The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-06-05
1TzMs--zDI7oRIA1 AND OTHERWISE.
-Ignatius Donnelly is named as the agri-
candidate for Governor of AIinneso-


culturists' candidate for Governor of Minneso-
ia.
= The Governor has accepted the resigna-
ton of James H. Jones, Sheriff of Marlboro
County.
= California is alarmed at the announce
ment that Is, 900 Chinese emigrants are coming
to settle there this year.
- The Richmond Enquirer thinks that
Chief Justice Chase was the most valuable
friend the South ever had.
= The President contemplates trip to
Norfolk, Petersburg and Richmond early in
June, to be absent from Washington about
three days.
- The New York Tribune is beginning work
on its new building, on its old site, corner Of
Nassau and Spruce. 1t will be eight stories
high, and cost 100000.
= Among the many curious things sent to
the Vienna Exhibition is model of the city
of Paris and its Notifications. It is about
eighteen yards in circumference.
= Mrs Senator Schurz has become heiress
to legacy of 250,000 Prussian thalers, or
about $4,000, by the death of her uncle, late
ly resident of Hamburg Germany.
The Virginia Conservative Convention for
the nomination of State officers will meet at
Richmond on the 9Th of August, and the Re-
publican Convention meets at Lynchburg On
the Both of July.
= The late article on General r. E.. Lee,
published in the Edinburgh Review, and which
has created so much favorable comment both
in England and America, is the production of
Colonel Chesney, of the British army.
Ex-Governor Wise, of Virginia, emphati-
cally denies that there was any authority for
the rumor that he proposed to run as an inde-
pendent candidate for Governor this fall He
is much offended at the liberties thus taken
with his name.
= Friday night, in hauling a seine in Lake
Ontario, at the mouth of the Genesee river,
five shad, two years old, were caught The
spawn was placed in Genesee river by Seth
Green two years ago. The shad appeared last
season and are now on hand again. The largest
one measured eleven inches in length.
A State election will be held in Wisconsin,
on the 4th of November next, and as parties
are quite evenly balanced there the farmers
movement may have decisive influence. A
officers are to be chosen. Over 300 farmers
lodges have been organized in the State.
- President MacMahon, of France, belongs
to family who came from Ireland. We are
told that the MacIahon family descended from
Bryan Boru, who was King of Ireland in 1014.
Thus the genius of Ireland is illustrated even
in France, and the descendant of an Irish
Monarch presides over the destinies of France.
We learn that the necessary arrangements
are being made to introduce machinery into
the workshops of the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad at Columbia, for the con-
struction of all locomotives required for use on
that road. The company have for some time
been turning out the very best specimens OF
- The San Francisco (Cal.) Daily AHa says
thot tho first chipu,ont Of nOtn of Ga1iforniQ
cotton, for the Liverpool market, was made
few days ago. The ship Ontario, for Liverpool,
now completing her cargo at Oakland, has on
board 100 bales of California cotton of most
excellent quality. 1t is pronounced by experts
as very superior 1t will unquestionably prove
profitable to the producer.
II convention Of all the County Auditors
in this State, is to be held in Columbia on the
18th instant, for the purpose of considering
the assessment of property in the State, equal
izing it, and making the application of the tax
Act more uniform than it now is. The belief
is, that real property, in many instances, is
assessed beyond its market value, the lawful
standard of its taxable worth.
= Under the new military law of Italy, King
| Victor Emanuel will soon have regular army
of three hundred thousand men of all arms,
and mobile militia of two hundred and fifty
thousand, of which it is expected two hundred
thousand will be effective. This will give him
half million fighting men for service, with
over one thousand pieces of field artillery.
The next question is, who is he going to fight?
AT recent meeting of the two compa-
nies, the Carolina Narrow Gauge Railroad
Company, and the Chester and Lenoir Narrow
Gauge Railroad Company, were consolidated,
and new officers elected. A. FL. Davega, of
Chester, is President. 1t is proposed also to
consolidate withkhe Kings Mountain Railroad.
II is expected work on the road will begin soon.
The road is to extend from Chester to Le-
noir, n. c.
= Deputy United States Marshal James
Malony has been making important seizures
in Greenville and Pickens counties during the
past week, and making it lively for the illicit
distillers there. Among the parties arrested is
one of the murderers Of Deputy United States
Marshal Mitchell, who was killed while in the
discharge of his duty about year ago. who,
with those arrested for violating the revenue
laws, have been lodged by the United States
commissioners in the jail at Pickens to await
their trial.
: From reliable data it Is ascertained that
the total amount of cotton seized by the civil
and military officers of the United States, COM
ing under the head of captured and abandoned
property, was 10000 bales. Of this 10000
proceeds being S43,aOO,OOO. OF this the Sec
retary of the Treasury refunded claimants
s6,OOO,OOO, expenses S9,OOO,OOO, miscellaneous
S2,OOO000, leaving as net proceeds S26, 1000, 900.
Suit has been brought in the Court of Claims
for $4,000 bales, of which there have been
rejected or dismissed claims for $4,000 bales.
This leaves as yet unclaimed $4,000 bales.
Judgments have been rendered in the Court of
Claims for S5,OO0,OOO, leaving balance still in
the Treasury OIL account of cotton seizures of
S21, 100000
= A correspondent of the Abbeville Aedima,
cause of temperance, says: ave have an eff
cient co-laborer in the Judge of the eighth
circuit, Hon. T. H. Cooke, whose very first
utterances from the bench were in rebuke Of
the evasions of the law, and of the unrestrained