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

LOCAL NEWS.
W. w. KEYS, LOCAL EDITOR.
BRIEF MENTION.
Yesterday was the longest day in the year
The crops are beginning to need rain
again.
There will be picnic at High Shoals
on Friday Of next week, 1st July.
The Palmetto Band serenaded Judge
Hudson and Solicitor Orr Monday night
The Bars of our neighboring counties are
well represented at our Court this week.
Rev. IA. B. FAINT will preach at Flat Rock
church next Sunday moTning at II O'CLOCK.
Messrs. VS. Ligon and B. Frank Maui
din and families have gone to the noun
tains.
The Grand Jury was dismissed from
Court OH Tuesday and the Petit Jurlas WILL
be discharged to-day.
There have been six new graves made in
Mt. Tabor graveyard within the past week.
AL the dead lived in town.
The exercises of Mr.. W. T. McElroy's
school, in Broadway township, will be re-
sumed on: Monday, 9th instant.
4, The Council on Tuesday afternoo on elec-
tad Mr. Joseph B. MCGEE Assistant Mar.
Z shal, vice Mr.. w. d. Maroney resigned.
- - : -s.r So
Several citizens of Seneca City were in
town on Monday. They represented that
section as prospering, 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,
DR.. Il. +. Diver; Poor House committee,
;. w. Daniels, 81. g. scudday.
Married. June 5th. 1881. by Rev. w. P.
Martin, at the residence of Mr.. Greenlee
) 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
noon at 6 o'clock. The Palmetto Band has
consented to furnish music for the occasl on.
There will be a picnic at the spring Of MIR.
S n. d. sChamblee on next Saturday, at which
y sn address will be delivered by Columbus
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
TIL o'clock next Saturday evening.
From what we can learn from gentlemen
from the country the wheat is turning ont
though the crop Is by no means remunera-
,Sye. The heads are short but well devel-
oped.
.S The Pomona Grange of this county will
meet at this place on the first Saturday in
July next, and it is desirable that every
tlrange in the county be represented. The
Och degree will be conferred on all apph-
cants.
Dr.. Lucius Montgomery, of Micanopy,
Z Florida, spent day or two during the past
week with relatives in this county. He
paid us call on Monday, and. took the
train that afternoon on his homeward
s journey.
~ The officers Of the town were instructed
on Tuesday afternoon by the Council to
make an inspection Of the town on Wednes-
dny afternoon, and to report such persons
Z as had not complied with the instructions
up their, premises" published last
week.
There was considerable rain and wind
I storm in the Earle's Bridge neighborhood
on Saturday afternoon. but the only dam
age wa have heard of from it was the blow
Ing down of two negro cabins on the Gra-
Z ham place, near Farmers Store, and large
number Of forest trees.
The review of JEFF. Davis book on the
Z rise and fall of the Confederate governm ent..
! printed on our first page, though LONE. will
Z be found exceedingly instructive and inter-
esting. 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
iyg of the Saluda 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. and: will doubtless be largely atten.
dsd and deeply Interesting.
Next: week is Commencement Week at
hue West, and we dare say the little town
will once more be thoroughly alive. Due
West IS noted for three things: the culture
OF its citizens, its fine colleges, and the
c0urting propensities Of the students dur
ing Commencement season.
,sM" writes from Honea Path that tel
eeraph, Office has been opened at that place,
heretofore at Bolton, has been placed in
charge of both depot and telegraph office.
Also, that last years shippage of cotton
from that point was about $500 bales.
The gentleman from England" who dis
covered the diamond mine near Seneca City
scme time since, suspended operations two
or three weeks ago and has since been i'll
New York. or some other town. Some OF
the diamond enthusiasts up there are get.
ting little anxious for him to return.
Senator Crayton receives invitations by
nearly every mail to visit different sections
OF Georgia and make speeches or read essavs
OH the stock law. As he cannot accept all
OF these invitations, he has prepared cir
cular letter which he is sending out to the
various localities desiring his services.
- The following persons have brought or
seat us cotton blooms that appeared in their
fields m the davS mentioned: NJ. w. Jones
1sah. Col. Elias McGee 18th. J. L. King 18th.
Robert Goode 18th. j. F. Hackett 10th. j..
: A. Jolly. Peter McPhail. J. W. Dalrymple.
MIS-. z. M. Vandiver 2Dth. Of the samples
Of cotton sent, Mr.. McPhaiPs was the best.
~. P. Dr. writes from Calhoun that there
is Furnishing Sunday School at Shady
G,nve church under the supervision of Mr.
n. B. Gaines, there being over a hundred
member. enrolled; that the Salnda Division,
Sens Of Temperance, is initiating new mem
bers every meeting, and that Mr.. W. F.
Sutherland il erecting magnificent dwell