The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-05-15
ITEMs-EDIToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

JOnn T.. w 00l lS GeaQ-a8eQ, 90.
Ex-Governor Curtin is about to settle in
his former home at Bellefonte, Pa.
= Father Ryan, the poet priest, has returned
from Europe in an improved condition.
- Track-laying ON the Air Line Railroad in
Pickens County is progressing very rapidly.
- The entire business portion OF the town OF
Paris, Tenn, has been burned. Loss, SlOO 600.
= 1t is remarkable fact that human hair
grows nearly twice as fast in Europe as it does
in America.
- John w. Foster, the new Minister to
Mexico, has departed for his post, by way of
New Orleans.
= Miss Nellie Grants birthday will be gen.
orally celebrated throughout the United States
on the fourth of July.
: II is expected that telegraphic communi-
cation by cable between Portugal and Madeira
will be opened in July.
Jefferson Davis has been invited by the
Legislature of Texas to visit the capital of that
State, and has accepted the invitation.
= The publication of the Charleston Daily
about three weeks as an evening paper.
The st. Louis Savings Bank has been
swindled out of $25, 900 by an elegantly dressed
man,. who presented forged drafts for that
amount.
- John Mcdonald, of Due West, has fallen
heir to snug little fortune of $4,000, sterling,
by the death of relative in Scotland, who be-
longed to the royal line.
- General Frank Gardner, one of the most
gallant of the Confederate leaders, died on the
29th ult., near Vermilionville, La. His defense
of Port Henderson was truly heroic.
= The thing most prominently exhibited by
America in the Vienna Exposition is said to
be gross incompetence, the faults OF omission
being equal to those of the commission.
Philip A. Eichelberger, Esq, Ex-Treasu-
rer of Edge6eld County, died on last Saturday,
after ten days illness with erysipelas. His re-
- The Department of State has been in
formed from St. Petersburg that the remains
of the late James l.. Orr, United States Min
lister, will be sent to his home in Anderson,
- Dennis Coleman, an intoxicated stone
cutter. having seated himself on the track of
the Charlotte Railroad near Summit, s. c.,
was run over and terribly injured. He will
probably die.
The Charleston Evening Bulletin says that
considerable small pox prevails in that city at
the present time, and advises the citizens to
take precautionary measures to prevent Its
becoming epidemic.
- The Penitentiary of Missouri has been
leased for term of ten yesrs, the lessees pay
ing the entire expense of the prison and a
bonus of 81 900. 1t is expected that the State
will save $4,000 per anpum by this arrange
ment.
"A San Francisco dipatch states that of
family consisting of father, mother and three
children, which was on the steamer Nevada,
from Liverpool, all died during the passage
except the mother, though there was no disease
| on board the steamer.
- Broadcast cotton planting has been prac-
ticed in Campbell County, Georgia, and nine
hundred pounds of seed cotton to the acre was
the result. 1t requires no labor for cultivation,
the multiplicity of plants preventing the grass
and weeds from terminating.
- The locating committee of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, appointed from four States,
to choose site for central Methodist univer-
sity, with half million endowment fund, have
located it at Knoxville. Chattanooga, Atlanta,
and other Southern cities competed.
- Thee oldest chartered lodge of Masons now
in existence in the United States is Solomon's
Lodge, No. l. of Savannah. 1t was chartered
by the Grand Lodge of England, in 1855, and
was re-chartered by the Grand Lodge of Geor-
gia on the organization of that body in 1885.
Rev. Nicholas Talley, one of the Oldest
ministers in South Carolina, and pioneer of
Methodism, died at his residence in Columbia
on last Saturday morning. in the S3rd year Of
his age. Mr.. Talley was native of Virginia,
and had been in the ministry over sixty years.
1t is stated that Colonel B. F. Sawyer and
DIR. R. I. Hampton, of Rome, Georgia, have
invented printing press which will print both
sides of a newspaper at the same time Its
capacity is ten thousand impressions an hour.
The patentees intend to apply for European
and Canadian patents.
! From present indications it is very evil
dent that the entertainment which Charlotte
proposes to give the citizens of Dallas, Spar
tanburg and Greenville on the 10th of May,
will be grand affair, in every respect worthy
the well-known hospitality and liberality of
the people of Mecklenburg.
President Thiers has forbidden the chang
ing of names of any of the streets in Paris.
The municipal council had provided Republi-
can names for the different avenues bearing
imperial designations; but the President pro-
nounced the custom useless, puerile and pre-.
judicial To the interests of the commercial
community"
- The people of Newburg, N. Y, are much
exercised now over the adoption of the report
by the school board recommending the closing
of the colored public schools; and the assign
ment of pupils among the schools now used ex-
clusively for white children. There are appre-
tensions of general withdrawal of white
children from the schools.
49, According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, it
is the general opinion of shrewd politicians
that the radical party cannot carry Ohio at the
next election. The last legislature of that
State is said to have incurred the general con-
tempt and odium of the people, and its out
RACES upon public sentiment will operate to
drive the present dominant party from power.
- General ]. B. Dennis, Superintendent of
the South Carolina Penitentiary, is making
extensive improvements in the grounds of that
institution. Besides the cleanliness which IS
observable about the premises, he is laying
substantial rock sewers, which are greatly
needed in sanitary point of view. Other and
more important improvements are also being
projected. ,.,
= Hardly had the telegraph ceased its click lick