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

Mr.. +. +. Mufrah mas Deen reappolnteu
Jury Commissioner for this County.
Rev. I. w. wingo, of Pendleton, will lee
ture in Temperance Hall on next Tuesday
evening.
Mr.. ]. B. Burriss, of Hall township, is
running saw mill, and is doing consid-
cradle business.
Mr.. D. F. sadler, of Savannah township,
has gone to Orange County, Florida on n
prospecting tour.
There will be a public temperance meet
ing at New Prospect Church on the 20 Sat-
urday in February at o'clock p. m.
Married, by a. E. scudday, Esq, at his
residence, on the oath instant, Mr.. VIM. B..
Watt and Mrs. Damey Teasley. All OF
Anderson County.
Mr.. s. Bleckley and wife returned home
from their trip to West Tennessee on last
Friday. They were charmed with Nash
vile and the country roundabout.
The Greenviile Enterprise and Mo,s'atai'eer
has been enlarged and considerably i'm
proved, and we tender our congratulations
to friend Bailey upon his prosperity.
The readings snd recitations by Dr.. A. P.
Johnstone on Tuesday night were highly
enjoyed by those present. His pieces were
well 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
Is ell gone, and the weather is exceedingly
warm again.
Appointments of the Y. M. G. A. for next
Sunday: To conduct the afternoon meeting,
T.C. Ligon; Poor House Committee, ]. N.
Brown, B. Frank Mauldin; Jail Committee,
LIP. 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
have done had the old fence system been in
operation; and yet some people are still
grumbling because the change vas made.
There will be meeting at the new school
house near Mr.. w. A. McKee's on Satur-
day, 18th 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 in
teresting account this week of the capture
of young Osborne, who is charged with
the killing of Mrs. Compton during Christ
mas week, and who has since been evsding
the officers Of the law.
Mr.. Harrison Tucker, of Hopewell town.
ship, had his gin house entered on last
Saturday night, and about six hundred
pounds of white seed cotton taken from it.
No clue has yet been obtained to the thieves,
whom, it seems, entered with 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.
A,rope- walker paid Anderson visit on
Saturday last, and gave his performance on
rope stretched from the top ofthe Waverly
House to the Court House 'steeple. Such
shows are getting to be about as stale as
circuses, and the fewer we have of them the
better.
DR.. B. F. Duncan, Of Varennes township,
brought Us some strawberries from his gar
den on Tuesday that were fully grown and
matured. He said that there were great
many on the vines that would have been
ripe in q few days had the beautiful weather
of last week continued.
The entertainment in Masonic Hall on
Friday night by the Presbyterian ladies' was
quite 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 all
disposed of, and quite handsome sum re-
allied.
A postal card. from Thos. W. Holloway,
Secretary State Grange, informs us that the
South Carolina Railroad has reduced the
rate of fare to the State Grange to 2 cents
per mile for round trip, making the fare
from Columbia to Charleston and return
only $3.50. The meeting convenes on the
Sd February.
The schedule of the down train on the
Anderson Branch has been changed so 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 at
Belton, where the passengers that go down
on this line are compelled to wait for an
hour for the train from Greenyille.
On Friday night last about o'clock, Tom
Parker, son of w. F. Parker, proprietor OF
the saw mill at 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 circumstances.
Parker escaped.
The efforts that are being made by the
colored people of the town to repair the
Greeley Institute building is most commen-
dable and praiseworthy, and We hope will
be continued until their plans are perfected.
The building and grounds have been given
mp to their entire charge, and have been
most shamefully abused, and their steps in
the direction of improving the property are
taken none too soon. The building is to
undergo thorough repairs.