The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-11-19

| We ask the attention of our farmers to
the advertisement of the Wilcox & Gibbs
Guano Co, which appears in another col
umn. This Company is one of the Oldest
and most reliable guano manufacturers in
the State, and their guanos, wherever used,
have given entire satisfaction.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop W. B. w. Howe
paid his annual visit to Grace (Episcopal)
Church, on Friday last, and preaC led two
instructive aud interesting sermons. From
here he went to Pendleton and there con-
firmed Mr.. James Hunter and Miss Sue
Sloan as members Of the Church.
Mr.. John ". Simpson, most success
full and energetic farmer of the Pendleton
section. sold several bales Of long staple
cotton iu the city few days ago, fol
which be received 9.774 cents per pound.
Mr.. Simpson, We learn, has twenty -four
acres in long staple cotton. which will
turn out about twenty good bales.
Mr.. A. .. Towers handed in his new
advertsem ent too late for this weeks pa
per, but in looking over it we find that he
| is still Offering bargains in goods which
! handles, and wants to sell them. Look
for his advertisement next week, but In
the meantime visit his store. He is es-
peciallY anxious for those indebted to
him to call and settle.
Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb and Company
gave two entertainments in the Opera
House Monday-afternoon aud evening"
and were greeted by fair and appreclative
audiences on both occasions. The Japa-
nese jugglers were the hest we have ever
seen in Anderson, while the Liliputians
| in their representations afforded &C c2sider-
| able amusem ent to the audience.
The school at Poplar Springs, in Dark
Corner Township, is run in the right
way. Last year the patrons secured a
teacher at fixed salary. She taught the
school and went home. Early in the fall
the patrons met, paid in the amount
they agreed to pay and sent Miss Mamie
Warren check for full amount. This is
the way to get good school and keep one
The typical mountaineer is seen upon
the streets these days He drives couple
of hardy steers hitched to q canvas-c COW
cred wagon loaded with apples, chinque-
pins and chestnuts, and under which his
brace Of lean coon dogs are tied with a
hickory wythe. These wagons come from
sway back" in the mountain regions, the
land of the laurel and the home of "moun-
tain dew"
The Register of the 18th says: Governor
Tillman yesterday pardoned Ann Dubose,
who was convicted at the July term of the
Court of General Sessions, 1856, for An
derson County of murder and sentenced to
ten years. Imprisonment in the'State Pen
itentiary." Ann Dubose, to whom refer.
So kal H;llnI Mobf;a sp
Mills Township. She had served only
pardon.
Messrs. Taylor & Crayton have few
words to say to the readers of the INTEL.
LIaENcER this week. aud We ask you to
read their new advertisement. These
gentlemen have just opcneh large stock
Of family and fancy ern'aries at No. ~
Granite Row, and they ore determined to
sell them. They are enersetic, progressive
business men, and viii, 10 their utmost
to please their customers Give them
call, and you will not regret it.
Rev. M. O. Ligon left few days ago
for Corvallis, Oregon, where, by appoint
charge of the principal Methodist Church
of that city, and to teach in College.
Rev. G. G. Harmon. who has been serving
on the Anderson Circuit the past year,
accompanied Mr.. Ligon to The West.
Both these gentlemen carry with them to
their distant home the prayers and best
wishes Of their numerous friends.
The Baptist Courier says: ''The Courier
cordially welcomes Rev. O. M. Martin,
the new pastor of the Anderson Church,
to South Carolina. He fills one of the
most important pastorates in the State,
and he will find the brethren of his charge
ready and willing to cooperate in every
worthy movement for the extension OF
the Masters cause at home and abroad.
They have noble record in good works,
and comprise in their number some Of the
choice spirits of the land"
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly for No
vember 21st is especially attractive. 1t
has sn extra colored frontispiece entitled
"a Box Party ut the Horse Show" With
this number also announces its special
department for children, conducted by
Mrs. Augusta Prescott. Among the illus
tratious are a double-page picture of
page illustrative OF the st. Bartholomew's
Parish House in New York, an attractive
series OF pictures Of the game Of foot ball,
together was illustrations of the hotels and
public halls OF Minneapolis. Lieutenat
Totten commences his new series of ,arti-
cles on The Coming Crisis" in this num-
ber.
Mr.. Ben. Duncan, OF Varennes Town.
ship, met with a painful accident, about
three miles South Of the city. last Monday
morning. He was on the Way to the city,
with two teams. which were in charge Of
negro drivers. When near the Smile post
one of the teams became unmanageable,
and running against the other wagon, both
teams ran away. Mr.. Duncan was knock
ed from the wagon, and for awhile was
thought to be seriously injured: He was
DR. Orr Immediately summoned to his
bedside. Our latest information is to the
effect that Mr.. Duncan, though painfully
bruised, will soon recover.
After suffering for twelve days with
pneumonia, Jessie, the bright and inter
esting little daughter of Rev. H. IN. AL
len, died at her home at Central, s. O., on
Friday morning, 18th inst, at o'clock,
aged two years and six months. On Fri
day afternoon the little ones remains
were laid to rest in the Central cemetery,
Rev. W. D. Hawkins conducting the .fu-
neral services. Mr.. and Mrs. Aliens nu-
merous friends in Anderson County will
read this notice with sorrow and will join
US in extending sympathies to the sorely
bereaved parents, who, however, are COM
forted with the knowledge that their little
darling is at rest with the Saviour.
Mr.. r. F. Pullen, who recently went to
Mississippi to buy cotton, in private let
ter to the proprietors of the INTBLLIaEN-
GER, says "This is the richest country
ever saw, and at the same time it is the
| poorest. The land produces three fourths
| to bale of cotton to the acre without fer
! tilizers, but the farmers and merchants are
all in debt and hard run for money.
Money is loaned here at from 10 to Is per
cent. The people plant all cotton. The
| lands produce from forty to fifty bushels
of corn per acre, yet the farmers do not
raise as much corn here as is raised on the
poor hills of Carolina and Georgia. No
wheat and very few oats are produced
here. A farmer here will raise 1000 bales
Of cotton, and next Spring mortgage land,
stock and crop and pay - per cent. inter-
est for money to make another crop.
This looks like conclusive evidence that
it will not pay to raise all cotton at cents
and buy grain and provisions at high
prices. There are no manufacturing en-
terprises in this County except cotton seed
| oil mills. There is large OYerprOduC-