The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-27
THE INTELLIGENCER
LOCAL MATTERS.
BRIEF MENTION.

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BRIEF MENTION.
= Our Sheriff is employing three deputies,
and keeps them busy.
Mr.. J. Reese FAINT had valuable brood
mare to die on Monday.
Several of our best farmers have not sold
4 bale of their cotton yet.
November moonlight has very disastrous
effect upon wood pile about town.
An industrious young lady in Anderson
has made q handkerchief valued afS2e.
Our streets and sidewalks are in better
condition than they have been for several
years.
Rev. VIM. Henry Strickland will preach
in the Baptist Church next Sunday at IL
o'clock.
There is to be meteoric shower tonight
ofunusual beauty and brilliancy-at least
SO says Prof. Proctor.
Bill Waters, colored, the champion pos
sum hunter of the County, has caught
seyenty-fve this season.
Three or four more marriages between
this time and Christmas are rumored to
come off in Anderson.
Drove hogs are selling at this place at five
cents gross. About one hundred have al
ready been slaughtered.
Anderson Division, Sons of Temperance,
contemplate having an entertainment of
some kind during Christmas.
The work on the Presbyterian Church is
steadily progressing. The wood work on
the dome has been completed.
The cotton market has been unusually
dull this week, owing to the small amount
hat has been offered for sale.
How many who voted for the Sabbath
resolutions on last Sunday week went con-
trary to their teaching on last Sunday?
The delinquent taxpayers are paying up
rather slowly. The Treasurer's book has
been open week and as yet only sixty or
seventy have paid.
The Laurensville Herald, one of the best
country papers of the State, has just entered
upon its S4th volume, and promises to en-
large at an early day.
Messrs. Sullivan & Nattison have opened
five and ten cent store in the Masonic
Hall. 1t will be kept open only during the
month of December,
Married, by Rev. NJ. McGee, at his own
residence, on Thursday. Goth instant, Mr..
r. M. Williamson and Miss Ella Tribble,
all of Anderson County.
The Columbia Register has taken fresh
start in the matter of furnishing its readers
with State news, which no doubt will be
duly appreciated by them.
ALI the mepbers of Anderson Division,
Sons OF Temperance, are earnestly requested
to be present at the meeting this evening, as
business of importance will be transacted.
At the meeting of the Council on Tuesday
last it was decided to remove the steps on
the sidewalk in front of the store of Mr..
NJ. D. Kennedy, and grade the walk down.
The middle and lower sections of the
State were visited by quite snow storm on
Wednesday, 18th instant. It was the first
that had fallen in Charleston in ten years.
MIR. j. D. Maxwell has just received
large, beautiful and complete stock of Jew
elry, watches, clocks, ETC., for Christmas
presents, and invites every one to inspect
his stock.
Mr.. j. E. Peoples, one of the most enter
prising and go-ahead merchants in the up
country, has established tin and stove store
in Hartwell for the special accommodation
of his Georgia patrons.
Appointments of the Y. M. c. A. for next
Sunday To conduct the afternoon meeting,
Col. j. N. Brown; Poor House Committee,
G. +. Tolly, L. P. Smith; Jail Committee,
r. F. Diver, ]. Baylis Lewis.
Married, on Tuesday, the 25th instant, at
the residence of the brides father, by Rev.
J:S. Murray, Mr.. w. s. Prior, of Fayet-
Mr.. G. w. MCGEE, of Belton, s. G.
We have received the address of Mr.. w.
G. Benet, of Abbeville, delivered before the
Anderson Educational Association in Sep
tember, and will publish it next week. 1t
was not received in time for this issue.
A dime reading under the auspices of the
Ladies Sewing Society of the Baptist Church
will be had at the residence of Mrs. Vashti
Burress on Friday evening at o'clock.
The public generally are invited to attend.
Secretaries of Subordinate Oranges will
please make reports for the third quarter by
next Monday, as my report for that quarter
must close next week. Punctuality is the
life of business. ]. w. NORRIS,
Sec. P. G. P. H.
The Trial Justices of this County are do
ing big sueing business this fall. in conse-
quence Of the decision of the Supreme Court
on the homestead law. Possibly the decis-
ion of Judge Mackey, notice of which we
publish elsewhere, will have the effect of
checking it.
We failed last week to mention that Hon.
B. F. Crayton, of Anderson, was reelected
fNff Ctota A
chanical Society at its recent annual meet
ing in Columbia. He has done more to
build the Society up than any man i'll the
State, and his efforts are appreciated by our
people.
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and reliable Northern Democratic newspa-
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Our entire delegation were promptly in
their places upon the assembling of the
Legislature on Tuesday. Representatives
Crayton went down on Monday, and Mr..
Murray, who had been attending the Baptist
State Convention in Aiken, also arrived at
the Capital on Monday.
Our Fair Play correspondent sends us the
following item: "Mr. VIM. Durham, living
in the Fork, showed me sweet potato
raised by him this year that challenge the
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 his crop was
very fine"
Mr.. W. T. Dean, of Hall township, is
ono Of the m nst enfarnrisinn and snncessfnl