The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-11-01
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-Middlings. 92 to 10 cents.
Rev. Wm. Henry Strickland will preach
at Mountain Creek Church on the second
Sunday in November, at 3 o'clock D. m.
Hugh Wilson, Esq. of the Abbeville
Press aud Banner, was in town last week.
We did not have the pleasure of meeting
him.
Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken is upon the Con.
gressiOnnl Col!.mittee upon Agriculture
Col. Aiken will make q valuable member
upon this committee
The State Fair begins on next Tuesday
week, in Columbia, and will no doubt be
very largely attended. All the Railroads
The Grand Division of Sons CT Temper.
nnce of fSouth Carolina will meet in Column
bia on Tuesday, 1871, inst. during the week
OF the State Fair. large meeting is cx-
IecteG.
Mr.. r. L. Moorlead from the house of
Sloan, Lee d Taylor; Of Greenyille, s. c.,
was In Anderson last Friday. He was look
ing very much like an Anderson man al
though he lives in Greenville
Mr.. Joe B. McGec, Of the house Of Thos
w: Davis. Of Greenville s. c., was at the
Fair last Friday. His stay in Greenyilie
has not been long enough to rob him of q
familiar appearance to our people.
Our townsman, Mr.. b. F. Crayton, has
been suggested for the presidency of the
State Fair Association, and win no doubt
bc elected If he will consent to serve, which
We hope he will do, as better president
could not possibly be procured.
L. P. Smith, Grand Scribe of the Sons of
Temperance OF this State, will organize a
Division Of that Order ut Cross Roads
Church on next Saturday evening at "a
O'Clock. We understand the prospects for
a'Arong DIVISION there are very good.
Managers of Election in this County for
1876 would do well to read the card Of Col.
James A. Hoyt, chairman of the board of
1t is important to have the account made
out by the beginning of the session of the
Legislature.
Mr. Gurran II. Sloan, of the enterprising
iiTin oi Sloan, Lee q Taylor, OF Greenviiie.
3. g., was in attendance upon our County
Fair on Friday. His many friends in this
community were pleased to see him in our
midst, even for so short time.
A little child Of Mai John B. Moore came
hear being drowned on last Saturday after
noon, by wandering from the other chill
drcn and falling into tub of water For
tunatc!y, however the little one was dis
covered In time to resuscitate it, thotnr, the
escape from death was very narrow one
The business Of the town of Anderson
has been larger during the month of Octo-
Der than that OF any month Tor the past
shree or four years: Keaso..-tetause it is
one of the best cotton markets in South
Carolina, and goods are sud here as cheap
as they can be bought at any ncighboring
town for the cash.
Rev. Thomas +. Gadsden, who has been
prefohing some time in this place, assumes
the Rectorship Of Grace Protestant Episco-
pa Chu1cii nun today. His sermon next Sab
bath Will treat of subjects appropriate to the
occasion, after which the Lords Supper will
be administered.
Hon. Thos. G. Cover, formerly Mayor of
'Greenville, and at present the president of
Ier city railroad, was in Anderson last Fri
day. He ls one of the most enterprisiEg
and successful men in South Carolina and
IS the senior member of the we'll known
firms of Cover, Cox & Markiey, and of T.
Z. Cover IL Co., of Greenville, s. C.
Mr.. Warren Keown shot Mr.. J. N. Van.
diver Mt the circus on last Tuesday Mr.
Vandiver was acting as q policeman for the
town, and had entleav ored to keep Mr..
ke0wn quiet, but ut the time he was shot
had left him. The ball struck Mr.. Yandi-
yer i'll the back, but did not seriously hurt
hlm This case will undergo judicial inves-
tigation, and therefore we Withhold COM
ment.
We return thanks to MY #. P. Quarles,
Secretary of the Abbevi!ie Fair Association
flor complimentary ticket to the Abbeville
County Fair, which is now in progress.
This Fair will no doubt be q great success,
as Abbeville County has come out to q very
great extent since its political regeneration,
ana shows 1t on every occasion. 1t will not
be behind on this.
The exhibition in Calisthencs ut the Ma
sonic Hall on last Friday evening was
very great success. The address Of Major
b. +. Whitner upon the advantages of this
system of education was terse, elegant and
interesting, and the performance evinced
much training and system in the pupils.
rejecting high credit upon their teacher
Miss Wade, of the Southern Home School.
The attendance was large, and the enter
talnment in every way decided success.
Sol Smith Russell, the great musical actor
whose facial grimaces some of our people
remember in connection with the Swiss
.sell Ringers. will afford the people OF An
tierson rare treat In the Masonic Hall on ,
Friday evening. He brings with him an
array of musical talent which is seldom met
Ah eioNCii6 OuipAbiSS, diiQ Will LiOIc
Sion repay the attendance of oil who love
chaste and elegant performance. See the
advertisement elsewhere.
The merchants OF Anderson should dis.
cuss the propriety Of chartering ferry
across the Savannah river to induce the
trade of neighbOring counties in Georgia to
come here in greater quantities. 1t might
he made free for persons who trade at this
point and not elsewhere by issuing carti6-
Gates to every Georgian who sells q bale of
cotton and buys bill of goods in Anderson.
BY charging all Others the ferry would pay
expenses and be the source of gain to our
town. as we'll as n benefit to portions of
Georgia.
The entertainments given in the Masonic
Hall on last Wednesday and Thursday
evenings for the benefit of the Episcopal
Church., were quite success During the
two evenings the two highly amusing com:
etiies of Colleen Bawn, "Sbould This Meet
ynnr Eye" and 'Kritz Single" were vel,
rendered by an amateur club of ladies and
gentlemen to highly delighted audience.
These entertainments were very amusing,
and were well attended. We learn that
about eighty dollars was realized from
them.
Judge Reed was prevented from holding
the Fall term of Court in Beaufort. on ac-
count of the yellow fever, which has been