The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-01-29

evening.
Bfr. J. 3. Burriss, of Hall township, Il
running ssw nc'll, and is doing consid
cradle business.
Mr.. D. F. sadler, of Savannah township
has gone to Orange County, Florida, on c
prospecting tour.
There will be q public temperance meet
ing rt New Prospect Church on the I'd Sat
urday in February at O'Clock p. n,
M=z9iod, by a. e. Scudday, Esq, at hi.
residence, on the oath instant, Mr. VIM. II
Watt and Mrs. Damey Teasley. All oi
Anderson County.
Mr.. s. Bleckley and wife returned home
fiom their trip to West Tennessee on last
Friday. They were charmed with Nash
vile and the country roundabout.
The GreenviIle Enteprise and Mountaineer
has been enlarged and considerably i'm
proved, and we tender our congratulations
to friend Bailey upon his prosperity.
The readings and lecitations by DR.. A. p.
Johnstone on Tuesday night were highly
enjoyed by those present. His pieces were
we'll selected and most admirably presented.
We had little touch of winter on Sat
urday, Sunday and Monday-just enough
to remind Us that it wasn't August--but it
10 oil gone, and the weather is exceedingly
warm again.
Appointments of the Y. M. "A. for next
Sunday: To conduct the afternoon meeting,
T. G. Lyon Poor House Committee, ;. N.
Brown, 3. Frank Nfauldin; Jail Committee,
L. P. Smith, J. B. Clark.
The leap year party at the residence of
Mr. J. d. Maxwell on last Thursday night
was an unusually pleasant occasion, and
was attended by large number of young
people, both married and unmarried.
A farmer in this County says that he made
five bales more cotton last year than he could
nave done had the old fence system been in
operation; and yet some people are still
grumbling because the change was made.
There will be meeting at the new school
house near Mr.. w. A. McKees on Satur-
day, 14th February, to reorganize Mic Mills
Grange. The Master of Pomona Grange is
requested to send them speaker for the
occasion.
Our Fair Play correspondent gives an ins
teresting account this week Of the capicre
of young Osborne, who is charged with
the killing of Mrs. Compton during Christ
mas week, and who has since been evading
the officers of the law.
NJ. Harrison Tucker, of Hopewell town
ship, had his gin house entered on last
Saturday night, and about six hundred
f,o;:Sds Of |hits seed cotton taken from it.
No clue has yet been obtained to the thieves,
whom, 1t seems. entered with a false key.
AT the meeting of the Temperance Divis-
ion Thursday evening last resolution was
adopted requesting Rev. s, B. Jones, D. D.,
of Pendleton, to preach sermon On the
subject Of Temperance at his earliest con-
venience in Anderson on some Sunday
night.
Arope-walker paid Anderson "a visit on
Saturday last, and gave his performance on
rope stretched from the top of the Waverly
House to the Court House 'steeple. Such
shows are getting to be about as stale as
circusea, and the fewer we have of them the
better.
DR.. 3. +. Duncan, Of Varennes township,
brought uB soine strawberries from his gar
den on Tuesday that were fully grown and
latured. He said that there were great
i iany on the vines that would have been
ripe in a few days had the beautiful weather
of last week continued.
The entertainment In Masonic Hall on
Friday night by the Presbyterian ladies was
quite o success. and reflected much credit
on those in charge. The refreshments, of
which there were the greatest abundance at
the opening of the entertainment, were ali
disposed OF, end quite handsome sum Ts-
allied.
A postal card.from Thos. w. Holloway,
Secretary State Grange, informs US that the
South Carolina Railroad has reduced the
rate OF fare 70 the State Grange to 2 cents
per mile for round trip, making the fare
from Columbia to Charleston and return
only $2.6n. The meeting coprenes on tho
Sd Febru cry.
The schedule of the down train on the
Anderson Branch hes been changed 80 that
the cars leave this place now an hour earlier
than formerly. The change is made in or
der to connect with the down freight of
Bolton, where the passengers that go down
on this line are compelled to wait for an
hour for the train from Greenville.
On Friday night last about z clock, Tom
Parker, SON of w. =. Parker, proprietor of
the saw mill ut Westminster, shot and in
stantly killed at Seneca City former Ia
borer at the saw mill named Horue. The
difficulty occurred in regard to settlement
between the parties. Horne leaves wife
and two children in destitute c.ss.:
Parker escaped.
The efforts that are being made by tl,s
colored people of the town to repair che
Greeley Institute building Is most CONNER
dabIe and praiseworthy, and We hope VI
be continued until their plans are perfecte,..
Giv building rnl gFouni5 ilave Deel given
NO to their entire charge, and have been
most shamefully abused, and their steps in
the direction of improving e. property are
taken none too soon. The building Is to
undergo thorough re9nirs.
Anderson has certainly established rep
utation as the leading market of the up
country, both for buying and selling. This
10 particularly the case in the furniture
trade for tfnrit;e, tha tnoat v,rslr M. r, n i