The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-24
9aaerson alntslliaeness.
LOCAL NEWS.
w. w. KEYS, LOCAL EDITOR.
BRIEF BIENTIoN.


Beeyes are scarce and consequently are
selling at high prices.
The Council has about thirty cords OF
pine wood for sale.
Dry goods, notions, ETC., are o little cheap
er this spring than last.
The Palmetto Minstrels are getting ready
for another entertainment
The bad weather has put the farmers
considerably behind with their work.
The Baptist Sunday School have new
library of over two hundred volumes.
Anderson is the only town of its size in
the State that does not gford public hail.
The Blue Ridge mountains are covered
with snow, which accounts for the cold
wind.
The Herald says that Laurensvil!e needs
good tailor, and thinks one could do well
there
The Catholic church will be dedicated on
the 9th of May instead Of the 9th of April,
as stcted last week.
Read the new advertisements of the La
dies Store, J. R. & t. p Smith and the
New York Cash Store.
Col. E. M. Rucker, of this place, owns
five or six thousands acres of land in one
body in Elbert county, Go.
Mr.. ]. J. Gilmcr, of Rock Mills township,
hns bought house and lot in town, and
contemplates moving here to live.
The Hartwell Sun says that when the
Blue Ridge Railroad is built Anderson will
become the Atlanta of South Carolina.
There has been very little cotton brought
to town this week. owing to the decline in
price. Good middling is worth l0l cents.
The ladies of the Baptist church are get
ting up an old womap's concert, which will
be given to the public the latter part Of
April.
Oscar Moore, the eldest son of Maj. John
B. Moore, returned home ON Monday from
Jacksboro, Texas, after an absence of about
eighteen months.
Messrs. J. G. c. Featherston. of this place,
and w. G. Benet, of Abbeville, have formed
copartnership for the practice of law in
the Eighth Circuit.
New Prospect church has been completed,
and will be dedicated on the second Sunday
in April. Rev. B. Hays will preach the
dedicatory sermon.
There was considerable frost Gil Monday
morning, snow and rain storm on Tues
day morning, and frost and ice on Wednes-
day In abundance
Appointments of the Y. NJ. C. A. for next
Sunday To conduct the afternoon meeting,
John w. Todd; Poor House committee,
w. w. Keys, A. P. Hubbard.
Mr.. ]. C.. Stribling, proprietor of the
Ashtabula Stock Farm, near Pendleton,
has Jersey bull two years old that weighs
1913 pounds. 1t is one OF the finest in the
State.
We direct the attention of our lady read
ers to the advertisement of Miss Della Keys,
which appears elsewhere. She keeps full
line of first-class millinery goods and does
mantua-making at reasonable prices and
with dispatch.
The county is being secured by the stock
men for cattle, which are shipped to Charles
ton BY the car load. Some of them are in
good order and some are not. Altogether,
we are glad that they are not to be put on
the market ct this place.
Some Of our citizens are in favor Of the
town buying the Court House from the
county and converting it into town hall.
They think the Court House should be Off
the square and i'll q more quiet and private
place. Think about it.
Mr. Samuel Mitchell, who moved from
this county about year ago, died at his
home near Westminster, Oconee county.
on the 18th instant in the 73d year of his
age. He was q good citizen, and had many
friends and relatives in this county.
Hon. B. F. Crayton recently went over to
Elbert county, Georgia, and reports that
section about forty years behind Anderson
county in the matter of progressive farm
ing. He says he would not give his planta-
ton two miles from town for half of Elbert
county.
A good bakery has long been want in
Anderson that there is now some prospect
of having supplied by Mr.. 8. NJ. Van Wyck,
who has obtained frst-class baker from
Charleston. A liberal patronage by our
people will be necessary to support the
bakery.
The farmers in every section Of the county
are having trouble with their hands, who
seem to think they are under no obligation
whatever to fulfill their agreements with
their employers, and quit them at pleasure.
This is annoying in the extreme to the en-
ployers.
Citizens living on Seneca River in this
county say that 1t is very seldom now they
ever catch shad in that stream, from the
fact that dam across the Savannah River
nj Augusta prevents them from coming
higher up the stream than that city. This
should not be so.
Samuel Postine, young white man about
Il years g! asse. was committed - jail on
Tuesday morning on the charge of having
stolen $92 from Mr.. John Long, of Brushy
Creek township. We understand he ad-
mitted the charge on preliminary trial,
which means year or two in the peniten-
tlary for him.
The Town Council OF Walhalla has passed
an Ordinance requiring persona found on
the streets of the town between the hours
of 10 n m and n m IN Give an account