The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-04-07

BRIEF MENTION.

Ninety-Six elected dry ticket on Monday
without opposition.
The knights of Honor are increasing in
numbers at this place.
The Sheriff and Master advertise several
tracts of land for sale in this issue.
Spring may come and Spring may go.
But cold winds blow on forever.
The price of cotton remains unchanged
from last week. Good middling is worth
104 cents.
The Town Council will sell about thirty
cords of pine wood on Monday tc the
highest bidder.
The cold has not killed all the fruit, and
it is generally thought that enough is LETT
for ordinary uses.
10. Wilhite, NJ. D., offers his professional
services to the people of Anderson county
in to-day's paper.
Some of our subscribers have certainly
forgotten the old adage, "short settlements
make long friends"
Senator GRAFTON went to Columbia on
Monday to attend meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture.
There will be no preaching in the Presby-
terian church next Sunday on account of
the absence of the pastor.
Mr.. A. B. Towers left for New York on
Monday evening. he is accompanied by
his daughter, Miss Matte.
AmaIgnant type of scarlet fever is pre-
vailing in Charleston. and good many
citizens are leaving the city.
a.Mr. Joseph E. Brown, Jr., of Atlanta,
Ga, was on visit last week to his uncle,
Dr.W. C. Brown, Of Bolton.
Mr.. Columbus Wilson and Miss Joan
McAlister were married on the S1st March,
Rev. q. M. Rogers officiating.
About $500 liens have been filed in the
Clerks Office up to this time, which is less
than were filed to the same time last year.
Hon. Edward Carswell's lectures will be
delivered in the Court House. Remember
the evenings-next Monday and Tuesday.
Monday was good day for the guanc
dealers. Nearly every wagon that came to
town carried OFF load of fertilizers of some
kind.
A NEGRO barber cut another Hegros throat
with razor at Hodges, Abbeville county,
< last Saturday. He was committed to Jail on
Monday to await trial.
Up to the 31st March inclusive, there had
been 1908 bales Of cotton rscaved at the
depot at this place. We will mot miss the
twenty thousand much, if any.
Appointments of the Y. M. c. A. for next
Sunday: To conduct the afternoon meeting,
John n. Clarke; Poor House committee, J.
W. Daniels, a. g. scudday.
Col. Tribble, County Treasurer, publishes
in another column his programme for the
collection of the first installment of State
and county taxes during the month of
May.
Twine Thompson was fined 80 by the
Council Tuesday evening for carrying
concealed weapon. Leave your weapons
at home, particularly when you come to
town.
Divine service will be held in the Episco-
pal church every day next week, being
Passion Week. On Good Friday at II a.
M, on Saturday at 10 s.. m, and on the
other days at 5p. m.
The regular quarterly conference of the
Methodist church at this place will be held
on next Saturday, and on Sunday morning
the sacrament of the Lords Supper will be
administered. Rev. g. B. Jones, D. D., will
preach Sunday morning and night.
Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken has been quite ill
at his home in Cokesbury since his return
from Washington, and for several days was
in very critical condition. His many
friends in this county will be gratified to
learn, however, that he is improving.
Maj. T. B. Lee, Chief Engineer of the
Savannah Valley Railroad, left Anderson
Tuesday morning with corps Of assistants
to locate permanently the Road to the point
of intersection with the Greenwood and
Augusta Road, and to also make prelimi-
nary survey of the proposed line from that
point to Edgefeld c. H.
DR.. R. F. Diver, general agent of the
Geiser Manufacturing Company for South
Carolina and Georgia, has o word for those
who contemplate buying agricultural ma
chinery, saw mills, or anything Of the kind,
in another column. The Geiser machinery,
and all other machinery that the Doctor
sells is first class, and is warranted to give
satisfaction. See advertisement.
The Abbeville Press and Banner says: ut
has Just been asceriained that the act Is de.
fec.iye which authorizes the County Com
missioners to order an election as to whether
the townships will tax themselves for the
grading of the Atlantic and French Broad
Railroad, and the Commissioners will not
now order the contemplated election, but
will wait for the necessary amendment to
the law by the Legislature. It is proposed,
however to go ahead with the work by the
aid of private subscriptions.
Mr.. L. Padget has just been awarded th e
contract for erecting 20 tenement houses by
Mr.. Coffin, secretary of the Pelzer Manufac-
turing Company, 36 feet long, 16 feet wide,
II stories high, with four rooms, and 10
more 16 by 30 feet, one story high, with
two rooms each. The lumber for the erec-
ton of the school house is on the ground,
and work will soon be commenced. 1t will
be Sc feet long, "a feet wide and two stories
high--the first story to be used as school
roorns and the second by the Odd Fellows,