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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-07-01

- A dispensation has been granted to .oper
a Masonic Lodge at Graham's Cross Roads, II
Williamsburg County.
Hon. Edward Mcpherson, late clerk of the
National House of Representatives, is engaged
in writing the life of Thaddeus Stevens.
- Col. B. Y. Sage, late superintendent of the
Air Line Railroad, was found dead in his bee
at Atlanta on Wednesday morning, 23rd O.
June.
President Grant did not attend the Bun
ker Hill centennial celebration, because he did
not want to detain the crowd with one of his
lengthy speeches.
- The Government has at last determined
to send portion of the army, under the com
mand of Gen. Ord, to put an end to the dis
graceful state of affairs upon the Texas border
- Gov. Chamberlain is now absent from the
State, on q visit to Connecticut, where he is en-
gagged to deliver the annual address before the
law class of Yale College on Wednesday, 3Oth
June.
- The money crisis in England is already
passed, we are told, and the cause of the recent
heavy failures is attributed to over speculation
American securities haye not suffered from the
panic.
- Col. Ward Fl. Lamon, of Martinsburg
whom everybody knows as President Lincoln's
law partner and historian, is spoken of for the
Republican nomination for Governor of West
Virginia next year.
- Gov. Tilden, of New York, has exercised
the veto power to some purpose, as not less
than one hundred and thirty seven bills passed
at the last session of the Legislature failed tc
receive his signature.
- The Maine Democrats have nominated
Gov. Charles w. Roberts for Governor, and
passed series of commendable resolutions
the most striking Of which is one advocating q
single Presidential term.
- The Cincinnati Enquirer says that the
late Gen. Duff Green was the founder of the
system of Washington correspondence, and was
the first man to write letters from Washington
to provincial newspaper.
- The day of cyclones is not entirely passed
The telegraph reports that Kansas City, Mo-.
has been visited by the most destructive storm
known in that section since 1914, the torrents
of rain, wind and hail lasting for hours. The
storm covered an area of fifty miles.
- AT Springfield, ILL.,, n few months ago, the
North American Insurance Company paid q
policy of $4,000 on a building destroyed by fire
after the policy holder had been adjudged a
bankrupt. Subsequently the assignee in bank
ruptcy sued the company for this amount in the
United States District Court, and Judgment
was rendered last Thursday that the amount
must be paid over again.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-07-01
rguRsDAY MORNING, JULY 1st, 1875
The State Census.

The census enumerators are now engaged in
making an enumeration of the inhabitants OF
the State, and in collecting certain statistical
information of value and Importance. The ac-
curacy of the census returns depends manly
nnon the facilities afforded by the inhabitants
generally. and we trust that every good citizen
will cheerfully assist the census takers IN their
work by imparting to them all necessary lnfor'
nation to insure accuracy and completeness
We learn that the books for the enumeration
of the inhabitants have four Subdivisions on
each page ir which are placed the various
classes, including children under six years OF
age, children between six and sixteen, (whlcn
eives the school census,) persons between six
teen and twenw.one, and persons more than
twenty-one years of age. The Secretary OF
State, in issuing his instructions, requires the
name of the person listing only to be taken,
and the remaining members of the household
are designated by figures under the appropriate
caption. which will make the work more COM
pact. By aggregating the numbers distributed
along the line, under the head "total number
of persons of all ages" and balancing each
page of the book, there is no possibility of an
error remaining undiscovered, and the final re-
suit is accurately and readily ascertained.
The law provides that the Secretary of State
shall collect stsuch statistical information as he
may deem Of sufficient Importance to the peo-
ple of the State" and the books are prepared
with q view of showing the products raised BY
all classes of our citizens. The time fixed tor
the completion of the work has been extended
to the LIST of October next, and during the next
three months the census takers must complete
their labors.
In Anderson County, we regard it s. matter
ofspecial Importance to secure tull and &C
curate enumeration of the inhabitants. Under
the present census new apportionment of Rep
resentatives will be made, and we will secure
an additional member of the Legislature. In
deed, we have been unjustly and frauduently
deprived of this additional member since
reconstruction, and it is time the reme-
dy was applied. Besides, we believe that the
Industrial resources and material progress OF
our county are not generally understood, and
we want these statistics to demonstrate its su-
perior advantages, not only as an encourage
ment to our present population, but to
send abroad as an inducement for desirable
settlers and immigrants to come amongst US.
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VARENNES TO WNSHIP.

The citizens of Varennes Township, compris-
ing School District No. 10, met at Flat Rock
Church on Saturday last, and organized by
calling Mr.. W. H. Haynie to the chair, and re-
ouesting DR.. J. T. McFall to act as Secretary.
The meeting agreed to levy tax of one-half
mill upon the dollar for local school purposes,
mainly for tuition, and in the discretion of the
trustees for the repair of school-houses. The
meeting endorsed the resolutions suggested by
the Winnsboro Neaos in regard to the proposed
tax levy, calling upon the Governor to veto
the said bill, and instructing the members Of
the Legislature to sustain such veto, and to
frame new law, reducing taxation within
proper limits.
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- In the case of Dabney, Morgan & Co.,,
against the President and Directors Of the Bank
of the State of South Carolina, Judge Reed has
issued an order for the distribution of the as
sets of the said Bank among the creditors who
have proved their claims.
The Columbia Union- Herald says that the
Governor has pardoned Andrew Spencer, who
plead guilty of assault upon an officer in An
der son, and who was sentenced to three months
in Jail and to work on the streets at the June
term of the court He had been in Jail since
Christmas, and the intendant, wardens of the
town, solicitor and judge recommended par
don, believing that the offense had been sufi-
ciently expiated.
Judge Carpenter made an important de-
cison last week in a case against the stock
holders of the Commercial Bank of Columbia,
which has been pending for four or FIVE years,
involving the individual liability of stockhold-
ers in ante-6eliuns banks for the indebtedness of
the same, especially the redemption of the bills
issued. His decree maintains that such stock
holders are liable, and that the plaintiffs are
entitled to judgments for the par value of all
bills owned by them.
- The Union Times gets off the following
capital hit: A friend at our elbow, who has
visited Columbia lately, says there is daily
paper in that city without an editor. A pair
of scissors is fastened upon table, boy brings
in the exchanges, opens them and places them
near the shears, turns screw the shears open
it's jaws and takes in paper. If it finds any
thing funny or sensational, it closes on it and
hands it to the printer, who sets it up 'leaded"
or "solid," as directed by the foreman. That
beats the Keey motive power all hollow.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-07-01
Masonic Celebration.

1t was our good fortune to attend the cele-
bration of St. Johns Day, under the auspices
of Bascom Lodge, No. 80, A. F. M, at Cokes-
bury, on Thursday last. We will not enter
into the particulars of the pleasing event,
which was truly gratifying for its social and
intellectual pleasures The address on the
occasion was delivered in the Methodist
Church by Augustine T. Smythe, Esq, of
Charleston, and was an interesting and fin
ished production. He discussed the merits,
attainments and relative positions of St. John
the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, the
relations sustained by them to each other and
to Christianity, and their influence upon Free
masonry. His adjustment of the relations ex-
isting between Freemasonry and Christianity
was indeed striking, and yet he maintained
forcibly the value and importance of the form
er as a humane institution, founded upon the
principles of universal brotherhood, and unit.
ing all sects, creeds and denominations upon
the broad platform of truth, which is represen-
ted by the recognition of the only true and
living God as the foundation stone of every
Mason's belief The subject was ably handled,
and the address added greatly to the reputation
of Mr. Smythe as young man of brilliant
promise and solid attainments. His conclud-
ing remarks were directed to the ladies, in
endeavoring to satisfy the fair sex with their
exclusion from the active labors of Masonry,
and on this point he was particularly happy
and felicitious, advancing some unique and
cogent reasons for this exclusion, which we
regret not being able to give in ertenso.
The admirable dinner which followed was a
suitable reflex of the kind hospitality always
dispensed at Cokesbury. The meats were bar
becued in fine style, and the dinner was served
in the Male Academy, where the Masons and
their families had assembled. In response to
toast in honor of the Grand Lodge, the
writer was called upon for speech, and en-
deavored to make this post-prandial effort
acceptable to his hearers, which ended the
speech-making, and the regular programme of
the day.
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The Carolina Colleqiate Institute.

We printed last week the order of exercises
arranged for the approaching commencement
of the Carolina Collegiate Institute, and we
recur to the subject again to-day for the pur-
pose of urging upon the citizens of this COM
munity their duty in the premises. For long
time before the war, the town of Anderson was
noted far and wide as the locality of an excel
lent institution for the education of young
ladies, and hundreds went out from the time
honored johnson University to assume their
places in society as cultured and elegant wo-
men. It is unnecessary to recapitulate events
which interviewed, and which lost to Anderson
Its prestige as an educational centre. We are
again engaged in rearing an institution with
the same noble purpose, and similar energy
and unsnimity will recover the ground 80 un-
happily lost by the extinguishment of the old
University. We have the buildings and
grounds in tact as the property of a joint stock
company, whose efforts are directed towards
sustaining the organization Of a school founded
upon the plan of co-educating the sexes, where
the boys and girls of this communicable
young men and the young ladies-may receive
a thorough and complete instruction in all that
pertains to finished education for the duties
of life At the head of this institution, we
have an accomplished gentleman and thorough
scholar, whose experience and success in teach
ing is rarely equalled, and who is ably assisted
by competent and efficient co.laborers, Sc
lected with an especial regard for their fitness
and qualifications in the respective depart
ments. Without resorting to any meretrcious
agents, this school has earned an honorable
existence, and merits the favor and patronage
of the entire community. The approaching
exercises will mark an era in its history, and
in sending out the first regular graduates, it is
not unfair to expect that fresh impetus will be
given to it's earnest endeavors to supply the
wants and necessities of Anderson County, in
having located centrally an institution capable
of educating the rising generation. We would
desire to witness more general and effective
cooperation in sustaining the Carolina Collie
giate Institute, and to this end we invoke the
largest attendance from the surrounding coun-
try at the ensuing commencement, when the
eficiancy and training of the pupils will be
made manifest, and the wisdom Of its plan
fully demonstrated. The residents of our town
can do much towards bringing together bril-
liant array of spectators and concentrating
public interest in these exercises, and none
should neglect to cast in their mite towards
making the affair complete success, rejecting
credit upon the community and enhancing the
reputation of the Institute among our neigh
bors.
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The Governor and His Defenders.

The Greenwood New Era takes up the cud-
gels for Governor Chamberlain, and inpatient
ly utters it's complaints against certain journals
of the State which are so weak and foolish as
not to consult the political wisdom and fore
SIGHT now concentrated in the management OF
the New Era. 1t is truly unfortunate that
such prescience and consummate ability IS
permitted to "waste its sweetness" on the mar
row columns of an unpretending weekly, when
a better fate would bring the control of me-
tropolitan journal, with power and influence
unrivalled in this republican country. Its
maxims and axioms are to be regarded with
such reverence that none dare contravene their
force and propriety. Surely Gov Chamberlain
will reward the fidelity and steadfastness OF
this vigorous champion, and at once order the
enlargement of his hand-organ at the seat OF
government, with requirement that its pres
ens manager shall vacate the tripod for the
great luminary which has arisen in the politi-
cal armament. "The mighty conqueror comes"
without political axe to grind, nor scheme to
advance through the patronage embodied in
the Chief Magistrate but solely upon patriotic
grounds to rescue the State, and the Governor,
and the people-"all the world and the rest of
mankind" the murderous attacks of a
few newspapers whose editors are mainly intent
upon expressing their own opinions The
aforesaid editors are dangerous and destructive
extremists, most improbable to the State and
the country, and only fit to keep company with
the rogues and plunderers
Seriously, we have word for the Ne0 Era
and some other journals of that ilk. The main
argument against the position we have assumed
towards Gov. Chamberlain is concentrated in
the expression that his influence is being de-
stroyed and reformation being delayed by at
taching the least suspicion to the Governors
present motives, or alluding to his past vulner-
able record. Our answer may be equally
pointed. The influence of the Governor must
be limited and shaky, indeed, when few edi-
torials will dissipate it, and his reform must be
mere pretence when it can be delayed or him
dered by such means. Unless he has utterly
failed in his own party, the opportunity is not
yet lacking to demonstrate the sincerity and
fair-dealing of his administration and if he
is now mainly dependent upon the Conserva-
tives and Democrats, it is time we were recog-
nizing the fact, and preparing to reject coali-
ton which brings neither influence nor means
to effect a genuine and lasting reform. We
believe that the South Carolina Democrats
have wasted much valuable time and expended
much unnecessary labor in endeavoring to con-
ciliate and coalesce with ambitious Republi-
cans, and for one we are unwilling to thread
this devious pathway any longer. We do not
expect our Greenwood contemporary to coin
eide with this belief for in politics there is no
evidence of its being either fish, flesh or fowl.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-07-01
THE TRIAL OF HENRY SEEGER&

The trial of Henry Seegers, the young Ger
man charged with the murder of Miss Anna
Thicker. took place at Greenville last week,
and occupied the time of the Court on Wednes-
day and Thursday. Our readers are familiar
with the circumstances attending the death OF
Miss Tucker, which occurred on the 18th OF
JULY last The case was an important one,
and excited much interest in Greenvllle. Tho
change of venue from Anderson County caused
some Inconvenience to the witnesses ana par
tics Interested, but the arrangements made py
Judge Cooke in employing stenographer to
report the evidence saved considerable time i'll
the examination of witnesses, for 1t would
have required much longer timo Cor the
court to mako full notes of the evidence. Be-
tween thirty and forty witnesses wero sum-
moned, and many Of these were not examined
The prosecution was managed by Solicitor
Blythe, assisted by Maj. James Fl. Whitner, of
Greenville. The defenco was conducted by
Hon. Armistead Burt, of Abbevillo; Capt A.
T. Broyles and L. B. Murray, Esq, of Ander-
son, and w. +. Earle Esq, of Groenvllle.
Tho evidence occupied the attention of the
Court the entire time of it's sitting on Wcdnes-
dav, and the argument of counsel consumed
all of the time on Thursday. The charge OF
the Judge was brief and impartial, and the
case was given to tho jury at seven o'clock on
Thursday evening. The jury deliberated for
about threo hours, and rendered verdict of
not guilty. We understand that the theory of
the defence was to the effect that the unfortu-
nate killing was accidental, being attributable
to the ignorance of Seegers in the use of fire
were listened to with much interest, and it is
stated that tho speeches werc unusually able
and interesting. We present our readers with
the reported evidence, in the form of supple
ment, which was prepared by the official
stcnographer, Mr.. e. W. Grant, OF the Green
willie Nc'yS
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G. W. HAMMOND, Asst. Sec.

Mrs Elizabeth P. Bratton, wife of Gen.
John Bratton and daughter of the late Theo-
dore DuBose Esq, departed this life, at the
age of thirty-seven years, on the 23rd of June,
at the residence of MIR. Edward Noble, in Alb
beville. In the deceased, to loyeliness of per-
son were added the charms of true Christian
character, and in her daily walk, as maiden,
wife and mother she endeared herself to all
who knew her. She had been an invalid for
several years, and her death was not unexpect-
ed
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-07-01
SONS OF TEMPERANCE.

The following ladies and gentlemen comprise
the officers of Anderson Division, No. l, Sons
of Temperance, for the ensuing quarter:
G.. f. Tolly, Worthy Patriarch.
l.. P. Smith, Worthy Associate.
E. B. Murray, Recording Scribe.
w. S. Ligon, Assistant Recording Scribe.
c. F. Jones, Financial Scribe.
J. B. Clark, Treasurer.
Rev. D. E. Frierson, Chaplain.
VIM. Wilcox Conductor.
7. D. Archer, Assistant Conductor.
John M. Hubbard, Inside Sentinel.
P. K. McCully, Outside Sentinel.
A. J. Watt, Past Worthy Patriarch.
Miss Clara Broyles, Lady Conductor.
Miss Mamie Towers, Lady Sentinel.
Miss Rosa Ray, First Lady Assistant.
Miss Hattie Brown, Second Lady Assistant.
Miss Lizzie Tolly, Third Lady Assistant.
The installation of these officers will take
place in the new Temperance Hall on this
(Thursday) evening.
At regular meeting of Broadway Division,
Sons of Temperance, held June 10Th, the fol-
lowing officers were elected to serve for the en-
suirg quartcr
7. B. Carpenter, Worthy Patriarch.
J. Willett Provost, Worthy Associate.
C. A. Kay, Recording Scribe.
H. C. Shirley, Asst. Recording Scribe.
S. J. Browne, Financial Scribe.
e. NJ. Holland, Treasurer.
A. N. Todd, Conductor,
ID. D. Gentry, Assistant Conductor.
Silas Major, Inside Sentinel.
Ben. Culbcrson, Outside Sentinel
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-07-01
DEATH or AN ESTIMABLE LADY.

We are panied to record the death of Mrs.
Ellen C. Poe, of Pendleton, which occurred at
her residence on Friday last, 25th of June, Of
paralysis, produced by softening OF the brain,
after lingering and painful illness. Mrs. Poe
was the daughter of Col. Joseph Taylor, and
was born at the then residence of her father on
Seneca River, about six miles from Pendleton,
on the 18th of January, 1911. She was the
relict of the late VIM. Poe, of Montgomery,
Ala, and the mother of large and interesting
family. Her character was sterling and attrac-
tive, and she was greatly endeared to large
circle of relatives and friends, with whom we
deeply sympathize in this sore bereavement.
The funeral services were conducted at the
Presbyterian Church in Pendleton on Satur-
day afternoon by Rev. w. c. Smith, and the
remains of Mrs. Poe were buried in the Bap-
tist graveyard.
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: The New Orleans Picayune says: "Lou.

- The New Orleans Picayune says: "Lou..
isiana appears to have reached the bottom OF
her troubles, and to be on the ascent again.
There is no Disgusting or MISUNDERSTANDING it,
the future looks strangely bright and hopeful.
Politically, we may be considered as havlng ma
shaken off our worst embarrassments. Flnan-
cially, both State and city are improving;
Agriculturally the news from every quarter OF
the State is cheering and reassurlng to degree
almost unprecedented."
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Ex-senator Hunter, of Virginia, and Gen
Preston, of South Carolina, have been invited
to address the Association of the Alumni OF
the University of Virginia, on the first of July,
on the occasion of the Semi Centennial celebra-
ton. These gentlemen entered as students at
the opening Of the University in 1925, during
The lifetime of Jefferson, the founder.
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- The 7 onisiana census. it is said will not

- The Louisiana census, it is said, will not
specify white or colored in its enumeration
and the New Orleans Picoyuae publishes an in
timation that the omission is intended either
Ito conceal or prevent the exposure of the
frauds in the registration of colored voters per-
petrated at the last election or to facilitate
renetition of similar frauds at future elections"
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South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Mas
sachusets, New Hampshire, New York, Penn
sylvania, Rhode Island and Connecticut all
participated through their military organiza-
tions in the Bunker Hill celebration on the
18th of June. 1t was happy occasion, and
fitly prepares the way to general peace-ma-
king.
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- The Democratic Central Committee of
Missouri have adopted a resolution inviting in
behalf of the Democracy of Missouri, the Ma
tional Democratic Convention OF 1876 to as
semble in St. Louis, and pledged themselves to
make ample preparations for the reception anu
accommodation of all who come to it.