The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-05-07
ITEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE

ITEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE.
Within year twenty-six vacancies will
occur in the Senate of the United States.
- The Jail of Oconee County is now "for
rent" there not being a single criminal in it.
- Col. Frank Reynolds, of the Egyptian
cial mission.
-Shad are reported to be so plentiful in
the St. Johns river, Fla, that the farmers are
using the fish as fertilizers.
- 1t is rumored that A. a. Gilbert, Esq, of
the Sumter Wutchnaan, is candidate for Con-
gress from the First District.
* One hundred Pennsylvania national banks
have adopted resolutions in favor of free bank
ing on the basis of national bonds.
= The Ope1ika (Ala.) Observer says that a
little colored girl in that vicinity was stuug to
death by red ants while asleep in field.
- North Carolina claims to be the only
State in the Union which produces every
Article enumerated in the census report of 1870.
- Gold mines are reported to have been
discovered in the mountains Of Arkansas, near
the Choctaw line. Miners and adventures
are hocking thther.
Mr. Stark, of Savannah, Geo., has dis
covered a process by which the bark of the
cotton stalk can be made into strong and val
liable fibre, from which can be manufactured
first rate article of bagging.
- The New Orleans Times says that the
extent of the damage by the overflow in Lou
isiana is only beginning to be understood, and
that the food will involve 100000 acres of
land and population of 17S,000.
- Vice-President Wilson, in company with
Mr. Francis W. Bird, who was the Democratic
and Liberal Republican candidate for Govern
or of Massachusetts two years ago, is about to
make trip through the South and West.
- The Port Royal Commercial says: The
South Carolina Railroad is said to intend buy
| ing up the Blue Ridge Railroad at the bank
rupt sale next month, in order to prevent its
completion to a junction with the Port Royal
Railroad at Augusta
- The temper of the infationists may be in
| ferred from r,mark in Western journal,
| that "Ulysses S. Grant disgracefuly broke his
pledges, baked the will of the people oftwenty-
| five States, and exhibited himself as the will
| ling. cringing creature of the Eastern mon
opolists."
General Vance, of North Carolina, has
| filed recommendation before the Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue for pardon to all
persons who have violated the internal revenue
laws in North Carolina, upon the payment of
costs. The Commissioner will act when the ap-
plcatiou is endorsed by the United States
District Attorney
= The next annual reunion of the surviving
members of Hoods Texas Brigade will be held
at Galveston, on the 18th day ofJune. Besides
the three Texas regiments, the brigade in
cludes the 18th Georgia, the Sd Arkansas, and
the Hampton Legion. Gen. Benning is ex-
pected to be- present, and warm welcome
awaits all who accept the committees invita-
| tion.
Judge Booth, of Chicago, has decided that
it is libelous to call an attorney "a shyster."
though the word can't be found in any die
tionsry of the English language. Nobody
could tell exactly what the word means, though
there seemed to be an entire agreement that it
isn't a complimentary epithet. People must
be very careful what sort of words they hurl at
the members of the legal profession.
The narrow gauge railroad system is
but few people are aware of the fact that since
it came in vogue, during the last three or four
years, no less than 1,445} miles of narrow
gauge railway have been built in this country
and in Canada, which roads, when completed,
will have a mileage of 4,5624 miles, while
there are / 1,29l miles under construction.
- A case OF garroting occurred in Atlanta
last Wednesday evening which came near
resulting in the death Of Mr.. William Bell.
Bell was found about o'clock on that evening
in the store of Holmes, Calder & Co., with
handkerchief tied around his neck so tightly
that it had almost suf1ocated him to death.
He had the mark of blow under one of his
eyes, and was otherwise bruised. William
Calder member of the firm, was arrested on
suspicion.
- The latest reports from Louisiana show
that the cotton and sugar crops ia large Sec
tions of Louisiana have been irremediablv in
jured by the crevasse. The sugar cane is
reported total loss for the next two years in
from ten to fourteen parishes. Ten cotton
parishes have been inundated, and replanting
cannot be made until next June The reports
from Yazoo Valley are less discouragng The
river is falling, and an average crop may yet
be made.
The question at present agitating the east
ern counties of the State is the building of the
Cheraw and Chester, and the Cheraw and Lit
tie River Railroad. The act of the Legislature
authorizing an election to be held in the Coun-
ties of Chester, Lancaster and Chesterfield,
upon the question of issuing bonds to the first
named road, will be carried into effect at an
early day. The election will be held in the
month of June. The Lancaster Ledger is of
the opinion that should the people of the sew
eral counties vote in favor of issuing the bonds,
the road will be placed under contract by the
first of August and grading will Immediately