The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-04-30
1TEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHER WISE

1TEMs-EDIToRIA1 AND OTHER WISE.
= The Governor is arming the negroes in
Clarendon County for the next election.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Piedmont Manufacturing Company will be
held in Greenvile on the 18th of May.
enterprising firm in Walballa has sold
during the last four months eight thousand
fowls, which brought them S1.799.50.
In. the United States Senate Senator
sTipton said it was a serious question whether
in saving the Union we had not lostth States.
The city of Rochester, N. Y, fred one
hundred guns in honor of Grants veto mes
sage. and the rejoicing was sgeneral throughout
Y&nkeedom. it,1i Hfij ft'-4.. :: -'s'r'
j. --Washburn telegraphs Boutwell, that he will
not seat himself till the 1st of May; but if any
measure should come up in the Senate requir-
lag his presence and vote, he will start at once
for the Capital.
- The Hopewell cotton mills of Mr. John
Thompson, on Broad River, in Elbert County,
Ca, we're burned a few nights since. The mills
were insured for $53, 500, and $4,000 was the
value of the property,
The Postmaster General has sent COM
munication to the Post Office Committee Of the
House of Representatives advocating the pas
sage of law to compel the prepayment of
postage on all newspapers.
Ii Judge James M. Rutland died in Winns-
boro, on the morning of the 18th of April, at
the age of sixty years. Judge Rutland was
one of the most prominent and highly respected
citizens of Fairfield County.
The annual meeting of the Georgia Press
Association will be held in Macon on Wednes-
day, 18th of May Editors and publishers of
newspapers in South Carolina, Alabama and
Florida are invited to attend.
- Mrs. Isabella Kay, of Honea Path, died
at her residence on the 18th instant, after a
painful illness of two weeks duration. She
was about eighty-fve years DID, and was for
many years shining light in the Baptist
church. ''4. 80
The following gentlemen have been elected
intendent and wardens of Pickens on the "dry
ticket" without opposition: Intendant-C Capt.
John l.. Thornley,. Wardens james M. Nc
Fall, w. A. Leslie, I. II. Philpot and w. M.
Hagood.
- Reports of the fearful floods in the western
rivers continue to be received. They are more
extensive and destructive than ever before
known. The charitable in different portions
of the country are forwarding relief to the
sufferers.
- The new city of Toccoa, on the Air. Line
Railroad, and near Toccoa Falls is flourish
ing place. Less than year ago, not a lot had
been sold, and now, we are informed, more
than 5000 bales of cotton have been sold there
since September last.
Il Alice Mason Sumner the divorced wife
of the late Senator has filed petition in a
Boston court, asking that her name may be
changed to that of Alice Mason, for the reason
that "she has been divorced from her late hus-
band Who has since deceased, and desires tc
resume her maiden name"
Mr.. John Strother, on the Saluda side oil
Edgefeld, has registered twelve hundred acres
of good land, with Capt. Lewis Jones, commits,
sioner of immigration for Edgefeld, to be given
to immigrants for ten years without charge
and at the end of that time the immigrants tc
have the privilege of buying the said land at q
reasonable price.
- The Mississippi Legislature has passed 6
law providing that no person should be licensed
to sell liquor without first securing the sigma.
| lures of more thrn one halfofthe men over TWEEN
ty one years of age, and of women over eighteen
years of age, in the township or municipal cor
poration where he proposes to open bar, re-
questing that such license be granted.
- The Haxall Mills, of Richmond, Va.
were destroyed by fire on the night of the 2ls
inst The total loss is nearly half million
dollars, on which there was an insurance o.
100000 and upwards. 1t is the most cala,ni
tous FIRE that has occurred in Richmond since
the memorable Srd of April, 1865, when hun
dreds of the finest buildings were swept away
by the flames.
: The third session of the National Agricul
! tural Congress will be held at Atlanta, Ga.
May 49, 1874. The object: t"To consider agri
culture in national, not local, point of view
aud disadvantages under which the farmer now
labors the promotion Of an intelligent under,
standing of political economy in its relation tt
agriculture by papers and discussions upor
| finance, taxation, commerce, &C."
- The widow of ex-President Polk has had {
small claim before the Southern Claims Com
missioners for over three years. She asks tt
be paid $4,000 for ten mules taken from hel
plantation in Mississippi in 1868, for the use
of the army. The commissioners have declined
so far, to approve the claim, principally or
| account of doubts as to Mrs. Polk's loyalty
although she sets forth in her petition that she
| was opposed to secession, and that her sympa
thies were with the government.
- The vicinity of Bald and Stone Noun
tains, in North Carolina, continues to excite
interest from the recent manifestations o.
earthquake and volcanic tendencies. On the
| 18th lust, Stone Mountain and vicinity expe
rienced one of the most terrific shocks that has
vet been felt. The whole earth shook and
| trembled houses were shaken and their con
tents were fearfully disarranged. Severa
shocks have occurred within the last week
and the volcano is hourly expected to break
forth, although so many have asserted that the
whole story is hoax.
- The debate in Congress on the Louisiana
bill has helped on the good work, and impels
the Mew York Times to give this significant
warning: "It has called attention to the
outrageous evils which exist in several of the
Southern States it has broken substantially
whatever hold the Southern Governments may
have had OF the Republican party and it has