The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-05-05
BRIEF MENTION.

Inc DaptlSt SUNDAY ScnOOl VIII nave
their annual picnic on Silver Brook or
Saturday of next week, l4th inst.
Mr.. ]. w. B. Shelton. Mrs. Martha Wat
son and Misses Lula and Ida Watson have
gone on visit to relatives in Tippah coun-
ty, Miss.
DR.. A. p. Johnstone has gone to Chcraw
to attend the annual meeting of the State
Dental Association, and will not return
home until Monday next.
Appointments of the Y. NJ. c. A. for next
Sunday: To conduct the afternoon meeting,
John NJ. Hubbard; Poor House committee,
]. H. Clarke, T. G. Ligon.
We ask all the boys 10 read the story to
be found on our fourth page this week
headed, "The Timely Warning" and to re-
memb0 the lesson it teaches of obedience
to parents.
We call attention to the advertisement Of
Mr.. e. W. South, who has one of the best
things in the way of gin whet we have
ever seen. 1t is his own invention, fcr
which he has applied for patent.
Rev. H. B. Fant will fill the appointments
Of Rev. NJ. McGee at Shiloh church on next
Sunday morning ut IL o'clock and at Mrs.
William Miller's school house in the after
noon at $50 o'clock of the same LAY.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Atlantic and French Broad Valley
Railroad will be held at Bolton to-day.
Officers of the Company will be elected,
and other important business attended to-
The Presbyterian and Baptist churches
will be closed on Sunday in consequence Of
the absence of the pastors DR.. Frierson
will preach ut Central, and Mr.. Bell has
gone to the meeting of the Southern Baptist
Convention, which convened in Columbus,
Miss, this morning.
The frequent and refreshing showers OF
the past two weeks have caused vegetation
of every kind to mike rapid progress. Cot
ton IS coming ZIP beautifully. the small
grain is looking fresh and vigorous and
the flower yards ana vegetable gardens
please the eye and del ght the soul.
AT meeting of the Vestory of the Epis.
copal church held Sunday, May l, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Vestrymen,
V. +. Martin, DR.. s. Nj. Orr. r. c. Webb,
E. l.. Parker, William Sayre; Wardens E.
M. Rucker. G. w. Webb; Delegates to Dio.
cesan Convention, E. NJ Rucker. C. w.
Webb.
The Catholic church ct this place will be
dedicated on next Sunday morning by
Bishop Lynch. Forty or fifty visiting
brethren, including five or six Priests, will
be present from Charleston to participate in
the services, which will be witnessed by O
large cOncourse. The church will be beau
tifully decorated.
The Slate Press Association met in Beau
fort yesterday, end according to previous
ly arranged programme, are to sail to- NOR
row for Savannah from where they will
go to Florida on pleasure excursion. The
INTELLlGENcER is not represented in the
meeting, but we wish the brethren pleas
ant and profitable gathering.
Rev. N. MCGEE, Col. j. N. Brown and
Rev. T. p. Bell have gone to the meeting
of the Southern Baptist Convention at Co.
lumbus, Miss. Afterthc meeting is over Col.
Brown will extend his trip to New Orleans
and other sections of Louisiana, while Mr..
Bell willstop over q week or ten days with
his wife's family in Talladega, Ala.
The Greenville Daily Nc,rs Of Saturday
says Frank Donald, little boy of IS
years, The son of widow, living in Will
under the wheel of the rear car of the down
passenger train last Thursday that imme-
diate amputation was necessary. DR.. Brown
performedthe operation. 1t is supposed that
Frank had been indulging in the dangerous
play of jumping on the cars for ride"
The first number of the Saluda argus, a
seven column paper published at Green
wood by Messrs. J. H. Hogan and T. F.
Riley, has been received, and we congrntu-
Journalistic skill displayed in its general get
up. We pronounce the argus first class in
every particular, and hope the people of
Greenwood will show their appreciation of
its merits by liberal patronage.
Miss Ida E. Langdon, one Of the teachers
in the Williamson Female College. died Of
typhoid fever on Sunday morning last after
an illness of five or six weeks. She was
lady of culture and refinement, and pos
sessed many noble traits of character, which
won her many friends and admirers. She
had been teacher in the Williamson Col
lege ever since its establishment. and her in
death the faculty of the institution loses q
valuable member.
The McSmith Music House. at Greenville,
is without question the leading establish
ment of the character in the up-country If
not in the whole State. Mr.. L.. e. Norryce.
the business manager OF the House, is full
else of superior business qualities has estab
lished all enviable reputation in this county
for his establishment, which never fails to
give satisfaction in all of IFS instruments
organs aid pianos. See advertisement.
The clerks are getting anxious for the
merchants to commence closing their stores
ct six o'clock in the afternoon, but very
naturally feel delicacy in bringing the
matter directly to their attention. Some of
them have been limiting about it pretty
strongly, but as their hints seem not to
have the desired effect, they have beset us
to put in plea for them, which we do with
pleasure, knowing how highly such favor
will be appreciated by faithful employees.
We hope all business will be suspended at
six o'clock during the dull season this yenr
just as 1t was last year and the year before.
Rev. J. l. Bonner, D. D., President of the
Due West Female College and editor and
proprietor Of the Associate Reformed Presby-
feTidn, died ut his residence In Due West on
Friday afternoon, after an illness Of several
weeks. Dr. Bonner had been the head of
the Due West College ever since its cstab-
whole country. and particularly in the
South, as most excellent educator Of the
female mind. AS minister of the Gospel
he was able, earnest and ever faithful and
as an editor of q widely circulated religious
journal Welded n great influence for Chris
tianity in general and for the doctrines and
distinctive principles of his own denomina-
ton in particular. His death is great loss
TO the country at large, and will be lament
ed by hundreds of admirers of his nob1
character and exemplary life.
The Religious Herald, printed at Richmond,
Va, in speaking Of the appointment of Reys.
Stout and Bell, of this State, as missionaries
to China, says this OF the latter: "Rcv. II. p
Bell comes of an honored family in Beau
fort county, 8. @. Born to wealth, he soon
saw 1t all scattered by destructive -rar and
its direful consequences to the vanquished.
Thrown upon his own resources, he made
his way to the State University, and in CO.