The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-09
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

- Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, who
is now in England collecting funds for
the University of the South, has been
eminently successful.
There are 5000 white men in Florida
who have not voted since the downfall of
the Confederacy-enough to insure De-
mocratic triumph at every election.
1t is stated that the Emperor and
Empress ofBrazil, when in Philadelphia,
will be the guests of George W. Childs,
at his magnificent residence on Walnut
street.
- Clement L. vallandigham's grave,
at Dayton, Ohio, has been marked by an
Italian marble monument, bearing a
life-like medallion portrait of the de-
ceased.
"A petition has been presented in the
Maryland Legislature praying for the
chisement Of every owner of q dog who
fails to pay the tax.
The grain crop Of Texas this year
amounts to about 5000, 900 bushels. The
average price Of wheat at Dallas since the
opening of the grain season has been
ninety-five cents.
John N. Pierce, lately cashier Of the
Merchants National Bank of Lowell,
Mass, and recently acquitted of embez-
element, has been arrested on a charge
of forgery and larceny.
George Taylor, who Is under arrest
at Washington for completely in cotton
fraud, whereby the Government lost
nearly 340O, 1000, was formerly member
of Congress from the Second New York
District.
Hon. B. H. Hill has made special
application to the President for gener.
al pardon and amnesty Of people con-
cerned in the infraction of the revenue
laws, on condition that they promise
obedience to the laws hereafter.
The Richmond Dispatch will warmly
welcome to Virginia all desirable immi-
grants, and make them feel at home;
but it protests against the waste ofmeans
in forcing immigrants to come who have
no money and no inclination.
- If Congress is unable to adjourn be-
fore the middle of July, as the Washing.
ton dispatches intimate, it will he mainly
owing to the embarrassing resistance
made by Radical Senate to the re-
trenchment measures of democratic
House.
- The drift of public opion is that Bah
cock, though legally acquitted, has been
morally convicted. Mr.. Dyer put the
case in nutshell when he said that the
General is like the turkey to whom the
hunter remarked after shooting off his
leg-he has got away, but ho will roost
low hereafter.
- The editor of the Ohio State Journal
writes to his paper from Washington "I
wish to say as Internationally as he de-
manded the surrender of Fort Donel-
son, that Gen. Grant is not now, never
has been, and never will be, a candidate
for third term. wish might. with
out breach of confidence, do President
Grant the justice to quote his dignified
and noble language on this subject"
- A feud has existed for some time be-
tween J. N. Hawkins, of the Carrolton
MOI Journal, and A. S. Kieralf, of the
st. Louis Democrat, which eliminated on
Friday last in the latter shooting Haw-
kins TO; T. times-once in the face, twice
in the breast and once in the bowcls-in
fiicting wounds from which he cannot
recover.
1t is estimated. upon reliable data,
that tho loss by burning Of the steamer
Mary Bell will reach over $500,0 She
had q large number of passengers with
valuable baggage. She was believed to
be the largest steamer ever constructed
for navigating tho Mississippi or any
other river, her extreme longth of hull
being 325 feet and breadth tifty-six feet.
In constructing the boat, over million
feet of water-seasoned oak was used.
She had battery Of eight steel boilers,
which cost over S125, 600.