The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-31
ITEMs--EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

Ex-Governor R. X. Scott has gone to the
North for the summer.
-. 1t is said that of 5000 men who enlisted
in the three Texas regiments of Hoods brigade,
less than 200 are living.
"A Texas woman has arrived at st. Louis
with one thousand cattle, her own property,
which she assisted in driving from Texas.
- Senator Alcorn has informed Mississippi
paper that he has not returned his back pay to
the Treasury, and, moreover, docs not intend to
do So
= The Aiken Journal urges the people of
Aiken County to take active steps towards the
completion of the Aiken and Ninety Six Rail-
road.
Col. J. P. Thomas, of Columbia is nego-
tiating for the lease of the grounds and build
ings of the North Carolina Military Institute
at Charlotte
A. T. Stewart, the merchant prince of
New York, has gone to Europe. Before leav
ing this country he made his will, which shows
him to be worth S1O0,000,000.
An election will be held in Orangeburg
County on the 18th of August, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of James L. Jami-
son, Senator from Orangeburg.
= An incendiary fire occurred in Norfolk,
Va, on Saturday night destroying number
AOo9 Az
at $150,0O0; partly covered by insurance.
Mr.. J. NJ Davis, of Abbeville, has inyen-
ted fire extinguisher which uses water only,
and which is said to be much more effective
than any instrument of the kind yet invented.
Seneca City, at the crossing of the Blue
Ridge and Air Line Railroads, in Oconee
County, has been laid out in business and
building lots. The sale of these lots will COM
mence on Thursday, 18th of August next.
The publication of the Augusta C0nstitu-
t;onaHst, which has been suspended for some
weeks past, will be resumed on the 1st of Au-
gust, under the editorial auspices of James r.
Randall, ESQ.,, who once controlled Its columns
with distinguished ability and tact.
DIR. Edward Warren, late professor in the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore,
Md. and we'll known as the chief medical ex-
pert in the great Wharton poisoning case, has
been selected by the Khedive of Egyt for the
distinguished position of surgeon to the staf
of his army, with the privilege of practicing
medicine and surgery in the city of Cairo. DR.
Warren has arrived at his post.
= special dispatch from Boston says the
failure of H. I. Kimball, of Atlanta, Ga, the
| great hotel and railroad speculator, creates
much remark in that section, where he was
known. His liabilities are said to reach S5,'
100000, and the list of creditors includes
Morton, Bliss d. Co. for about one million seven
hundred thousand, Henry Clews G. Go. for one
million, and others for large amounts.
- The Southern Historical Society is tt
meet at Montgomery Springs, Va, on the l4th
of August. DR.. B. NJ. Palmer, of New Or
leans, is president, and the annual address vii
be delivered by General Jubal Early. A mum
Der of distinguished delegates are expected
from all parts of the South. Interest in the
bright historical past of our section is increas
ing eyery wear, we are gratifed to note. Tht
approaching meeting Will, no doubt be one O.
very considerable Importance.
. Attorney General Williams has refused tt
recommend a pardon in the case of james
Pickett, of Idaho, sentenced to be hung in tina
Territory on the first Thursday in Angus
next. Pickett dealt blow with miners picl
on the skull of an Indian woman, killing he
almost instantly. He was arranged and triet
by the civil authorities of Idaho and sentenced
to death, it being the first case of white maj
sentenced to suffer the extreme penalty of tht
law for the murder of red skin.
- Isabella Mcbride, aged seventy years
living with her husband on farm seven miles
from Williamsport, Pa, was brutally murdered
Tuesday night, by being shot through the head
Her husband, John Mcbride, was knocked
down with club and received seven severe
cuts. When found he was lying on the floor
weltering in his blood, but living. The ole
people lived alone, and we're supposed to have
q large sum of money 000O was found in
the house. No clue to the murderer is found
as yet.
= State Treasurer Cardozo, in an interview
with the correspondent Of the Charleston Ne'c
and Courier, gives full statement Of the finan
cial condition of South Carolina. He says ht
hopes the suit of the taxpayers to have s. 900,
600 of conversion bonds declared void will sue
ceed and will give the movement whatever aie
he can. He claims also to be the originator o
the suit, inasmuch as it was founded almos
entirely upon facts published by him last year
showing that at least S6OOO,0O0 of conversion
bonds were issued without any authority o
law. In explanation of the emptiness of th'
State treasury, Cardozo said the appropriation
for the year, including old claims, were S2,50O,
900 and the receipts of the year only 81 500,
900, so that the next fiscal year will begin witt
deficit of at least $750,0O0.