The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-05-06
sTEMs--EDIToR1AL AND OTHERWISE.

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Rev. W. Watkin Hicks has become the
editor of the Fernandina Fla, O6seroer.
ers of the South will use $4,000 tons of COM
mercial fertilizers this season.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars,
which met, in Charleston last week, selected
Greenville as the place of meeting next year.
THE National Cotton Exchange will meet
at the White Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier
County, West Virginia, on the Slse OF July
next. =,
Commodore A. P. St. John, who commit
ted suicide the other day, was worth S2,000, ,o0o.
He was 76 years of age, bat could not walt tne
regular Summons
Ex.Treasurer Parker is visited by host
Of syapashizing friends and admirers. 1t Is
said that his threat to tell what ne kne" mas
increased the number of his friends. -,
- The Virginia State Grange has established
CoI.-J. 6. Featherston, with agencies at Rich
mond. Norfolk and Lynchburg.
- Minnesota proposes applying its loan from
the National Grange in facilitating the opera
tSons,of its State agency This is the disposi-
tion which. most generally appears to be medi-
PROF. Roswell G. Smith, author of the we'll
known Smiths Grammar, died recently. His
grammar was almost as familiar twenty years
ago in sold field. schools" as Websters spelling
book,
Professor James 81. Carlisle, of Woford
golleg g. has accepted the invitation of the stu
dents. of Furman University to deliver the an
nual commencement address before the literary
societies.
The Patrons of Husbandry have a re-
nnarkable predominance in the Legislature OF
Oregon. seventeen of the thirty Senators and
fifty-four of the sixty Representatives belong to
the order.
Gov. Kellogg has instructed the Attorney
General of Louisiana to commence suits when
will yentilate the frauds in the treasury depart
inent of that State. Itseems to be good year
for this sort of business.
Ex-Governor B. Gratz Brown has just
buils twenty-five handsome residences in st.
Louis and has begun to collect the rents, which
seems pleasanter employment than being de-
feabed for the Vice-Presidency.
- Sturgeon Grange, No. 5S4, Missouri, is en-
deavoring to have the State law in regard to
collecting taxes so changed that the payments
NAV he made in semi i-annual instalments and
invites the cooperation of other oranges
- Charles Green, the veteran editor of the
Roston Post has retired He conducted that
s,aper for forty years with the most distinguish
ed ability, and, two decades ago, it was con-
,idered among the first journals of The coun-
try.
At meeting of the Amite (Miss.) County
Grange all reported that they were done plant
inp corn. The lecturer made motion that
eyery member should plant one acre more
which was adopted unanimously.
The Prince of Wales was installed as
Grand Master of Freemasons in England on
the 18th of April, in the presence of an i'm
mense concourse of Masons. He succeeds the
Msrouis of Ripon, who resigned IN order to
ioin the Catholic Church.
The catalogue of Columbia College, n. Y,
shows that there are 1926 students in attend
ance-being Isl in the classical and scientific
departments, POI in the school of mines, 522 in
the law school, and 452 in the school OF medl-
cine.s This is q larger number OF students than
has ever before been enrolled upon the books
of any American college.
The reading matter in the Vicksburg
Herald has been reduced to very small pro,
oortions of late. The whole of the editorial
page and many editorial columns have been
surrendered to advertisement OF the sale OF
land for failure to pay the exorbitant taxes
which have been imposed upon their owners
by the negro and carpet-bag rulers of that
ffightfully msgoverned State.
Gen. VIM. F. Bartlett is native of Pitts
field. Mass, and was Brigadier General in
the United States army. He lost leg at
Yorktown in 1862 and an arm at Gettysburg
in 1868, and was taken prisoner in front OF
Petersburg at the time of the mine explosion"
in 1854. After the war closed, he settled in
Virginia ard is now in charge of the Powhatan
iron works at Richmond.
"A terrible fire occurred in Oshkosh, WIS
consn on Wednesday last and hae nearly Tha al sne
originated at a lumber mill, and spread with
awful rapidity among the lumber yards and
thence to the business blocks. The burnt dis.
trict extends for mile and quarter, east and
west, aud more than quarter of mile aver
age width. The total loss is estimated at
$750,00O.