The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-05-29
Circulation nearly 1900.
BRIEF MENTION.


Vile and English peas in Anderson.
The Williamson Female College will
have no commencement exercises this year.
Mr. VIM. Wilkes, Of Allatoona Ga, is
visiting relatives and friends in Anderson.
Col. James a. iioyt and family, of Green
vile, spent several days i. Anderson this
week.
IIr. Jolnstone is slowly improving. aud
Wit, the assistance of crutchcs is able to he
about.
Call ON John Il. Peoples for rubber betting
of all sizes suitable for thrcshcrs, cotton
gins &c
The farmers have been considerably in
the grass since the rains, but arc beginning
to see their way out
The@patclcs of wheat and other small
grain about town are very fine, and are be-
ginning to ripcn.
We hear of considerable rust in the wheat,
but the general opinion is that it will not
seriously damage the crop
sued about 500 receipts and collected in the
ncighborhood of $500 taxes.
Go to the temperance meeting in the
Court House this evening. Rev. w. II.
;;rickland and II. G. Scudlay, Esq, will
speak.
Mr.. Walter Brown has our thanks or an
invitation to the anniversary celebration Of
the Adclphian Literary Society of Furmnn
University.
Mr.. John Dalryinplc sent us on Tucstlay
last very fine specimen of clover, which
he says is about nn average of un acre patch.
1t is four feet high.
Gen. S. MCGOWAN and Coils. a. Burt md
VIM. +. Parker, Of Abbevil'e, s. c., we're
in town OH Tuesday and Wednesday upon
professional business.
Appointments of the Y. NJ. C. a. forne
Sunday: Poor House Committee, a. b.
Towers, Z. X. McCully; Jail Committee,
a. T.. Hubbard, Il. r. Todd.
Mr.. ]. B. Neal has sent to our Office some
very fine specimens of his oat and barley
crops. The oats are over five fec: in height,
while the barley is about four.
On account of the Sunday school meeting
in the Baptist Church next Sunday after
noon, tho usual afternoon meeting of the
Y. NJ. G. A. has been dispensed with.
About twenty five or thirty of the young
people of Anderson went to High Shoals on
picnic excursion last Friday. and from all
accounts enjoyed the day very much.
On last Monday afternoon heavy rain
aud hail storm passed over the Saluda side
of Anderson County, washing the crops
very badly and doing considerable damage
II you want straw hat cheap. call on C
4. Reed, Agent. He still has good assOrt-
mcnt of felt and stiff hats also
Twenty or twenty-five members of the
Lodge of Good Samartnns of this pla e are
attending the meeting Of their Grand Lodge,
which convened in Columbia on Saturday
last.
The agents for commercial fertilizers in
Anderson have done big business this
ycar-biggest probably that has ever been
done-having sold about two thousand tons
of the precious stuff.
c. a. Reed has been appointed agent for
the sale of Louis Cooks celebrated buggics.
lIe has just received an elegant assortment,
and can suit those who call on him
early. .
On last Saturday afternoon the Mountain
Creek Division of Sons of Temperance met
hy appointment and initiated seven new
members. Addresses were made by Mcssrs.
l.. P. Smith, G. r. Tolly, II. G. Scu'day
and Il. b. Murray. The Division gives
promise of flourishing.
The Abbcville Medium says: "The An
dcrson and Ninety-Six military companies
made the finest appearance ut the monu
mcnt parade last week They couldn't
make as many fancy mannuvrcs as the city
lnn,ls and they didn't have quite as good
clothes, but they were the cleanest and best
lnking fellows on the fed, and could have
whipped their weight in wild cats"
Mr.. Mitchell Armstrong q promising
young farmer of IIonea Path TOWNSHIP,
died at his residence three miles south of
lIonca Path on last Friday afternoon in the
Goth year of his age, after All illness Of sew
era months. of consumption. lie leaves q
wife and two little children to mourn his
death. His remains were inferred in the
Barkcr's Creek graveyard on Saturday af-
trrnoOn.
TO the Greenwood correspondent. of The
Ahbevile Ircss and Banner, "it is n matter
Of nstonishmcnt how so many ablc-bodicd
negroes can feed and clothc themselves
when not employed one-fourth Of their
time" and to tho senior proprietor of the
INrELLIGENCER lit is a matter of astonish-
mcnt' what became of his English peas the
other night.
The Savannah Valley Railroad is begin
ming to attract considerable attention in
this County, and its friends are very earn
est in their advocacy of the enterprise. Pc
tiions are being sent to all of the townships
I. rough which the proposed route passes,
which will, ms soon rs the sufficient number
4 or signers are secured, be forwarded to the
County Commissioners of this and Able
vilo Counties nsking for elections in the
several low li..,il,s un ti,e question III SUBJ
srribing to the capital stock of the road.
J Mr.. Tilmnn C. McGee of the Fork t' 'n-
& ship, is on n visit to his daughter, Mr.. o.
& II. 7. FAINT and paid lis T. call OH Wednes-
v dow morning Mr. Mc(,ee ig now in his