The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-04-07
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LOCAL NEWS.
w. w. KEYS, LOCAL EDITOR.
BRIEF MENTION.


Ninety.Six elected dry ticket on Monday
without opposition.
The knights of Honor are increasing in
numbers at this place.
The Sheriff and Master advertise several
tracts of land for sale in this issue.
Spring may come and Spring may go,
But cold winds blow on forever
The price of cotton remains unchanged
from last week. Good midding is worth
10l cents.
The Town Council will sell about thirty
cords of pine wood on Monday to the
highest bidder.
The cold has not killed oil the fruit and
it is generally thought that enough is left
for ordinary uses.
J.O. Wilhite, NJ. D., offers his professional
services to the people of Anderson county
in to-day's paper.
Some of our subscribers have certainly
forgotten the old adage, "Short settlements
make long friends"
Senator Crayton went to Columbia on
Monday to attend meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture
There will be no preaching i'll the Presby-
. terian church next Sunday on account Of
the absence Of the pastor.
Mr.. A. B. Towers left for New York on
Monday evening. He is accompanied by
his daughter, Miss Matte.
malignant type of scarlet fever is pre-.
vailing in Charleston. and q good many
citizens are leaving the city.
.s..Mr. Joseph E. Brown, Jr., Of Atlanta,
Ga, was ~h visit last week to his uncle,
DR.. w. G. Brown, of Bolton.
Mr.. Columbus Wilson and Miss Joan
McAlister were married on the 3lst March,
Rev. G. M. Rogers officiating.
About 1900 liens have been filed in the
Clerks Office up to this time, which is less
than were filed to the same time last year.
Hon. Edward Carswclrs lectures will be
delivered in the Court House. Remember
the evenings-next Monday and Tuesday
Monday was good day for the guano
dealers. Nearly every wagon that came to
town carried off 4 load of fertilizers of some
kind.
A negro barber cut ar Aer negro 8 throat
with razor at Hodges, Abbeville county,
last Saturday. He was committed to Jail on
Monday to await trial.
Up to the 3lst March inclusive, there had
bee1. 1908 bales of cotton received at the
depot at this place. We will not miss the
twenty thousand much, if any.
Appointments of the Y. NJ. c. A. for next
Sunday: To conduct the afternoon meeting
John H. Clarke Poor House committee, J..
w. Daniels, H. g. Scudday.
Col. Tribble, County Treasurer, publishes
in another column his programme for the
collection OF the first installment of State
and county taxes during the month of
May.
Twine Thompson was fined $40 by the
Council Tuesday evening for carrying q
concealed weapon. Leave your weapons
ut home, particularly when you come to
town.
Divine service will be held i'll the Episco-
spal church every day next week, being
Passion Week. On Good Friday at IL a.
M, on Saturday at 10 n. H., and on the
other days at p. m.
The regular quarterly conference Of the
Methodist church at this place will be held
on next Saturday, and on Sunday morning
the sacrament of the Lords Supper will be
administer Rev. 8. B. Jones, D. D., will
preach Sunday morning and night.
Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken has been quite i'll
ut his home in Cokesbury since his return
from Washington, and for several days was
in very critical condition. His many
friends in this county will be gratifed to
learn, however, that he is improving.
Mai T. B. Lee, Chief Engineer of the
Savannah Valley Railroad, left Anderson
Tuesday morning with corps of assistants
to locate permanently the Road to the point
of intersection with the Greenwood and
Augusta Road, and to also make prelimi-
nary survey of the proposed line from that
point to Edgefield C. H.
DR.. r. f. Diver, general agent of the
Geiser Manufacturing Company for South
Carolina an. Georgia, has word for those
who contemplate buying agricultural ma
ohinery, saw mills. or anything of the kind,
in another column. The Geiser machinery,
and all other machinery that the Doctor
sells is frat class, and is warranted to give
satisfaction. See advertisement.
The Abbeville Press and Banner gays: "It
has just been ascertained that the act is de
fective which authorizes the County Com
missioners to order an election as to whether
the townships will tax themselves for the
grading Of the Atlantic and French Broad
Railroad, and the Commissioners will not
now order the contemplated election, but
will wait for the necessary amendment te
the law by the Legislature. It Is proposed
howeve-. to 60 ahead with the work by The
aid Of private subscriptions"
Mr.. L.. Padgct has just been awarded tn
contract for erecting 60 tenement iior5e5 bJ
Mr. Coffin, secretary of the Pelzer Manufac
turing Company, SO feet long, 10 feet wide
II stories nigh, with four rooms, and II
more 16 by 80 feet, one story high, will
two rooms each. The lumber for the erec
ton Of the school house is on the ground
! and work will soon be commenced. twill
/ be SO feet long, "a feet wide and two s!osie
high-the first story to be used as schoo
rooms and the second by the Odd Fellows