The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-02-05
ITEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHER WISE.
Mrs. M. E. Peale is one of the largest land
owners in California. Her farm contains 173,

Mrs. NJ. E. Peale is one of the largest land
owners in California. Her farm contains l73,
056 acres.
Key West, Fla, is said to be the only
place in the United States which never has
frost, and which produces cocoanuts>
- Lieutenant General Henry J. French, OF
the British Army, an eminent officer, has just
died in Great Britain at an advanced age.
Mrs Hardy, niece of General Warren,
who fell Mt the battle of Bunker Hill, died re-
Gently at Calusa, CAL, at an advanced age.
Wheeling West Virginia, the largest
nail and glass manufacturing city in the Union,
passed through the late panic without single
ssuspention.
- Dispatches from all portions of the ex-
treme North of the United States and from the
| Canadas report Monday as the coolest morning
| of the season.
Sol. Smith Russell and the Berger Family
have been rendered a four weeks engagement
at the Olympic Theatre, New York, COM
mencing on the I'd of March.
- 1t is reported that Miss Nellie Grant will
Sartons. Prince Fred is soon to lead to the
alter Miss Kitty Cooke, the eldest daughter of
Henry D. Cooke.
- The oyster beds of Virginia cover an area
equal to six hundred and forty thousand acres,
and those great mines of submarine wealth are
estimated to Weld an annual money value of
ten millions of dollars.
- The death of DR.. Livingstone, it is now
| reported, took place in June last He had
been travelling over a partially submerged
country, and after wading four days through
| water, was seized by illness, of which he died
- Gov Kemper has been cordially invited
| by President Grant to pay him visit at the
White House. The President has taken a
great liking to the Virginia Governor, and we
hope they will soon meet in the manner desig-
| mated.
- Governor Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, has
| achieved the reputation of being the champion
yetoist of America. The Detroit Free Press
rightly opines that no place is too high for
man who can concoct eighty-two veto messages
in single day.
- The agents of the Airline Railroad
have been officially notified that the line from
| Richmond to Atlanta has passed into the
hand. of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Company, and that complete organization
will be effected at once.
| Judge Bryan, OF the United States District
Court, has confirmed the action of the COM
mittee of creditors Of the Citizens Savings
Bank of South Carolina, held on the 14th of
January, and DR.. John Fisher is the trustee. A
meeting of the committee is called for on the
| 11th of February.
- The lower house of the Illinois Legis-
lature has passed bill to compel all children
between the ages of nine and fourteen to ut
tend school three months in each year, six
weeks of which must be continuous. To those
who are too poor to comply with the law the
State will furnish books and clothing
Judge Benjamin G. Franklin, one of the
founders of the Republic Of Texas, died at
Galveston on Christmas Day. He went to
Texas when it was province of Mexico, forty
years ago, joined the Texan revolutionary
army under Sam Houston, and carried a
musket in the famous battle of San Jacinto.
Grant is 80 fascinated with Washington
| life that be is about to build paatial res
idence in that city. The Washington CORES
pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial reports
him as saying that when his term is expired
remain abroad until the residence he contem-
plates building in Washington is completed
and ready for occupancy.
K Gov. Allen, of Ohio, has been obliged,
owing to the palsied condition of his hands, to
ask the Legislature to pass law allowing him
to use a stamp instead of writing his signature
upon official documents. The Governor is be-
tween seventy and eighty years of age, and
with the exception of palsy in his arms and
hands, maintains his bodily and mental vigOr
to an extraordinary degree.
| - The New York Herald thinks the Georgia
resolutions on the civil rights bill were very
opportune. 1t also says these resolutions are
simply warning that the forcing system of
Congress may be pushed too far in the recon-
structed Southern States. A wise government,
in its efforts to reclaim the loyalty and respect
of a conquered people, deals cautiously with
the prejudices of race and caste, which for CEN
turies have been the groundwork of their social
| system.
- Judge Mackey, of the Sixth Circuit, has
| issued an order allowing counsel who were sus-
pended by Judge Carpenter for certain proceed
ings in the Citizens Savings Bank case to prac-
tice in the courts of his circuit. The opinion
accompanying the order is voluminous, and
chiefly maintains that Judge Carpenters order
of suspension invaded the jurisdiction of the
Sixth Circuit Courts and of the United States
Court, and, therefore, was in conflict with the
United States Constitution.
Mrs. Chief Justice Waite will not wait on
any one, and threatens to be thorn in the
side of the LEADERS" of society at the capital
She is described as handsome, stylish woman,
decidedly aristocratic in her tastes, fond of
society, in which she always been distin-
guished leader; imperious in her manners, ex-
acting in her relations with those who presume
to cultivate her acquaintance, and will assert
the dignity of the first lady of the land in
manner that may dazzle modern society in
Washington.
"A new gun, the invention of James P,
Taylor, of Knoxville, Tenn, is being tried at
Colts armory, Hartford, Conn: The Spring
field Republican says ut is claimed that it
will discharge 800 balls minute. and has
been known to discharge 1900. There are
and eight inside. They do not revolve, but
are all convergent so that at 500 yards the
balls will all strike within circle of one foot.
1t is terrible weapon. Arrangements are in
progress for their manufacture at Colts"