The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-05-02
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BaIEF MENTION.
The Palmetto Rifemen will have dress
parade ON the public square Friday after
noon.
Vegetables are beginning to come in now,
and gardeners are reaping the reward OF
their. labor.
The pupils of Che Carolina Collegiate In
stitsite Will enjoy picnic on Silver Brook
next Saturday.
Mesrs. G. F. Tolly, H. B. FAINT, H. F.
Chiietzberg and John n. Hubbard repre-
sented Anderson at the State Convention
OF the Y. NJ. C. A. recently held in Sumter.
Messrs. Barr & FAINT have on hand
lalge stock of dry goods, groceries and gen.
S eral merchandise, which they will sell upon
the most reasonable terms. Give them
call;
We would call attention to the advertise
nent OF the Virginia House. When you
visit Columbia, if you wish to be Hospitality
entertained, stop at this hotel, and you will
be gratifed with your treatment.
The season for frost has past, and without
some unusual calamity we will be blessed
witha most abundant fruit crop. This will
be unusual, as we do not generally have,
-, o,oooccs0y1 ri.
A meeting of Captain Beaty's Company
!, win be held at Carswell Institute on next
Saturday, 4th inst. at 2 o'clock p M All
thsrembers are requested to attend prompt
IL, IS several vacant offices are to be filled.
Our. farmers are very busily engaged In
finishing planting corn and working out
their young crops, which are just up. This
gives things dull appearance just now,
bus it gives promise of more prosperous
times next fall.
80 ..llfr. E. W. Byrum brought samples OF his
bf,sg wheat patch to our Office on Wednes-
q dag morning, which measure over six feet
in height, aad are well headed. All who
have seen it pronounce it the finest patch
they have seen this season. ~.
LIZ. g., W. MCGEE, of Belton, has the
finest clover patch in this section OF coun-
Try, and ne expect, from what we have
seen in other counties, that it is the best in
3 the State. The clover is very high, and
stands,close upon: the ground.
There willrbe meeting of Hall Demo-
cratic Club ut the Carswell Institute on
next Saturday at 2 o'clock p. m. Several
speakers have been invited for the occasion,
and full attendance of the members OF
the Club, and of the citizens generally. is
requested.
The Anderson Court House Democratic
Club will meet in Masonic Hall on next
Fiday night at 8 o'clock. This is the regular
monthly meeting, and an address will be
delivered by Mai B. F. Whitner. All Of
the membeis of the Club are urged to be
present at this meeting. $50
Ms. E. g. Gibson, of Rockport, Texas,
arrived in Anderson on yesterday morning,
aid win spend several months in visiting
relatives and friends in this County. Mrs.
Gibson is native of this County, and re-
moved with her husband to the Loan Star
State several years before the war.
One Of the fayorite English sports is
archery, and clubs composed of ladies and
gentlemen exist in most Of the towns,
whose object is TO practice this harmless
and healthy sport. Cannot our ladies and
gentlemen get up something of the kind to
while away an occasional summers after
noon2
VIE were misinformed last week as to the
name of the lady who committed suicide
near Lowndesqille, in Abbevilie County,
notice of which was made in our last issue.
1t was o Mrs. Prince instead Of Mrs.
Asauldin, and when the 7srt was committed
tha unfortunate lady was in state of de-
mency.
. > Col. Dodamead has given excursion rates
10 persons wishing to accompany the Pal
metto R.Hemen on their visit to Greenvilfe
ON the 7th inst. The fare from Anderson
to that place and return viii be one dollar
and eighty cents. This is a very cheap eI.
cursion, and no doubt many Of our citizens
will avail themselves Of 1t.
We regfa to announce the death OF Mr..
L. A. Howard, which occurred in this
County on the Goth of April. The funeral
services were conducted at Cross Roads
Church on the following day by Rev. W.
"A. Hodges, and were attended by large
$ concourse of relatives and friends, who
mourn the death of the departed one.
The Palmetto Rifemen have received and
accepted ON invitation to be present at the
anniversary of the Greenville Guards in
Greenyille on next Tuesday, the 7th inst.
The occasion will doubtless be most en-
joyable one, and the Anderson boys will
embrace It to further cultivate the acquain-
tance of their Greenville friends, of whose
recent visit to Anderson they cherish the
most pleasant recollections.
The freight trains on the G. & G. R. R.,
which have heretofore been running to
Greenyille daily, only go now three times
aweek, so that persons wishing to go from
this point to Greenyille can only go through
on the mornings of Tuesday, Thursday and