The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-09-25
BRIEF MENTION.

The farmers say they never had better
weather for gathering cotton.
The wood market has opened at seventy
i've cents for twohorse loads.
The drop down in cotton has caused q
falling Oil i'll receipts for the last few days.
Remember to pay your subscription when
you sell your cotton. We need the money.
The cold east wind OH Sunday and Mon
day last made fire quite necessary for COM
fort
The Rev. r. H. Nall, of Greenvillc, will
preach III the Presbyterian Church next
Sunday at IL p. m.
The continued dry weather has made the
streets and roads very dusty, and everybody
is wishing for rain.
One gossipper, in twenty four hours time,
can destroy all the peace and good feeling of
whole community.
Another Lig colored camp meeting next
Sunday. This time it is held at Hunnicut's
Crossing ON the Blue Ridge Railroad.
The cerporators of the Savannah Valley
Railroad will hold an important meeting at
this place on next Wednesday, October LIST.
A typographical error in our last issue
made Master Johnnie Cooper, the champion
cotton picker of the Lowndesville neighbor-
hood, % years old instead of 13.
Mr.. C. D. Shuford has commenced work
on residence for Capt. J. ]. Fretwell on
the lot on Min street beyond the residence
of fir. :. bieckiey. 1t will be cottage of
four or five rooms.
Don't take your cotton elsewhere until
You give the Anderson merchants O trial.
They Will pay as much for cotton as the
merchant, of any other place, and will also
sell goods as cheap.
Messrs. J. P. Reed, Jr., ana Columbus
their education. The former attends the
Kenmore High School and the latter tie
University of Virginia.
We direct attention to the advertisements
to be found in this issue of the New York
Cash Store, Paris Store, Barr & Co., Ladies'
Store, Reed 81 Herrick, Cunningham tS Co.,
Miss Della Keys and j. B. Clark &, Son.
The Abbeville COUNTY Fair will be held
this year on Goth, 30th and 31st of October.
just one week af,er the Anderson Fair. IT
will doubtless be O success, and we hope
some OF our citizens will find time to at
tend.
The cotton receipts at this place for the
week ending Tuesday night last aggregated
I44 bales S;s, against 323 for the snme time last
year. This makes 1888 bales for Anderson
this year, probably the largest amount ever
sold here this early in the season.
We had intended this week 10 have given
the business houses of Anderson an extend
ed notice, but owing to the fact that Court
has been in session all week, in which the
editor hos been constantly engaged, we ha ye
been compelled to postpone it until mex.
week.
The Abbeville Press and Banner calls for n
reduction nom fifty to twenty-five cents in
the gate fees OF the Abbeville Fair, and saws
I'VE want a big crowd and the only wnv to
have large attendance is to reduce the Snte
: f;..o.s. ~: families ,0IIiv
IN at the rate of q dollar dozen or twenty
nve centf,tor Il single person. We repro
dnce the suggestion for the benefit of our
Fair authorities. :
The Circuit Court is still in session. and
will likely consume the greater portion. If
not all, of the week. The Jury causes were
hnlshed on last Friday, and since that time
his Honor, Judge Presley, has been dill
gently disposipg of the equity causes, some
OF which have been long and tedious The
Court has been one of the most pleasant
that has ever been held in Anderson; and
sse Ssr aad oiii pcUplo are greatly pleased
vi With the presiding Judge, who has increased
the favorable impression he frst made by the
better acquaintance, which his administra-
ton OF the law for the past ten days has piv-
en- our people with him.
The Augusta Chronicle and Cbrsfit.f fionali,,
says that work is progressing on the bridc;,
for the Augusta, Knoxville and Greenwood
Railroad across the Savannah River One
of the abutpents has been completed and
another Is under way. The lower portion
of the piers will bo done during the dry
weather in order that there will be no delay
when the rains commence and the River
rises in the Winter. The abutments and
piers will be constructed of stone masonry,
OF tho most substantial character The
bridge will be ready by the time the grad
ing. on the entire line between Greenwood
and tho River is finished
The Palmetto YeoHdn rerenilp stated that
Elder Thomas Dawson, of Pendleton, was
veteran of Waterloo. Our contemporary
has made mistake, but one which has been
o;I11iiss among tht., friends OF Bro. Dawson
for many years. He was a lieutenant in
the British army when the battle of Water
loo YVES fought, but he was not in that en-