The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-02

Feeding Ginrschoheld's Engine and also
for the Van Wrinkle King Cotton Press, the
advertisement of which will appear next
week. Mr.. Peoples has been dealing IN
Gins. engines and presses for several years
Is thoroughly posted as to what is best suit
ed to the needs of the farmers of this section
and is striving assiduously to supply those
needs. Read what those who have tried
his gin and engine have to say in their favor
and then call at his store and examine them
for yourself and learn the many advantages
not given in his advertisement he claims
for them over other gins and engines. The
Hall gin has long been recognized Us one OF
the best ever offered to the public, and is
used in every cotton State in the Union.
The Schofeld engine. is also well known.a as
one of the best made, as is also the Van
Wingle press.
The Division of Sons of Temperance at
this place will celebrate their fourteenth
anniversary by picnic excursion to Toccoa,
Ga, on the Air Line Railroad, next Satur-
day, every arrangement for the success OF
which being completed by the committee
to whom it was referred. The train will
run from Bolton, leaving there? about s a.
m., and this place about q q: nl., reaching
Toccoa at $50 or 10 q. m. The excursion
lists will have six or seven hours in which
to visit the beautiful Toccoa Falls, about
two miles from the village, and to see the
fare for the round trip from Belton will be
s1.SO and from Anderson 81. No tickets
will be sold from any other stations, and
no one will be allowed on the train without
a ticket. Arrangements have been pertec.
ted with parties at Toccoa for transportation
for two hundred and fifty persons out to
the falls and back, at the rates OF twenty
FIVE cents in vehicle without springs and
fifty cents in ia vehicle with springs. The
train will be in charge of the committee of
arrangements from the Division consisting
of Messrs. L.. P. Smith, A. S. Todd, G. G..
Langston, Columbus Wardlaw and r. R..
Todd, and oil who 20 on the excursion can
be assured of delightful trip, as only q
limited number of tickets will be sold, thus
preventing the crowding of the cars to an
uncomfortable extent.
IF Seneca City never becomes city it
will not be because it is not highly ia
vored locality in point of natural advan-
tages. Besides being situated in rich and
fertile region abounding in gold ka mines nine
ditional advantage of being located at the
crossing of two great railroads. But i'll
addition to all this, we hear now that near
this city there has recently been discovered
by an Englishman mine abounding in
diamonds of the finest quality. A gentle
man of our towr who was in that city one
day last, week had the pleasure of seeing
and handling q few of the precious stones
in the rough state. A correspondent Of the
Charleston Ne,ps and Courier, writing from
Seneca under date of May %, says of this
discovery: "There has been much excite
nlent in our community for the. past few
days caused by the discovery of diamonds
in an old gold mine. For years gold mining
has been carried on to q greater or less ex-
tent in this vicinity. Some two or three
years since Col. John Cochran mined quite
extensively, with what success was not
generally known. Some two weeks since
Mr.. Joseph Blanny, ,hailing from England,
came to Seneca on his way from western
North Carolina, prospecting for mica, and
was induced to 60 down and look around
where Col. Cochran had been mining for
gold. He went to panning on farm ad-
joining the Cochran mine, and was reward
ed by washing out several diamonds: He
sent some of them to Tiffany & Co., Of New
York, and one of their experts came out
and pronounced them genuine straw col
ored diamonds, equal to the African dia-
monds. Mr.. Blanny has purchased eight
hundred feet square from the owners of the
land for 50, 900, and proposes to go regularly
into the business, not as stock company,
but on his own account" There is for
tune undoubtedly for every one of the. citi-
gems of this favored section in the business
Of hunting diamonds, if they can only be
made to realize their opportunity. They
ought to quit everything else and go to
digging digging for diamonds, we mean.
OF course, when they all get bushel or two
apiece, they will be generous enough to
scatter them around among their neighbors
and friends, of whom we are SO fortunate
as to be one. We always have said that
the future had grand destiny in store for
Seneca City, though we little thought it
would be attained so soon. We might add
that nearly all those who have made great
fortunes. however, in mining operations
have done it by selling out"