The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-04-01
BRIEF MENTION.

Tho ton market has been active during
the pas5 week, and middling commands 1os
cents this "wednesday morning.
Tuesday last was the liveliest day OF the sea-
son, owing to the large number of wagons in
town. Judging from the quantities OF mer-
chandize carried away, and from the sm1Eng
countenances Of the merchants, a prohtaole
business must have been done.
8. Bleckley Is noted as an antiquarian, and
has recently discovered goose-on the planta-
ton of Mr.. B. 2. Hammond-whose age is
twenty-four years. We know Of many older
geese in the world, but they are not web-footed.
Sylvester is not one of them, either.
We were shown on Tuesday last, samples of
the celebrated "Cheatham Cotton" raised in
Jefferson County, Georgia, and it was certainly
the finest we ever saw. We were informed by
Capt. John T. Cheatham, who was here selling
the seed of this cotton, that the average num-
Der of bolls to the stalk was about five hun
dred, and that frequently from three to four
bolls were produced from ono square. The
seed were sold a: one dollar per hundred.
We are sorry to learn that little Baylis, son
met with severe injury on Friday last 1t
seems that Mrs. Clarke went to the residence
of her father (Mr. David Crosby on that day,
bringing little Baylis with her, and while play
ing in the yard, he was attacked and bitten
through the upper lip by fierce bulldog.
The wound inflicted was severe and painful,
but at last accounts the little fellow was doing
we'll.
ANY person in want of an excellent Family
Bible at cheap rates will call upon Mr.. John B.
Watson, who can furnish splendid edition at
lower figures than ever before offered in this
community. These Bibles are purchased at
wholesale rates, and sold at the original price
of the publisher, with freight added. 1t is
through the iberality Of a benevolent citizen,
who wishes to be instrumental in doing good,
that this arrangement has been made with pub
fishers, in order to save the usual commissions
to purchasers. No one makes any profit on
the transaction, and such an opportunity does
not often present itself.
We learn that on Friday last robbery was
committed at the residence of Mrs. Powell,
few miles above this place, by young man
named Thomas Elliott, who worked on the
premises. Elliott, finding that no one was in
the house, entered by force, and proceeding up
stairs, broke open trunk and took therefrom
ten dollars and fifty cents in money. He came
to town with the money, and had the ten dollar
bill changed in one of the stores. The money
was missed on Saturday, and suspicion resting
on Elliott, Mr. James Powell came to town and
inquired if any of the merchants had changed
a ten dollar bill answering to the description
he gave, and receiving reply in the affirma-
tive, he went home and had Elliott arrested
and lodged in Jail on Sunday morning.
Every man, woman and child in Anderson
County is urgently invited to examine Jordan's
patent churn power now on exhibition at Will
son s. Reeds, underneath this Office. We
want this examination made within the next
two weeks, and not spread over the entire
summer, for we are not ready to be made crazy
with the incessant noise of turning the crank,
which goes on steadily from early morn to
dewy eve, much to our discontinue when we
are seeking to probe into the depths of the
Congressional Record, or some other light and
entertaining literature. The whirl of the cog
wheels in that machine only requires eight
minutes to make butter; but to look for
ward to whole summer of heightened and
sultry days, without intermission in the mo-
notonous whirl, is sufficient to drive one mad
in less time than it takes to produce the butter.
Hence, we want the people Of Anderson Coun'
ty supplied without delay, so the owners Of the
patent right will, like any other Arabs, fold
their tents and silently steal away from this
vicinity. Messrs. John A. Reeves and M. }.
Wilson will furnish further particulars.