The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-04-01

1t is again positively asserted that Secre-
tary Bristow will soon resign his place in Pres
ident Grants cabinet.
- II is said that Me1icans are entering the
labor market in Texas, and that they are better
cotton hands than the freed blacks.
A United States Commissioner in Trenton,
New jersey, has decided that the civil rights
bill does not apply to billiard saloons.
- The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the South Carolina Railroad Company will
be held at Charleston on the 18th day of April.
A destructive wind storm in the West is
called "blizzard," Hurricane, cyclone, lorna
DO, whirlwind and words of that ilk not being
sufficiently significant.
= JOSEF ph Crews has purchased the material
of the Columbia Union, recently owned by l..
Cass Carpenter, and will shortly establish a
weekly newspaper at Laurens @. II.
- There are one hundred and sixteen pupils
in the Williamson Female College. Another
story will soon be added to the building, in Or
der to accommodate larger number of pupils.
- Rev. Sumter Daniel, who was so lately
made the victim of brutal assault, and whose
injuries were thought to be of serious charac-
ter, is now able to be out and attend his minis
terial duties.
- Col. Dudley w. Adams, Worthy Master
of the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry,
has purchased six hundred acres of land in
Florida with the intention of establishing an
orange grove
"A letter was carried by the cyclone from
Thompson to Edge6eld county, and was found
miles from Edgefeld, distance of sixty miles
from Thompson.
- The citizens of Augusta have contributed
six thousand dollars to aid the sufferers from
the late tornado, which has devasted several
counties of the State, from the Chattahoochee
to the Savannah River.
An expensive funeral was that of the late
Charles Sumner. The Boston Globe prints an
official list of the items which aggregate S29,-
25O.4O. The commonwealth of Massachusetts
foots the bill, of course.
- Mr.. James Nesbit, ST., of Spartanburg,
died recently at Rome, Ga, where he was on a
business tour. He was over seventy years of
age, a man of considerable means, and highly
respected by the people of Spartanburg.
-. Under the postal law passed at the recent
session of Congress, postage on single copies of
newspapers weighing over one ounce and not
more than two ounces, has been fixed at two
cents. In other words, a two cent stamp is re-
qured on every paper.
- The tax on tobacco has been raised from
twenty 10 lWenIy-IOuT Genus per pOuuu, auu Oh
cigars from five to six dollars per thousand, by
the act of Congress- March 8, 1876, which goes
into effect Immediately. The tax on spirits has
also been raised.
Mr.. Eaton, in the United States Senate,
created sensation the other day by saying
"It is time now to talk of the rights of the
white men of this country" We thank him
for reminding the dominant party that the
masses of our population are Anglo. .Saxons.
- The capital stock of the Walhalla Bank
has been fully subscribed, and the company or
ganized with the following Directors, viz
Samuel Lovingood, D. Biemann, J. w. Shelor,
J. P. Mickler, J. w. stribling, J. J. Norton and
R. A. Thompson. Mr.. Lovingood was chosen
President.
Senator Christiancy thinks it would re-
quire a good many regiments of United States
soldiers to repeat the Louisiana programme in
Michigan. He holds to the old doctrine that a
Federal Judge, drunk or sober, cannot deter
mine who shall be Governor or what members
to the Legislature are entitled to their seats in
a sovereign State.