The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-08-07
THE INTELLIGENCER.
LOCAL MATTERS.
Circulation nearly 1900.
BRIEF MENTION.

No 10 tHc laTh on frluay AFTERNOON Tor
ice cream
Beef is down to cents, and the butchers
say it is fine.
A good milch COW forsalc. Apply at this
Office for particulars.
Be sure to attend the meeting of shc
Democratic Club this afternoon.
Maj. L. Z. Willis and family, of Charles
ton, are at present the guests of Hon. j. p.
Reed.
Col. L. Z. Campbell says that lie has
thirty acres of corn that will not yield n
bushel to the acre.
M. Thomas r. Aver and family, of Barn.
well, are visiting their many friends and
relatives in our midst.
Reuben Sidney, infant son of Mr.. S. A.
Branyan, died on the 9th of July, q ,ed
ono year and nine months.
a good turnip crop will be great help
during the winter to those farmers whose
corn crops are cut short by the drought.
The Williamson Female College opened
on Monday. Misses Essic Burrcss and Vari-
III Brown, of Anderson, are in attendance
The patrons of r. y. II. Nance, shoo-
maker, are requested TO call OH him at his
shop over White & Wihito
Mr. T.. II. Poor, of Tony Creek, is reported
rs having very fine crop of bottom corn,
and as the river bed is low there is no danger
of an overflow.
Don't forget to register The books arc
now open in the Town Clerks Office Reg
lister and vote the Democratic ticket, what
ever it may be.
An itcmzed statement of the Town
Treasurer, embracing the receipts and dis
bnrscmcnts Of the past year, will be pub
lishcd next week.
Messrs. j. r. s. l.. 2. Smith will occupy
the rooms over the store of Mcssrs A. B.
Towers & Co. while the stores on McCully's
Corner are being built.
The farmers should SOW largely of small
grain this fall Oats and barley will be a
great help in the way of substitute for
corn next spring and summer.
Mrs. Mary Harkins, an aged widow lady
Of Belton township died on Sunday morn
ing, and was buried in the Anderson Baptist
graveyard on Monday evening.
The low place in the northeast corner of
the public square is being filled in with dirt,
which will be covered with sand. 1t is q
piece Of work that has long been needed
The Presbyterian Church will be closed
on next Sunday. DIR. Frierson dctlicates
the new house of worship recently erected
ly the rrcsbytcrians of Central OIL that
,luy.
Said young lady to us II few days ago.
1T is very impoliio i'll the young men to
smoke ut the Park OH Friday evenings Ice
cream and tobacco smoke don't go we'll to-
gcther."
The people Of Chester arc making extern
sivc preparations for the joint meeting of
the State Grange and State Fair Association
or the 18th instant. The meeting will
doubtless he pleasant one
a citizen of Anderson has discovered that
the pulp Of the ordinary fox grape make
most delicious marmaladc. Housewives
have hitherto regarded them rs worthless
for any purposes of the table.
The annual meeting Of the Sauda Baptist
Association, which convened with Mt
Bethel Church on Tuesday last, is better
attended than usual, and will doubtless be
II profitable one for the denomination.
offers his entire stock of hats and clothing
ten per cent. below New York wholesale
prices. Obicct-to close out and make room
for new stock.
If the cotton crop of the Southern States
should be increased to 10000 900 bales next
year, attribute it to the fact that the Able
VILE Medium has made the wonderful dis
covcry that the cotton plant can be success
fully transplanted.
Mr. J. NJ. Sullivan contcmpiatcs opening
Il store in the Benson House about the
10th of September next in which will be
kept n stock of general merchandise. Mr..
Sullivan will go North the first of Scptcm-
ber to lay in his stock.
Rev. Hugh f. Oliver, of Edgefcd, gives
the following advice through the Religious
Herald the leading Baptist paper i'll the
South: "Gct thee out of thy country and
away from thy kin; and q great man mayst
thou one day find thyself."
There are not many men in Anderson
County with more public spirit than Mr.. S.
McCully. He is always ready for every
public enterprise, and has expended more
money in improvements in the town since
the war than any other man in it.
open stock Of general merchandise in the
new store adjoining tho Masonic Hall about
The first of September. The senior of the
firm will go to Northern markets about the
Goth instant for their goods.
A gentleman who has been experiment
ing Will: orchard grass says that it is the
very thing for our yards. 1t cannot be
killed out by drought. It may die down,
but rs soon as it rains it will come up and
cover the ground beautifully.
gentleman from the lower part of this
State, who is visiting the up-country. re-
marked to us the other day that, consider
ing its size the crowd in town on Monday
was the most orderly one he ever saw con-
gregatcd anywhere on salcday.
The observation of n young man of An
dcrson is that young men are not naturally
bad Those who get into bad habits are
generally led unconsciously into them by
bad associates: who are generally as much