The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-24
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

- Inc next General conference VI tne
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
meets in Atlanta May next.
| - The Potomac River is entirely free
of ice, and navigation has been resumed
"a remarkable fact to record in January.
- Charles A. Dana has retired from
the editorial control of the New York
Sun. The Sun will be the loser by his re-
tiring> ~
~ Tho Richmond Dispatch estimates
the Moffett whiskey punch law will yield
100000 per year, 100000 more than at
| first estimated.
Ex-Gov. James B. Groomes has
been elected United States Senator from
Maryland to succeed Hon. George R.
Dennis on the 4th of March, 1879.
= FRANKFORT, KY, Jan. H.-General
J. s. Williams was elected United States
Senator to succeed Thomas G. McCreery
by a vote of 12e to IL for Boyd, Republic
can.
| = Hon. George H. Pendleton has been
elected United States Senator from Ohio
to succeed Stanley Matthews on the 4th Of
| March, 1879. One more Democrat in and
one more Republican out
| - In the Louisiana Senate resolution
instructing Senators and Members Of
Congress to vote for an investigation of
alleged frauds in the ele>' 'toral count was
defeated by q vote of % to 8.
The Commissioner Of Agriculture
having declined to furnish members of
Congress field and garden seeds for dis
tribution as heretofore under the new
| rule all orders for seeds sent directly to
VIM. G. Leduc, Commissioner Of Agri-
culture, will be promptly filled by him..
/ = In the Ohio House of Representa-
tives last week resolution was adopted
declaring in favor of the reconciliation
Of silver, and asserting that President
Hayes and Secretary Sherman, in their
opposition to the restoration of the silver
dollar, do not represent the views nor
the wishes ofthe Ohio people.
A dreadful railroad accident oc-
| Cured last week near Hartford, Conn.
An excursion train with passengers that
had been attending Moody and Sankey's
| revival services fell into the Pennington
River. Two engines, baggage car and
three passenger cars fell through the
bridge. The loss of life had not been as
certained, but from fifteen to twenty-five
wounded had been taken out.
- The President has written a letter to
colored man, in which he says: II
have given some consideration to your
question as to the emigration of colored
people from Florida to San Domingo. /
am not we'll informed as to the advan-
tages offered by San Domingo to immi-
grants, but my impression is that your
people should not be hasty in deciding
to leave this country. The mere differ
ence in climate is very serious objec-
ton to removal. The first generation, in
all such removals, suffer greatly. 1t is
my opinion, also, that the evils which
now affect you are likely, steadily, and,
I hope, rapidly to diminish. My advice
is, therefore, against the proposed immi-
grafton"
"A special report of the Commission
er of Agriculture on the Chinese tea
plant and the capabilities of the United
States for successful competition with
China in the production of said plant, has
been published. It shows that the tea
plant has been successfully cultivated
and manipulated in the United States for
number of years past. Tea has been
prepared from plants grown in Georgia,
which has been tested in Baltimore, and
pronunced stronger and finer favored
than the. imported. 1t can be grown
from the lakes to the gulf, a temperature
of ten degrees below zero failing to
freeze the plants, while the climate and
soil of the cotton zone are peculiarly
| favorable to the culture. Twenty mill