The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-01-16
COLUMBIA, Jan. IA, 1873.
I7EMs-ED1ToR1A1 AND OTHERWISE,


= Tea is reported to have been successfully
cultivated in Iowa.
The East India cotton crop is one-ffth
larger this year than last.
= The Governors message says Illinois is
substantially free from debt.
An effort is being made to divide Beaufort
into two counties.
= At San Antonio, Texas, apples are sM
barrel and beef two cents pound.
If you would live happily the present
year, subscribe for the Anderson L,telligencer.
= The heavy storms in Kansas have delayed
railroad trains al1 bleckaded the rivers with
ice.
A very suitable lot has been purchased in
Abbeville On which will be erected the Baptist
Church.
- The Vienna exhibition will commence on
the LIST of May and close on the lst Of No#ena-
Der, 1873.
= The lectures Of Hon. Carl Schurz, on Ger
many and France, are attracting considerable
attention.
- Texas journals arejubilant over the num-
Der of cotton factories recently established in
that State.
- The Emperor William, of Germany, Is
expected to visit ST. Petersburg during the
present winter.
Secretary Boutwell, is Frequently receiving
letters requesting him to continae in. the Uni-
ted States Treasury.
- The new Court House at Abbeville IS
completed, and the various county officers find
comfortable quarters therein.
The Pickens Sentinel has been informed
that the bridge across the Saluda River, on the
Air Line Railroad, has been completed.
- The Tuscaloosa, Ala, Times says the
heavy emigration now going on from Alabama
to Texas is the bitter fruits of Radical rule.
Mr.. Alexander II. Stephens can walk only
does not leave home except on pleasant days.
The Madrid journals deny that the insur-
gents in Cuba have met with success in their
recent operations, and assert that the rebellion
will soon be crushed.
Gen. James Shields is the only man who
ever represented two States in the United
States Senate. At one time he was Senator
from Illinois, and subsequently Senator from
Minnesota.
- The President proposes to issue an order
about the 4th of March, prohibiting Federal
officers from accepting an Office under any
State government and interfering of1ciously in
State elections.
- In Germany, when the vote of the jury
stands six against six, the prisoner is acquitted.
A vote of seven against five leaves the decision
to the court, and in vote of eight against four
the prisoner is convicted.
An association has been organized in Eng
land for the purpose of prosecuting every rail-
road company on whose line any accidents
happen and thus to compel them to be more
considerate of human life.
= The Tennessee press is generally favoring
the abolition of usury laws in that State, and
some of the papers demand q constitutional
convention to amend the statutes as affecting
usury and conventional interest.
= Hon. A. J. Requier, formerly of Charles
ton, now prominent member of the New
York bar, has written poem entitled Memo
rial Altars," to be sold for the benefit of the
Darlington Monumental Association.
- Governor Moses has pardoned George
Atlas, convicted of larceny at the Chester
Court in January, 1872, and sentenced to two
years imprisonment in the State Peuitentiary.
1t was done upon the recommendation of the
presiding Judge.
"A number of the ladies Of Lexington,
Va, have been initiated into the mysteries of
the eastern STAR" an adaptive rite of Masor-
ry, and are so much pleased with it that they
have taken preliminary steps to the formation
in that place of permanent chapter. ~
+ = Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson, who was mar
ried to Jerome Bonaparte, the youngest brother
of Napoleon Bonaparte, on the oath of Decem-
Der, 1903, seventy years ago, is now lying at
the point of death in Baltimore. She is now
about eighty-eight years old. "
IL Mrs. e. G.. Wharton, of Baltimore, who
was acquitted last year of the poisoning of
Gen. w. S. Ketchum, and who was indicted at
the same time of attempting to murder by adj
ninistering poison, Eugene Van Ness, is now
undergoing trial in Annapolis. .,s.,. 80.
- The tone of almost the entire press of the
North-the New York Times of course excel
ted-n regard to the outrageous treatment to
which the people of Louisiana have been sub
iected at the hands of the Federal authorities,
is cheering, and indicates healthy awakening
of popular indignation. ., =;
"A prominent member of the Virginia
Legislature has offered the sum of S1O0,O0e
annually for the exclusive privilege of gathey-
ing oysters in Virginia waters. The Revenue
heretofore derived from this source is only
10000 annually, while the cost of collection
is $50, ,000 leaving the net revenue only $40 600.
Maria Jourdan Westmoreland, of Atlanta,
Ga, whose "Heart Hungry" created favorable
impression in literary circles, is now in New
York supervising the publication of her second
story, "Clifford Troup," which is said to be
a great improvement upon her first effort, and
destined to add largely to the authors reputa-
tion,
Superintendent Stolbrand has secured the
services of teacher and established a regular
school in the South Carolina Penitentiary.
About two hours per day are devoted to study
and recitation by each Of the three classes AS
such institutions are considered reformatory in
their character, Superintendent Stolbrand has
taken the most efectual method of reforma-
tion.
- The Louisville C6urier-Jouraal expresses
its belief that Grant means to overthrow our
republican form of government, and convert
the presidency into consulate, "and at length
put on the crown-a consummation which