The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-11-28
THE INgsELLTGENCER.
LOCAL MATTERS.
BRIEF EENTI0N.

J Cotton-Middlings ST to 81.
Pork is down to A cents, gross.
ESLook out for counterfeit bills on Friday
The Liberia fever is gradually cooling
down.
Twenty buggies-to be sold at auction next
Monday.
We hear of only few who have finished
sowing wheat.
1t is fashionable to pay your calls after
tea during the short days.
The Newberry and Abbeville fairs, which
came off last week, are reported successful.
Mr.. Larkin Newton is the only juror of
the United States District Court from this
County.
Learn your chicken, to roost high; and
the higher the better. Hot supper season
is upon us.
The young people contemplate getting
>up theatrical entertainments for Christmas
amusement.
Mr.. ]. L. TIibble, Clerk of the County
Commissioners, will give out checks for
1 fence claims on Saturday.
Just for our personal satisfaction, We pur-
pose to secure list of all preachers that
attend the circus tomorrow.
Now IS the proper time to set out shade
trees. Furnish the trees and manure, and
the Council will do the work.
The code dueslo is in danger of becoming
obsolete in this section. while fist and skull
combats are growing in favor.
In consequence, of the continued wet
weather, the roads in some sections of the
County are becoming very bad.
Keep away from the wheels Of fortune,
chuck-a-luck tables and faro banks on Fri
day, and you will be the better of for it.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, of Fayetse County,
Indiana who has been visiting relatives in
this County tine past year, left for her home
yesterday.
We have yet found but two ways to get
rid of tramp. One is to give him quar-
ter or an old pair of shoes, and the other is
to offer him work.
Louis Cooks celebrated bugsies have stood
years of trial, and have not failed. Be sure
and see them on day of sale-nsxt Monday
-at auction.
Messrs. ]. r. & L. P. Smith make special
offers to those wishing TO buy sewing ma
chimes. The offer will be good to the first
of January. See their advertisement.
The finishing touches to the Episcopal
rectory are being given, which will be occu-
pied in few days by Rev. 7. F. Gadsden,
the efficient and popular Rector OF Grace
Church.
We publish to-day the list of delinquent
land sales for Anderson County. Those
whose names appear in it would do well to
call at the Treasurers office and settle up
bolore the day Of sale.
Mrs. E. E. Gibson and Miss Joe Lea Bur-
riss. who have been visiting relatives in
this County during the past year, will leave
for their homes in Rockport and Goliad,
Texas, this evening.
J. c. Hudson, collector of Endowment
Fund of Furman University in Pickens,
Anderson. Spartanburg, Union and Chester,
II y, j.
December % to January II.
The Georgia Legislature is about to pass
a law making "wife-whipping" misde-
meanor. Then pass another, gentlemen,
making "husband henpecking' like Of
tense, and things will work smoothly.
On next Sabbath evening, at o'clock,
there will be held in the Methodist Church
q Joint communion service, embracing the
Presbyterian aud Methodist congregations.
Rev. D. E. Frierson, D. D., will deliver the
sermon.
There Will be meeting in the Presbyte-
rian Church Thursday afternoon at 4 p. M,
the usual hour for prayer meeting, for ma
tional thanksgiving and humiliation in
conformity with the appointment of the
Governor of the State.
We were favored with o call on Monday
last from Col. w. F. Farris, Of Austin, Texas,
Clerk of the Court of Appeals of that State,
and Mr.. n. Adams, of Illinois, who are on
q pleasure trip to this section, the former
visiting relatives in our midst.
Mr.. ]. C. Bedell, of Greenville, informs
our readers this week where they can pur-
chase their Christmas gifts. He is thor
oughly reliable, and those who desire to
purchase of him can depend on honorable
treatment. See his advertisement.
Mr.. n. F. Bremer, representative of the
enterprising and reliable grocery house of
F. w. Wagene, & Co.. Charleston, paid us
a VISIT while in Anderson on Thursday last
He is pleasant and agreeable gentleman,
and his calls arc always appreciated.
The Laurensyille Herald entered upon the
thirty-third year of its existence last week,
ana upon itS suSeeSSiui Auh"6SnSuo We
tender our warmest congratulations to the
editors. and proprietors. The Herald is
great life and light to Laurens County.
The finest turnips We have seen this year
were brought to our Office last week by
Messrs. P. &. Masters and w. W. Smith.
These gentlemen are both good farmers, and
say that there is no crop that pays as well
as turnips when properly planted and cult
waited.
We are requested to give notice that an
excursion train will be run from Central
and Seneca City to Atlanta, Ga, on the 10th
of December and return on the 18th for the
benefit of the Central Baptist Church. Ex-
cursionists will have 27 hours in Atlanta.