The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-12-09
BR1EF MENTION.

w. W. KEYS, LOCAL EDITOR.
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BRIEF MENTION.
Cotton was selling on Wednesday at from
8 to Ill cents.
Mr.. ". C. Sherard, of Abbeville County,
paid US visit on Monday.
Mr.. L. P. Smith has moved into his new
residence on River street.
A good sewing machine can be bought at
this Office cheap for the cash.
Savannah River was six or eight feet
higher than usual OIL Monday.
We doubt if the public roads were ever
in worse condition than at present.
The weather ceaSed up on Monday after
nearly two weeks Of clouds and rain.
A small engine house has been erected at
Bolton by the c. & G. r. r. Company.
Cold weather always stimulates the mat.
rimonial market. II is fact We wllt not
attempt to explain.
Mrs. C. r. Murray's school for young
ladies closed last Friday, and will reopen
on the 18th of January next
Mr.. Jesse NJ. Smith is building = new res
idence for Mr.. l.. II. Secl OH Main street IN
the southern portion of town.
The Sunday School and Church services
of the Baptist congregation will be held in
the church building next Sunday.
The young people of tho town enjoyed
leap year party ut the residence OF Mrs.
Rosa Webb on Tuesday evening last.
The fall term of the Carolina Collegiate
Institute closed on last Friday. 1t will re-
open in January as strictly male school.
Mr.. c. E. Broyles, rising young lawyer
,f Dalton. On. and member of the Georgia
LEGISLATURE, is on visit to relatives IN ouf
town.
Mr.. John a. Reeves has recently moved
from his place 81 miles below town TO the
home of his aged father on Six-and-Iwenty
creek.
Hunters Spring Grange will Meet next
Saturday at 2 p m. for the election OF ON.
GERS and transaction of other Important
business.
DR.. s. M. Orr and Mr.. E. P. Sloan vii!
upen drug store az the present stand OF
Messrs. Simpson, Reid g. Co. about the lse
January.
Goods will be sold at the Paris Store till
the 1st January next at reduced prices.
Mr.. Lesser is closing out his stock. GlVe
him call.
Berry Young, coored, Was arrested and
. committed to jail on Tuesday for stealing
goods out of the buggy of Mr.. Ashley, from
.Konea Path.
The farmers are generally very muck be-
hind in sowing their small grain. The
amount of wheat sowcd this year will not
BE as large as usual
Rev. VIM. Henry Strickland, Correspond
, ing Secretary of the State Baptist Conven-
ton. will preach at Flat. Rock Chutch next
Sunday at II a. m.
There is less than mile and a half OF
grading to be done on the Atlantic and
French Broad Valley Railroad between
Pickens G. b. and Easley.
Prof. DeHerradora will ler.ure in the
Court House tonight (Thursdayl at a
o'clock on penmanship. The public gen.
orally are invited to attend.
Up to Tuesday night last there had been
received at the depot in Anderson 13,414
sibales of cotton, about $500 more than to
the same date last year. We will get the
1000.
Married, at the residence of the brides
mother, Thursday, December 1850, by
Rev. I. w. Wingo, Mr.. Charles J. Vandi-
verand Miss Josie E. King-all of Ander-
son County.
Mr.. P. A. Keys and wife. of Atlanta, Ca.
are visiting the formers parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. G. Keys near town. Mr.. Keys is
now an engineer on passenger train on
the Air Line Railroad.
Mai. D. L. Cox, of the Fork, who recently
sustained severe injuries by the running
away Of team of mules on the hill ut
Earle's bridge, on Seneca river, was at last
accounts still in critical condition.
The town was afflicted from Thursday to
Monday with a Tar Heel" auctioneer who
sold "six dollars worth ofjewclry for twen-
ty-five cents" to hundreds Of persons. He
went down to Honea Path on Tuesday.
OF {ifty.two one and two-horse wagons
received by .Messrs. Cunningham &; Co.
about sixty days ago. fifty have been sold.
They are agents forsthe sold Hickory" one
of the best wagons made anywhere in the
Union.
-Four families of immigrants direct from
Germany, numbering sixteen persons in all.
viii arrive at this place to-day. Three of
the families will go to plantations of Messrs
sB. F. Crayton & Sons and the other to Maj.
=. w. Provost.
The attention of our readers in Belton
and Williamson townships is directed to
the advertisement of the Atlantic and
French Broad Valley Railroad Company,
which relates to the taxes due the Compa-
ny in those townships.
slabtown Grange will hold q regular
meeting on Saturday the 18th instant, at
2 o'clock D. m. All the members are re-
ouested to attend. as the election of officers
will take place at that time, and other busi
ness of importance will be transacted.
In addition to great many other pretty
things. Messrs. Simpson, Reid d Co. have
lust received large variety Of beautiful
bouquets made of natural grasses and
shrubbery. They are just the things with
which to ornament your sitting rooms and
parlors.
In Georgia the railroad companies are
lby law prohibited from charging passengers
more than four cents a mile for transporta-
tion. In this State they are permitted to
charge what they please. The fare over the
Blue Ridge Road, for instance, is six cents
per mile.
We publish pretty full summary of the
proceedings of the Legislature this week,
which has been carefully culled and con-
densed from the reports in our daily ex-
changes. We are able only to print such
portions of the proceedings as are of gen.
eral interests to the public.
There were great many people in town
on Monday. and considering it was a
"horseback day. business was very good.
Several tracts of land were sold at public
outcry by the Master. and small amount
of personally by the Sheriff. Beyond few
arrests by the police, nothing occurred to
disturb the usual quiet of the town.