The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-04-24

The weather is at present EXCEPTIONALLY
linr and from the dullness Of trade about
town we presume the farmers are making
good use of it.
Wiliamston Division, Sons of Temper.
nnce have arranged for basket picnic at
Bclton OH Saturday, 3rd of May 1t will
doubtless be pleasant occasion.
G. A. Reed. Agent, continues to do a large
hat trade. He keeps large and well u>sor-
ted stock, and his prices are lower than any
retail prices anywhere
We are glad to see that J;,d.c Reed -
recovered sufficiently from his recent illness
to DC ont again, and hope that he will
speedily recover his usual health.
Forty-one excursion tickets to Charleston
were sold by the agent Mt this place on
Monday. Thirty-eight of the excnrsonists
went down OH Monday, and the other three
on Tuesday.
The Anderson Theatrical Company is
preparing to give another entertainment
about the middle Of next month. a pleas
ant evening is in store for ali those who
may attend.
You can have your bill heads, letter heads
note heads, envelopes, etc, printed Mt this
office in rs nice style, and at as reasonable
prices US at any Office in the State All We
ask is q trial
The sessions OF the Convention OF the
Young Mems Christian Association will be
found extremely interesting by our citizens
and it is earnestly desired that us many as
can will attend.
Grand Master j. Adgcr smythe, of
Charleston, will oflicinte at the laying of
the cornerstone Of the new Presbyterian
Church on the 10th Of May. Further par
ticunrs hereafter.
DIR. P. A. Wilhitc will attend the session
of the National Medical Convention, which
convenes i'll Atlanta on the 9th prox. There
will he seven or eight hundred doctors in
attendance upon the meeting.
Nine of the sixty-six delegates to which
the Daptists of this State are entitled in the
Southern Baptist Convention, which meets
in Atlanta OH the sth prox., have bcci. ap-
The unveiling of the Confederate Monu-
ment in Columbia will take place on the
18th of May, and will doubtless be grand
occasion. The Palmetto Riflcmen, together
with many others of our citizens, expect to
be present.
Once in life time is rs often as any mar
should be required to serve OH a comm ttec,
the business of which is to make arrange
ments for the entertainment of delegates to
State meeting of any character; and truly
thankful are we that our term has been
served.
John +. Peoples has just received car
load of stoves, and has another on the way,
which he will sell on the cotton option plan
Having secured the services of n first-class
mechanic, he is prepared to do roofing gut
tcring, &C., better and at lower ratc. than
ever before.
short time since we had the pleasur of
going over n portion of the farm of Mr.. ID.
S. White, in the Fork township, which is
certainly conducted with rs much method
and skill NJ any that we hive seen in the
sivc young farmers of the County, and in
n few years will have his place in the high
est possible state of cultivation.
The ropc-walkcr paid us visit last week
and performed on Thursday and Friday
afternoons. His rope was stretched from
the top of the store of Mcssrs. D. f. Crayton
.S Sons to the Court House steeple, and was
about 35 or 40 feet from the ground He
displayed considerable skill in his perform
nnces, and large crowds were out to see him
on each afternoon, although the sight was
not n pleasant one. Ills collections were
small
The telephone from the hotel to the depot
is now in successful operation. Our mercl-
ants NOW communicate with the depot in
this way.-AJ5eriNe Press and Banner
Would not the business men of Anderson
likewise find it very advantageous to have
telephone communication with our depot
1t would save ;ioi,so., - aud iirir l,ii-
ployces many hot walk during the sum.
mer. Its erection would cost but n trfle
and besides we would have the satisfaction
of knowing that we were keeping p with
the times.
The Abbevi,le Press and Banncr: Rev. DR.
Frierson, pastor Of the Presbyterian Church
ut Anderson G. H., and Moderator of the
Prcsbytery at its late session, was the guest
of the Misses Cater during his stay among
us. he impressed those vino met him is Il
high-toned Christian gentleman of liberal
culture, and as possessed of n warm heart
and sympathetic disposition which must
have won for him the esteem and affection
of the flock to whom he minister's Ms
sermon on Sunday morning was much nd
mired, and has excited favorable comment
in the community
The Texas fever is raging among the boy:
of Anderson, and unless something is don,
to counteract its effect, we are in danger o
being entirely deserted by them Not long
since two young men took leave of III
without previous notice. and are now cit
zens of the Lone Star State On Monday
last two others. the Juniors of the first, wer,
discovered in their attempts to get away
and were brought to grief by the frlistratior
OF their plans, while on Tuesday two others
respectively twelve and thirteen years q
age, shook of the dust OF their feet agains
us, and were to be Joined ut II point agree,
npon among themselves by eight or min
Others on the following day. They ha,
only proceeded as far as Bolton, however
when they were turned back by friend O
their parents.