Texas.
- Col. a. o. Brewer, Appointment banker of
England in charge of important measures
looking to the development of the South.s
= Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts,
is partially paralyzed, his face disfgured and
his speech somewhat affected. He will not be
able TO preside over the Senate next winter.
M. M. Miller, chief clerk of the newspa-
per department in the New Orleans Postof5ce,
has been arrested for embezzlement, amount
ing, so far as investigation has gone, to $500.
IS. B. Hall, late Probate Judge of York.
vile, has been convicted of official misconduct.
His reputed e1ibezzlements exceed $1,000.
Three more indictments are pending against
him.
= Judge John Robertson, virginian by
'birth, education and thought" and descen-
dant of Pocahontas, died on the 9th instant
at Mount Athol, at the ripe old age of eighty
eight. :.
| - The County Commissioners of Greenville
have appointed Wednesday, Goth of August,
as the time for the people to vote on the sub
scription of stock to the Laurens and AsheSille
| Railroad.
= The train on the AbbeviIle branch was
recently levied upon by the Sheriff, under ex-
ecutions held by certain creditors in Green
wood The debt amounts to only few hun
dred dollars. =
The st. Louis Globe states that Pomeroy,
of Kansas, notwithstanding his disgracefui
exposure in the Senate of the United States,
will positively again be q candidate for re-lec-
ton to that body.
= Gen. Wade Hampton has gone to War
renton, Va, where he will deliver an ofation
on the occasion of laying the cornerstone Of
the monument to be erected there in memory
! Of the Southern dead.
Henry J. Fox, d. D., has been elected to
fill the chair in the University of South Caro-
lima recently occupied by Prof. N. La Borde,
wto has been elected in place of Rev. J. L.
Reynolds, d. D., retired from the institution.
"A colored man in the employ of Mr.
Lawrence, of Pickens, accidentally killed him
self a few days ago, by the discharge of gun
in his own hands. In the same County two
colored boys were playing with a gun, when it
was discharged and one Of them killed
The Memphis and Selma Railroad, which
General Forrest has been building, and on
which 81 100000 have been spent, has gone
into bankruptcy. General Forrest, to avert
the sale of the road, asks the Memphis people
to loan him Sl5O,000 for six months. The
matter is undecided.
= The phosphate agents at Greenville have
| formed an association with view to their pro-
lection against such parties who failed to pay
for fertilizers this season, and for the enrol
ment Of such delinquent names, SO that in
future they may be debarred the privilege Of
purchasing on time.
- Iowa is the only State in the Union rep
resented as being entirely free from debt, and
vet it is State that has doubled its population
in the last ten years, and places il in the matter
of population as number eleven in the Union,
against number t. enty in 1860. With such
growth and prosperity, to be entirely free from
| debt is most enviahle distinction.
| = Senator Thurman, of Ohio, in Fourth
of July address, favored an important amend
ment to the Federal Constitution namely, to
dispense with the electoral colleges and permit
! theepeople 10 vote directly for President and
Vice President, which he holds would not, in
the slightest degree, disturb the relative weight
of the several States in the election as it now
exists.
"A great sensation has occurred in Salt
Lake City caused by the announcement that
Eliza Webb Young the seventeenth wife of
Brigham Young, had forever left him, carrying
off her furniture and personal effects. Mrs.
Young is about to institute suit for divorce
and alimony, and great revelations are expect
ed concerning the inner domestic life of the
prophet
II There seems to be general abatement of
cholera everywhere in the United States, and
we. trust that the danger of any great sweeping
epidemic has disappeared Every Every community
nponer nnu aantar5 precauton Towns and their
inhabitants should be ceanly and temperate
as constant and invariable rule, and not SIM
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