The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-04-29
1TEMs-EDIToR1AL AND OTHER WISE.

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Gen. J. B. Hood has abandoned life insu'
rance and now farms in Minnesota.
The Georgia Press Association hold thei,
annual meeting st Athens on the 18th of May
The General Assembly of the Presbyte-
rian Church, South, will meet at st, Louis on
the goth Of May. :,
most civilized act of the Tennessee Legislature
was passing 8 dog law for the protectlon o'
sheep.
- Four thousand two hundred bales of cot
ton have been shipped from Georgia direct to
Europe. under the auspices of the Direct lraoe
Union. Ill,
A new manufacturing establishment VIII
soon be in operation in Athens. 1t IS lntenoeo
TO manufacture cassimeres, satinets, anu per-
Col. Thomas A. Rodgers, prominent
citizen of Pickens County, died at his home
near Pickens G. 81. on Saturday night, 18th
snst.. in the 69th year of his age.
The 18th of June will be the centenary OF
the Battle of Bunker Hill. Boston proposes 10
spend $4,000 on the occasion. and the entire
unilitia of Massachusetts, will be ordered out,
matinp the largest muster witnessed in many q
day. I'D
ON exhibition in Georgia is a farmer in Merri-
sgether County, who is now feeding his stock
on corn raised in 1872! He ought to travel
around with his stock and corn for the benefit
of other farmers.
The New York saloons pay half a million
dollars year to the city, and take in nifty lone
millions in the same time. The city otnclals
and the grave diggers wear good clothes and
smile sarcastically when the strides OF temper
ance are referred totin their presence.
The United States troops that passed
through Walhalla last week, we understand
saptured three men in their raid upon Clayton,
Georgia. two men By the name of Gaines and one
hy the name of TAYLOR When will our people
learn that the violation of the law is dangerous?
The Louisiana muddle, which was sup
posed to be at rest, turns up again in q new
form. United Stated Marshal Packard COM
plains that the Democrats have unseated four
Ranublican members of the Legislature, in vio-
lat!son of the compromise. There's a chance
for Sheridan again.
Such has been the increase of business by
the change of gauge on the Richmond and At,
larta Airline railroad that it has been found
necessary to Immediately add one hundred
freight cars to the rolling stock: The Trede-
gar works, at Richmond, is now filling an order
for forty of these cars.
The Walhalla Courier announces the
death of MIR. William Hunter, which occurred
at his residence in that town on Saturday
morning, 18th inst, after lingering illness, in
the 67th year of his age. Mr.. Hunter was an
exemplary, high-toned citizen, and much re-
spected by all who knew him.
The Edgefeld Aduertiser has been shown
q photograph taken in Macon, Ga, which was
picked up by some negroes on the plantation
of Mr.. James T. Adams, a few miles from that
village-supposed to have been brought thlther
during the late tornado son the wings of the
wind" How is that for high?
Col. E. NJ. Yerger, formerly of Mississippi,
but for several years past resident OF Baitl-
more, died very suddenly on Friday night.
His name was prominently before the public;
few years years ago in connection with the
Killing of Col. Crane at Jackson, Miss, for
which he was tried by q military commission.
he was editor and proprietor of the Baltimore
Euensng Journal.
The death of Samuel r. Wells, the noted
phrenologist, took place in New York on Mon
day. 18th inst. This event takes from the
world of science one who has done much to-
words its advancement in many directions, yet
chiefly in the line of his specialty-phrenology
he was the publisher of the PhrenologicA Jour
nal, and widely known as lecturer on scien-
tifc subjects.
The Chicago Times is about the only
newspaper in the United States against which
libel suits can be successfully maintained. The
latest Judgment that has been entered against
Mr Storey. the proprietor of this journal, is in
favor of Miss Early, young lady of Rockford,
Illinois, who proved that her character had
been greatly DETAINED. A sympathizing jury
gave her 1000. ,.,,.
- While we are mourning over the killing
of early vegetation by the untimely April frosts,
it is. at least slightly consoling to be told that
what seems to be universal calamity has Its
rnitigating features It will be found so West
ern papers say, that this cold weather so late in
the spring is providential interpositlon to XIII
off the grasshoppers and the potato bugs, and
to rid US of other vermln.
ItmaY interest members of the legal pro-
fession to know that by sending 1881 to the
Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State at
Washington, that fnnetionary will send them,
post paid, a copy of the new volume published
by the Government the Revised Statutes of
the United States," embracing all the statutory
laws of the United States to the end of the first
session of the Forty-third Congress.
1t is the general impression of those likely
TO be informed that the case before the Supreme
Court of the United States known as the Grant
Parish case, involving the constitutionallty OF
the enforcement act of May 3lst, 1870, will not
be decided at this term, but the same author
ity asserts that large majority of the Supreme
Court, if not all the members, are OF the opin
ion that the act is unconstitutional
Sheriff Duvall, of Fairfield County, mas
been mysteriously absent for some weeks. His
wife. Mrs. NJ. A. Duvall, has acted as jailor
ever since his departure from Winnsboro, and
her account for dieting prisoners, on being pre-
sented to Judge Mackey, was duly approved by
that official, with the remark that the lady in
question having the custody of men, and hold
ing official position, affords at least one practi-
cal exemplifcation and assertion of woman's
rights in section of country where the ques-
ton has never been moeted.
= Jonesboro Grange, No 35l, of Jefferson
County, Alabama, recently adopted resolutions
severely condemning the action of Congress to-
C.rxI, Go-,sl;oo. <ba opproccions