The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-03-15
The Way 10 the West.

line Of the road They are perfectly
confident that the road will be built, and
give good reasons for the faith that Is III
them. The construction company who
have the contract have already expended
more than $ll 900 on the road, and are
paving regularly the salaries Of their
officer. Thus it appears that ttcy are
in earnest in this enterprise.
Major Kirk thinks work will be begun
by the 1t Of May. and that the first hun
drcd miles will be completed by or before
the lst Of May, 1851. This is very en-
couraginc and our people are buoyed up
bv tie prospect. If Abbeville has the
energy and pluck, and | believe she has,
to take the advantage Of :he oppOr.uni-
ties which the com pletion Of this road
will OTTER there lies bright future before
her. Her situation is eligible to com.
mand large business, and property will
be greatly enhanced in value. Already
| hear occasionally something said about
cotton manufactories and cotton seed oil
mills. The building of this rond will
give shape to these enterprises.
- President Arthur will visit Florida
during the latter part of this month.
= The Kenncsaw Mills Of Georgia
haue a stock of 100, 900 bushels of wheat
on hand.
- A Barker county tGa) farmer has
100 acres Of cotton up and nearly ready
for working.
"Truck gardening" bids fair to su
persede cotton planting in many South.
crn localities.
= ice Smith, the son of the founder
of the Mormon faith, still processes to
receive revelations from heaven.
"For heavens sake raise something
to eat and buy what cotton you need" is
the cry Of the Vicksburg Heralu.
The Rev. Dr.. Dix, Of New York,
is yo.ling because women don't have
larger families. Mr.. Dix should be
sworn in to tend baby for few years.
A Connecticut milliner has closed
out her business and applied for license
to sell intoxicating drinks. She finds
bad habits pay better than good gowns.
- Miss Mildred Lee, daughter Of the
late Gen. Robert l.. Lee, who has been
spending the winter in Washington, left
there on Thursday for Charleston, sc.
- In the last session Of Congress moth
ing was heard about the war between the
sections. That is a fact to be noted.
The last milepost of the war has been
| passed.
= There is creek several miles from
Waynesborc, Ga, which is so highly im-
| pregnated with lime that it will take the
hair of horses !eS; in passing through
| it,
I,n y
day Colonel l.. w. Youmans brands l..
B OBryan as "a liar and a coward" in
consequence of the latter's refusal to
meet him "on the field of honor"
- a Milan professor, who has been
investigating drunkenness. finds that
men and women given to intoxicatiun
seldom commit suicide. This is not
strange. They are thinking too intentIy
OF how to get another drink.
The Washington correspondent of
the Edgefield -id,ertiscr writes that Gen
James Walker, the distinguished painter,
intends this summer to paint Gen. But
ler's cavalry fight at Travillian Station.
He says he will make it large picture,
eight by twelve feet, and will paint it
from Southern standpoint.
= Mr.. Mark Shell, Of Newberry. who
had his wife stolen from him last April
| by one McGill, has gone to North Caro-.
lima to get divorce. Whereupon the
Newberry Odserucr remarks: South
Carolina should have divorce law to
lit such cases as that of Mr.. Marcus Shell.
Where one party to a marriage is guilty
OF desertion and sdultery there should
surely De legal relief to the other party,
There IL no sense in trying to make hu.
man law higher than the divine law"
-, Mr.. Richard Riggs, living near
Ridgeville in Colleton County, o@ued a
very cross yard deg. Dave Rumph, col
ored. hired man, while taking up an
armful of tirewood in the yard, was bit.
ten in tie face by this dog. Rumph
pronounced the dog mad and insisted
tha. he should be Killed. Mr.. Riggs in
attempting to tie up his dog, was also
bitten on the hand The negro has since
died horrible death, having been tied
dow several days before. Mr.. Ricrs ;s
also now sick under treatment by DR.,
Murray.
= Ephraim Scroggs, of Fallstown,
Tenn, boasts that he has now burning
on his hearth the same fire which hs
s.sr.ed when he went to housekeeping
fifty years ago. From the day that fire.
was started to this it has never been per.
mitted to go out. Summer and winter Of
these fifty years it has been replenished
rs occasion required. From a roaring
heap it has dropped many a time to q
bed of smouldering Goals, but it has
never been permitted to turn into ashes
Inc tax on matches has never troubled
Scroggs. o'eA
a correspondent of the Atlanta
lonsttfuhon nominates Charles II. Smith
BILL Arp" for Governor of Georgia
This is wha. he says Of him: "a re6re.
sentative Georgian in every particular. a
thorough and scientific lawyer, farmer
with advanced ideas as shown by nrac.
tice, gentleman who in these davs ia a
ut represent ative of the Chevalier Raw.
ard, and writer whose productions oye
read in every household throughout the
length and breadth of the land more
ht1lng successor to Stephens could not
be found. "''
: One good thing that NAV be set
down to the credit of the late Congress- ia
ilo passage of the law reducing HOSTAGE
on single letters to two cents. It ia ,in.
guar that when a great surplus revenue
was reported some Congressman besi.
tated to risk lowering the postage rate
lest there should be slight deficit in tbo
postoftice Department. The increase in
the receipts will unquestionably over.
come any such deficit within two or three
years at furtherest; and even if il should
not, a part of the revanua ,orii