The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-06-18
1TEMs-ED1ToR1AL AND OTHER WISE.

ITEMS-EDIToRIAL AND OTHER WISE.
The Second Annual Fair of the Greenvile
open on Tuesday, 18th of October next, and
continue four days.
James H. Hendrix, Esq, of Lexington,
died suddenly on the Sth inst. He was County
Auditor of Lexington until recently, when he
was removed by the Governor.
The Vicksburg (A1iss.) Clarion says the
opinion seems to be gaining ground that Gen.
Sherman will be proposed for the Presidency
as an antidote for Grants threatened Cesar
ism.
Only one case was tried at Pickens Court
last week-a white man and negro woman
charged with infanticide They were found
guilty, and sentenced to be hanged on the
fourth Friday in September next.
- Chief Justice Waite has just decided that
bankrupt cannot obtain homestead exemp-
ton as against debts contracted prior to the
ratification of the State Constitution in the re-
constructed States. He has likewise decided
that a man can waive his right to home
stead.
= Louisiana is afflicted beyond all precedent.
that are out of the reach of the floods. So that
the country presents the painful anomaly of
being dried up where it has not been drowned
out 1t is evident that the demand for aid is
most imperative and heartrending.
Gen. Beauregard has recently received a
letter from representative OF the Argentine
Confederation rendering him, in the name of
President Sormiento, the position of military
engineer, for the purpose of making recon-
noissance of the river La Plata with the view
of establishing line of defenses.
- Colorado, whether admitted as Sta'e
into the Union or not, is certainly one of Il Q
best illustrations of American growth. Her
immigration is reckoned at the rate of three
thousand per month. The actual value of her
real estate is S10O 900, and she has 1,500,-
900 acres of land under cultivation.
- There is an infatuation about the lottery
business that cannot be explained Ex-Gov.
Bram!ette has been running the Louisville lot
terry since its inception, but had never heard
until recently that marriage is a lottery. Upon
ceremony was performed at Louisville last
| week.
The St. Louis Post does not altogether dis
believe the rumors about the third term con-
spiracy, and says it is very evident that Pres
ident Grant is hard at work to kill of Norton,
the most prominent candidate of the republl-
can party and to put personal friends IN every
office at his disposal, regardless of their stand
ing in the party.
q In Harrison county, Kentucky, q mob OF
masked men took Robert Beckett from the house
of his employer, ridded his body with bullets,
soaked his clothes with coal oil and set fire to
them, thus burning the dead body. Beckett
was charged with the murder ofa man named
Ellis about year ago, but was out on ball.
Greet indignation is reported in the communl-
ty against this inhuman outrage.
- Charles Francis Adams, in letter to Sen
ator Window. expresses his disafection with
both the transportation bills now before the
senate He does not believe it possible for
anv nine men, no matter how honest and ex-
nerienced they may be, to properly revise all
the running railroad tariffs in use in the United
states, and even if they could he thinks that
thew would not be able to reach the root of the
present difficulty which is the natural outgrowth
of the whole system and theory of railroad con-
struction, and cannot be eradicated without
upsetting the system, that OF private owner
ship, regulated by competition, -
"A letter to the New York 1,mcs, from
Charleston, says: "From the oftcia record OF
the prosecuting attorneys OF the olnerene CIR
cuits in South Carolina, it will be seen that
oul'J ouo-third Of the number of persons holding
r,;nor nositions have been indicted for some
naance % committed during their term of Office,
odIs and a much larger proportion is charged with
crimes Of various kinds prior to their election
haps, worse in this particular than any other
portion of the State; from the highest to she
lowest State officer in the District: nearly all
have been charged with and many of them
convicted of one or more offences.
- The indianapolis Journal, Senator Nor
toms organ, thinks that reconstruction has
been overdone, and "it is worth while for Con-
gress to consider whether it has not made the
mistake of interfering too much in the affairs
of the Southern States. The best thing Con-
gress can do with Arkansas ASIAN and s with S every
requirement of the constitution to interfere, is
to severely let them alone. What the people
of the South want is rest and local self-goyern-
ment, instead of Congressional il difference.
The condition of affairs in some of these States
is certainly very bad, but the interference pol
icy does not seem to help them much, and we
should like to sec the let-alone policy tried lor
~ while"