The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-05-04
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

the Cincinnati Convention.
Nearly all the delegates from Louis
lana to the Democratic Convention at
St. Louis are said to be for Hancock.
Over 10000 quarts of Strawberries
were shipped from Charleston on Satur-
day last for New York and Philadelphia.
= The business men Of Toledo, Ohio,
are considering the feasibility of aban.
doning the credit system and doing all
business upon strictly cash basis.
- The health of Representative La
mar was not benefited so much by his
trip to Mississippi as was supposed
He is still constantly threatened with
paralysis.
= The Georgia Delegates to the Dem
ocratic National Convention are reported
as more favorable to Tilden than to any
of the candidates named for the st. Louis
nomination.
Speaker Kerr has obtained leave
of absence from his duties for ten days,
on account of personal illness. Sunset
Cox was designated by him to preside as
Speaker pro tens during his absence.
= The delinquent tax-list in New Or
leans fills sixty columns in the Republ-
can, each column averaging over two
hundred and fifty names. And yet men
speak of the best government the world
ever saw.
Secretary Taft is said to be cutting
down the estimates for the War Depart
ment some $5,O0000O below Belknap's
figures. For this reduction the country
NAV thank the Democratic House of
Representatives. .........
Hon. A. NJ. Waddell, Democratic
member of Congress, who has been Sc
verely attacked in the columns Of the
Wilmington IN. C.) Post, a Republican
newspaper, caned the edito- of that pa
per on Monday last.
"A distinguished politician of Ohio,
who has been for some time in Washing
ton, writes that his impression now is that
the Republicans will be forced to nomi
nate Bristow, and the Democrats be pre-
vailed upon to nominate Judge Davis.
The Richland Cottage, one of the
finest residences in Aiken. was destroyed
by fire on Saturday night. The building
was occupied as private boarding house,
and the loss is estimated at ten thousand
dollars, besides the loss sustained by the
boarders in jewelry and other effects.
- Richard H. Dana, Jr.. will be
delegate from Massachusetts to the Gin
cinnati Convention. Senators Morton
and Conkling refused to confirm him as
minister to England. He will get even
by refusing to confirm their claims to a
nomination to the White House.
"A discharged policeman undertook
to kill the chief of police, Capt. Fl. w.
Hendricks, in Charleston on Saturday
afternoon. He made raid upon Hen
dricks at his house, and lively fusilade
was kept up for some time. He was
finally captured, after large number of
shots were fired, and committed to Jail.
- The Wilmington, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad Company are filling
up all the small trestles on their road
They are also replacing the rails,
which are at present fastened down on
the ties with spikes, by others that are
riveted together by new process, which
prevents the jumping and jarring of the
cars.
1t is said there is decrepancy of
several millions between the accounts of
sales of property captured and abandoned
in the South, and returns of money from
such sources to the Treasury. The fact
is the whole Radical machine is rotten,
and you have only to touch any point of
the body to puncture an ulcer. :
= The only change of importance
made in the postal law is that which
takes transient newspapers and maga-
zines out of the third-class, and permits
them to be sent any distance at the rate
of one cent for every three ounces or
fractional part thereof, and one per cent.
for each additional two ounces, or frac-
tional part thereof.
The emigration of negroes from
Middle Tennessee is beginning to attract
attention. An emigration board, appoin-
ted by the colored mems convention, held
in Nashville last year, is actively at work
organizing. Three hundred left Nash
vile last week for western Arkansas, and
two thousand are expected to depart du-
ring the next thirty days.
= Mrs. David Dudley Field died on
the 10Th inst. at Baltimore. She was q
Miss Polk, of Maryland, and at the age
of fourteen married DR.. Samuel ]. Carr,
of Sonth Carolina, blood relation OF
Andrew Jackson. In early life she was
q great beauty and reigning star In
Washington. After becoming a widow,
she married David Dudley Field, the
great lawyer Of New York, where she has
since resided.
- The Wilmington. Columbia and
Augusta Railroad shops are to be removed
from Wilmington N. O., to Florence. S.
c., The work commenced on Monday
This enterprise will add two or three
hundred Inhabitants to this growing
town, and will otherwise greatly assist in
the material development and prosperity
of that imporatnt railroad centre.
- A correspondent of the Beaufort
Tribune has interviewed General Robert
Smalls, M. c., and finds that he regards
Whipper as decidedly the ablest man in
the State, and believes that Elliott's op-
position to the forthcoming judge is att
tributable to envy and the fear of so for
midable rival as Whipper must inevi
tably be. His admiration for and conf
dence in Ex-Governor Moses is unabated,
and he regards him as nearer and dearer
to the republican heart to-day than any
man in the party, and would give him
his unreserved support for election. He
is opposed to the denomination of Gov
ernor Chamberlain.
- The Supreme Council of the An
cient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free
masonry for the Southern jurisdiction of
the United States will hold its regular
biennial session at the city of Washing
ton on the 29th Of May, and at the same
time it will celebrate the 18th anniversa-
ry of its formation. This is the highest
organization in Masonry, and is composed
exclusively of those on whom the thirty
third degree has been conferred. The
delegates from South Carolina are Gen.
w. G. DeSaussure and Hon. Henry
Bnist. The deliberations will be presi-
ded over by Gen. Albert Pike.