The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-07-23
1TEMs--EDIToRIAL AND OTHER WISE

- Ex-Governor HeDerC, OF IOulSlalld, pun
fishes letter in the Nalionat Republican favor
ing Grant for third term.
"A correspondent of the Greenville Daily
Neacs suggests Gen. J. B. Kershaw as the Con-
servative candidate for Governor.
-Ex-Gov. Scott has sold his cotton planta-
ton near Columbia, and is now sojournlng
with his family in the North. He is not likely
to become candidate this summer.
Ex-Mayor Walter Lenox, formerly apron
| inent citizen of Washington City, died on
Thursday last, aged fifty seven years
Judge Cooke has decided, in the case OF
the Blue Ridge Railroad, that bills of the Bank
of the State are not receivable for taxes.
- Prof. w. H. Whitsitt, of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, has been made
D. D. by Mercer University, of Macon, Ga.
- A freight train on the Air Line Railroad
ran over and killed a deaf and dumb negro
man, near Kings Mountain on Thursday last.
Spartanburg is going to put on city airs
by constructing street railway through its
principal avenues for the convenience OF Its
citizens. -,
Rev. T. Ward White, late President of the
Female College of Reidville, has been elected
President of the Female College of Greensboro,
Alabama.
- The terms of twenty-five United States
Senators expire March 4, 1875, and nearly all
the Legislatures which elect their successors
are to be chosen this year.
- Rev. Thomas P. Crymes. an able and
eloquent minister of the Methodist Church,
South, died at Brooksvile, Mississippi. on the
25th day Of last May. Mr.. Crymes was educa-
ted in Erskine College at Due West.
- The election law requiring new set OF
Election Commissioners to be appointed sixty
| i to oil Governor
has issued an order removing the present Com
missioners of Election of the several Counties.
- The Columbia Uniom-H Herald learns that
it is the intention of the Governor to issue an
order, at an early day, prohibiting othcers OF
militia, whether captains, colonies, or generals,
from parading their commands at political
meetings. 49,, .u
- A change in the ownership ofthe Abbeville
Medium was announced last week. The Hemp
hill Bros. have bought out the interest OF their
partner. Mr.. James A. Wright, and are now the
sole proprietors. Mr.. Wright contemplates
removing to the West.
- The Crescent City Democratic Club OF
1868, having changed its name to that of the
"Crescent City White League" has published
an'explanation of the change. Its substance IS
that a war of races has been forced upon the
whites by the conduct Of the blacks.
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ington at the action of Senator Patterson, OF
South Carolina, who has been using his Sen,
atorial influence in the several departments OF
the Government for the purpose of having
good and efficient clerks discharged, in order
that he may have some of his personal friends
appointed in their stead.
= Treasurer Spinner has threatened to tender
his resignation in case his views regarding the
sole management ofthe bureau under his charge
are not approved by those higher in authority
than himself. General Spinner's dissatisfaction
grows out of a conflict ofopinion between himself
and other prominent officers ofthe Treasury with
reference to the appointment OF clerks IN MS
own bureau.
Hon. Jefferson Davis, in speech delivered
before large number of merchants and bank
ers, at Memphis, Tennessee, said that the
English merchants are taking lively interest
in the direct trade movements in this country.
They are as great sufferers by the various In
termediatc agencies that are complained OF by
the grangcrs and others as are our own produ-
cling classes
. Hon. George w. Williams, on his way
from Charleston to Georgia, informed some OF
| his Laurens friends who had subscribed to re-
build the railroad from Newberry, that if any
of them were unable to raise the amount at
| Illlo IltuO lOl 1lltO pun Po'Sj ~
have the money at seven per cent, until they
could sell their cotton in the fall. This is the
right spirit with which to build up a country,
and we honor the man who possesses it,
- After twenty-six years ABSENCE John
Mitchell goes back to Ireland to become can
didate for the British Parliament. MIR. Mitchell
was tried in Dublin, and sentenced to penal
seryitude. for reasonable conduct in the rev.
olutionary agitation of '4S. He escaped from
Australia in 1854 and has since had a varied
experience as journalist in this country. This
great popular leader and brilliant writer is still
q convict in the eyes of the British law but in
view of the amnesty granted to the other par
ticipators in the '48 movement, it is not
thought that any attempt will be made to in
terfere with his freedom of action. A member
of his party will retire in order to secure Mr..
Mitcheps Immediate election. The leader of
the "Young Ireland party of '4s is nearly
sixty years old now, but his views have not
changed with advancing years.