The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-06-03
VOLUME X.---NO. 46.
News Items.

Gov. Allen predicts Democratic majority
of 10000 in Ohio at the next autumn election.
"A woman was recently arrested for selling
some colored people in Boston a liquid war
ranted to make them white
- Hon. +. A. Miles, an eX-menber of the
State Legislature, died at his residence, in Ma
rion County, on the 18th instant
- The Spartanburg papers announce the
death Of Col. w. W. Harris, one of the oldest
and most respected citizens of that town, in the
S8th year of his age.
= Lake Erie was covered with ice as far out
as the eye could reach, on the 18th of this
month. Navigation on the lakes had not been
resumed at that date.
Judge Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania,
will deliver the Grafton at the unwilling of the
statue to the late Bishop Campbell at Bethany
College, w. Va, in June next.
- About one hundred and thirty bodies have
been recovered from the wreck of the steamship
Schiller off the Scily islands. Among them is
the body Of lady having gold ring marked
Hermann Zinkeisen."
- An election has been ordered by the Coun.
ty Commissioners of Spartanburg for the 31st
of May, to decide in favor of or against sub.
scription of sl50000 to the Spartanblrg and
Ashevile Railroad
- The Southern Memorial Association of
Washington has adopted resolution that all
soldiers of the Federal and Confederate armies
be invited to- join in decorating the graves at Ar.
| lngton on the 1st of June.
year was S1,700,000, and James Gordon Ben
nett received 100000 for his share of the prof
its. The young man contrves to live after
fashion on this meagre income.
- Gen. w. F. Bartlett, who made himself
famous by that speech at the Lexington cen.
tennial celebration, is President of an iron COM
pany, whose furnace is located FIVE miles from
Richmond, Va. He is about thirty-six years
of age.
The Cincinnati Price Current thinks there
is little prospect that we shall ever again have
a supply of coffee at as low prices as prevailed
before the war, on account of the demoralzed
condition of labor in Brazil, which is caused by
the abolition of slavery in that country.
- Edward c. Marshall, son of the late Chief
Justice Marshall, is clerk in pension office
at salary of 81 200 per annum. Mr.. Marshall
is seventy years of age resides in the city of
Alexandria, lost all Of his property during the
war, delicate in health and resembles his
father.
= It is officially announced in Maine that
any woman who has been ordained to preach
for any recognized denomination, on proof of
such fact and proper recommendation by any
persons personally known to the Governor, will
be appointed to solemnize marriage in any part
of the State.
-Adyices from various sections of Missouri,
Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska seem to con-
firm the reports Of the appearance of the
grasshoppers thus early in the season, and the
apprehension daily grows stronger that these
pests will again destroy the crops in several
sections Of the West.
-,
upon the people of the State to observe Thurs
day, 3rd of June, as day of fasting and prayer,
and invoke the interposition of Divine Provi-
dence to avert the grasshopper plague and its
consequent evils, with which the State is se-
riously threatened.
- The Alabama Press Association have ac-
cepted the invitation of their New York
brethren, to participate in an excursion
through the latter State Rendezvousing az
Decatur, June 8, the excursionists will proceed
on their Northern tour by the way of Nashville
and Louisville to Buffalo, New York.
- Mrs. Lincoln, the widow of President
Lincoln, has been sent to an insane asylum,
upon the petition Of her son Robert. She at
tempted suicide by poisoning the day after she
was adjudged insance, but the mixture given
her at the drug store was harmless. Her prop
erty amounts to 5000, which she is incapable
of managing.
- The monument which is to be erected
next month over the grave of Edgar A. Poe,
in Baltimore, is the result of a movement be-
gun ten years ago by the school teachers ofBal-
timore 1t will be a monolith of Italian mar
ble with bust of Poe in bas relief, and the
simpl inscription, Edgar Allan Poe, born in
1909, died in 1849."
=, In the first Masonic Lodge of Jerusalem,
it is said, the master is an American, the past
master an Englishman, the senior warden a
German the junior warden a native, the treas
urer Turk, the secretary Frenchman. the
senior deacon Persian, and the junior deacon
Turk. There are Christians, Mohammedans
and Jews in the lodge.
Ex-Gov. Powers, of Mississippi, was re-
Gently made foreman of the grand jury in Nox..
negroes, and they found an unusual number of
true bills for larceny After the grand jury
had concluded their labors. the Ex-Governor
discovered that one of his brother jurors had
relieved him of pocket-book containing $50.
The fellow that got the pocket-boo is certain
ly the grand juror of the period.
- An interesting decision upon the home
stead law was recently made in Charleston.
Judge Reed held that, under the constitution
and laws of this State, a homestead exemption
exists and is valid against mortgage executed
to secure bond that the only exceptions to a
homestead are where the bond or contract
sought to be enforced was either for the pur-
chase money, taxes or improvement; and that
in all other cases the homestead was good. An
appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court upon
this decision.
- Mrs. Mary L. Lincoln, widow of the late
President Lincoln, has been adjudged insane
in the County Court at Chicago, and will be
removed to the hospital at Batavia, III. The
legal proceedings were based on petition filed
by her son Robert, selling forth that his moth
er had property exceeding $4,000 in value,
and was incapable of managing her estate.
After the verdict of the jury declaring her in
sane Robert took the hand of his mother
afcctionately, aud she exclaimed, ooh, Rob-
ert, to think that my son would ever have done
this !"