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

The Abbeville Medium thinks that when
the Savannah Valley and Greenville and
Laurens Railroads are built the track of the
Columbia and Greenville Road will be taken
up from Newberry to Greenville, and that
section of the Road abandoned, and tells
the people of Abbeville that unless they
extend the Atlantic and French Broad
Road on from Bolton to the Greenwood
and Augusta Road they will be left with
out railroad, and that then the town will
dry up to nothing. Abbeville is in a. pros
porous condition now, and her citizens
ought to realize the importance of this
matter.
On last Saturday evening number Of
young men of the neighborhood assembled
at Lin's school house. in the Five Forks
section, to engage in debate during which
difficulty arose between James Martin
and r. NJ. Simmons, in which the latter
was dangerously cut in several places by
the former, who has fed the country to
avoid arrest. On Monday James Bryant
and Thoms, Van and W. A. Mullikin, who
were present on the occasion, were arrested
on the charge of being engaged in riot,
and taken before Trial Justice Whitefeld
on Tuesday and admitted to bail in the
sum of $500 each.
Rev. w. Il. Strickland reports receipts
for his State mission work for March $500,
and $75 already on April. BE has been
able to pay all the missionaries for the first
quarter of the current year, and hopes to
collect enough within the next three months
to pay for the second quarter when due.
He reports twenty missionaries in the field
during the first quarter, and ten additional
appointments made mt the meeting of the
Baptist State Mission Board at Greenville
on Tuesday. Mr.. s. goes tonight to at.
lanta to consult Dr. Calhoun in regard to
his eyes, and will be absent for fortnight
or more. His family will accompany him.
Said gentleman to us on Saturday: II
have read good many Southern country
papers, but the INrELL1aEScER is the best of
them all. took it when I lived in Texas
and Kansas and Missouri, and am taking it
yet, and always expect to take it. wonld
not be without it for twice what it costs,
and I can always work better during the
day when know the INrELL1eENcEn is at
home for me to read at night" This is only
specimen of the many assurances we re-
ceive every week from our subscribers OF
their appreciation of the INTEIL1eEScER.
We shall always strive to merit all Of their
kind words, and will never forget our obli-
CATION to give them first class paper in
every respect.
A meeting of the Directors of the Atlantic
and French Broad Railroad was held at
Belton last week, and the amendments to
the charter of the Road passed by the last
Legislature, authorizing the extention Of
the Road to Trickem, on the G. & A. R. R.,
accepted. The meeting was attended by a
delegation of gentlemen from Abbeville
county, who assured the Directors that the
people down there were in earnest about
building the Road, and pledged their coun-
ty for $4,000 subscription to the capital
stock of the Company, divided among the
points interested as follows: Abbeville vii
lage $25,OOo, Due West $4,000, and $4,000
each by two townships through which the
proposed line passes.