The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-04-17
1TzMs--EDI7oRIA1 AND OTHERWISE.
President Grant will visit Richmond Va

- President Grant will visit Richmond, Va,
on the 10th of May.
Judge Cooke has finally decided to take
up his abode in GreenSille.
i Mr.. A. r. Stewart, who has been extreme
ly ill, is announced as convalescent.
- Pennsylvania proposes a constitutional
amendment making voting compulsory.
The seventh annual State Fair of Louisi-
ana will commence in New Orleans on the 23d
instant.
= Thirty persons have Joined the Baptist
Church at Chester, and the revival is still pro-
crossing.
W. J.. Magrath, Esq, has been unani-
mously reelected President of the South Caro-
lima Railroad Company.
"A nearly completed building fell in Mid
dletown, Conn.,, burying fifteen persons Six
dead bodies have already been found.
= The Baptists of Greenville have recently
purchased a new organ, costing S2,400. 1t is
one of the largest in the up-country.
Columbus, Ca, has built cotton factory
every year since the war, and contemplates
erecting another before next January.
The next session of the National Agricultu-
raj Congress will be held in indianapolis, Ind,
commencing on Wednesday, 24th Of May.
= The Army of Northern Virginia surren-
dered on the 9th of April, 1S65-last Wednes-
day being the eighth anniversary of that his
toric event.
The Arkansas River rose twenty feet in
forty-eight hours last week, and three piers Of
the railroad bridge at Little Rock have been
swept away.
= Judge Robert ould, of Richmond, is now
thought to be the most popular and available
person in the Conservative party for Governor
of Virginia.
The insurance on Horace Greeley's life,
one hundred thousand dollars, has been COL
lected. The policy is the largest paid in the
last decade
An enthusiastic meeting in favor of the
narrow gauge railroad from Chester to Lenoir,
N. c., was held in Yorkvile on the 7th inst.
The meeting was addressed by Judge Mackey
and others.
- The importation of pepper is confined to
few Boston houses and two or three New
York houses. These sell to two or three deal
ers on arrival, who hold and control the supply
of pepper for this country.
The resignation of Frederick T. Lowe,
United States Minister to China, has been re-
ceived at the Department of State. 1t is said
that ex-senator Cole, of California, will be
appointed to succeed Mr.. Lowe.
= The New York Herald recently issued
quintuple sheet, containing 120 columns of
which 7S were devoted to advertisements and
AZ to news and general inteligence-an event
unprecedented IN the history of journalism in
this or any other country.
Some three million dollars have been ex-
pended on the new State Capitol of New York,
and from FIVE to seven millions more will be
needed to finish il. This will make the struc-
ture nearly equal to the National Capitol-in
the cost-and that will be something.
= Mr. Andrew Clark, the inventor and eel
ebrated manufacturer of spool thread, died
recently at his home in Scotland. Mr.. Clark
was self-made man, and commenced business
in small way, but for many years he has been
at the head OF the largest and most celebrated
factory in the world.
: Ex-Governor Seymour and wife, of New
York, on their return from the South, have
visited Montpelier, the old home of President
Madison, and Monticello, the famous old
homestead of Jefferson. They will continue
their journey through Virginia by way of
Staunton and Harper's Ferry.
-Whitclaw Reid, edtor-in-chief of the
New York Tribune, graduated at Miami UNI
versity, only few years ago, and is said to
have been distinguished whilst at college for
his awkwardness as much Us for his talent.
He was the war correspondent of the Gncin-
natl Gazette during the late "unpleasantness."
Nearly all the Ku Klux prisoners sent to
the Albany Penitentiary for participation in
raids, or who were convicted on charges of
belonging to the Ku Klux order, have been
pardoned. There now reulain only those con-
victed of direct completely in the murder of
unoffending citizens. While lit is the intention
of the President, sooner or later, to pardon all
of the prisoners convicted under the Enforce
ment Act, he does not deem it proper to extend
to this class Executive cemency until they
hoy hv not ho
ernment is determined to enforce law and order
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