The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-03-11

fence around the Court House.
The distemper is prevailing to q consider
able extent among the horses and mules in
this County.
The salary of the Assistant Marshal was
raised from $425 to $500 at the meeting of
the Council on Tuesday.
The entertainment given by the ladies Of
tkc Presbyterian Church last Friday even
ing netted about SO.
The circulation of the INTELLIEEscER i'll
this County is larger at present than ever
before, and is gradually increasing.
Good fox hounds sell in this County at
from SIS to $50 ahead, and are always in
demand, while sheep are o drug at So.
Several landowners on Rocky River are
having The bottoms thoroughly ditched
with view of increasing their productive
ness.
The time for working the roads will ex-
pire with this week. How many overseers
have complied with the instructions of the
County Commissioners?
Married, at the residence of the brides
father, Mr.. E. f. Murrah, on March 8, 1880,
by Rev. D. Z. Frierson, D. D., Mr.. William
C. Bailey and Miss AliceM Murrah.
The ladies of the Baptist Church are ar
ranging for hot supper on the evening of
Friday, the 1eth instant. Strawberries and
many other delicious things will lbe had for.
sale.
( Up to the present time there have been
about twenty-five hundred, tons of CONNER
, cial fertilizers sold by the merchants of An
derson, and the demand is not yet near
supplied.
The Laurensville Herald came to us last
week considerably enlarged and improved.
The country papers of South Carolina are
the best in the South, and all seem to be
prospering.
The small grain crops are looking unusu-
ally fine, and while the insects thatin many
places were doing such damage have not all
disappeared, they seem TO have about ceased
their ravages.
See the change in the advertisement of
the "Par;s Store" Mr.. Lesser isreceiying
q large and complete stock Of dry goods,
which he says will be sold at the lowest
living price.
The increase in the cotton crop of this
County last year on account of the abolition
Of the old system. of fencing is variously
estimated at from twelve to twenty-five
hundred bales.
Messrs. ]. Walter Sherard, s. NJ. Holland
: and E. C. Frierson, all of this County, have
returned home from medical colleges within
the past week, and arenow prepared to en-;
5 upon the practice of medicine.
We are indebted to Capt. John McGrath
for a peck OF Florida yams. This is one
of the finest varieties of sweet potatoes, is
well adapted to our soil and climate, and
when properly cultivated pays handsomely.
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Appointmentsoft the Y. NJ. g. a. for next
Sunday: To conduct the afternoon meeting,
John H Clark-Scriptur Matt z 1-14 !;
Poor House Committee, Col. IN. Brown,
B. Frank Mauldin; Jail COMMITTEES, w. W.
Keys, H. G. scudday.
Messrs. J. R. & L. P. Smith, well known
and reliable merchant-tailorsss win soon
have in large and complete stocko gents .
furnishing goods, which they propose sell
ing at short profits. Their advertisement
will appear next week.
The Abbeville papers are agiiating the
question of establishing National Bank at
that place, and think that with the proper
efforts it could be easily done. A bank
adds a great deal to the business of town,
and Abbeville ought to have one.
Mr.. w. M...Wilcox, of Elberton, Georgia,
a young man for whom many Of our citi-
zcns have great respect and admiration,
spent last Sunday in Anderson. BE is
engaged in the furniture business, and is
working up fine trade in his new home.
The election in Brushy Creek township
upon the proposition to subscribe to the
capital stock Of the French Broad Valley
Railroad resulted in defeat of the subscrip-
ton by fifty majority. We hear, however,
that the assessment. upon that township
was made up by private subscription.
The mill and gin property of Mr.. John
w. Rosamond, one Of the best and most re-
liable citizens of Br,,hy Creek township, in
this County, was destroyed by fire one day
last week. The property was q very yalua-
BILE one, and the loss to Mr.. Rosamond is
heavy. The fire is supposed to have been
the work Of an incendiary.
A gentleman from Anderson, acting as
agent for several interested parties, sold
in Columbia one day last week 1000
worth of Greenville & Columbia Railroad
bonds (state guaranteed) at ninety cents
OF the dollar. Eight months ago the same
class of bonds were selling at from thirty
five to forty cents.
Just as we are really to go to press, the
sad intelligence Of the death of Rev. Thom-
as II. Cunningham, of Charleston, reaches
us. He was native of this County, and
had many friends and relatives incur midst,
whose hearts will be saddened by this an
nouncement. The lateness Of the hour at
which the news comes to US, precludes fur
ther notice of the deceased in this issue.
A gentleman who has been travelling
through this County says he has never seen
greater preparations made for crop than
are now going on for the present year. The
farmers have generally made good use of
the beautiful weather since the first Of jan
uary, and have put their lands in fine con-