The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-07-03
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Tile South American States will be in
communication with the telegraphic system of
the world by two ocean cables in about year.
The Atlanta Sun has been merged into the
Atlanta Constitution. Hon. A. H. Stephens
becomes corresponding editor of the C0nstitu-
ton.
= Victoria C. Woodruff and Tennie c.
ClaAin have been acquitted of the charge
brought against them of mailing obscene liter
ature. =,
ordr soon directing that all postal cards which
cannot be delivered to the person addressed be
returned to the writer without charge.
= The President has appointed Gen. VIM.
Gurney. of Charleston, as Centennial Commis-
sioner for South Carolina, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of Minister Orr:
AT the recent Commencement of Trinity
College, N. c., the honorary degree OF Doctor
of Divinity was conferred upon Rev. William
H. Fleming, Of the South Carolina Confer
ence. -,
- They have just began to get the anti-sal-
ary grab fever in Massachusetts. They are
getting it bad, however, and even Ben. Butler
has given up his little three cent postage
game. r
"A colossal bronze equestrian statute OF
Stonewall Jackson cast at Nuremburg, Bavaria,
is to be placed in the grounds of the Washing
ton and Lee University, at Lexington, Vlr-
ginia. ~. ,,
St. Johns day by an imposing procession and
an Grafton by Judge Tilford. 1t is the first
public demonstration ever made by the Masons
in Utah.
- Gen. H. G. Worthington, formerly United
States Minister to the Argentine Republic, has
been appointed Collector of the port OF
Charleston, in the place of George w. Clark
removed.
- Mrs. Nelly Marshall McAfee, daughter
of the late Gen. Humphrey Marshall, OF Ken
lucky, and one of the most gifted writers IN
the South, is regular contributor to the York
vile Enquirer.
of Mrs. Elizabeth, McSwain, relict OF the late
Rev. VIM. A. McSwain, which occurred at the
residence of her son-in-law on the Oath ult,
after a brief illness.
- Col. Mosby, the guerilla chieftain, thinks
the Conservative party ought to go over in
body to Grants support, and predicts that
Grant will be the next candidate for the South
ern white people for President.
- The Rochester Union remarks that the
chief business of Congress now is to Investigate
at one session the wrong doings of the previous
sessions, and make history of the evil deeds OF
rascally Senators and Representatives.
There is an old colored woman in Ridge
way, S. c., formerly belonging to the late Hon.
E. G. Palmer, who is one hundred ana ten
years DID, Her birth is recorded in the old
family chronicle, and bears date 1853.
Il The pioneer tobacco factory in this State,
started at Walhalla by Mr. j. j. Norton, IS
manufacturing very good article OF smoking
tobacco, and affords great convenience to the
small tobacco growers in the mountainous ols-
tricts of Oconee County.
Secretary Belknap is having thorough
inspection made of all the records of the War
Department. with view of ascertaining their
exact condition and exactly how much truth
there is in the report that soon after the close
of the war many important papers were re-
moved.
San Salvador is to be rebuilt on the same
spot. 1t will be remembered that this town,
in nearly the same place, has been destroyed
by earthquakes four or five times. To rebuild
on the same site is to court destruction again,
but it is exactly what we might expect of the
people.
ton, Va, has conferred the honorary degree of
L. l.. d. upon the Hon. Judah P. Benjamin,
now of England, and Hon. John A. Campbell
of New Orleans La. Mr.. Benjamin was Sec
retary of State under President Davis. during
the days of the Southern Confederacy, and
Judge Campbell was an Associate Justice OF
the United States Supreme Court before the
war;
"There shall be wars and rumors of wars. y
The talk in Europe now is, that Bismarck is
exceedingly uneasy regarding the future inten,
tions of France, and has placed heavy masses
of reserve troops under arms. Austria is alsc
said to be arming and preparing for war, with
a view of assisting the French, in case OF
conflict Should the Prussians re-occupy the
evacuated provinces of France, as is said to be
contemplated, general rupture would be like