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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-03
Obsequies of Judge Orr.

On Wednesday, the 18th inst, the remains
of he late James l.. Orr, were deposited in
thel last resting place in the Presbyterian
GRAVEYARD. at Anderson Court House. A large
conco,rse of people; numbering several thou
sand and embracing every age, sex and color,
were pesent to witness the last sad rites and
pay the ast honor to the memory of the dis
tinguishet deceased, who in life amid all the
heats and ontentions of bitter political divis-
ions, as a ftend, adviser, neighbor, citizen and
honorable gentleman had lost none of the con-
fdence and alection of the people. Few men
have lived CONSPICUOUS leaders amid such great
social and political revolutions, as character
lied the last thirsy years of our history, whose
counsels have beel more severely criticised and
often censured, AID yet who personally have
retained so large s.are of public confidence
as the deceased. N. higher tribute could be
paid to any man, than these living evidences
of those truly eunoblins qualities of head and
heart, which winning, .ould retain popular
confidence amid the heas and fires of that
party prejudice which has burned so fiercely
among the people of the South since recon-
struction. AS a representative of our people
in the days of our prosperity, he won honor
for his section and credit tof himself; amid
the trying scenes of the revolution, while sue
cess WAS UOC uOpticSo, Aio SouiA
sells we're freely bestowed in behalfo Of the South;
when defeat became apparent to him, he advo-
Gated compromise, and labored for an honor
able peace; when the hopes of the Confederacy
were finally crushed at Appomattox, amid the
apparent wreck and ruin Of the South, ne saw
brighter future, and lent all his great res, abilities
and resources of the State, halting at no Per.
sonal sacrifice, which in his judgment would
ultimately prove to the true interests of the
people. In the course of a public life necessa-
rrily rl checkered by the stupcndous changes which
have rapidly succeeded each other, a few years
ago found him widely. separated, in political
views from his early friends and associates,
but the presence of thousands Mt his funeral
testified to the continued appreciation by his
acquaintance of the worthy qualities of the
man. Dying, as he had lived, at the post OF
duty, far from family and friends, his remains,
guarded and honored by the citizens of great
nation, were finally consigned to mother earth
in his native District in the presence, and
under the supervision of his early friends and
acuuaintances.-Keo Courier.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-03

WHO BURNED COLUMBIA? ?-General Wade
Hampton, in recent letter to the Baltimore
Enquirer, denies that he is responsible for the
burning of Columbia. The contrary statement
of GeneraS Sherman he denounces as false, and
adduces his own statement made shortly after
the event, as we'll as the more recent afidavits
of several of his associates, to prove that at
the time the city was evacuated nothing in it
was on fire except the secluded depot of the
South Carolina Railroad. According to this
letter the cotton in the city had been piled by
order of General Beauregard in narrow line
along the middle of the principal street pre-
paratory 10 firing. General Hampton took
command of the cavalry on the night before
the evacuation, and his first act was to repre-
sent to Beauregard the danger which would re-
suit to the city from firing the cotton. He also
represented that, as the railroad had been cut,
it would BE- impossible for the Union forces to
remove the cotton. Upon these representations
he was authorized to give orders that no cotton
in the city should be fired, and these orders
commander at Columbia says, upon affidavit,
that he received orders from General Hampton
directing linn to take no further steps towards
burning TIE cotton, as it was deemed unneces-
sary to destroy it. He also states that, being
in the city until the moment of the evacuation,
he knew of no fires up to that time. The cav
airy general NJ. G. Butler, who commanded
the last Confederate forces that were in the
city, makes affidavit that he left the cotton un-
disturbed, piled in packed bales in the middle
of the street. He remained in the suburbs for
two hours after tie Federal occupation, and
when he left he could see no evidence of cotton
burning. Beauregards statement to Hampton
is: "The cnly thing on fire at the time of the
evacuation was the depot building of the South
Carolina Railroad, which caught fire accident
ordered to be sent toward Charlotte, N. C."-
This depot was near the river, and distant
about mile from the business portion of the
city.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-03
A few days since the grand Jury ignores

"A few days since the grand jury ignored a
bill against negro for stealing chickens. Be-
fore dischsrging him from custody the judge
babe him stand up, and after severe repri-
mand concluded as follows: "You may go
now, John; but shaking his finger at him) let
me warn you never to appear here again" J"
John, with delight beaming from his big, white
eyes, and broad grin displaying, row OF ivory,
only de constable fotch me T
= The other day countryman asked one of
Barnum's men, "Where is the mummy" The
latter replied, "He is dead )" and the inquirer
passed on, perfectly satisfied, for he couldn't
expect that even Barnum could prevent an
occasional death among his curiosities.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-03

GEN DAVIS, THE MoDoc HERo.-While
raiding through the South the Federal com,
manders committed many acts they imagined
would never see the light. Some of these are
now returning to plague them: General Jeh.
G. Davis who captured the Modocs, IS now now
somewhat of hero. His conspicuous position
has elected the following little reminiscence,
not especially hattering, from the Chester Re
porter: General Davis was with Shermans
army in 1865. He then stopped at the mouse
of Mr.. John Douglas, of Chester county. The
ladies appealed to him to protect the property
on the place. He assured the daughter OF MIR.
Douglas he would do so, and told her to pack
No the articles that she deemed most valuable
and deposit them in the room that he occupied,
and he would be personally responsible for
their safety. She did so, packed up in trunks
everything that she deemed of special value
and placed them in his room. When ne lett
the house she went into the room to recover
her yaluables, and found that the trunks had
been broken open and everything that was
worth carrying off had been taken away. we
do not wish to deprecate General Davis in the
hour of his triumph, but the story above given
is so quietly and temperately told that it no.
some explanation.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-03

GOVERNOR PERRY's ESTIMATE OF MINIS
TER ORR-We print on our first page to-day
what, to our view, is somewhat remarkable
emanatlvn from Ex-Governor Perry-his esti,
mate of the character and political life and
services of the late Minister Orr.
It is one of Gov. Perry's weaknesses, since
his retirement from political position, to write
"reminiscences of distinguished men, while
never failing to tell much Shat occurred be-
tween them and himself personally.
The paper in question, i'll its tone, although
in sketch of one who seems to have held the
relation to him Of warm personal friend, Is,
nevertheless, strikingly modified, when COM
pared with all and the latest of his previous
public utterances.
We believe that he has given Judge Orr no
more than his just desert. His whole puo,ic
career, up to the time of his death, was strik
incly in contrast with the game of political
oreed 90 rife among politicians of the present
day. North rs we'll as South, in all the depart
ments of Government Judge Orr sought po-
sition as an ambitious man, craving distln-
ouished place and controlling influence, but
not as means of filling his pockets, or OF
reckless speculation and plumber. He was en-
phatically, too, national man-who went lar
heyond his Slate lines and took in compre-
bensiye view of the whole situation, aspiring,
no doubt, to fill the Presidential chair; and it
was this, mainly, that made him unpopular in
South Carolina, where the feeling was strong
and peculiar to the State, and naturally SO.
The history of his political career is an
interesting one; and striking development
of his early ambition and resolve, II being
said of him. that while college student, ne
was accustomed to tell his companions that
nolitics was his field and success his goal
r,,mfer IV1fcb3nnn
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-03

AN ANEcDoTE OF CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE
An old friend of the late Chief Justice tells lis
an anecdote, showing Mr.. Chase's cleverness
at repartee:
the war. Mr.. Chase was introduced to a very
beautiful woman, who prided herself on her
devotion to the "Lost Cause" Anxious that
the Chief Justice should know her real senti-
ments, she remarked, as she gave him her
hand
"Mr. Chase, you see before you rebel who
has not been reconstructed"
"Madame," replied he, with a profound bow,
"you are so perfectly constructed that any re-
construction is altogether impossible"
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"A Nashville young lady explains that she
writes to the young man she likes best only
once a day, and says she doesn't think that
any w too often, now that the days are so long;
She is willing to admit however, that it would
he too freouent for the short days OF winter.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-03

A chap given to statistics estimated that
over two thousand toes were frozen during the
last winter by young ladies keeping their beaux
lingering at the gate, instead of asking them
into the parlor.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-03

- The editor of the ,Ts ''if it was possi,
Ne,rs was asked by .sthp four newspapers
ble that little tow No, it takes four newspa-
and the replap the town"
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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-03
John C. Calhoun the Father Of the Air Line
Railroad.

A correspondent of Louisville Courier jour
nal writing about the completion of the Air
Line Railroad through from Richmond to
Atlanta, tells this remarkable story concerning
Mr.. Calhoun's prophecy that such road would
~, oon,fr,ctad.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16

Mary Ann Loder, Ortons former be-
trothed. all of whom positively swore
that the defendant was their old Wap+
ming crony. The appearance OF another
real Arthur Orton in court would certain
w he the most romantic OF all the stirring
scenes which Westminster Hall has ever
witnessed the acquittaA OF the Claim
ant on the charge of perjnry; would
scarcely fail to follow, as matter of
course nor would this public be far
from the conviction that he is the real
Sir Roger Tichborne after all. 1t is true
that were the Claimant acquitted on the
present trial, he would have to raise
funds to pay the enormous costs OF his
former suits against the estates before he
could again advance his claim in court !;
but should he be acquitted by the pro
duction of Arthur Orion, the Tichborne
bonds would receive a powerful impetus,
subscriptions and loans would pour in
from all hands, and it would not, in all
probability, be long before the costs
would be Hquidated and q. new election
suit entered. Already strong evidence
has accumulated in his favor, and has re-
duced many again to hopeless perplexi-
ty who, when the case for the Govern
ment closed, were firmly persuaded that
he was Orion; and the entrance of an
other Orion upon the stage would with
little doubt serve TO enlist a large ma
jority of Englishmen in sympathy with
him. -.----- Il = 80. - -
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Peii.icai Notes.

o. T.. a
A Texas paper says that the endeaT-
ors of Democratic politicians to induce
| coIored men to vote. for them reminds it
of the efforts of the red headed wood
pecker to extract worms from a copper
lightning rod. sA
Some of the Democratic newspapers
are denouncing the Northern Pacific
railway enterprise as an administration
measure. The editors forget that the
road was chartered several years before
Grant became president. ~
The German born citizens of Wash
ington probably didn't think how it
would sound when they resolved not to
support any one for office who was COM
mitted to the ''pernicious cause of tenn
perance."
The ringing platforms of the Repub-
lican party of New York, Massachusetts
and other States, already indicate that
the just demands of the grangers and
other producers of the country are read
lily and gladly acknowledged and re-
echoed by the best minds of the nation.
The Republican party, believing its ca
reer of reform and usefulness is as yet
not much more than begun, halls the
new movement of the nations yeomen,
with hearty congratulation, and stands
ready to embody and carry forward in
triumph the popular aspirations for po-
litical reform.-Sdn Francisco Chronicle.
If the Brooklyn Democrats don't lead
themselves-for change-this year,
and put up the best and strongest candi-
dates the party affords, they stand a
very fair show for very richly deserved
threshing at the polls. Except possibly
in one or two spots, the republican
ticket has the look of being hard one
to beat.
Those Michigan constitution-amenders
have done some very good things, and
some that are not SO good. Their de-
cision to exclude women from all public
offices-eyen those connected with the
school SYSTEMS simply piece of re-
dictionary owlishness, of which, one of
these days, they or their children will
be heartily ashamed.
An enthusiastic admirer of Andy
johnson writes to the Cincinnati Com
merctal, suggesting that, as the ex-Presi-
dent has lost 100000 by the failure of
jay Cookies bank, in Washington, the
people of the United States make up
purse of $100,0 900 for him. The writer
generously offers to head the subscrip-
ton with fen dollars. If Andy has really
lost this money, and is in consequent
straitened circumstances, we favor the
idea; bat there ought to be condition
attached that he should forever keep out
of politics $50 long as we both shall
live" So
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16
an Encch Arden Case.

Away out on the mighty plains of the
West, in among the mountains OF Colo
radio, is situated the fine little city OF
Denver. The latter is an enterprising
town it has a fine future before it it
is the center of vast, fertile region OF
country; and it has always. enjoyed a
prosperous state of affairs. There is
one peculiar Characteristic of some of
the ''old Inhabitants" of Denver, which
we may say is also Characteristic of the
Western country generally-yiz an IN
due and pernicious love for alcoholic
substances as beverage. Yes Denver
has gained the unenviable name of sell
ing and furnishing greater quantities OF
poorer whisky than any town between
Chicago and Frisco" II is related how
that in the earlier days of the town, men
were frequently shot, because of their
imprudent discourtesy in sometimes re-
fusing to 'take a drink" However, in
the past few years there has been an
abatement of this emphatic way of ex-
pressing disapproval of temperance pro-
clivities, SO that Denver is not at present
as bad as she was. However, owing to
her lively inhabitants, ETC., she has been
the scene of frequent sensations. The
latest report is that she now has an
Enoch Arden ease. lt.
A woman married during the absence
of her husband, and the new couple con-
tinued housekeeping at the old stand.
The first husband took it in his head to
return to the scene of his former happi-
ness, and wanted to make his reappear-
ance a surprise. He chose the dead of
night to enter his old domicile, by a
back way which he knew. Reaching
his wife's chamber, he soon discovered
that things had changed. The woman
and her second choice were there, and
the man opened out an arsenal which he
had under cover of the pillow, whereup-
on the intruder beat hasty retreat,
with several shots flying after him,
leaving the house by the same route he
Came He pua1t off and armed hi1nsoIf
to the teeth with knives and pistols,
came back to the house with ladder
and prepared to enter his wife's chamber
from the front of the house Hequiet-
ly placed the ladder up to the front win
dow, and commenced to ascend it, hop
ing that he might peak in the window,
and put ball through the rascal who
had supplantcd him in the affections of
his wife. He arrived at the window,
and was about getting in when he was
confronted by two tremendous looking
pistols, and the laeonic exclamation of
''you GET" The Intruder uttering the
equally laconic and emphatic exclama-
ton of ''you bet !" instantly dropped to
the ground, and has never been heard of
since. He is supposed to have left
town, rejecting that there were other
women in the world, and he had but one
life to loose. ..-.:, . .-.....:..
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16
VGrSc al.

Fred Chase Hutchinson, one Of the
family of singers, is dead.
| Frederick Dent, father of the wife of
| President Grant, is in very feeble health,
and his son, Louis Dent, is in preca-
| rious condition.
The late Commodore Matthew Maury's
remains have been transferred to the
cemetery at Richmond, Va.
A Miss Surge is candidate of the
Birmingham, England, Liberal Associa-
ton for member of the school board.
Sergeant Huff, whose bravery during
the siege of Paris is well known, has
been appointed guardian of the Vendome
column.
A Bennington boy is bowed down be-
meath the weight of the name of Burn
side Butler Grant Martin Palmer Hooker
Slade
Major John Curtis Tyler of Brattle-
boro will deliver the address at the re-
union of the Vermont officers on the
Goth of October.
Jefferson Davis is suggested for the
Chancellorship Of the University of
Georgia, vice DR.. A. A. Lipcomb. who
proposes to resign.
The Rev. Henry Wood. D. D.. chan
lain in the United States navy. died at
Philadelphia on Thursday at the age of
seventy-eight.
The papers are all pitching into Don
aldson's balloon. Donaldson, in the
meantime, is pitching out of his balloon
thus maintaining the equilibrium.
Joel L Redner, an old and respected
commission merchant of PHILADELPHIA,
died last week. The Corn Exchange
Association passed resolutions of re-
spect.
Mr.. Short, the lately detected convict
whiskey manufacturer at Sing Sing is
said to justify his illicit traffic on the
ground that he was sent to prison on
purpose to keep still.
The Knoxville Press and Herald saws
that ex-President johnson has S73. 900
on deposit in the First National Bank.
Even if he should lose this, it viii not
exhaust his financial resources.
Professor D. T. Austie, the WELL
known English geologist, is now making
an extensive tour through the coal and
iron districts of Virginia and West Vir-.
ginia, in company with General limbo
den.
1t is said that the first public address
in Berkshire on the Hoosic Tunnel en-
terprise was made by Colonel Croker
of Fitchburg, in the Baptist church of
North Adams, twenty-one years ago this
fall.
Mrs. J. p. Thurston, who claims to
be proprietor of the State of Maine, has
b9en arrested at Portland for ANNOYING
the bank officers by presenting checks
and refusing to leave the banks. She Is
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-16
THE sCOuREE.

The latest reports from the cities that
have been overwhelmed by the yellow
fever inform us that there is no abate-
ment of the terrible scourge. 1t is still
at work along the stagnant waters of the
Mississippi. Shreveport has been almost
depopulated; Montgomery is having a
few cases, and is terribly frightened /;
Auburn has had few cases, and Men,
phis is in frightful condition. The
heart-rending appeals for help, that are
coming from the latter city, show what
horrible state of affairs is existing
there 1t was hoped that the cold wea-
ther and frosts would overcome the VIC
lence of the disease and drive it away
from the afflicted district yet the few
frosts that have occurred this year, thus
far, have had no effect whatever in di-
minishing the force of the disease AL
most without exception, the fever gen
orally disappears upon the approach Of
cold weather, and its failure to do so in
this instance is fearful testimony to its
power The citizens are taking every
means at their disposal to disinfect and
cleanse the desolated city yet their eff
forts in this direction are put forth at
too late day to accomplish much good.
The city was in the most filthy and I'M
clean condition when first attacked by
the plague, and offered itself as a ready
prey for the fell destroyer. However,
it is too late to regret past delinquencies
on the part of the citizens of Memphis.
The only subject for consideration and
discussion is the fact that the latter fine
city is devastated by the terrible fever,
and her people are crying to their breth-
rem throughout the country forsympathy
and help in their dire calamity. Her
own resources are virtually PROSTATE,
business being for the time dead, and
health, strength and courage gone
Neither fire nor flood can make such a
case of woe as this insidious and loath-
some disease that is sweeping away fam
lilies and carrying despair to the bravest
hearts. In this extremity they have
asked for aid, and the gratitude of the
citizens for the prompt response which
the cities of New York, Boston, Louis
vile, etc, have given to their appeal
would be full reward in itself were not
the service for humanity. Touching APP
peals are published from the Howard As
ISOLATION and the knights Templar; it is
fitting that these appeals should be ans
wered with generosity.
This has been year of unusual decay
of animal and vegetable matter Con-
tinued rains have created surplus weed
in all vegetation. From this or some
other cause, an enormous crop of worms
and bugs of every specie, like unto the
frogs and locust and lice of Egypt, have
infested the land. The fruit throughout
the country has been destroyed or dam
aged.to.a great extent by these insects.
Hence the cholera and yellow fever that
has spread over great portion of our
land. We have cause for congratulation
that Jack Frost has arrived to purify our
atmosphere and kill the worms that in
fest everything and we sincerely hope
and pray that next year may not be
wormy year.