The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-27
VHE INgTEILIsLIGENgER.
LOCAL MATTERS.
BRIlsEr RTENTION.

3. osSiot Va Oui uHye EUl0
ia'e Of their cotton yet.
November moonlight has a very disastrous
effect upon wood pile about town.
An industrious young lady in Anderson
has made handkerchief valued atS2S.
Our streets and sidewalks are In n better
( condition than they have been for several
years.
Rev. Wm. Henry Strickland will preach
IN the Baptist Church next Sunday at ii
There Is to be meteoric shower tonight
oi unusual beauty and brillinncy-at least
30 says Prof. Proctor.
Bill Waters, colored. the champion 'pos-
sum hunter of the County, has caught
seventy-five this season.
Three or four more marriages between
this time and Christmas are rumored to
come OIL In Anderson.
Drove hogs are selling at this place at &, ,yo
cents gro,s. About ore hundred have al.
ready been slaughtered.
Anderson Division, Sons Of Temperance.
some kind during Christmas.
The work on the Presbyterian Church is
sit.aJiy az my progressing. The wood work on
--~'S "~~AA NOLiplGltu.
me cotton market has been unusualIv
Iuii , .hls weeS, owing to the small amount
nat has been offered for sale.
low many who voted for the Sabbath
resolutions on last Sunday week went con-
'rary 10 their teaching on last Sunday?
The delinquent taxpayers are paving nm
rather slowly. The Tfeasurer's book has
peen open week and as yet only sixty or
seventy have paid.
The Laurensviile Herald, one of the best
country papers of the State, has lust enter,d
upon lts oatn volume, and promises to en-
large at an early day.
Messrs. Sullivan g. Mattison have oneped
nye and ten cent store in the Masonic
,n;,, r,a,,; II WIZ be kept open only during the
Married, by Rev. NJ. Mctiee, at his own
TpesiqNeance; Na .9, on Thursday, Goth instant, Mr..
all OF Anderson County.
The Columbia Register has taken n fresb
ssait ID tne matter of furnishing its readers
g.ih ssass iiev5, which no doubt viii he
duly appreciated by them.
:, All the members of Anderson Division
70 be present at the meeting this evening oa
business of importance will be transacfe1i
"a. AZ the meeting of the Council on Tuesday
t1a tast II was decided to remove the steps on
Az Ar ~ s'IeWaik IN front of the store Of Mr..
Al. ID. Kennedy, and grade the walk down.
8. The middle and lower sections of the
Tsa.e TItN were visited by quite snow etorm on
wednesday, 18th instant. 1t was the first
That had falien in Charleston in ten wears.
,oIad MI H. =. %; Maxwell has just received
elry, watches, clocks, etc. for Cbristmna
presents, and invites every one to insnect
his stock. ~
Mr.. ]. e. Peoples, one of the most enter
prising and go-ahead merchants in the IN
country, has established tin and stove store
III h3artweii for the special accommodation
OF his Georgia patrons.
Appointments of the Y. NJ. G. A. for next
sunday; To conduct the afternoon meeting.
Coi. y. n. Brown Poor House Committed
y. +. Joily, L. 2. Smith Jail Committee.
IL. +. Diver, ]. Baylis Lewis.
Married, on Tuesday, the 25th instant at
the residence of the brides father. by Rev.
): .. Murray, Mr.. w. g. Prior, of Fayet-
VILE, N: e., and Miss Lena F., daughter of
hr' U. w. McGee, of Belton, s. G.
We have received the address of Mr.. w.
=. Benet, OF Abbeville, delivered before the
hnderson tan.S EduGationai Association in Sep
tember, and will publish it next week. It
Wns not received iii time for this issue.
A dime reading under the auspices of the
will be had at the residence of Mrs. Vashti
Burress on Friday evening Mt O'clock.
The public generally are invited to attend.
Secretaries of Subordinate Oranges will
pleose make reports for the third quarter bv
next hlOndQV. f,-S1 1oE
must close next week. PnIctuality is the
iiic Vi business. j.. w. NORRIS.
Sec. p. G. 2. II.
The Trial Justices of this County are do
ing big sueing business this fall, in conse-
quence of the decision of the Sunrem;. Court
on tt homestead law. Possibly the dccis-
ION Ca Judge Mackey, notice of which we
publish elsewhere, will hive t = effect of
checking it.
We failed last week to mention that Hon.
B. +. Crayton, of Anderson, was reelected
resident OF the State Agricultural and Me-
chanical Society ut its recent annual meet
ing In Columbia. He has done more to
build the Society up than any man in the
state, and his efforts are appreciated by our
people.
Persons wishing 70 subscribe to staunch
and reliable Northern Democratic newspa-
per fer the campaign of 1880 can bestow
their patronage upon none more worthy
than the Boston Globe. one of the largest
States. Subscribers to the InrELL1aENoEs
can secure it one year by send'Ig through
us for niaety cents.
Our entire delegation were promptly in
their places upon the assembling of the
Legislature on Tuesday. Representatives
Mattison, Brown and Wilson and Senator
Crayton,wen down on Monday. and Mr..
Murray, who had been attending the Baptist
State Convention in Aiken, also arrived nj
the Capital on Monday.
Our Fair Play correspondent sanfls na the
following item: "Mr. VIM. Durham, living
in the. Fork, showed M o sweet potato
raised by him this yeartl I challenge th !,
County to beat. 1t measured twenty-eight
inches around the middle and twenty-four
the other way, and weighed seven and one
quarter pounds. The rest of bis crop was
very fine."
Mr.. w. #. Dean, OF Hall township, is
one of the most enterprising and successful
farmers of the County. He made this year
with four mules forty bales of cotton, near
ly twelve hundred bushels of corn, besides
q fair crop ofsnlall grain, and killed one day
last week four elevan-inonths' old hngs that
netted him ,348 pounds. That's the kind
of farming that pays.
Inasmuch as beth the President and Gov
ernor hnve proclaimed to day day of gen.
eral Thanksgiving and praise, the various
Christian denominations of the town will
unite in holding appropriate religious ser.
wees tits evening at 81 O'Clock IN spe Pres.
byterian hurch. Several short addresses
may be OK fected, and the public generally
are invited to attend.
The Conner Light Dragons will meet
as Bishops Branch Saturday, December
9th, Mt 10 o'clock, for the purpose of making