The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-06-20


Church on the fifth Saturday night in this
month; at early candle-light, and also on
the Sabbath morning following.
A stalk of lettuce measuring thiry-eight
inches around, was brought to our office on
Tuesday from the farm of Mr.. J. "A. E.
Norris. It is very large for this season.
Among the graduates of Woffori College,
Spartanburg, at its recent commencement,
we notice the name of w. NJ. Jones, son
OF Rev. Samuel B. Jones, D. D., of Pendle-
son, sc.
A first class Bakery has been established
i'm Anderson by Moss e. Brown, and house
keepers can always find fresh supply of
q bread and plain and fancy cakes at their es-
adjustment. Cakes baked to order. t
We regret to learn that the blacksmith
shop and tools belonging to Mr.. John NJ.
Glenn, in Garvin township, were consumed
by fire on last Monday night. We have
not been able to learn the cause of the fire.
The Brushy Creek Democratic Club meets
on the fifty Saturday in Jane at 2 o'clock
D. M. Delegates TO the County Convention
win be elected, and other business transac.
ted. Col. w. s. Pickens and others will
address the Club.
The commencement exercises of the Will
lianiston Female College are now progress
ing, and the occasion is doubtless attracting
the usual large attendance and interest.
Wewill try to present an account Of it to
our readers next week.
The protracted meeting in the Baptist
Church at this place is still progressing.
On last Sabbath afternoon two converts
were baptized There is considerable inter
est manifestedin the meeting, and we hope
lis good work may be much multiplied be-
lore its close.
The regular round trip excursion tickets,
good for three days, viii be issued to per-
sons who may wish to attend the COM
mence,nent at Adger College, Walhalla, as
follows: From Anderson, $40; from
Pendleton, $3.50; from Seneca or Perry
vile, 60 cents.
We are requested to announce that Rev.
B. Hayes will deliver an address before the
lebanon Division Sons of Temperance, at
O'clock p. M, on the fifth Saturday in
4 this month, at Lebanon All the members
/. OF the Division, and the public generally,
are invited to be present.
Fork Democratic Club No. meets on
rext Saturday at 10 o'clock a. NJ. at Brown
& Farmers Store. Delegates will be elected
to the County Convention, and other inter
esting business will be attended to. Messrs.
lG. N. Rucker, E. B. Murray and Others
viii address the meeting upon the political
issues of the day.
Tho cantata entitled "The Haymakers,"
will be rendered in Masonic Hall tonight
and tomorrow night for the benefit of the
Episcopal parsonage. The performance will
undoubtedly be an excellent one, and those
attending will have most pleasant even
ing. Admittance, fifty cents; children un-
der u years, twenty-five cents.
Meals Creek Democratic Club meets on
next Saturday afternoon at 8 o'clock p. m.
Delegates to the County Convention, which
meets on the 10th of July. will be elected
at this meeting, and the other business of
the Club will be transacted. A full attend
ance of all the members of the Club and of
the citizens generally is desired.
Under the new schedule Of the Air Line
Railroad the Northern mails arrive in An
derson twelve hours later than they did
before. We receive them when they arrive
on time at night, but frequently they do not
reach us until the morning after they are
dne. This is due, we presume, to the irreg-
ularity incident to the change of schedule.
The Masonic picnic at the University on
st. Johns Day, next Monday, the oath inst,
promises to be very pleasant and success
fnl affair 1t IS expected that an extra train
will be run back from Bolton to enable per
sons wishing to attend from points along
the railroad to do So All Masons and their
families and. friends are invited to attend,
and the ladies are requested to carry their
lunch baskets with them. The Palmetto
Band will be in attendance to furnish music
for the occasion.
Capt. S. N. Pegg, who has been testing
the temperature of water in this County,
informs us that last week he tested the cold
est spring that he has yet seen. 1t is situa-
ted upon the farm of Mr.. D. K. Norris, near
Pendleton, s. c., and has temperature of
$40 Farenheit. The average of all the
springs tested is 6130, while the water of
wells in the County is mucn cooler, the
average being $3.50. From these tempera-
lures it win be seen that the water of this
County is very healthful and invigorating.
The hail storm Of Sunday, the 9th inst,
was very general one. We publish the
account of its rayages in Georgia and some
counties of this State on another page.
These sections seem to have been most seri-
ously damaged, but the storm-king held his
sway in many other sections upon the same
day. In fact, the Southern coast from Nor
folk, Va, to Georgia suffered more or less,
with the exception of favored spots, which
were exempted from the ravases of the
elements.
In many sections of this County the in
jury from the hail was not so great as ex-
pected. The crops of corn, cotton and veg
etables are rapidly coming out, and many
fields which were thought at first to he
ruined will, with good seasons, make about
half of an ordinary crop. While this is
the case, however, there are many fields in
which the destruction was fully IS complete
as represented. After reading the accounts
of the Sunday storm in other places, our
people generally feel that we have come off
so much better than some that we have