The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-03-22

LOCAL NEWS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 90, 1893.
The little folks are talking about the
Easter eggs.
Maj. B. F. Whitner went to Washing
ton last Friday.
Spring chickens bring fancy prices In
the city just now.
Good butter is scarce in the city, and is
in demand at fair price.
The life insurance agents are doing a
good business in Anderson.
The parasol of the coming season will
rival the most gorgeous lamp shade.
Mr.. Chas. E. Henry, the Greenville
Ne,cs' genial representative, is in the city.
It is feared the severe freezes of the past
week has seriously damaged the fruit crop.
The South Carolina Presbytery will hold
its spring session at Honea Path on April
7th.
Capt. W. s. Sharpe has gone to Atlanta
to spend few days under medical treat
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. N. Hayes, OF Clinton,
s. c.. have been visiting relatives In this
County.
Mrs. Dawson Smith and Miss Emma
Sitton, of Pendleton, were in the city on
Monday.
Col. J. N. Brown visited Union, 8. c.,
last week to attend to some professional
business.
Rev. Sam. P. Jones will lecture in
Greenville on the 9th inst, on Manhood
and Money"
Plant plenty of corn and give more at
tention to hogs, is the advice being given
| to farmers all over the South.
Mrs. Ella Hudgens, of Honea Path, has
been spending a few days in the city visit.
ing her neice, Mrs. J. T. Jones.
The County Alliance meets on Friday,
April 7th. The District Lecturer has
promised to attend the meeting.
Since this time last week We have had
all sorts of weather, and the weather
prophets say it is not settled yet.
A handsome monument has been erect.
ed in Silver Brook Cemetery to the MEM
ory of the late Mr.. Thos. NJ. White.
The State Sunday School Convention
meets in Abbeville on April 4th. Ander.
son County should be we'll represented.
1t is estimated that there are $4,000
worth Of bycioles in the city. The most
of the wheels were bought within the last
month.
A handsome monument has been erected
over the grave of our departed young
friend, Hewlett K. Sullivan, in the Silver
Brook Cemetery.
The time for paying city taxes expires
on the 9Oth inot, and we hope our readers
will remember this and not incur the pen
atty f"r delinquency.
Tbs work OF putting In the new machin-
cry ut the Cotton Mill will be complete this
week, and the operatives will probably go
to work next Monday.
Abbeville Press and Banner: ''The
Misses Miller, two of Anderson's sweetest
young ladies, are visiting their cousins,
the Misses McClung."
Rev. G. B. Smith, formerly OF this city,
but now of Orangeburg, will preach the
commencement sermon at the Columbia
Female College next June.
There will be total eclipse of the sun
on April l6. AS it will not be visible in
North America, there will be no use of
getting the smoked glass ready.
Mr.. P. B. Allen, one Of Anderson Coun-
ty's most progressive young farmers, sold
two hundred bales of cotton TO Messrs.
McCally & Cathcart last Friday.
Miss Zoe Bleckley, who has been stu
dent at the Hollins Institute, Virginia,
has been forced to give up her studies and
return home on account of her health.
Engineer Gleason, who has been han
ding the throttle on the Savannah Valley
Railroad aver since the Road was built,
hon haa tro 70 fhn re1,o in
Augusta.
Last week Mr.. ]. s. Fowler received
from Ohio pair of bloodhounds, which
be will keep at his convict stockade on his
farm. They are the largest dogs ever seen
in Anderson.
Street Overseer McGee is opening and
improving some streets on the west side
of South Main Street. These streets were
given to the city by Mrs. Jane D. Sayre
and other adjoining landowners.
From what We can learn, not many
spring oats have been sown in this County,
and the crop sown in the late fall has been
badly damaged by the severe freezes. The
early fall crop, however, looks very we'll.
The Plssbyterians have determined to
enlarge their Church building. A COM
mittee was appointed last Sunday to con-
suit an architect, suggest plan and to re-
port as early as possible the cost of the
work.
Mr.. B. A. Daniels, who has been on
gagged in business in Danville, Va, for sue
past two years, returned to Anderson last
week to visit his parents. He will not
return to Danville, but expects to locate
elsewhere.
DR.. Plckens, of Pendleton, was In the
city one day last week. He said that Mrs.
Pickens, who recently was tripped and
fell and was severely hurt, was recover
ing and wonld likely be in usual health in
short time.