The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-09-24
ITEMS--EDIToR1A1 AND OTHERWISE

- Virginia has had the most unfavorable
season for tobacco known in that State for
many years
- The Governor has appointed Mr.. G.. w.
Waterman as State Inspector of Phosphates,
vice James ?. Low, removed.
- The Chicago Times, in the same breath,
denounces mob-law in the South and recon-
mends lynchng in Chicago.
- The Orangeburg Ne'cs states authorita-
lively that Solicitor Buttz will prosecute the
Indictment against Governor Moses at the
January term of the Orangcburg Court.
ALL the elements of opposition to the
Republican party in Michigan have been
united, and the result is one of the most COM
pact and powerful organizations ofthe kind in
the Union.
- The difficulties connected with the sale Of
the Laurens Railroad to the Sonth Carolina
Railroad no longer exist, and preparations are
being made to commence work Oh the road du-
ring the coming month.
- In a bar-room fracas at Graniteville, S.
c., last Thursday night, Elijah Watson shot and
killed Lawrence Wise-both white men. Too
much whisky was the cause. This is the second
man that Watson has killed.
- The Rock Hill Grange nominates Gen. j.
B. Kershaw as a candidate for Congress for the
Fourth Congressional District, with many
complimentary expressions of admiration for
his virtues and accomplishments.
- Ten counties in South Carolina are now
garrisoned by Federal soldiers, viz: Abbevlle,
Barnwcll, Charleston, Edgcfield, NewDerry
Marion, Richland, Spartanburg an artillery
company FROM North Carolina) and York.
- The election in Maine Oh the 14th inst.
passed off very quietly, and resulted in q Re
;o,,, Noorly oil Of tho tore
and three fourths of the members Of the House
are Republicans, besides all the members OF
Congress.
The Columbia Phmnir says that Senator
Patterson has departed NorLhward. He is
reported to have tcegraphed to the authorities
at Washington that the military could not be
spared from South Carolina, as lives of Repub-
licans were in danger.
- The Nashville Union and .inaericaM truth
fully says that Louisiana revolution has done
more to expose the utter rottcnncss of the car
pct-bag governments than all the reports
speeches and protests that have been made in
and out of Congress since the war;
- President Grant has recently announced
to Il committee of Southern politicians that he
would have certainly vetoed the Civil Rights
Bill if it had been passed by Congress at the last
session. He refused to state his probable &C.
ton in case the bill is passed at the next session
- The New York Times looks hopefully to
the Independent Republican Convention, and
predicts that South Carolina will insure gooc
government only when she has put away
from her all men who have been connected
like Chambcrlain, with the past dishonest adj
ministrations
- The Columbia Ihoni.r has been Informed
that the Executive Committee of the Indcpcnd
ent Republicans have received encouraging let
ters from prominent politicians who were dis
satisfied with the results of the late convention
promising their support and urging that the
movement be pushed forward vigorously.
- Hon. d. B. Penn, the Lieutenant Govern
or of Louisiana, is only IS years old. He was
Brigadicr General i'll the Confederate army
and, since the war; q wealthy merchant and
planter. He is n Liberal Republican, very
popular with the colored people, and was the
onI Iy one of the contesting Governors and Lieu
tenant-Govcrnors whose election was conceded
by both sides.