The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-21

The; damage to this crop, the yield OF Whlch
has been very large this year, viii. be very
great, unless we have dry weather for a
short time.
Rev. H. N. Hays will deliver an address
1rrp upon Temperance at New Prospect Church
on next Saturday afternoon, at 8 o'clock,
before the New Prospect Division of the
Sons Of Temperance. The address will be
public, and all are invited to attend.
We publish on5the first page of this issue
the late Act passed by the Legislature rela-
tive to fencing. This is a correct copy of
the Act, and every one should save it, for it
viii doubtless be the subject of q great deal
of discussion in this County in q very short
time. -.
Messrs. j. L. Byrum and S. S. Newell
each brought samples Of very fine wheat to
this Office last week, several stalks of which
contained six grains of wheat to the mesh.
The yield Of wheat this year is expected to
surpass what has been attained in this sec
ton for many years past. 5Tisst
Those persons who expect to engage in
the manufacture Of Sorghum Molasses this
season should read the. advertisement Of
Messrs. Sullivan & Co., which. appears else
where. By purchasing a Victor Cane
Mill' and "Cook Evaporator," you viii be
prepared to make, with proper attention, al
excellent article of mOlaSSeS.
J.. Reese FAINT, Esq, returned on last
Monday evening via Charleston, by steamer
from New York, whittier he has been on q
visit for the past three weeks. he Shocking
well, although he says that after q fair trial
of rail and water travel he has decided most
positively that steamboating is not condu-
Give of unalloyed pleasure, especially if the
sea is little rough, Audience he proposes
in futureto make his journeys by railroad.
Mr. &. E. Campbell brought us on last
Thursday very fine squash for this season
of the year. It measured nine inches in
diameter, and weighed three pounds and
three-qnarters.l Campbell says as this is off
year.he has to work great deal harder
than usual on his farm, to make up for
time lost in the campaign Of; last year, and
also to get sufficiently ahead to be prepared
for the canvass Of 1877. 4 sa
Mr.. Z. D. Kennedy, formerly local editor
of the NTElLIGENcER, who has for the past
year been in charge of the Blackville Ne,cs,
retired from that field of labor two weeks
ago for more profitable pursuits Mr.. Ken
nedy is gentleman Of fine mind, and has
done good work in the editorial harness.
BE has onr best wishes for the success which
his merits and attainments are, we believe,
destined to procure for him. 5a
I'VE are indebted to Mr.. VIM. Van Wyck,
President of the Young. Mems Democratic
Club Of New York, for a copy of the New
York Epesing Express, containing an account
OF the great gathering at the festival of the
Manhattan Club. Mr.. Van Wyck is well
known BY many of our citizens, as he once
lived in our midst, and we are glad to know
that he has assumed high position at the
New York bar, and is quite prominent
among the rising men of the Empire City"
Of our nation -.
We had the pleasure OF call on yesterday
from Mr.. ]. Baylis Lewis, formerly mer-
chant of this town, but at present with the
firm Of F. w. Wagener & Co., wholesale
grocers, of Charleston, s. G.. Mr.. Lewis is
travelling for this reliable business house,
and will no doubt receive liberal orders
from our merchants, both on account of his
own popularity and on account of the high
reputation the house he represents has al.
ready established throughout the State. y
The merchants of Anderson have signed
an agreement to close their stores at half
past six o'clock in the afternoon from the
Goth day of June inst. to the first day OF
September next Persons wishing to pur-
chase goods or sell produce would do we'll
to note this change, which went into opera
ton yesterday. It is intended to give the
clerks, as well as the proprietors in our bus
mess houses, a little recreation during the
hot Summer weather, and is an arrange
ment which is sure to be found an agreeable
one during the time specified.
Our Townvil1e correspondent announces
the death of Dr. w. L. Broyles, prominent
and influential citizen of this County, re-
siding in the Fork township. DR.. Broyles
was a thorough going, upright and intelli-
gent gentleman, possessed of a large degree
of public spirit, and devoted to the advance
ment of all reforms, whether they be moral,
social, political or agricultural. He was a
younger brother of our former townsman
Maj. A. R. Broyles and his death will be
lamented by very extensive circle of rela.
tives and friends.
On last Saturday afternoon Rev. w. H
Strickland administered the ordinance Of
Baptism, ct the usual place in Rocky River
to seven cony yerts who have united with the
Baptist Church at this place during the in
teresting religious meeting now in progress
which gives promise of still further acquisi
tions to the church of which Mr.. Strickland
is pastor. Prayer-meeting services are held
every afternoon at five clock, and service:
with sermon are had every evening, be
ginning at half-past eight o'clock. Th'
attendance is large, and the interest mani
tested by the congregation is very encour
aging.
Our friend D. Sloan White, of the Forl
township sent us.on Wednesday some de
licious early Beatrice peaches, gathered from
young orchard begun by him two or thre
years ago. Mr.. White, though a youn'
man, is one OF our most progressive farmers
and is rapidly surrounding himself witt
many of the comforts and luxuries of life
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