The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-13
THE INTELLIGENCER
LOCAL MATTERS.
NRlEF nTENTION.


for the past few dayu. Fire has been un-
necessary for comfort.
Mr. G. f. Tolly Is fast gaining the repn-
tation OF. selling fun niture cheaper than any
other dealer in the State.
The people of this County have paid their
taxes moro promptly this year than they
have done in ten years.
Up to Tuesday night there had been 7,O85
bales of cotton sold i'll Anderson, which is
several hundred bales ahead of last year.
Joe Grant won the prize at the colored
walking match at the Abbeville Fair last
week. He walked over ten miles in one
hour.
Mr.. III. j. Hoke, one of Messrs. Arnstein
d Roses accommodating statesmen, sold
four suits OF clothing III two hours on last
Monday.
We venture the assertion that there are
more promising young merchants in An
derson than any other town of the same
size in the State.
1t is requested that the members of Town
Creek Grange meet at 10 o'clock on next
Saturday, the 10th instant, as business of
Importance is anticipated.
The Abbeville Fair was quite success.
The Association is now out of debt and IS
IN q better condition than ever to make
y
Freights are now transferred az Seneca
Clty, ana the rates from the West to Ander-
son nave been considerably reduced, giving
"hueIsoh u still better chance as market.
The Greenville bound passenger train on
the Greenville d. Columbia Railroad was
9eiayed several hours at Newberry on Mon
trains at that place.
We regret to learn that Mr.. G. e. Horton,
OF Williamson, had his gin house and its
contents accidentally burned one day last
week. We understand his losses will
amount to about $500.
An Abbeville farmer went to Due West
with his cotton the other day, but the mer-
chants at that place didn't bid up to suit
him and he brought it to Anderson, and
was we'll paid for his trip.
There will be Singing Convention at
New Prosrcct Church on next Saturday and
sunday. At IL o'clock on Sunday Rev. III.
D. Fant will preach on tho subject of mis-
slons' alter which collection will be taken.
Married, on Wednesday. the 5th instant
mt the residence Of the brides me her, in
". Poe, of Greenville, and Miss Hattie A.
Maxwell.
5,n nMaTTisd, 1sza /. on on Wednesday evening, Nov.
ther, near Anderson, by Rev. w. II. Strick-
land, Mt. VIM. E. Archer and Miss Bette
daughter of Mr.. Joseph Martin.
Married. on Wednesday, Nov. 5th, 1870
at the residence of the brides fnther. bv
Rey. Hugh McLees, DR.. R. G. Witherspoon
and Miss Eugenia, eldest daughter Of Mr..
Thos. II. Anderson, all of Anderson coun-
ty.
Messrs. Bleckley, Brown g. Co., G. A.
Reed, Agent Reed & Stephens, and proba-
oly , Others Others. OF our merchants lost goods by
account Of which will be found in another
column.
Farmers living within eight or ten miles
of the city of Greenville are frequently seen
in Anderson with loads of cotton. What
else but high prices for cotton and low
prices for goods OF every description would
bring them?
A large number of colored people, with
inir sprinkling of whites, probably six or
seven hundred in all, went to Greenville on
the excursion Thursday last to attend the
has been South since the war.
The last of the essays read before the Joint
meeting of the State Agricultural Society
and State Grange in Chester last August, Is
published this week. It is on the subject of
the grasses for the South and will be found
exceedingly humorous as well as instruc-
tive.
Mr.. James A. Gray, of the Dark Corner,
bought the real estate at the sale Of Wilson
Hall, deceased, situated about three miles
and o half south of this place, and we un-
derstand cOntemplete5 making his home
there rs soon Gs the desi,ed improvements
can be made.
The Rev. VIM. s. Pl1mer, D. D.,L.L.C..
II ,ufa
Sunday next at IL o'clock o. m, and IT p. m.
After the morning sermon the communion
will be administered. Rev. w. +. Pearson
will preach in the same church on Saturday
morning and evening.
The annual meeting of the Anderson
Educational Association will convene in
the Court House On next Thursday morn
ing at o'clock, and full attendance OF the
stockholders is desired, as the election of
officers and other important business will
come before the meeting.
We learn that the store of E.ai. George
". Anderson, at Williamson. and it's con-
tents, except about $3.50 orth of goods,
were destroyed by fire on last Tuesday
night. AS the news only reached us a
short time before going to press, we cannot
now give further particulars.
There will be onion meeting of the va
rious denominations of the town in the
DaptiSt SHuICu OH HeXG SunQhy evening at
81 o'clock, at which DR.. VIM. 8. Plumer, OF
Columbia. and others will deliver addresses
on the proper observance of the Sabbath.
- i6Tse fstoiidaiico u expected.
The cotton market has been booming for
the past three or four days, and tho Ander-
son merchants have been paying within q
half cent of Charleston prices. On Mon
day middling grade brought 11b, on Tues
day ii and on Wednesday iii. There in
net an interior town Z .i:s South that pays
more for cotton than Anderson.
The people Of Anderson generally arc
we'll pleased with the spirit of enterprise
that Is shown in the management Of the
Greenville & Columbia Railroad by Colonel
Temple. With the exception of the incon.
yeniences to which our business men are
subjected by the late hour at which the
evening mail arrives, they have no COM
plants to make.
1t is the general opinion that there Is @
greater amount Of intoxicating liquors sold
In Anderson this fall than for many year,
previous. 1t is lamentable that such ss the
case, for with the increase of the use o
ardent spirits comes ON increase of intem.
perance, crime, pauperism, misery and gen
cTal decentralization. If there ever was Q
time when temperance workers should bt
exerting themselves surely it ia now.
w. B. Basl1ins, q we'll to-do cclored man
of Dark Corner township, had q runaway
at the Four-Mile Branch on Thursday morn.
in.. leet IN Which is>.i h. e.,.a Ia --El
thrown from their buggy. The former.
right shoulder was dislocated and otherwise
bruised, while the latter escaped without
injury. They were coming to this place to
join the excursionists to the circus, which
showed in Greenville that day.