The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-13
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BRIEF MENTION.


Cotton brought iii on "Wednesday.
The roads in some sections of the Count,
are impossible.
The trade in horses and mules is bette
this season than usual.
There were nine additions to the Temper
ance Division on last Thursday night.
Mr.. John P. Sitton, of Brushy Creek, had
acow to give birth to tailless calf Sunday
Col. James NJ. Latimer, of Lowndesville
was in town on Wednesday in the interest
OF the Savannah Valley Railroad.
THE Pickens Sentinel says that the pros
poets for the Atlantic and French Broad
Valley Railroad are daily Frightening.
There were good congregations at the
Baptist and Methodist Churches on Sunday
I last, Notwithstanding heinclemency of the
day.
y There will be meeting of Mountain
Creek Grange on next Saturday, 18th inst,
at 10 o'clock q. m. A full meeting is espe-
h cially desired.
| at the meeting of the Board of County
commissioners on Tuesday Mr.. P. F. King
sWas elected Steward and DR.. ]. P. Duckett
physician of the Poor House.
|s Martha Morris, wife of Warren Morris,
colored, was found dead in her bed on last
Saturday night about midnight. 1t is sup
posed she died from heart disease.
Sss The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution is one 0.
Best papers published in the South, and
I reaches Anderson abont seven hours earlier
s than any other daily. See advertisement.
81 e: Col. Z. E. Campbell found fully matured
{ June and horse apples in his orchard few
4 days before Christmas, and during Christ
mas week killed ten partridges at single
sshot.
1.-THE Knights of Honor had big time on
Wednesday night of last week at their an
nual supper. The only unpleasant thing
about the whole affair was having to eat
canned oysters.
They have he'd another election over in
sGeorgia-this time for County officers it
eseems. We would like to know if their
Estate Constitution requires an election at
every change Of the moon.
I3 The Laurensyille Herald is decidedly the
best Temperance paper in the State. 1t
|SneYer fails to strike the bar-rooms and
whiskey traffic generally blow every op-
+ Sportunity that is presented.
( The drug store of Simpson, Reid & Co.
b has been removed from their old stand to
& ihe next door below. They are still in the
y Benson House Building, where they will be
pIeased to see their friends and customers.
Some of the most successful farmers in
B the County say it is not yet too late to SOW
& wheat, and advise those who have been
! prevented from sowing to do so any time
dnring the present month that the ground
is IN condition.
j
8 An effort is being made to re-establish the
'Spostofice at Piercetown, in the upper sec
gfion of the County, which We hope will be
q 6successful, as its discontinuance has worked
s greatly to the disadvantage of the citizens
of that vicinity. -.
81 How the many negro men in this town
who depend upon their daily labor for
means of support have managed to provide
for their families during the long spell OF
J had weather, when nearly all business has
been suspended, is mystery to many.
=; 1t is somewhat amusing to an outsider to
s.notice the many little ways the preachers
lEhave of tickling each ether through their
z denominational papers. We have heard in
our time of such things as mutual admira-
4 tion societies-but, then, 'judge not" dc.
AT the annual meeting of stockholders OF
the National Bank of Anderson, held on
3 the 11th instant, the following gentlemen
were reelected Directors: Col. Joseph n.
Brown, President; D. 81. P. FAINT, B. F.
Crayton, J. w. Norris, s. Bleckiey, George
w. FAINT and j. A. Brock.
Cart. S. W. Sherard has moved from this
County to Jackson County, Georgia. he
! was one ofthe best and most highly esteemed
! citizens of the Corner township, and in his
! removal that immediate section particularly
and the whole County generally has sus-
tained considerable loss.
e Messrs. E. F. Crayton and Sons have lei
out contracts for the building Of two one
! story brick buildings on their lot east of the
Masonic Lodge, which will be used as store
! rooms. They will each be - scet wide by
/ go long, and are to be finished by the 1st OF
kMarch. The foundations are now being
dug.
The Palmetto Minstrel Troup, composed
of the best amateurs in town, will give an
entertainments in Masonic Hall on Tuesday
: evening next, and if we can judge from the
5 programme it will be rich and racy. The
& proceeds of the entertainment will go to the
{ Palmetto Band. Admission, 25 cents; re-
served seats, 50, or two for IS.
AT the examination of public schoo
teachers for this County on the 7th and stt
instants, there were IS applicants for certifi
Gates and renewal of certificates, of whom
At received first grade, o second grade, arts
!: 6 third grade certificates, being rejected
The examinations were very creditable
and the result shows more than usual pro-
aciency on the part of the applicants.
"Now forrail.splitting and Incorporating
all over the County" Barn,reu Sentinel