The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10
BRIEF MENTION.

BRIEF MENTION.
Cotton is off little. Good middling
sold yesterday at 10a.
The housewives have put the old hens to
setting, and consequently eggs are scarce in
town.
The Council sent Sam Johnson to the
I calaboose for twenty-four hours on Tues
day for contempt.
Rev. w. F. Pearson. of Due West, will
preach at Roberts church on the third
Sunday at II a. m.
Real estate in and around town has ad-
vanced one hundred per cent. within the
past twelve months.
Pay your town taxes to-day and save the
penalty, which will attach to all unpaid
amounts tomorrow.
Hunters Spring Grange will meet on
next Saturday afternoon at o'clock fof
the transaction Of important business.
To-day will be. the last opportunity for
paying the 8. v. and A. & F. B. V. II. X.
taxes without the penalty of twenty per
cent.
Rev. r. c. Lyon performed the marriage
ceremony on the 24th ult., of Mr.. J. NJ.
Reid and Miss o. d. McAlister-both OF
this county.
MIC. G.. Andrews, of Coussens J. Tablers
drug house, Nashville, Tennessee, was in
town on Saturday in the interest OF his e.
tablishment.
Mr.. J. A. n. Brinsdon, of Pendleton, has
Spanish coin dated 1440. It's square, and
bears the imprint, '.Macuquina." 1t was
made fifty years before Columbus discovered
America.
We direct attention to the new advertise
ment Of Reed. Moorhead & Co., which ap-
pears in to-day's paper. They are diligent
and progressive merchants, and know how
to please their customers.
The small grain. crops have improved
wonderfully in the last two weeks. Every
body predicts now that 1t will be q good
year for small grain simply because there
has been so little Of it sowed.
Not single persons was sent to the Pen-
itentiary from this County by the Court OF
General Sessions, which adjourned Wednes-
day of last week. This speaks veil for old
Anderson, the best county in the State.
The Court of Common Pleas has been in
session since Wednesday of last week, and
has been occupied with cases Of very little
interest. The petit juries will probably be
discharged to-day, though the Court will
likely remain in session until Saturday.
The town was crowded on Monday with
with people, horses and vehicles until 1t
was difficult to cross from one part Of the
town to another. There was very little dis
sipation, and everything passed of quietly
and orderly, not single arrest being made
by the police.
Messrs. ]. R. & L. P. Smith, merchant
tailors, have received their spring goods,
and are prepared to furnish their customers
with any quality or class of goods they may
desire. They treat ali customers alike, and
treat them well. Look out for their adver-
yertisement next week.
Mr.. g. F. Tolly publishes this week a price
list of his stock of furniture, and challenges
the State to beat his prices. He has now
larger and finer stock of furniture on hand
than ever before, which is constantly being
enlarged, Read his advertisement and then
call and examine his stock and prices.
To-day's paper contains novel advertise
ment from the well-known aud popular
house of krnstein & Rose, who, by their
enterprise, have established an enviable
reputation and an extensive trade. Their
spring stock is now arriving, and will be
complete, varied and attractive. Call and
see it.
The relatives and friends of Mrs. VIM. B.
Gibson, who moved from this place to
Texas about twenty-eight years ago, will be
panied to hear of the sudden death of her
eldest son Willie, which occurred in that
State on end of January, in his twenty
fifth year. BE was not church member,
but had no dread of death, and expressed a
confiding hope for his blissful future.
On last Monday night Wynne Council
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