The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-05-29
LOCAL MATTERS.
Circulation nearly 1900.
BRIEF MENTION.


Petty thieves are stealing fodder in Green
Vile and English peas in Anderson.
The Williamson Female College will
have no commencement exercises this year.
Mr.. VIM. Wilkes, of Allatoona, Ca, is
visiting relatives and friends in Anderson.
Col. James A. .-Hoyt and family, of Green
vile, spent several days in Anderson this
week.
DIR. Johnstone is slowly improving, and
with the assistance of crutches is able to be
about
Call on John E. Peoples for rubber betting
of all sizes, suitable for threshers, cotton
gins, &c.
The farmers have been considerably in
the grass since the rains, but are beginning
to see their way out.
The patches of wheat and other small
grain about town are very fine, and are be-
ginning to ripen.
wehear of considerable rust in the wheat,
but the general opinion is that it will not
seriously damage the crop.
The County Treasurer has up to date is
sued about 500 receipts and collected in the
neighboraood Of $500 taxes.
Go to the Temperance meeting in the
Court House this evening. Rev. w. II.
Strickland and h. G. scudday, ESQ.,, will
speak.
Mr.. Walter Brown has our thanks for an
invitation to the anniversary celebration OF
the Adelphian Literary Society of Furman
University.
Mr.. John Dalrymple sent us on Tuesday
last very fine specimen Of clover, which
he says is about an average of an acre patch.
It is four feet high.
Gen. S. McGowan and Coils. A. Burt and
VIM. F. Parker, of Abbevil'e, s. c., were
in town on Tuesday and Wednesday upon
professional business.
Appointments of the Y. NJ. C. A. for next
Sunday Poor House Committee, a. B.
Towers, P. K. Mceuliy; Jail Committee,
A.P. Hubbard, R. r. Todd.
Mr.. :. B. Neal has sent to our Office some
very fine specimens of his oat and barley
crops. The oats are over five feet in height,
while the barley is about four.
On account of the Sunday school meeting
in the Baptist Church next Sunday after
noon, the usual afternoon meeting of the
YIN. c. A. has been dispensed with.
About twenty-five or-t thirty of the young
people Of Anderson went TO High Shoals on
picnic excursion last Friday, and from all
accounts enjoyed the day very much.
On last, Monday afternoon heavy rain
md hail storm passed over the Saluda side
of Anderson County, washing the crops
very badly and doing considerable damage.
Ir you want straw hat cheap. call on
A. Reed, Agent. He still has a good assort-
,nent of ielt and stiff hats also.
Twenty or twenty-five members Of the
lodge of Good samaritans of this pla-e are
attending the meeting of their Grand Lodge,
which convened in Columbia on Saturday
last.
The agents for commercial fertilizers in
Anderson have done big business this
year-biggest probably that has ever been
done-having sold about two thousand tons
Of the precious stuff.
C. A. Reed has been appointed agent for
the sale of Louis Cooks celebrated buggies.
He has Just received an elegant assortment,
and can suit those who call on him
early.
On last Saturday afternoon the Mountain
Creek Division of Sons of Temperance met
by appointment and initiated seven new
members. Addresses were made by Messrs.
L. P. Smith, G. F. Tolly, H. G. Scudday
and e. B. Murray. The Division gives
premise of aourishing.
The Abbeville Medium says: "The An
derson and Ninety-Six military companies
made the finest appearance at the monu-
ment parade lsst week. They couldn't
make Us many fancy maneuvres es the city
squads and they didn't have quite as good
clothes, but they were the cleanest and best
looking fellows on the fed, and could have
whipped their weight in wild cats"
Mr.. Mitchell Armstrong, promising
Young farmer of Honea Path township,
died at his residence three miles south Of
Honea Path on last Friday afternoon in the
18th year of his age, after an illness of sew
cral months, of consumption. He leaves a
wife and two little children to mourn his
death. His remains were inferred in the
Barker's Creek graveyard on Saturday al
ternoon.
To the Greenwood correspondent of the
Abbeville Press and Banner, ut is matter
of astonishment how so many able-bodied
negroes can feed and clothe themselves
when not employed one-fourth of their
time" and to the senior proprietor of the
ISrELL1sEEcER "it is matter of astonish-
ment" what became of his English peas the
other night.
The Savannah Valley Railroad is begin
ming to attract considerable attention in
this County, and its friends are very earn
est in their advocacy of the enterprise. Pc
titions are being sent to all of the townships
through which the proposed route passes,
which will, as soon as the sufficient number
of sicners are secured, be forwarded to the
County Commissioners of this and Aboe-
Vile Counties asking for elections in the
several townships on the question of SUBJ
scribing to the capital stock of the road.
Mr.. Tilman c. MCGEE, of the Fork town.
shin. is on visit to his daughter, Mrs. o.
=, n I,nt ond no;d ne n call OIL WedneS-