The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-10-14
BRIEF MENTION.

DIR. Diver, who has been quite Ill lately,
is conyalescent.
Remember that the stores will be cloJed
on Friday OF next week.
Mr.. w. d. Brown is having q commo-
dious dwelling erected on Hampton street.
Mr. George w. Taylor, OF Bolton, had
one of his arms badly torn in his gin on
the 1st inst.
Mr.. r. NJ. Clinkscalcs has returned to
Anderson TO live after an absence of seven
or eight years.
Meals Creek Democratic Club will meet
Saturday next at 3 p. nj. for the transaction
OF important business.
DR.. r. f. Diver will exhibit n selfpro-
pelling agricultural engine at the Fair next
week. 1t has already arrived.
Mountain Apples are plentiful this year,
and are selling OH our streets at one dollar
per buslel or ten cents dozen.
Cotton is advancing in price, and the
farmers are again bringing 1t in rapidly.
II was selling yesterday at 10 to 10b.
Several of orr ow-country exchanges
state that there was frost in their sections
on the LIST instant, but they must be joking
about it.
The farmers OF Pickens County ought to
be happy, rs they are prosperous. Their
crops this year are better than they have
been liz any year since the war.
Come TO the Fair next week and contri-
butte to the interest Of the OCCASION. It is
an enterprise that our farmers and mechan-
Judge Mackey adjourned Court at noon
Iuesday and went over to Grcenvillc in the
afternoon to make q political Speech that
night. He returned on the 11.35 train on
wednesday morning.
Col. james L. Orr has sold his place in
town to Mr.. NJ. Kennedy, of Charleston,
who will remove to this place at an early
day Tor permanent location. Mr.. Kennedy
is contractor and builder.
The glass ball shooting at the Fair on
Thursday and Friday will be quite an in
teresting feature of the OCCASION, more es-
pecially. to sportsmen. A number of gen.
tlemen have been practicing with the view
of entering tho contest.
Waddy e. Jones, a seven~year-o SON of
Mr.. w. J. Jones, picked 116 pounds of cot
Ellie freeman, scven-year- old daughter
Of Elizabeth Freeman, picked 1I3 pounds.
That was good work for the children.
The Ladies' Store is sustaining its excel
lent and well-earned reputation this Season.
Miss Lizzie Williams is one of the best bus
iness ladies in the State, and knows just how
to please everybody that can be pleased.
Tho ladies will always be treated hand
somely by the Ladies Store
The White Sulphur Springs near Cokes.
bury, in Abbsville County, is to be i'm
vile gentlemen. with capital Of $3O, ,OOO is
being organized for the purpose Of erecting
commodious hotel ut the Springs. which
will give the UP -countrr another watering
place.
The ladies of the Baptist Church at PEN
dleton W.. have all entertainment in Farm.
ers Hal, in that town, to morrow, 18th
instant. ,eginniDg at II o'clock and contin-
uing into the night, at which refreshments
Of every kind will be furnished at reasona.
BILE prices. We have no doubt the OCCASION
will be pleasant one for all who attend.
Messrs. Cunningham & Co. are one Of
our most tnterprising mercantile firms, and
their business this fall is excellent. They
keep o large stock of goods OH hand, par
ticularly of hardware, fancy groceries and
agriculture! implements, which are sold at
figures to suit the times. Give them trial
and be convinced OF what we say.
The following are the estimates of the
yield of corn, cotton, rice and peas as based
upon the returns to the Department of Ag-
riculture from the Northern counties of the
state: Corn, 76; cotton, &c rice, 80 peas,
S3. An average production is rated ut 100.
The returns from the Middle and Southern
counties give higher estimate than those
from the Northern counties.
The following is the result of the primary
election of Oconee County: Senate, j. L.
shenklin; Representatives, s. K. bendy,
j. 8. Werner; Clerk of Court, ]. VT. Strib-
ling; Sheriff, ]. H. Robbins: Judge of Pro-
bate, Richard Lewis; School Con. missioner,
Isaac Wickliffe; County Commissioners NJ.
Nickilson, Gottob Wanner, NJ. W. Moss
Treasurer, Fl. +. Alexander; Auditor, j.
w. Googe.
Charles A. McClung and J. Campbell
Of l., p. Guffin in Abbeville week before
last, the former as principal and the latter
Us accessory, were brought before Judge
MCGOWAN, at Abbeville, on Monday OF last
week upon writ of habeas corpus, and,
after examination, admitted to bail in the
sum Of $1,000 each.
Birds Crossing, station on the Blue
Ridge Railroad about one mile above Sig
and-Twenty trestlc, has teen made dag
station, which will be very great advan-
tage to citizens living in that vicinity. The
fare from that place to Anderson is 35 cents,
or As cents for return ticket, The fare to
Pendleton is 30 cents, OF 80 cents Tor return
ticket. Return tickets are good for three
days.
Several parties have been brought before
the Town Council during the past week for
violating the provisions of the Ordinance
published last week against carrying con-
Cealed weapons and hitching horses to shade
trees but as it was not generally known
that such IN Ordinance had been passed,
the offenders were all forgiven. We are
authorized to state, however, that after this
date these provisions of the Ordinance will
be rigidly enforced, o. 1t should be.
On last Sunday morning bale os cotton
E. Peoples, situated on the lot In the rear of
his store on Brick Range was discovered to
be on fire. but owing % its being confined
the fire had made but ..ttle hendway. Mr..
Peoples thinks the cotton was set on fire
by some evil disposed person during the
night, as o burnt match was found living by
che nresa. ard besides IL was hardly possible
that the cotton could have been ignited by
other means.
The merchants and business men Of Co.
lumbia have published o Commercial
manufacturing and mechanical gazette and
planters and farmers guide Of SO pages.
1t Is simply an advertising pamphlet that
will not pay them for the paper 1t Is printed
on. The same amount of money judicous-
ly extended in ne Tspaper advertising would
have paid then five times rs well ns their
''gazette," and ~ the same time been much
better for the printers of their city. News.
papers are the best advertising mediums in
the world, and VIC are surprised that the
business men of Columbia have not long
since fcund that out. ~
Mr.. Banj. c. Crawford's residence on the
"Keowee Place." near the Air Line Rail-
road. in Pickens County, was burned on
Tz.x ctr..s. TIn@l r.. 4.