The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-22
BRIEF MENTION.

BRIEF MENTION.
There is only one prisoner in our County
Jail.
The time for linen busters, straw hats and
picnics has arrived.
The fire-engine boom has subsided-as
everybody expected.
Fine rains have fallen in this County dur
ing the past few days.
This County is swarning with peddlers.
Their principle articles are dry goods.
Divine services were held in the basement
Of the new Presbyterian Church on last
Sunday.
). Edgefeld is booming With candidates,
eight of whom are struggling for the Office
Of Sheriff.
The Republican County Convention will
meet in the Court House on next Saturday,
and don't you forget it.
Mr.. A. ]. Watt and wife, from Hartwell,
Ga, took the train at Anderson on Tuesday
morning for Charleston.
Prayer meetings are held in Temperance
Hall every Tuesday afternoon by the Young
Mems Christian Association.
The changeable weather Of the past few
weeks has caused quite an epidemic of colds,
some cases of which have proven quite Sc
rious.
Rev. James T. w. Vernon, Of Georgia,
will deliver an address on temperance in
Meals Creek Church on next Saturday
evening at o'clock.
Married, on Sunday evening, at the resi-
dence of Rev. George NJ. Rogers, the offici-
ating clergyman, Mr.. R. A. Drake and Miss
M. I. Harris. All.of this County.
Anderson Lodge, Knights of Honor, is
represented in the Grand Lodge, which
convened in annual session at Sumter
on Tuesday, by Mr.. John ]. Baker.
Messrs. E. ]. Pinson, of Williamson
township, and Larkin Newton, of Pendle.
ton township, have been appointed by the
Governor as Trial Justices for this County.
"Anderson G. II. is the model town of the
State. There is not an habitual tippler
among the young men in the town, and
only four people died there Last year.
Columbia Register.
Several freight trains passed down the
Road last Thursday with through freight
from the Air Line Railroad, which had ac-
cumulated on account of the recent wash
outs on that Road.
Married, April 9Th, 1880, by Rev. w. P.
Martin, at the residence of the BRIDES father,
Mr. Charles T. Thompson and Miss Mary
G. johnson, daughter of Mr.. w. F. John.
ston. All Of this County.
Married, by Rev. w. P. Martin, April IA,
1880, at his residence, Mr.. Thomas w.
Austin, of Greenyille County, and Miss
Laurentine Breazeale, daughter Of Mr..
Matthew Breazeale, Esq, of Anderson
County.
There have been between fourteen and
fifteen hundred lines fled in the Office of
the Clerk of the Court for this County up to
the present time. The number will in all
probability reach two thousand by the 1st
of June.
An old gentleman in this County, who
has always been bitter opponent Of the
fence law, attributes the injury to the fruit
crop by the recent frosts to that law, and
says we will never have any fruit as long as
1t remains in force.
Rev. W. H. Strickland and wife left for
Atlanta, Ga. on Monday evening, and will
be gone three or four weeks. Mr. strick-
land goes for the purpose Of having an op-
Grafton performed on his eyes, which it is
hoped will improve his sight.
Captain A. c. Laughlin, formerly of this
place, but now of Columbia, was married
in Trinity Church in that city on Wednes-
day evening, 14th instant, to Miss Lula
Mimms. DR.. Shand, assisted by Rev. II.
o. Judd, performed the ceremony.
Col. John n. ,McGill, Of the Hartwell
(Ga.) Sun, and one of the handsomest news
paper men in the Empire State, paid Us
call on last Saturday. His many friends in
Anderson were glad to see him, and re-
GREETED that his stay was not longer.
Messrs. Sullivan & Mattison have received
q car load of agricultural machinery this
week. They have on exhibition some fine
threshers which they desire the agricultural
community to examine. Their change
came in too late for insertion this week.
The senior proprietor Of the INrELL1eEN-
GEE has gone to Charleston this week. 1t is
the first time he has been outside of Ander-
son County since he got home from the war
In 1865. Is there newspaper man in the
State that can show better stay-at-home
record?
Col. w. P. Clyde, of the Clyde Steamship
Line, the purchasers of the Greenville &
Columbia Railroad, accompanied by several
other gentlemen, passed up the Road by
this place on Friday morning, on a tour Of
inspection, we suppose. The party went on
to Walhalls, then came back to Seneca
Cftv and from there went to Charlotte.
The Southern Comic Opera Company
met with poor encouragement in An
derson. On Thursday evening they had
very small audience and on Friday evening
no audience at all. The opinions expressed
as to the merits of the entertainment by
those who attended on Thursday were vari-
GUS. The Company went from here to
Greenville.
Although the advertisement of the Coun-
ty Treasurer does not say so, the taxes will
be paid this year on the very same plan that
they were last, to wit: One-half in May
and the other half in October. Those who