The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-05-23
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

ccoHec county, uleU on the 18th instant.
lie was "a years Of age.
: The President has pard doned Smith,
Wallace and Caldwell, three. XII ki;x
prisoners from York County. confined
In Albany Penitentiary since 1872.
The cases of +. l.. Cardozo and Rob-
ers Smalls came up in the Supreme Court
last week, and were argued. The decis-
ion has not yet been filed.
The first bar of steel evor 1nnnuiac-
tured in the South was made in mills at
Chattanooga, Tennessee, on the 25th OF
April, and the manufacture is RAPIDLY
progressing there.
An election last night, to fill vacan-
cies in the Butler Guards, resulted as
follows: Waddy Thompson, Captain !;
7. II. Walker, First Lieutenant; f. A.
McBee, Second Lieutenant; w. A. VIII
liams, Third Lieutenant.
The Committee on Privileges and
Elections have decided neither Rainy or
Richardson are entitled to a seat from
the First District of South Carolina. By
all means let the election go back to t. o
people, and we have no doubt Mr. Rich
son will be elected by large majority.
The Camerons have, as usual, dicta-
ted to the Republican party o. Pennsyl-
vania. Henry r. Hoyt has been nomi-
mated for Governor. The Nationals. who
claim hundred thousand votes, have
nominated man nan1ad Mason. The
Democratic Convention has not yet been
hold.
Mr.. j. r. w. Johnson, Postmaster
at Walhalla, has been arrested as de-
fauiter to the Government in tao sum of
one thousand dollars in money and
stamps. He was ex-Gov. Bullock's pri-
vate Secretary, and in this position no
doubt first began to consider the me,m
and tuum as identical.
- The Keoipee Courier saye that the
revenue officials have arrested ON war
rants during the week Jacob B. Butts.
James Chambers and Yves. Bulnsidcs.
Tor distilling and retailing whiskey.
They have given bond before the Com
missioner for their appearance for pre-
lminary hearing at a future day.
= Mr.. M. N. Chapman, Deputy Coz
lector, and Mr.. VIM. M. Brown, Deputy
Marshal, discovered still in full opera
ton near Fair Play. some days ago.
The still and beer were destroyed and
the distillers arrested. The distiller, TAX
ing advantage Of tho kindness of the
officers, made his escape. The officers
deserve credit for their effective work.
-Keoicee Courier.
-Ex- Gov. r. l.. Scott, of South Car
olina, had fa en- pretty low, but has re-
Gently realized that to the low est depth
Of degradation there is deeper still.
Having solicited Corbin and Chamber
lin to join with him .tin preparing for
me press true story Of the Republican
administrations in South Carolina
those worthless declined, on the ground
that they did not desire TO mix them
selves up with renegade.
Three or four hundred colored Re-
publicans turned ou. last Saturday on
st. Helena to hear from Sammy Green
an explanation of Ills course in resigning
the Senatorship. He stated that he was
innocent OF the charges brought against
him, but that he was satisfied that he
would be convicted if he went to trial.
and to escape the Penitentiary he had to
resign. The Republicans in Beaufort
have addressed note to Sammy request
ing him to appear before the club next
Friday evening and give an account of
bis stewardship, and especially to ex-
plain his action in leaving the Senate.
A dispatch to the Hendersonville
IN. CO. Courier, dated May 12, and sent
from Chimney Rock, N. c., says: ''Bald
Mountain has split in twaini Your read
ers will remember that two years ago
great excitement existed in this section
on nncnnnt nHtha wonderful a,...d ..e-.,!!::
cable noises heard In the b,,vsls of the
old Bald. The sounds, like muttored
thunder, apparently proceeded from the
innermost depths of the mountain, and
created sthe widest excitement among
the residents of the valley. In the past
few davs the mountain hha literally split
in tws,-., leaving n chasm of three hur-
dred feet In length and from eight to ten
feet in width. So far as your correspon-
dent can ascertain. the depth Is one bot
tnnnless ahysa As get nc .:...o.ssS S= Lawn
has boon thrown out from the crater.
Great excitement exists, and Bald Noun
tain bids fhir to become the modern We
suvius.
= Earl Russell. or as he Is more famil. /.
isrly known, Lord John Russell, died on
Friday in England at the advanced ago
of eighty-six. Earl Russell was for q
period of thirty eight years q conspica-
Gus figure Ii. o political history OF his
country. He twi1e occupied the position
or Premier, and held the Office for six
years first and then for one year, but
during the whole of his long life he was
generally member of the British Cabi-
net. Sinco 1866, when the Gladstone
Ministry was dissolved, Earl Russell has
been in retirement, and has devoted him
self to literary pnraults, writing several
works during the twelve years. While
he win not take rank with the greatest
English statesmen, lie will he Known ia
postari.y as n man of high otflsr of talent,
OF gHest Industry, of nnblemisbed char.
acter. and as one devoted 10 the Interests
ofhis nstive land.