The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06
IlT!sMs--zDtToaIAl AND OTHERWISE.

- Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, is dangerous
ly i'll with pneumonia. at
- The family of VIM. L. Yancey resides on
farm near Montgomery, Ala. ~ ~ r.
- The Port Royal Railroad will be complet-
ed and in working order by the 1st of March.
r Three negro incendiaries were hanged at
Arrow Rock, Missouri, by vigilance commit
tee.
- 1t seems upon investigation that neither
parry acted according to law in the Louisiana
election.
- And now comes one Aaron Crow, Of
Clarke County, Ga, who says that he made
900 lbs. of lint cotton on one acre OF ground
last year. $3.50:
The Boston Board of Trade petitions Con-
gress for an amendment to the bankrupt law
for The speedy settlement of the affairs of in
surance companies.
- The President will soon modify his recent
order relating to United States officials holding
State positions. 1t was Not intended that said
order should affect school trustees, or like Off
Gers who hold positions of no political signif-
cance.;
= There have been slight eruptions from
Mount Vesuvius the past few days. No dam
age has been done, but the residents of the
villages at the foot of the volcano, who suffered
SO severely from the last eruption, arc greatly
alarmed.
= The Senate of Pennsylvania has adopted
resolution instructing the United States Sem
ators from that State to vote against the pur-
chase or control of the telegraph by the gov
ern1aent. The resolution was adopted by q
vote of 25 to l.
The movement for the abolition of the
frarking privilege, the bill for which has just
passed, was begun twenty-five years ago in
Congress by Horace Greeley. In 1S4S he was
member of the House from New York, and
he introduced bill for the purpose. ~.
=. We learn that project is on foot for the
general government to donate hundred mil
lions of dollars to the Southern States to pay
off &he State debts and remove the ravages OF
the war. The project is said to originate with
the leading capitalists of the North.
- We learn that the engineers in charge OF
the experimental survey of the Greenwood and
Augusta Railroad have completed their survey
upo1 the Carolina side of the Savannah River
and are now engaged in running lines from
some point near Fury's Ferry to the city o.
Augusta.
= One thousand more troops are to be sent
frorl Spain to Cuba. A new Captain-Genera
will also be appointed for the Island. The wal
cannot be protracted much longer on the par,
of the government without reaction in Spain
Amadeus must have success in Cuba, or he viii
lose his throne.
- Two bills now before the Georgia Legisla.
ture, which it is thought will. become laws
commend themselves to other sections thar
Georgia The first makes it a penal offense tt
race horses, fight cocks, use obscene or oppro
bricus words or curse. The second disqualifes
any person convicted of larceny from voting OF
holding Office.
= Luther Tucker, editor of the Albany Chl
tiva.or and Country Gentleman, one of the bes
of cur agricultural writers, died last Sunday
For some forty years Mr.. Tucker had beer
connected with the agricultural press, and was
a great authority on agricultural matters. Fol
thirsy years he had been Secretary of the New
York Agricultural Society.
- The Alabama papers report a fatal sick
ness which is prevailing at Montgomery. A
large number of persons nave died, among the
list three members Of the-Legislature and one
Senator. The disease is called meningitis and
pneumonia. Persons are taken with q chill
and often die within thirty-six hours. 1t il
thought that the Legislature will adjourn te
Huntsville. Large numbers are preparing to
leave the city, as the disease appears to in
creare in malignity. 2, - f-sa - -