The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-06-03

Piedmont. You will enjoy it.
Our delegates to the State Convention
went to Columbia on Monday.
There will be divine service in the Epis-
copal Church Friday night next.
Our farmers generally do not count on
more than half crop of wheat this year.
Court will convene in Abbeville next
Monday, with Judge Wallace on the bench.
Every section of the County has been
visited by fine rains during the past few
days.
Rev. L. M. Aver will preach in the Bap-
tist Church at Townville on next Sunday
morning.
The Greenvil!e Ns,rs is not keeping its
promise to reach Anderson by the morn
ing mail.
The crops of corn and cotton throughout
the County are in fine condion, and are
growing off rapidly.
Up to Monday night, the last day OF May
there had been zoos liens filed in the office
of the Clerk of Court.
Rev. Thomas Dawson is still lying very
i'll at his home in Pendleton. lie is not
expected to survive many days.
Rev. r. w. Sanders, of Chester, is ex-
pected to supply the pulpit of the Baptist
Church at this place on next Sunday morn
ing.
Rev. w. II. Strickland will preach, by
invitation of the pastor, in the Baptist
Church at Greenville on next Sunday
morning.
The Presbyterian Church will again be
vacant on next Sunday. DR.. Frierson Will
preach at Roberts and administer the sac
rament of the Lords Supper.
Appointments of the Y. M. G. A. for next
Sunday: To conduct the afternoon meeting,
G.F. Tolly-Scripture, Luke19; Poor House
Committee, T. C. Lyon, John NJ. Hubbard.
His Honor W. n. Wallace will hold our
next Court. He is the man the 1NTELLr-
eENcER nominated for Governor, and who
possesses as superior administrative as judi
cial abilities.
The Methodist Sunday School picnic on
Saturday was q very pleasant affair, if
heavy shower of rain did come near spoil
ing the splendid dinner just as it was spread
out upon the table.
Mr.. r. Y. H. Nance has returned to An
derson and opened shoe shop in the room
in the rear of Mr.. J. E. Breazeale's office,
over the store of ]. P. Sullivan & Co. See
his advertisement.
The census enumerators for this County
held meeting in town on Saturday, and
from general interchange of views as to
the duties required of them derived consid-
cradle information and benefit.
Mr.. Dave Humphreys has been threshing
the small crops of wheat about town the
past week. We learn the yield is not
near as good as last year, though quite as
good as was generally expected.
Edge6eld has thirty.one candidates in the
field; eight of whom would like to be Sheriff.
We are afraid by the time Of the. election
there won't be enough. disinterested people
in the county to count the votes.
Mr. S. D. Deal died at his home in Will
liamston, after brief illness, on last Thurs
day night. and was buried the following
afternoon. He was good citizen, and was
highly esteemed by his neighbors.
The corps of engineers engaged in survey
ing the Savannah Valley Railroad had got
ten six miles below Lowndesville up to
Saturday night. The corps is making un-
usually rapid progress in its work.
The cooks and washerwomen are quitting
their work about town and going to the
country to hoe cotton, as that business Is
the most profitable; and there is about to
be panic among the housekeepers.
The Town Clerk has collected over six
hundred dollars of the Savannah Valley
Railroad tax up to this time. There re-
mains but twelve days more in which to
pay in the town without the penalty.
Mr. A. Wiles, of the Corner, one of the
most enterprising and successful young
farmers in the County, sent us two very
fine stalks of cotton on Saturday, on both
of which there were well-formed squares.
Mai. John R. Williams and wife, of Cen.
tral, spent several days in Anderson during
the past week. They have many friends in
our midst who will be pleased to know that
they are we'll pleased with their new home.
In reply to letter from one Of the census
enumerators for this County, the Supervisor
saws that lands must be enumerated by the
enumerators for the district in which they
lie REGARDLESS of where their owners reside.
There are about forty-iye paupers at
present in the County Poor House. all Of
whom are satisfied with the manner in
which they are cared for. Mr.. Stevenson,
the efficient Steward, is much liked by oil.
The County Treasurer has been very busy.
the past three or four days balancing up his
books after the collection of the first install
ment of State and County taxes, but is not
YET prepared to give us the amount collec-
ted.
We will publish next week long and
excellent essay on fruit culture from the
nen of Col. W. s. Pickens, and we hope it
will receive careful perusal by all of our
readers. It was received too late for this
issue.
Married, on Wednesday the 26th instant,
Of the residence of the brides father, by
Rev. ]. s. Murray Mr.. Francis W. Hahn,
of Greenville s. c., and Miss Florence g.,
eldest daughter of Mr.. Jesse L. FAINT, OF
Anderson.