The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-20
9Gdersots gntelligsaeer.
LOCAL NEWS.
w. w. KEYS, LOCAL EDITOR.
BRIEF MENTION.

BRIEF MENTION.
Horses and mules are bringing big prices
The Baptists of the town are moving in
the matter Of parsonage.
A gentleman In this County owns ter
hounds that he values at $40 piece.
Wyman, the magician and illusionist
exhibits in the Masonic Hall tonight.
coed farm lnborers are hiring out in this
County at from 90 to So per month and
board.
The Presbyterinns are raising money with
which to purchase bell for their new
Church.
The hougekeepers are having hard time
Of 1t in getting their washing and other
household work done.
A mountaineer retailed cabbages on the
square on Monday and Tuesday from his
wagon at 25 cents piece.
The article or Dew on the fourth page
of thi- issue will be found both interesting
and instructive. 1t is worth preserving.
Rev. r. N. Pratt, of Abbeville, says that
dnring the six days of Christmas week there
were $3.50 spent in that town for whiskey.
Governor Hagood has appointed Or. P.
H. E. Sloan. OF Pendleton, and Mr.. J. H.
Won Hasseln, Of Anderson, Notaries Public.
Susie Dodd, the only daughter CT Mr.. ].
J. Dodd. bright child Of II or 12 years of
faH 1a,l
hemorrhage or the lungs.
There have been about So 900 paid in this
County since Christmas on the Savannah
Valley Railroad, leaving still large bal
ance due by the taxpayers.
The finest Fair OF mules brought to this
place in long time were sold to Capt. w.
T. Dean. of Varennes township, by Mr. Jim
Catlett, of Tennessee, on Monday.
In consequence Of the bad condition of
the roads there has been very little cotton
in town this month. The price has declined
from III to IL cents the past week.
Messrs. r. B. A. Robinson and j. G..
Clinkscalcs, of this County, have been ap-
pointed aides. de-camp on the staff of Gov.
Hagood, with :he rank of Lieutenant Colo
mel.
Capt. John Dickinson, of Hopewell, one
of the aged and most highly respected citi-
zens of the County, gives it as his opinion
that the present winter has been the sever
est since 1895.
-dr. j. A. Lafoy, of Volcano, W. ", paid
US pop call OH Friday last. He is native
of this County, but has lived in West Vir-
s:a:s scr : number of years, where lie Is
prospering and growing rich
The people of Belton turned over a new
leaf at the beginning of the new year, and
the first good thing they did was to elect q
dry ticket and close up the bar-rooms.
The temperance wave is gaining force
The merchants are receiving and storing
away large quantities of commercial fertil-
izers in anticipation OF good business in
that line this spring. If they are disap-
pointed 1t will ke the arst time in our recol-
lection.
Blk more persons joined the Temperance
Division last Thursday night. among them
our two devils" Every perso., now con-
nected with the INTELLIGENcEg, including
the colored pressman, is q member of q
temperance order.
The regular quarterly meeting Of Pomona
Grange of this County will be held at An.
derson at II o'clock a. M. on the first Satur-
day in February next. Besides the election
of officers other very important business
will be before the Grange.
A commercial reporter who was in toxin
week or ten days ego. in conversation with
one of our citizens, said that he found the
merchants of Anderson in better standing
financially than those of any other town of
the same size in the South
Mr.. George Mcclure lost $120 in town last
Saturday, but was fortunate enough to re-
cover the entire amount from John Davis
colored man, on Wednesday, who claims
to have found the money on the public
square Saturday afternoon.
The entertainment Of the Palmetto Min
strels cn Tuesday was well attended consid-
ering tine inclemency Of the weather. The
performance vas very good the apprecia-
tion Of with by the audience was fully
attested by frequent applause.
The Williamson Female College opens
on Monday, 7th February. In point of
merit It is the equal of any Female College
in South Carolina, and We hope will con-
tinue to prosper. DIR. Lander may we'll be
proud of his inotitution of learning.
The Edgcfeld advertiser estimates the
cotton crop Of that County at 10000 or As.
600 bales, and says that at least 1000 of that
amount is yet in the field. If we thought
the farmers of Anderson County were that
lazy we would he ashamed to tell 1t.
Hon. b. F. Crayton has been invited to
visit southwest Georgia md make speeches
on the stock law, and we understand has
accepted the invitation and will go in q
week or ten days to perform the good work,
from which no douh. beneficial rasnlta will
flow.
A correspondent in this issue, over the
signature of Glow Taxes" strikes at the
Town Council about the section in the sup
ply ordinance recently adopted providing
for the publication 0ff tho amount of per
sonal property returned for taxation By
each citizen OF the town.
Mr.. Ezra Robertson, OF Edgeheld County
went to Cokesbury recently, and on his re-
turn home narrowly escaped being drov; ned