The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-04-03
ITEMs-EDIToR1A1 AND OTHERWISE.


Sons of Temperance, will begin at Newberry
on the 23rd inst
Hon. Levy F. Rhame, of Clarendon, died at
his residence, on Friday last, in the seventy
fifth year of his age.
The Attorney General (Rad.) of Mississip-
pi has been convicted OF bribery and perjury
by his own party friends
"A correspondent of the Charleston Ne,cs
says that carpenters, bricklayers and cabinet
makers are wanted at Pendleton.
- Counterfeit fifty cent bills are in circula-
ton. Also, counterfeit ten dollar bills OF the
Poughkeepsie (N W National Bank.
Gen. D. II. Hill will address the literary
societies of Furman University at.the annual
commencement on the 18th of June.
- Robert E. Lee, Jr., son OF the late Con-
federate General, is likely to be the next Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor of Virginia.
= Small pox prevails largely throughout
the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana
and Texas, in many places proving terrible
epidemic.
"A special edict for the toleration of Chris
tianity throughout Japan has been issued, and
it is determined to throw the whole country
open to foreigners.
= The second annual fair of the Pee Dee
Agricultural and Mechanical Fair Association
will be held at Cheraw, s. c., on the 18th,
10th and 18th of October next.
- The United States has $4,000 miles OF
railroad, which cost about S3,437 ,63S, ,749, and
this is not much more than the cost of the
$4,000 miles of English railroads.
- Commodore Vanderbilt has given to Bish-
op McTyeire the handsome sum of $500, 600, to
aid in the establishment of the proposed Uni
yersity of the M. E. Church. South.
= The par value of share in the Granite
Vile Manufacturing Company is 500, but
they are selling at Sl45. This shows the value
of such stock. Then, why not build factories
The Alabama Legislature has been in
session since the 18th of November, and it is
said has not passed single act of importance.
There appears to be no prospect of adjourn
ment.
= Hanging is getting to be quite fashiona-
BILE in various parts of the country. Thomas
Smith, Of Louisville, KY, and negro named
Charles Manley, of Alexandra, Va, were hung
last Friday.
- Marshal Magruder who shot Clarence j.
Lockwood, of Spartanburg, few weeks since,
in New York, has been sentenced to ten years
hard labor in the penitentiary. Lockwood has
entirely recovered.
- John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, who
was so long prominently connected with the
anti-slavery movement in this country, is suf-
fering from confirmed paralysis and softening
of the brain, and cannot live much longer.
| - Senator Cameron, with Senator Howe and
his wife and few friends will, in few days,
start on tour through the Southern States as
far as New Orleans. Senator Boutwell,, accom-
panied by his family, will also make tour of
the Southern States.
= Gov. Moses has appointed Messrs. G.
Davis Melton, j. d. Pope and R. B. Elliott,
| Commissioners to examine and report upon
the claims presented under the appropriation
of $35, 900, made last winter, for rewards for
the apprehension of Ku Klux.
II lady residing in Alabama, on behalf OF
herself and family, has rendered to the Monu-
mental Association of Georgia sufficient marble
to build Confederate monument. The marble
is of pure white, and is said to be finer and
more beautiful than the far famed Carrara.
= Governor Smith has determined upon in
viting the Governors of the Southern and
Western States to meet in Atlanta, or some
other convenient place, early in May, to con-
suit upon the proper means to be taken to for
ward the Atlantic and Great Western Canal.
= The new internal revenue law regulating
the collection of taxes, providing for the re-
moval of assessors, and furnishing the manu-
facturer stamps direct, is ready to go into
operation. The appointments of collectors
have all been made, and the new stamps very
nearly all printed.
The library of the University of South
Carolina is one of the best selected in the
Southern country, and contains about 10000
volumes. There are also independent and
choice Libraries belonging TO the two flourish
| ing literary societies of the institntion-the
Clariosophic and EuphradiaD.
| - Gen. John B. Gordon, the accomplished
Senator from Georgia, was called to the chair
BY Vice President Wilson on Tuesday before
adjournment, and for a short while he presided
over the United States Senate. This is the first
time such courtesy has been extended to an
ex-C Confederate. p 20 i.
- Rev. J.. s.. Wilson, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church at Atlanta, Ga, died in
that City, Thursday morning, of paralysis, in
| the seventy-eighth year of his age. He was
born in Pendleton District, 8. c., January 4,
| 1896. He removed to Atlanta and took charge
of the First Presbyterian Church in 1859.
- By an act approved March 8, 1873, Con-
gress authorized the payment, without proof
| of loyalty, of claims for compensation for tax.
ing the census for 1860. The Interior Depart
ment, in ordercto save expenses to claimants,
has prepared the forms, stating that the inter-
vention of an attorney will not be necessary.
- A Washington dispatch says: THE Gov
ernment is still pardoning prisoners at Albany,
| convicted of Ku Klux crimes, and unless there
| Is positively reasonable opposition from the
residents in the localities where the prisoners
lived, all will undoubtedly be pardoned before
very long. Such seems to be the disposition OF
| the Government"
- Mr. VIM. B. Peterson, foreman of the
Abbeville Medium, died on the "a inst, from
mrningitis, after an illness of one week, aged
% years. The deceased was O native of We'll
don, N. c., and had been only short time in
Abbeyiile. He married only six months ago,
and leaves o young wife to mourn an irrepara-
BILE loss. His remains were carried to Weldon.
| "A dispatch from Richmond says that q
tjoint resolution endorsing Governor Walkers