The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-08-19
News of the Week.

Mrs. John q. Breckenridge is going
to move from Kentucky to Arkansas.
Last week three prominent business
men of Boston al died Of paralysis om
the same day.
- Ex-Governor Palmer, of Illinois, is
named for the Democratic nomination for
Governor of that State.
The Charlotte Observer nominates
Jefferson Davis for President of the
University of North Carolina.
Bishop Quintard has gone to Eu-
rope to get help for the University of the
South, at Sewanee, Tennessee.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has writ
ten to Gov. Garland declining the Presi-
dency of the Arkansas Industrial Uni
versity.
Saratoga water agrees with Vice
President Wilson. He has written two
hundred pages of his book since he ar
rived there.
- The Ohio election comes off on the
18th of October. A Governor, Lieuten-
ant Governor and members of the Legis-
lature are to be chosen.
= There is little talk in Tennessee of
urging the governor to appoint Jefferson
Davis to the seat of Andrew johnson in
the United States Senate.
The Bank of Mecklenburg, at Char
lotte, has suspended and gone into liquid
alton. A full statement of the assets and
liabilities is promised this week.
General Longstreet has decided to
become citizen of Georgia, and to settle
in Gainesville in that State, should his
family be pleased with the location.
The official majority for the Ala
bama Convention is 16,50O. The dele
gates elected are eighty-one Democrats,
six Independents and twelve Republicans.
Bishop Cummins, of the Reformed
Episcopal Church, now claims that there
are fifty ministers and forty congregations
of that sect in the United States and
Canada.
- The loss by the destruction of crops
through the recent floods and rains will
amount to about the same as the loss by
the Chicago FIRE; in round numbers
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Gen. E. Kirby Smith Is now chan
cellor of the State University at Nash
vile, Tenn. but thinks Of leaving to be-
come professor of natural history in the
University of the South at Sewanee.
The latest authentic reports show
that the election in North Carolina has
gone as follows: Democrats, so; Re-
publicans, 50; Independent Democrat,
Z. Sixty-one is necessary for majority.
The Mississippi Press Association,
which is composed exclusively of editors
and proprietors of Democratic and Con-
servative newspapers, started last week
on an excursion among the cities of the
Northern States.
Andrew johnson is the third Presi-
dent whose remains are in Tennessee, and
there is project to bury him with the
others in Nashville and erect a grand
monument; but his family prefer sim
pier grave in East Tennessee.
"A monument to VIM. Gilmore
Simms, the most gifted novelist of the
South, will shortly be erected in Magno-
liza Cemetery, near Charleston. 1t will
be bronze bust placed on a granite pc
destal, and will cost about $4,000.
The St. Louis Globe e-Democrat
learns that twelve families have been COM
PEELED to leave Williamson county,
illinois, to escape the vengeance of out
laws, who rule that county. Many more
are quietly arranging business to leave.
Governor Ames, the champion car
pet-bagger of Mississippi, has been abb
Sent since April, and as the acting Gov
ernor, a negro named Davis, is making
sort Of general Jail delivery, the newspa-
pers are calling on Ames to come back.
Ex-Treasurer Niles G. Parker has
published card in reference to his es-
cgpe from the Jail in Columbia, saying
that he had no assistance from tine Sheriff
or any of his employees, and neither Of
them had any knowledge of his plans for
escape.
The richest woman in America is
the wife of Prof. Gammel, formerly of
Brown University, Rhode Island. She
has an income of at least 81, 100000
year, her fathers estate, which she has
just inherited being estimated at fully
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Col. J. Addison Moroso, of the
Charleston NeaOs and Courier, has invent
ed machine for breaking the backs of
small boys which he calls the street car
Bogardus kicker: He desires to employ
active young men in all parts of the State
10 act as agents.
= In. the recent great storm near
Geneva in Switzerland, a man was killed
by hail-stone striking him on the tenn
pie, and another had his wrist broken.
An extraordinary number of small birds
were killed by the hail, and one person
is said to have picked up FIVE hundred
birds.
= At the last extra term of court in
Lancaster County, says the Ledger, Jury
No. 2, composed of nine intelligent
white men and three colored men, was
presided over by an illititerate colored
man, who could neither read nor write,
by direct appointment of Judge T. J.
Mackey.
The Lancaster Ledger states that a
negro scoundrel, near Fort Mill, wrote an
insulting note to respectable young lady
one day last week, proposing q confer
ence. The young lady handed the docu-
ment over to her father, who appeared
upon the spot designated and emptied
thirteen buckshot into the villains car
cass.
During the past three years about
thirty English and Irish gentlemen have
settled in Amelia county, Virginia, on
estates which in the aggregate amount to
nearly 10000 acres. These colonists
have, it is estimated, invested in real and
personal property and otherwise, between
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