The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-01-13
General News Summary.

party III Gallatin, Tenn., on Christmas
day.
- Florida is progressing in wealth and
population more rapidly than any Of the
Southern States. 7i.ar
- Several persons were fatally injured
in Memphis on Christmas day by the ex-
plosion of toy cannon.
= The total amount of improvements
at Helena, Montana, during the past year
is estimated at $1S3, ,565. A.-s.!
= Ten thousand workmen arc said TO
be engaged ut this time on the line Of the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad.
- The police of st. Louis, Mo-, have
been ordered to arrest everybody on
gagged in selling lottery tickets in that
city.
= The Traders National Bank of
Charlotte, N. c., has been authorized to
commence business, with a capital of
800, 900. -.
- Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, the
famous songstress, is engaged to be mar
ried to. Mr.. Bradish johnson Smith, a
wealthy New Yorker.
If Speaker Kerr's health should
prove too poor to enable him to preside,
it is probable that Mr.. Lamar will be
chosen as Speaker gro ten.
slip to which he was elected in the The
illogical Seminary at Columbia.
Charleston Is the only city on the
Atlantic coast from which the ocean can
be seen. A remarkable fact, which is at
tracing general attention just now.
- The military companies of Savannah
are making preparations to celebrate the
anniversary of Gen. Robert +. Lees
birthday, on the 10Th of January, by o
grand parade.
- The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser
says the cotton fields in that vicinity
budded, blossomed and bore fruit until
the 10th Of December, when the first kill
ing frost occurred.
Gen. James Chestnut, of South Car
olina, has been chosen to deliver the an
nual Grafton before the literary societies
of Princeton College, New Jersey, at the
next commencement. -.
Commodore Vanderbilt has given
another 800, 900 to the Vanderbilt Uni
versity at Nashville, Tenn, which makes
his princely gifts to that institution ag-
gregate $70o, 900.
The Marquis Of Ripon, who resigned
the Office Of Grand Master of Masons in
England to join the Roman Catholic
church, has become leading patron of the
Catholic Club ut London. .salL
: Hanging is still the popular mode Of
punishment in North Carolina. Ran
dolph Sutton, colored. will expiate the
crime of burglary on the gallows on the
2lst Of January at Concord, N. C.
- The contractors on the Spartanburg
and Asheville Railroad are at work west
of the Blue Ridge, in Henderson county,
and an additional force Of convicts Is en-
gagged on the Polk county section. ga,.
- Rev. John Kershaw has entered
upon his duties as rector Of the Episcopal
church in Abbeville. He is son of Gon.
J. B. Kershaw, and is a young man of
fine talent and conspicuous energy.
- Governor Hendricks, of Indiana,
has accepted an invitation to deliver the
opening address of the Southern States
Agricultural and Industrial Exposition
at New Orleans on February 26th .I,ext.
January, 1856-will, on the 18th Of this
ry, when public address will be doliv-
cred by Gen. J. D. Kennedy, OF Camden.
= Governor Kemper. of Virginia; re-
commends a State tax upon distilled
spirits. He says three quarters of o. mill
lion of dollars could be raised from this
source by tax of thirty cents on the
dollar.
= Nevada has passed law forbidding
any person practising as a physician In
that State who has not practised m0di-
cine there for five years, or does not hold
diploma from an established medical
college. .!s:!. ~
Parish, La, is reported to have made the
following yield on one-third Of an, acre:
Seven hundred pounds seed cotton; FIVE
hundred stalks of sugar cane, and twelve
barrels of corn.
Tho Supreme Court has decided that
the act Of the General Assembly is con-
stitutional which gives trial justices con-
current jurisdiction with the circuit court
in actions er delicto, where the damages
claimed do not exceed 500. ..IiElri
AN Alabama grange has appointed
committee of review, the duty Of which
Is to visit the farms of the members
monthly, and make report before the
grange as to their condition, improve
ment and general management.
Porto Rico recently enjoyed the
tropical luxury of an earthquake. The
town of Areciho was almost entirely de-
stroyed-two churches and only six,
houses remain, and they are so badly.
damaged they may fall at any moment.
"A dreadful calamity occurred in the
little village of Hellikon, in Switzerland,
on the 25th of December. Christmas
festivities were being celebrated in the
sch house of that place, when the
flooring gave way. Eighty persons Wole
killed, and fifty others were wounded.
The South Carolina Methodist Con-
ference, recently in session at Orange,
burg, adopted a resolution forbidding
Methodist preachers to attend cfrcuses,
even to see the t'animals. There lie no
prohibition against looking in upon the
South Carolina Legislature for that pur-
pose, however. ri = "a - :de 5Gf'
Governor Garland, Of Arkansas, has
invited the Governors of Alabama,
louisiana Texas, Mississippi and Tell
nessee to unite with him in q call for, q
convention Of the Southern States this
winter at New Orleans for the purpose
of determining upon q mutual plan for
the encouragement of immigration to the
South from Europe. =,
- President Grant and Secretary Belk
nap have ordered DR.. Linderman, super
intendent Of the United States Mint, to
coin appropriate medals Of the cannon
captured during the Mexican wer, for
the purpose of presenting one each TO the
veteran soldiers of the Mexican war who
may i AsluAOAPhAo os eb"
Centennial celebration, July 4, 1876. @
- The most important bill for the
South which has been introduced in Con-
gress at this session is one directing tho
Secretary of the Treasury to pay to tho
owners, or their heirs or assigns, with.
out interest, the amount of the proceeds
OF sale of any land for direct taxes made
by tho United States in the late insurrec-
tionary States. Such owners, however,
before receiving the money are to give
full and complete quit claim to the Gov"
ernment.
"A negro's cabin was burned in Sum-
ter, s. c., and his family were within
when the fire began. Their escape by
the door and single window was cut off,
and he broke hole in the roof through
which to descend to their rescue. He
could only get one out at time. His
wife and two children were taken out,
leaving one child behind. The negro in
his last descent had been badly burned
by the spreading flames, but he braveiy
tried again, and was burned to death
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