The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-06
INTEL lGENGER.
LOCAL MATTERS.
BRIEF MENTION,

Si4EIN12ONs
Mr.. Stevenson informs US that there art
now; 81 paupers in the Poor House. ID o.
whom are colored.
Several charming young ladies from Wal
halia have been spending few weeks in
Anderson recently.
Th.i Dime Reading at the residence oi
$ Mr.. 8. Bleekley, on last Monday evening
was q very pleasant occasion.
Mr.. eR. Y. e. Nance, who has sold Out
his sfIoe shop. is going to put up saw mill
on the Air Line Railroad.
On last Saturday Mr. P. F. King took
tbs Is making apiculture profitable.
=. To-day is the last day for the payment OF
\ taxes. Up to Tuesday night 6, ,040 receipts
had been issued, $e5, ,81l.29 collected.
The Greenville Nctrs has suspended pub
lection, and the entire outfit of the Office
viii he sold at public outcry on the 10th
: instant.
There will be meeting OF Hunters
Spring Grange on next Saturday at p. m.
{ for the transaction OF important special
Z business.
Farmers Who live twenty-five and thirty
4 miles from Anderson are bringing their cot
ton here and buying their goods of our
merchants.
Messrs. McCully 4 Taylor want 10, 900
bales of cotton by the 25th Of December.
Particulars will be given in their advertise
ment next week.
Mr.. J. T. Moorhead brought us some of
Z the finest turnips we have seen this season.
They measured about seventeen inches
: IN circumference.
Appointments Of the Y. NJ. @. A. for next
Sunday Poor House Committee, n. G.
Scudday, g. F.. Jones; Jail Committee, Col.
\ j. n. Brown, a. P. Hubbard.
"A colored boy living On the plantation of
:, Mr.. 8. McCully, three miles west OF this
place, was accidentally shot in the left arm
the other day by the careless use OF pistol.
Capt. Wren took q photograph of Depot
; street and portion of the Public Square
during the blockade OF cotton wagons on
Friday last. The line reached from the de-
pot to Main street.
$ Coles Circus shows in Greenville to-day,
z Newberry tomorrow and Columbia on Sat
prday. Anderson County is at least two
thousand dollars better of by its passing
!. ms by without visit.
The trading public generally ere better
2 pleased with Anderson this season than
ever before. They have found out where
: they can get the most for their cotton and
) where goods Of every kind can be procured
for the least money.
= There well be meeting at Kings school
house In, Yarennes township. of the citizens
residing Sn that vicinity, on next Saturday
evening for the purpose of electing school
teacher for next year Parents ere earnestly
( requested to be present.
3 Last Monday was indeed busy day in
Andero on, although there was not as much
: cotton sold as usual. An unusually large
amount of real estate was disposed Of, all
of which brought fair prices. The horse
swappers we're out in full force
The following is correct statement of the
number bales Of cotton received at the depot
at this place up to November l.: For Sep
tember I'LL, October 1886; total, 5947. For
! the sarie months Last year 5588 bales were
recsiyei, or $50 less than this year.
The ;wo successful contestants in the ex-
animation at Columbia for the Peabody
scholarships in the Nashville College were
John ID. Geer, of Anderson County, and
Samuel Evans, pf Marion. They were
given their certificates on the 18th ult.
Miss Amanda Bryson, daughter of Mr.
( J. a. Bryson, of Broadway township, re-
Gently picked in one day 325 pounds Of cot
ton, and had to carry her baskets quarter
! of q mile 10 have them emptied, 1t was q
remarkably good days work for lady.
Theielatiyes and friends of Dr.. and Mrs.
; D. r Iroyles deeply sympathige with them
in the sad loss they sustain by the death of
their little daughter, Anna, which occurred
ION Friday morning last, after brief and
sd. 4Ginial Illness, she was only s'sh' seais
On Inst Friday valuable milch cow of
Moss q; Brown, which was kept in lot,
one side OF which rest upon the deep cut of
the B. r. r. r. through the village, was
frightened and jumped over, falling o dis
tance OF some twenty-five feet, and killed
herself instantly:
A 'vely pleasant and profitable meeting Of
the Associate Grange was held at Sandy
Springs on the 11th of October. The next
meeting viii be held at Anderson on the
I'd Of January next, at which essays on I'm
portant questions will be read by prominent
members of the order.
Rev. J.K. Mendenhall has been carrying
on special religious meetings in the Baptist
Church at Williamson for the past week or
ten days, and up to Sunday last twelve per-
sons had united with the church. The
meetings are still going on, and deep in
tetest is being manifested by great many.
We understand that young man by
the name Of Henderson who was put in
the calaboose at Pendleton last week for
disordel.ly conduct, set FIRE to the building
and tried to burn it down, but fortunately
: his efforts were detected in time to prevent
him carrying out his purpose. BE is now
in jail.
The citizens of Centervile township cleo
ted Mes,rs. w. B. Watson, j. W. Provost,
7. B. Lee, Robert Moorhead and J. Belton
Watson to represent the stock of that town
7 the Savannah Valley Railroad Company,
which is to be held at LoTndesville on next
Wednesday, the 18th inst.
The Stockholders ofthe Savannah Valley
( Railroad meet at Lowndesyille or next
"Wednesday, the 18th lust, at II o'clock
: q. m. 1t is to be hoped that all of the dele
gates viii attend. as the organization will
be perfected at this meeting. We hope Wig
/ crous measures will be taken to secure an
3 early completion Of the road.
There will be Sunday School celebra-
ton III the Baptist Church next Sunday
afternoon at 81 o'clock at which several
prizes will be delivered. Addresses will be
delivered by Rev. I. w. Wingo, OF Pendle-
ton, and Mr. L. P. Smith, Of Anderson.
The Sunday Schools of the town and pub
: lie generally are invited to attend.