The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-11-13

derson tnan any other town OF the same
size in the State.
It is requested that the members of Town
Creek Grange meet at 10 o'clock on next
Saturday, the 18th instant, as business of
Importance is anticipated.
The Abbeville Fair was quite success.
The Association is now out of debt, and is
in better condition than ever to make
their annual Fairs successful.
Freights are now transferred at Seneca
City, and the rates from the West to Ander-
son have been considerably reduced, giving
Anderson still better chance as market.
The Greenville bound passenger train on
the Greenville & Columbia Railroad was
delayed several hours at Newberry on Mon
day by the blocking up of several freight
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 well paid for his trip.
There will be Singing Convention at
New Prospect Church on next Saturday and
Sunday. at II o'clock on Sunday Rev. II.
B. FAINT will preach on the subject of mis-
sions, after which collection will be taken.
Married, on Wednesday, the 5th instant,
at the residence Of the brides mother, in
Pendleton, by Rev. J. S. Murray, Mr.. Frank
w. Poe, of Greenville, and Miss Hattie A.
Maxwell.
Married, on Wednesday evening, Nov.
5th, 1879, at the residence of the brides IA
ther, near Anderson, by Rev. w. II. Strick-
land, Mr.. VIM. E. Archer and Miss Bette,
daughter of Mr.. Joseph Martin.
Married, on Wednesday, Nov. 5th, 1879,
at the residence of the brides father, by
Rev. Hugh McLees, DR.. R. G. Witherspoon
and Miss Eugenia, eldest daughter of Mr..
Thos. II. Anderson, all Of Anderson coun-
ty.
Messrs. Bleckley, Brown & Co., C. A.
Reed, Agent, Reed & Stephens, and proba-
bly, others of our merchants, lost goods by
the sinking of the steamer champion, an
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
fair sprinkling of whites, probably six or
seven hundred in all, went to Greenville on
the excursion Thursday last to attend the
circus, which is pronounced the best that
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 half south of this place, and we un-
derstand contemplates making his home
there as soon as the desired improvements
can be made.
The Rev. VIM. S. Plumer, D. D., L. L. D.,
will preach in the Presbyterian Church on
Sunday next at II o clock a. m, and 1t p. m.
After the morning sermon the communion
will be administered. Rev. W. F. Pearson
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 Maj. George
W. Anderson, at Williamson. and its con-
tents, except about $3.50 worth of goods,
were destroyed by fire on last Tuesday
night. AS the news only reached US
short time before going to press, we cannot
now give further particulars.
There will be union meeting Of the va
rious denominations of the town in the
Baptist Church on next Sunday evening at
81 o'clock, at which DR.. VIM. S. Plumer, of
Columbia, and others will deliver addresses
on the proper observance of the Sabbath.
A large attendance is expected.
The cotton market has been booming for
the past three or four days, and the Ander-
son merchants have been paying within q
half cent of Charleston prices. On Mon
day middling grade brought liz, on Tues
day IL and on Wednesday liz. There is
not an interior town in the South that pays
The people Of Anderson generally are
well 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 years
previous. 1t is lamen.able that such is the
case, for with the increase of the use of
ardent spirits comes an increase Of intem-
perance, crime, pauperism, misery and gen.
raj demoraliZation. If there ever was a
time when temperance workers should be
exerting themselves surely it is now.
w. B. Baskins, well-to-do colored man
of Dark Corner township, had runaway
at the Four-Mile Branch on Thursday morn
ing last, in which both he and his wife were
thrown from their buggy. The formers
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.
The annual meeting OF the Grand Dlvls-
ion, Sons of Temperance, is in session this
week in Columbia, and Mr.. G. F. Tolly,
Grand Worthy Patriarch, with one or two
other members of Anderson Division, are
in attendance. The present condition of
the cause in this State is anything but en-
couraging for the future of the order, and
many of the leading workers are despon-
dent.
Capt. John S. Smith, one of our most
enterprising farmers. showed us one hun
dred ears of corn on Wednesday that weighed
one hundred and FIVE pounds, one bushel
and half. Some of the ears measured five
inches in circumference, and contained
from thousand to twelve hundred grains
He has gathered 80 bushels from less than
third Of an acre that did not receive rain
from the 18th of May to the 25th of July.
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