The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-01-30
ITEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.

j. C. Bancroft Davis has been nominated
as Assistant Secretary of State.
= California claims to make better blankets
than any other State in the Union.
= The post Office at Tumbling Shoals, in
Laurens County, has been discontinued.
= COL T. Stobo Farrow, of Atlanta, Ga, is
is on a visit to his former home in Spartan
burg.
= The military post at Laurens is to be dis
continued, and the troops now stationed there
are to be withdrawn to Newberry.
A movement is on foot to build cotton
factory of about ten thousand spindles in Col
umbia, during the coming year.
= The steamer Nick King, bound to Florida,
struck snag near Darien, Friday night. The
passengers and crew were saved.
: George Sylvester Wright, of this State,
convicted of the violation of the enforcement
act, has been pardoned by the President.
Mrs. Belle Sudduth, an estimable lady of
Greenville, lately residing in Pickens County,
died in Greenville on the 18th instant.
Wool growing in California is pronounced
to be in most fourishing condition, and the
number OF sheep farmers is annually increas-
ing.
Rev. B. G. Clifford, of North Carolina,
has been elected to fill the chair of Professor
lege.
= Hon. Benjamin E. Sessions died at his
residence in Conwayboro, Horny County, on
the 18th instant, of typhoid pneumonia, in the
ffty-eighth year of his age.
= Rev. Whitefoord Smith, D. D., will deliv-
er lecture before the Young Mems Christian
Association of Wilmington, North Carolina,
some time during the month of March next
The New York Herald says it has a list
of about fifty journalists, connected with the
American press, who have departed this life
within the past year. There is no profession
that wears out men so rapidly.
= John G. Mackey, ESQ.,, of Charleston, died
in that city last week, aged 4S years. He was
brother to Judge Thomas j. Mackey and
half-brother of DIR. Albert G. Mackey, the dis
tinguished Masonic writer.
Gen. Jubal A. Early says he cannot be a
candidate for Governor of Virginia, because he
entertans views which not only forbid asking
for special act of amnesty, but would prevent
his holding any Office, State or national, should
general amnesty be declared.
- The case of the petition already filed by
Hon. d. T. Corbin, to place the Blue Ridge
Railroad in bankruptcy, will be heard before
the United States Court in Charleston, on the
Sth of February, ensuing. Hon. Henry Buist
has been retained as aSSOClate CouHSel.
= Mr.. Sherman's bill, providing for free
banking, to take effect from July next, and the
resumption of specie payment in January next,
meets with considerable favor in both Houses
of Congress. 1t is regarded as the only fcasi-
BILE mode Of reaching specie payments.
The military escort at the Inauguration
of President Grant is to be brilliant display.
There will be present in Washington several
volunteer regiments from the Eastern cities,
four companies of regulars, battalion of ma
rines, and the whole of the cadets from West
Point.
- The race for United States Senator in
Massachusetts is now narrowed down to Bout
we'll and Dawes. Ben Butler is operating ac-
lively in the background for Boutwell,, his
tactics being to run himself for Governor, and
then make dash for Summers shoes two years
hence.
= The heaviest corn crop ever grown in the
United States was that of last year, which the
Agricultural Report states at the huge total OF
/ .lO0.O0O 600 bushels. Not only is this the
largest crop, but it is said to be corn OF better
quality and of greater intrinsic value than
usual.
= The Charleston Nears favors compulsory
registration of marriages, births and deaths.
II saws: When the people have fairly before
them. in official shape, an exhibit of the terri
bic lem, mortality amongst the colored people, they
will be aroused to the necessity oil teaching the
ignorant classes how to take care of themselves
and their children. The registration of mar
riages will naturally tend to increase the solem-
nifty of the marriage tic.