The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-03-11
Local Items from other Counties.

Mr.. G.-M. Hunter of Fish Pond, Bum
well County, last year made eighteen
barrels of cane syrup-eight hundred and
ten gallons-on two acres OF land.
Deputy United States Marshal r. S.
Rutledgo made "a raid on party of illicit
distilers eight miles below Westminster
on Thursday morning and captured three
hundred gallons OF mash which was
ready to be worked. The still had been
removed. He also captured Dock Gray,
who is supposed to be one of the party.
We clip the following from the Colum-
bia Record: '"Thc Commissioner of Agri-
culture is sending out thermometers and
blanks for reporting the condition of the
we her to the farmers who have been
ap,.intcd to make the tobacco expert
ment in the various counties. Farmers
who desire to compete for the $10O pre-
MUM offered by the department to the
farmer reporting the best results i'll to-
bacco culture arc requested to write tho
Bishop Kcever has directed Rev. r. p.
Franks, who went from Marion Street
Church to Cheraw at the beginning of the
present conference year, to take charge OF
Sumter Church, in place of Rev. Manning
Brown, whose disability compelled him
to give up his work about month ago.
The congregation at Cheraw, however, is
so we'll pleased with Mr.. Franks, that
they have forwarded strong protest 10
the Bishop against his removal.
J. D. Turner, has two Chinese coins,
brought from China by a missionary that
he wears upon his watchchain. The coin
is made of brass, is about the size of
nickel, and has square hole in the. CEN
tire, and raised Chinese letters on the sur
face. We could not interpret them but
suppose they meant I'm Joss we trust"
The value of the coin is the tenth part of
a mill, or the hundredth part of cent,
and will purchase in China square meal
of rice for one person, so its value is not
so insignificant as "Mellica man" would
suppose Hartwcll Sun.
There is little boom in this direction.
Land on the outskirts of the village is be-
ing sold for one hundred dollars an acre.
Some think this is an eXtravagant price,
others believe that a few years will prove
the wisdom Of paying such a rate. OF
course, such purchases are intended for
building purposes, for man would be
foolish to expect to get value received If
he intended to use such high priced land
for farming, at least in this village and
vicinity. The fact that land in the vicinity
of Piedmont brings one hundred dollars
per acre, demonstrates how valuable a
manufacturing interest is to communi-
ty. Fifteen years ago this same land
would have been high at tea dollars an
acre. at that time it was out in the
country now it is near thriving village,
convenient to stores, churches, &c.; hence
the difference. We have been informed
that land equally as good as this, and no
further away from the center of the place,
was offered for sale just before the close
of the war for five dollars per acre in
Confederate money. During The past ten
years tho improvement in lands and
houses within two miles Of this village is
very apparent. We asked the question of
o farmer, how much he thought the far
mers in this vicinity had been benefited
by the establishment of the Piedmont
Mills. His reply was that many had
been benefited fifty per cent. The in
creased value of some lands made better
showing even than this. These state
ments may be of interest twenty-five
years from this. and may be of some in
terest at the present time to those who are
opposed to the State laws encouraging
manufacturing enterprises by remission
of taxes, &c.-Piedmont correspondence En-
terprise and Mountai',eev.