The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-01-23
ITEMS-EDIToRIA1 AND OTHER WISE.

There are now thirteen papers published
in Columbia
The bill abolishing the franking privilege
is again up in Congress.
. Col. L. d. Childs has been reelected
President of the Carolina National Bank.
- Mrs. Josiah Tatnall, widow of the late
Commodore Tatnall, died in Savannah on We'd
nesday.
= Thomas Steen, Esq, of Greenville, has
been elected Grand Master of Odd Fellows IN
this State.
The survey of the Greenwood and Angus.
the prospects are encouraging.
- The total amount paid to the United
States Treasury for cotton tax, while that tax
was in existence, was $68,072,3S8.
= The State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
met in Columbia last week, and was in session
for two days. Important private business was
transacted.
Mr.. Duncan, Of Spartanburg, has intro
duced bill to require Trial Justices to give
bond, with approved security, before entering
upon the duties of their Offices
Quite a number of colored people-niEety
or more-men, women and children, left the
upper part of Laurens County last week, and
passed through Newberry, en- route for Tennes-
see.
The Preston mansion, one of the finest
residences in Columbia, which has been the
home of the Hampton family fer generations,
has been purchased by Governor Moses for
forty thousand dollars
: The Comptroller General has issued
circular, approved by the Governor, extending
the time for collection of taxes, without penal
ty, twenty days in all counties, except Rich
land, which is ten days.
- John Enrigbt, Esq, Of Abbeville, died at
his residence in that place on the l4th inst,
after an illness of three months, aged 63 years.
He was native of Ireland, and emigrated to
this country when a young man.
- The first bill introduced at the recent ses-
sion of the Georgia Legislature was the verta-
BILE "Bill Arp" who introduced himself as
candidate for or-keeper. This Bill was reject
ed, however and another man was elected
"A letter from Marshall, Texas, states that
six thousand men are at work grading the
Texas Pacific Railroad between that point and
Fort Worth, and that track laying will begin as
soon as the rise in the Red River enables the
necessary supplies to be brought up,
ous accident occurred at the Pacolet bridge,
on the Air Line Railroad, while the workmen
which four persons were seriously injured, fall
ing one hundred feet to the ground.
= William III. Hurlbert, of the New York
World, and one of the best writer's connected
with the press in this country, has gone on an
expedition through the Mexican and South
American States to report upon the present
condition, politically and commercially.
An effort is being made to place the Blue
Ridge Railroad Company in bankruptcy, and
proceedings to that effect began in the United
States Court last week. The company has been
ordered to show cause, on the 18th of February,
why they should not be declared bankrupts.
A Bill for refunding the tax levied upon
cotton will be more strongly argued before
Congress at the present session, than has been
expected. Facts and arguments, showing that
the tax was unconstitutional, have been exhib-
tied in circular addressed to each Senator and
Representative.
: The bill providing for the extension of
time for the payment of taxes for the fiscal
wear commencing November, 1872, has been
ratified. This bill leaves it in the discretion of
the Governor and Attorney General to extend
the time for the payment of taxes in any Coun-
ty, when collection is impracticabe.
"A Philadelphia manufacturers is preparing
q plan for q column one thousand feet high, to
be constructed entirely OF iron, IN open work,
from the summit of which the grounds of the
Centennial Exposition are to be illuminated
by means of Drummond light. If adopted,
it will Be the loftiest monument in the world.
= The funeral of Louis Napoleon took place
at Chiselhurst England, on the 18th inst, in
presence of an immense concourse OF people.
The remains were deposited in q mortuary
chapel, to await the removal of the body to
France for final interment. The Prince Impe-
rial was present, but the ex-Empress was too
i'll TO attend.
The corporators of the Laurens and Ashe-
Vile Railroad held a meeting at Laurens, on
the 7th of January, at which it was resolved
that books of subscription be opened immedi-
atcly, and remain open until sale day in Feb
ruary. No part of the subscription will be
called for until the company is fully organized,
and then only FIVE dollars on each share SUBJ
str,bed.
"A brief telegram, dated London, January
18th, announces that Edward Lytton Bulwerr,
the great English novelist, is dead. The death
roll of last year was rich in illustrious names,
but the present year opens even more formida-
bly,, and already, in nineteen days, has been
added to the list the names of Napoleon, the
prince of rulers, and Bulwer, the prince OF
English novelists.