The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-11-18
Editorial Notes.

Editorial Notes.
The severest earthquake ever felt in
Knoxville occurred at o'clock in the
morning of the 18th inst. The rumbling
came from West to East, lasting ten Sec
onds, and making noise like an explo-
sion. The elements seem to indicate that
}his country needs shaking up.
Bishop Cummings of the Reformed
Episcopal Church, is announced to be in
Charleston this week. Hedesigns spend
ing the winter months in the South for
the health of his family, and while here
will devote himself to f1rthering the ad-
vancement of his church in this section.
Dispatches from the West have been init
mating that Orville Grant, the Presidents
brother, Casey, his brother-in-law, General
Babcock, the Presidents private secretary,
and others, have been presented to the
Grand Jury Of the United States District
Court of Missouri for being complicated in
The whiskey frauds Such instances Of cor
ruption. as this, if it be established, are the
best weapons with which to fight the Re
publicans.
The Grand Jury of Edgefield recon-
mend that ex-county commissioner,
Sam'l J. Lee, (ex-colored Speaker of the
House of Representatives be. indicted
for issuing checks to parties for building
bridges in the county where there are
neither bridges nor contractors, and they
present the Sheriff, Clerk of Court and
Probate Judge for incompetoncy. Ex-
Governor NJ. L. Bonham, referee to CON-
ider the validity OF claims against the
county, reports more than five hundred
claims proven. An instance Of the man
ner in which the County has been de-
frauded is given in the case of an iron
safe for which the commissioners paid
S1,1OO and afterwards sold. for $780,
Somebody ought to be punished for such
outrageous nlalfeasance.
1t is stated that a night operator, for the
purchase of stolen cotton, recently left
Lancaster and novel across the line in
to Kershaw county, The farmers in the
vicinity complained to Judge Mackey
and he advised them to go in a body to
his store and tell him in very positive
manner that he must stop his nefarious
business. If he did not stop, to pay
secold visit and proceed at once to de-
molishing his store. This is rather
strange advice for Judge to give, as it
amounts to telling the people to take the
law into their own hands, or in other.
words to resort to mob law. There
should be legislation to prevent tho prev
alence of this practice whereby the far
mers of certain counties have lost so
heavily.
The Grand Jury at the recent term Of
Court for Georgetown found ten indict-
ments against James M. Lesesne, COLOR
ed,) Henry Joy and r. @. Bush, the for
mer County Commissioners, for malfea-
sance in Office. They plead guilty to all of
them. The Jury also found eight indict-
ments against the present Commits
sioners, J. Harvey Jones, Joseph Bush
and G. Rutledge, for official misconduct.
This announcement Is sufficient indica-
ton that this county has been governed
according to the most approved method
of Republicanism. True bills for riot
were also found against Senator w. 81.
Jones, (colored,) and fifteen others, for
the riot which they instituted and
fomented in Georgetown last August
one year ago.. 1t is not, however,
thought they can be convicted in conse-
quence of the composition of the petit
juries. Eli G. Crimes, the witness for
the State against Bowen for the murder
of Col. White, was indicted for having
murdered colored man during the war.
No testimony was adduced to justify
presentment, so the Grand Jury found
ssNo Bill"
There has been quite an animated con-
troversy over the propriety of South Car
olina participating in the coming Ma
tional Centennial Celebration. We can
see no good reason why this State, which
was conspicuous in deeds of valor and
endurance through the whole of the
mighty struggle for our nationality,
should not take her place in the constel-
lation of the original thirteen States
where she once shone brightest. The
fact that we have been rent ny sectional
strife, that we have been over-powered
in the battle for what we conceived to be
our liberties, that we have been oppress-
ed by tyranny and usurpation, should
not deter South Carolina, even in her
ruin, presenting herself as partici-
pant in celebrating the great event for
which much credit and glory has been
accorded the Palmetto State in the chron-
icles Of our nations birth and early de-
yelopment. If Carolina is a poor wreck
of her former self it does not become her
loyal sons to cover or succumb to the
feelings Of despair which the misfortunes
ofthe present prompt. The next is our
centennial year, and as Carolina valo-
rously engaged in the trying scenes
which brought us Independence and
glory in 1776, so may she commingle in
that grand Irrational gathering which will,
we hope, restore peace, harmony and
prosperity to our languishing and dis
tracted land in 1876.
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