The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-03-28
Lebanon Items.

Our community has lost its oldest male
citizen in the person of Wilson Jones,
whom our Heavenly Father has taken to
Himself. He was in his eighty-sixth year.
He had been member of the Baptist
Church about ffty-two years, and died in
the happy hope of blessed immor-
tality. He has expressed himself repeat
edly as being ready for the redemption of
the body" He was buried at Lebanon
Baptist Church Saturday afternoon at 3
o'clock, in the presence of large and SYM
pathetic crowd. According to his own re-
Quest there was no funeral services, except
passage of Scripture being read and the
singing of hymn and prayer, conducted
by s. W. Smith, one of the Deacons of the
Church. He leaves large circle of chill
dren and grandchildren to mourn their
loss. May God bless them in their be-
reavement.
A,great many negroes are dying in this
neighborhood from something like con-
sumption. They do not live long after it
strikes them, and its victims are mostly
among the young ones. The older ones
say il is caused by exposure to the night
air. Your correspondent knows of at least
a dozen that have died within the last two
years from this cause, and not single one
over thirty.fve years old. 1t is something
unknown with the negro. Our NJ. DIS
are unable to do anything for them, 80 to
speak.
Wehave had some fine weather for farm
work, which was well put In by the far
mers generally in our midst. Most Of us
have our guano in the ground and some
have their corn planted, and one OF our
earliest planters (Mr. VIM. Burriss) has
,J,~1o1 ooffon Ho a1wouo r1antu in
March, and says his March cotton is
always his best cotton. He claims that it
is made before the dry weather sets in.
Our people are paying more attention to
making living than they used to do. We
fnd that those who make their living at
home are the most independent and are
getting along better than those who buy
their living.
The Farmers Alliance at this place is
gaining strength at every meeting. "A
great deal of interest Is taken-no excite
ment-but pure interest. Let us urge
every good man who is interested in the
welfare of his own as well as that of the
country, to lend Us helping hand, so we
may once more rid ourselves of the burdens
that are sapping our ife!s blood from our
veins, viz: The exhorbitant prices that
are put upon those who are so unfortunate
as to have to buy goods son time," which
is the main object of the Alliance.
Wheat and oats are beginning to make
some show after so long time. Old citi.
zens say it is good sign.
MI, g. M. Duckworth has COW that
has been milking for fve' years without
intermission, and is giving three gallons
of milk a day now. Who can beat it 2
We dare to say that it will be hard to find
lust such another.
Professor Holland has ninety-nine
names on his school roll, and is moving
along finely. The people are delighted
with his assistant, Miss Rosa Milford.
The school is going. to celebrate the Cen
tennial Inauguration of Washington with
recitations and speeches. Would be glad
to have the Editor 1--WE know the Senior
what % nas tse naae I h hGoses are doing
and how they do it. Suppose you send
him lust for fun, we will promise not to
let him get very badly hurt by any of uss
besides you will see where some of your
excellent papers 20, and what light it is
shedding in our midst.
I do not think it would be out of place
lust here to state that the 1NTELLIGENcER
Is growing more popular every day, judg..
ing from the notes of praises We hear from
various parties, and may it grow until 1t
will be a weekly visitor in every home in
our much beloved County. How can peo-
pie do without their County paper is more
than can see, especially Sc where 1t is
such as the INTELLIGENCER is, pure and
refining, neWsy and neat.
The dialogue in friend Russell's four
efficient School Commissioner} column
has created a great deal of talk and dissat.
isfaction in some parts of the neighbor-
hood rather unfortunate just now, as our
people are just beginning to pull out of
the old ruts of depending on the public
funds alone for schools: Hence, we think
it will tend 10 hurt rather than bless our
schools, as We cannot get the kind Of a
teacher as we want for the amount the
public pays, so we cannot conform to
sYoung Trustees ideas. We have good
school and have to supplement the public
fund by more than the sum realized dur.
ing the public term, besides running it all
the time at the same wages. w.