The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-23
BRrRr naYcNTIoN.


BRlEF MENTIoN.
Yesterday was the longest day in the year
The crops are beginning to need rain
again.
There will be picnic at High shoal,
OH Friday Of next week, LIST July.
The Palmetto Band serenaded Judge
Hudson and Solicitor Orr Monday night.
The Bars of our neighboring counties ar.
well represented Ct our Court this week.
Rev. II. B. FAINT will pseach Of Flat Rocl.
church next Sunday morning at II o'clock.
Messrs. w. g. Ligon and b. Frank Maui
din and families have gone TO the noun
tains.
The Grand Jury was dismissed from
Court on Tuesday and the Petit Juries will
be discharged to-day. a
There have been six new graves made in
Mt. Tabor graveyard within the past week.
All OF the dead lived in town.
The exercises of Mr.. w. r. McElroy,s
school. in Broadaway township, will be re-
sumed on Monday, 9th instant.
The Council on Tuesday afternoon elec-
ted Afr. Joseph 3. MCGEE Assistant Mar.
shal, vice Mr.. W. d. Maroney resigned
Several citizens of Seneca City were i'm
town on Monday. They represented that
section as prospecting, but exhibited no dia-
monds that we have heard OF
Appointments of the Y. nj. C. A. for next
Sunday: To conduct the afternoon meeting,
J. w. Daniels, III. G. Scudday.
Married. June 9Th. 1881. by Rev W. p.
Martin, at the residence of MIR. Greeniee
Ellison. Mr.. William p. Brooks and Miss
Mary Kay-all of Anderson county.
The Presbyterian ladi es will furnish ice
cream In their church lot tomorrow after
consented to furnish music for the occasion
There will be picnic at the spring of Mr..
II. y. Chamblee on next Saturday, at which
Wardlaw, Esq. The friends Of the family
generally are invited to attend.
The meeting of the citizens of Varennes
township at Flat Rock on Saturday to ap-
point delegates to the Railroad Convention
at Lowndesville adjourned without action
till o'clock next Saturday evening.
From what we ran learn from gentlem en-
from the country the wheat is turning out
q.
though the crop Is by no means remunera.
tive. The heads are short but well devel-
oped.
The Pomona Grange Of this county will
meet at this piece on the first Saturday in
July next, and it Is desirable that every
Grange in the county be represented. The
9th degree will be conferred on all appli-
cants.
DR.. Lucius Montgomery, of Dfican opy,
Florida, spent a day or two during the past
week with relatives in this county. He
paid us q call on Monday, and took the
train that afternoon on his homeward
Journey.
The officers or the town were instructed
on Tuesday afternoon by the Council to
make an inspection of the town on Wednes-
as had not complied with the instructions
week.
storm in the Enrle's Bridge neighborhood
on Saturday afternoon. but the only dam
age we have heard Of from IL was the blow
Ing down Of two negro cabins on the Gra-
ham place. near Farmers Store, and 3 large
number OF forest trees.
The review of JEFF. Davis book or the
rise and fall Of the Confederate governme ent,
printed on our first page. though long, will
be found exceedingly instructive and inter
estinE. The extracts made from his book
treat OF the most important events In the
history OF the Confederacy.
The programme for the fifth annual meet
Ing or the Salnda Baptist Sunday School
Institute, which convenes in Pendleton ON
the 14th July, has been issued. The meet
Ing will continue through the Sunday fol-
lowing. aHd will doubtless be largely atten.
III Iu IN II
Next weak is Commencement Week at
Due Wet, and We dare say the little town
VII! once more. be thoroughly alive. Due
West 10 noted Tor three things: the cul ture
OF its citizens, its fine colleges. and the
courting propensities of the Students dur
ing Commencement season.
an" writes from Honea Path that tel
egraph Office has been opened ut that place,
and that sIr. Baum. who has been stationed
heretofore ut Bolton, has been placed in
charge of both depot and telegraph Office.
Also, that last years shippago. Of cotton
from that point was about $3.50 bales.
The gentleman from England" who dis
covered the diamond mine near Seneca City
some time since, suspended operations two
or three weeks ago and has since been In
New York. or some other town. Some Of
the diamond enthusiasts up there are get
ting little anxious for him to return.
Senator Craytnn receives Invitations nv
nearly every mail to visit different sections
Of GeDrgie ana make speeches or read essays
on the stock law. As ha cannot accent all
of theSe invitations, he has prepared q cir.
cular letter which he Is aending ont to the
various localities desiring his services.
Tho followins persons have brought or
sent us cotton blooms that appeared in their
fields nm tho days mentioned. NJ. w. Jones
18th. Col Elias Mc(fea 18th. J. L. King 18th.
Robert Goode 18th. r. r. Hackett 10th, J.
A. Jolly. Peter Mcphail. J. w. Dalrymple
Mira EN-. Vandiyer 2nth. OF the samples
OF cotton sent, Mr. McPhairs was the best.
~. P. D." writes from Calhoun that there
is fionrishinz Sunday Scliooi at Shady
Grove church under the. supervision of Mr.
W. B: Gaines. there being over hundred
nen,bers enrolled; that the Salnda Division,
Sons OF Temperance, is initiating new mem
hers every meeting, and that Mr.. W. +.
Sutherland is erecting magnificent dwell
ing on his plantation, which will soon be.
completed.
Ont os theta cargo of immigrants Col.
Butler has sent a family of four to Rev. j.
r. Earle. and two 6amilies of seven to
Messrs. Reed & Russell. in this county.
The work of immigration Under It's present
efficient management IL going ON very sat
isfnctorily indeed, and before the year Ia
ont the population of the State will be aug.
n1ehted by the introduction OF sev eral
thousand Ge,yesns
From the statistical report OF the Presby-