The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-05-13

We are requested to announce that Kev.
r. C. Ligon will preach at Roberts Church.
in this County, on the fourth Sunday IN
this month, at II o'clock a. M.
Miss Cynthia Hunnicut, an excellent lady
of the Five Forks neighborhood, died at the
ripe old age of 80 years on last Monday
after lingering illness of dropsy.
Appointments of the Y. NJ. G. A. for next
Sunday: To conduct the afternoon meeting,
B. Frank Neutrality-suspicious., Matthew ~;
Poor House Committee, L. P. Smith, John
II. Hubbard.
Onr police are on their annual rounds
warning our citizens to clear their yards
and premises of all trash, rubbish and filth
that is calculated to produce sickness or
disease of any kind.
Mr. J. F. G. DuPre, Sheriff of Abbeville
County, spent last Friday in Anderson.
He is one of Abbevilles most substantial
citizens, and occupies high place in the es-
TEEN of her people.
The sacrament of the Lords supper will
be administered in the Presbyterian Church
on next Sunday Immediately after the
morning service. There will be preaching
as usual on Saturday morning at IL O'CLOCK
We are indebted to Mr.. John M. Geer,
from this County. for an invitation to at
tend the annual celebration of the Agathe-
ridan Society Of the University of Nash
vile, to be had on Friday evening, 2lst
instant.
Mr.. John E. Breazeale, Secretary Pomona
Grange Of this County, requests us to re-
mind the sub Oranges that the time for
making their first quarterly report for 1850
has expired, and that it is desirable they
should make their reports as early as posi-
BILE.
Messrs. F. W. Wagner G. Co., Of Charles
ton, sent us by Saturdays mail a mammoth
Irish potato, grown on Wardmalaw Island
by Mr.. J. T. Hart, . most successful potato
grower. He uses the Wagner fertilizer,
and makes about hundred bushels to the
acre.
It is rumored on our streets that the
schedule of the Greenville & Columbia
Railroad will be changed on Monday, so as
to allow the passenger train to leave this
place about an hour later in the morning
and arrive about two hours earlier In the
evening.
The picnic to be had at Silver Brook on
Saturday, under the auspices of the Baptist
Sunday School, promises to be very pleas
ant affair. Every arrangement is being
made to render the occasion especially
pleasant for the children, who are doubtless
looking forward to it with bright anticipa-
tions.
Reports of the condition and prospects of
the wheat crop are not very encouraging.
It has the rust badly, and many OF our
farmers are disheartened, being confident
the yield will be very small, while others
are more hopeful, and think with contin-
ued favorable weather the crop will yield
better than is generally expected.
Capt. E. J. Major, a worthy and valued
citizen of Broadway township, died on
Tuesday last, in the 53rd year of his age,
after an illness of only four days of dis"
ease of the liver. His remains were in
TERED in the graveyard at Meals Greek:
Church on w Wednesdsy afternoon after i'm"
pressiye funeral services conducted by Rev.
NJ. MCGEE.
Mr.. Caleb Hall. of the Storeville neigh.
borhood, last week sent us the following
note: 81 have been feeding my sheep dur
ing the winter season on corn. To-day J.
sheared three of them and got eleven and q
half pounds of WOOL" 1t is not every
farmer that is so fortunate nowadays as to
have corn with which to feed sheep, but
those who are might find it profitable to
follow Mr.. Halls example.
At meeting of Orion Lodge, I. o. G. T.,
held Saturday, May Sth, the following Off
GERS were installed to serve the ensuing
quarter: T. F. Callahan, G. T.; Miss I. v.
Erskine, R. S.: Miss NJ. A. Kay, L. HIS;
Miss Alice Kay, v. T.; NJ. NJ. Campbell, S.;
John r. Smith, A. S.; J. S. Kay, F. S.;
q. G. Erskine, T.; J. R. Smith, NJ; Miss
LIE. Erskine, D. NJ; n. M. Geer, I. g.;
S. P. Kay, o. g.; A. Langston, c.
The election for pastor in the Baptist
Church on last Sunday morning resulted
in the choice of Rev. R. ". Sanders. OF
Chester. he is the pastor of the Baptist
Church at that place, is highly esteemed by
the denomination in this State, and pos.
sesses superior endowments as minister OF
the Gospel. Should the church here be SO
fortunate as to secure his services, it will be
a valuable acquisition to our society.
At the meeting of the Greenville County
Democratic Convention on Saturday, Hon.
w. L. Mauldin was reelected County
Chairman, and Messrs. E. H. Fuller, J. w.
GRAY, A. C. Darlington, w. G. Cleveland
and G. w. Sullivan delegates to the State
Convention. A resolution advising against
the nomination of State officers at the June
Convention was passed, but in case nomi-
nations are made the delegation is pledged
for Gen. Hagood for Governor.
Col. Carver Randall is at present canvass
ing this County as an agent of the Ameri-
can Bible Society, seeing that our people
are being supplied with the Great Book.
A work which tends to the cultivation OF
public virtue, the repression of crime and
the increased activity and improvement Of
the country demands our interest and CO.
operation, as it contributes to our material
advancement. 1t is proposed to every
church in the County to make contribu-
t;on at an early day to this Society by send
;nr the amount contributed to the Agent to
he forwarded. Let US not permit ourselves
IN be the beneficiaries of the parent Society,