The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-06-12

= The caterpillar has made its appearance
in Alabama.
= Minister Jewell expects to sail for Russia
on the 3rd of July.
Hon. John 4. Bingham, of Ohio, has been
appointed Minister to Japan.
= Caterpillars have made their appearance
in the rice fields of Georgetown.
"A disease resembling the Asiatic cholera
has made its appearance in Memphis with fatal
results.
Hon. Joseph Howe, Governor of Nova
Scotia, died suddenly at Halifax on the 1st
inst, aged IS years.
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, will deliver
the annual oration at the University of Virgin
ia on the End of June.
- General Grants organ, the Washington
Republican, comes out in favor of paying Mrs.
General Lee for Arlington.
: Bismarck thinks that Spain and Italy will,
in less than fifteen years, be eaten up by other
powers or lose their identity.
= An effort is being made to bring forward
the Hon. w. S. Groesbeck, as the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Ohio.
- The Southern Express Company has
placed messengers on the Air Line Railroad,
between Greenville and Charlotte.
- President Grant has taken up his summer
residence at Long Branch, but promises to visit
Washington every two or three weeks.
of Stonewall Jackson's command, died recently
- Col. J. o. Hudnutt has been elected Chief
Engineer of the Laurens and Asheville Rail
road, and the route will be surveyed at once.
= Governor McEnery has issued an address
to the people of Louisiana, advising acquies-
cence in Kellogg's government until Congress
assemblies.
- Father Ryan has returned from his visit
to Italy, greatly improved in Health, and has
resumed the editorial chair of the New Orleans
Morning Star.
Fifty of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence were Masons, and every Major
General in the Revolutionary Army was a Ma
son except Arnold.
Rev. DR.. Stuart Robinson, of Louisville,
KY, sailed for Europe last week, expecting to
be absent five or six months, and will probably
extend his visit to the Holy Land.
The Jail of Sumter County has been de-
stroyed by fire, originating from some unknown
cause. The loss is estimated at $4,000, on
which there was an insurance of $4,000.
"A Nashville, Tenn, correspondent says
that Andrew Johnson believes most religiously
that he will be the next President of the United
States and that the people are rapidly acquir-
ing true appreciation of his character.
= The Laurensville Herald records the death
of Gen. Thomas F. Jones, an aged and honored
citizen of that County, who represented Lau-
rens in both branches of the Legislature many
wears ago. He was more than eighty years of
age.
The commencement exercises of the Lu-
theran College located at Walhalla, and known
as the Newberry College, will begin on the 18th
of June and end on the 26th of June, when the
degrees will be conferred on the graduating
class.
-Anunfortunate and fatal accident occurred
recently in Oxford, Ga, by which the son of
Col. Henry D. Capers only three years old,
accidently shot himself through the head,
while playing with his brothers pistol. He
died instantly.
The Postmaster General decides that an
equitable construction of the new postal code
will not admit of the free transmission of news
paper exchanges and of newspapers published
within the county, and that if any relief is to
be afforded in this direction, it must come from
Congress. =.
THE Constitutional Convention of Penn
sylyania has adopted 8 provision to prevent
illegal voting. 1t requires that each BALLOT
cast shall be numbered in the order of its re-
ception, and each voter, if he pleases, may as
an additional safeguard write his name on the
back of the ballot. -,
- Frank n. Walworth, grandson of the
celebrated Chancellor Walworth, OF New York,
shot and killed his father last Tuesday IN
most brutal way. He alleges that ne was lm-
PEELED to this course by his fathers constant
illtreatment of his mother. His attorneys have
set up the usual plea of insanity.
= AT the last term of the court in Union
County, Judge NJ. Moses heard 1 and !, decided a a
tract between laborers and employers was
lien prior to liens for advances made or for
rental of the land. In the case in point the
contract of the laborers was all unwritten con-
tract, but was sustained and held to be good as
above.