The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-31
BRIEF MENTION.
The town clock keeps railroad time.

on Saturday.
The farmers are planting corn and scat
tering guano.
The colored Me.hodists are having big
revival meeting.
''T. II. r." makes. an earnest plea in this
issue for the old field pine.
The fruit survived the heavy frosts Of
Sunday and Monday mornings.
There was a rain and thunder storm on
Tuesday afternoon, and freeze the night
following.
Messrs. Jones & Wiles now have about
twenty hands at work ON the Savannah
Valley Railroad.
Anderson Grange will meet on Friday
Mt 10 n. IN. and Pomona Grange on Satur-
day at the same hour.
Tho ordinance of the Lord Supper will
be administered at tho Baptist Church on
next Sunday morning.
Very little cotton is being brought In
now, though there is yet great deal in the
county being held back for higher price,
The enlargement of Mr.. Tolly's furniture
warerooms is about completed, and he now
hns the largest stock of furniture in the
State.
we :.-ec. attention; 20 The a,.7eI ti5ri ei,
of c. A. Reed, Agent, which appears else
where. He guarantees satisfaction to all of
his customers.
The Spirit Of The Times is the name of n
new paper started ct Sumter, the first num-
ber of which reached us last week Sumter
now has three papers.
Messrs. Orr C Sloan, the new druggists,
are enterprising and energetic, and are
building up good business. See their
new advertisement, and give them call.
miss Sallie Bowie has u word for our lady
readers in this issue to which their attention
IL directed She has nice stock of milli-
merry goods, and only asks trial by the
public.
Appointments of the Y. NJ. G. A. for next
Sunday: To conduct the afternoon meeting,
at 4.30 o'clock, A. P. Hubbard; Poor House
committee, Joseph n. Brown, r. Frank
Mauldin.
lin Miles. colnred !rain,nan on the
freight train on the Blue Ridge division,
had his right arm badly mashed while
coupling cara at Bolton on Tuesday morn
ing by she breaking of bumper.
Up to the Goth, gill, 300 had oeen sub
scribed to the capital stock of the Columbia
whose purpose is to utilize the Columbia
Canal by greeting cotton factory on it.
Belton Lodge, A. F. NJ, will hereafter
hold its regular monthly communication
on the afternoon OF the first Thursday of
each month, beginning with next Thurs
day, 7th April. The hour for meeting will
be o'clock.
The young people of Belton enjoyed q
dancing party Friday evening last at the
residence of DR.. F. X. Breazeale. Some of
the Anderson boys went down to the party,
and kept things moving until o'clock in
the morning.
The South Carolina Presbytery will meet
at Newberry on next Wednesday 9Th of
April. The delegates elect from the Pres
byterian church at this place are Rev. D. E.
Frierson, D. D., and Capt. ". 8. Sharpe
alternate. G. +. Tolly.
Mrs. Anna Leak has opened millinery
store in the south end of Brick Range, and
will be pleased to serve the ladies of the
town and county in mantua- making or to
furnish them with millinery goods of any
k;pds 2en odvarfiaamaDt
Col. T. Stobo Farrow hrs purchased the
interest of his late partner, Mr.. Daniel, in
that excellent weekly, the Spartanburg
Herald, and will hereafter be the sole pro-
prietor. The Herald deserves continued
success, and will doubtless have It,
Henry Hill, the colored man who killed
Mr.. #. v. Shelton in Hartwell Ga, last
month, was tried and convicted of murder
last week, and sentenced to be hanged on
the 22d of April. We understand that it
will be the first sentence of capital punish
ment ever executed in Hart county.
Miss Willard, of Chicago, has been iec-
turing the people of Columbia on temper
ance, and it is said has accomplished con-
siderable good there. We do not know ol
place in South Carolina that was in
greater need of her services, and 1t is to be
regretted she did not stay there longer.
We are requested to return thanks to the
citizens of the town for their contributions
to the erection of the Catholic church, and
to request those who have not paid their
subscriptions to do so as soon as possible. as
it is desired to complete the building in
time for dedication on the 8th of May.
The attention of those interested in SUM-
DAY School work is directed to the call for
County Sunday School Convention pub
lished in another column. The meeting is
called for the purpose of electing five rep
resentatives to the State Convention, which
convenes in Columbia on the 18th of April
The Florence Times, in an article on
Temperance, asks this question, which is
commended to the consideration of the fair
sex "Are the ladies, who are taking such
an active interest in the prohibitory meas.
ure in the State, not to blame for the failure
to show o discountenance of the evils in
their social relations?"
We were pleased to meet in town last
week Messrs. VIM. N. and John A. Wilcox
OF Elberton, Ga. They arc both Anderson
boys. and ve are glad to know are meeting
with success in their adopted home. Will
Is running furniture store, and will soon
have O monopoly of the business, while
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