The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-03-12
ITEMs-EDIToRIAL AND OTHERWISE

- The remains of DR.. Livingstone will be
transported from Africa to England at the
| public expense.
- Senator Jones, of Nevada, is said to be
the wealthiest member of the United States
Senate. His property is valued at 100000
| - It has become a setl' II conviction that
the more the United States Senate discusses
the currency question the less it knows about it
| - The superintendent of public schools
for Illinois says that colored children &C
uneducated there, being refused admission tc
the common schools.
1t is a remarkable fact that no organiza.
ton has ever grown so rapidly in this country
| as has that of the oranges, and, rightly man.
| greater material good to the country.
crime of rape in Abbeville, in 1871, and sen.
fenced by Judge Orr to hard service in the
Penitentiary, has, upon the recommendation
of numerous citizens, been pardoned by the
| Governor.
- Extensive preparations are making fol
the Charleston Regatta, which will take place
early in May, under the management of the
Regatta Association. There will be sailing
and rowing matches during three days fol
heavy stakes.
"A New York publishing house has cir.
culated single reprint of an English work tc
the extent of 80, 900 900 copies and in sixty len.
guages, during the last fifty-seven years. The
book is popularity known as the Bible, and the
American Bible Society did the publishing.
- The shipping trade of New Orleans is
BEGINNING to assume respectable proportions
One day, recently, forty-two vessels were
advertised rs loading for European ports,
independently of the regular lines of steamers
for domestic, West India and South American
ports.
- The Memphis avalanche says the South
ern Senators who are making most reputation
are Messrs. Gordon, of Georgia, and Merri-
man, of North Carolina. Both, especially in
the financial debates, have become prominent
and their utterances are treated with the
utmost respect.
- Senator Chandler, of Michigan, has
brought suit against the Detroit Free Press for
libel, claiming SlOO, 900 damages. The alleged
libel is in special dispatch from Washington,
dated Feb. 20th, charging Chandler with intox-
;cation and disgraceful conduct in the Senate
Chamber.
- The Executive Board of the State Conven-
tion of the Baptist denomination, of South
Carolina, respectfully requests any church de-
string the meeting of the Convention in No
vember next, to make such application to the
Board at an early date. The invitation from
the Cheraw Church was withdrawn, from
satisfactory considerations.
- The Supreme Court of the United States
has affirmed the decree of the Supreme Court
of this State in the case of Dabney, Morgan,
& Co. against Barring Brothers & Go. The bill
was filed in behalf of the billholders and other
creditors of the Bank of the State for the assets
of the Bank the firm of Barring Brothers &
Co. claiming adversely and contending that,
by the Act Of the State Legislature I;.S in 1860, o.
they were preferred creditors, anG , enslsea a 70
ngs sis, to decide the vesed questions in the case
were w commenced in 1867, and, after having
passed through all the courts the case has at at
the the limited States. The Supreme Court of this
State Sta decided that the billholders, ,depositors
and bondhoders should share psa rataby in the
decision has been affirmed at Washington.
The effect of this decision must be, Of course,
to increase the intrinsic value Of the bills.