The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-08-30

that higher compliment and greater re-
sponsibility combined is bestowed upon
either young lady or young man. We
think Miss Cater will perform this new
duty with credit to herself and to the sat
isfaction of her friends.
The Means Co. make an announcement
in this issue that will please the public.
These gentlemen have secured stock Of
goods that will commend their knowl-
edge OF the gents furnishing business to
the kindly consideration of purchasers
The firm has fine force of ealesmen and
no man is expected to patronize them an
less be eau be pleased in quality of goods,
styles and prices. Call on them for any
thing you need in their line.
On Monday morning at about s o'clock
Mr.. J. A. Welch's dwelling house in the
eastern part of the city caught fire and was
quickly burned to the ground, though 1t
was raining at the time and the fire com.
panies hurried to the rescue on the alarm
being sounded. The wind was blowing at
q furious rate and the flames were 80 in
tense that their work of destruction was
soon completed. Some furniture was
saved, as the fire started in the second
story. We hear that the loss will amount
to S., 900 or 81, 200, with insurance of 5000.
John g. Hall, of Corner Township, died
on Saturday, August 10th, at o'clock.
Mr.. Hall went To Southwest Georgia 8
short time ago, where he contracted ma
larial fever, but recovered sufficiently tn
return home. The immediate cause Of his
death was congestive chill. Mr.. Hall
was 6s years of age, and had lived in the
Corner all his life. He was member Of
the Rocky River Baptist Church for a
long time. He was good citizen and
neighbor. He leaves wife and ten chill
dren to mourn their loss. He was buried
at Cooks Station, in the Methodist ceme-
terry, on Sunday, Rev. Calvin Presley
officiating.
The annual parade and inspection of the
Anderson Fire Department will take place
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. We
hope large crowd will witness 1t. The
Firemen do a noble work for their city.
In heat, in cold, In storm, in darkness, at
all times, they respond with wonderful
promptness to every alarm and work like
men against the fierce and furious flames.
Many are the self sacrifices they make
that go unknown and unpraiaed and un-
rewarded by the people of whose property
they are the guardians. They are noble
fellows, and fearless of danger and work.
Tho city appreciates their generous SER
vices and honors them for it. Long live
the Firemen
Rev. ]. M. Todd, Of Due West, died Of
consumption lost Friday evening. He
| was member of the Faculty of Erskine
College and ably filled the chair of Latin
and French. He was a gentleman of
scholarly attainments and was deeply in
tsrested in the work Of education. He
was an earnest Christian, and there are
1 many in this County whose hearts have
grown warm under his appeals from the
pulpit for the cause of Christ, and all who
knew him will lament the loss of man 30
useful to Church and State. For four years
the writer enjoyed the privileges OF bis
instruction, and no less did our Christian
Professor pray than the Psalmist, $50
teach US to number our daye, that we
may apply our hearts unto wisdom"
The Hartwell Sun says: 1.-The fishermen
are unusually successful this season, and
there are more fish being caught from Sa-
vannah River than for years. Randolph
Simpson caught two bluecats in his basket
Saturday that weighed about twenty-five
pounds. Mr.. Jas. Cason caught twelve
hluecats in one basket Monday morning
aggregating fifty pounds, and Mr.. w. M.
Johnson caught the same day thirsy.five
pounds in one basket. Mr.. Will Harper
says a fish jumped up out of the river
while he was down there the other day, and
when 1t fell back in the water sounded
like the falling of an immense dead tree.
| It is perhaps necessary to state in this
connection that Will has been regular
attendant upon campmeeting, protracted
meetings and Presbytery this season"
The Greenyille News says: "Citizen
Joshua Ashley, Of Anderson, appears to
have the longest head in the Tillman
crowd, from the Governor down. He was
here the other day when the Langford ha-
beas corpus case was being argued before
Judge Simonton, and when he had listen
ed to the arguments he said that the twen-
ty-fifth section would be knocked out as
surely as the sun would rise next day,
and recalled the fact that he had warned
the Legislature Oft last December. That Is
the cold truth, too. He was about the
only man of his party who had the sense
to see or the courage to say that when the
25th section got into the United States
Court it would not hold two minutes. His
prediction came true exactly"
The weather bureau on Saturday pre-
dicted gales on the coast Of the South At
lantic States for Saturday and Sunday.
Anderson is by no means on the coast but
she received full share Of the gales Sab
bath night and Monday morning never.
theless. All day Sabbath the wind was
high, but from about midnight until after
daylight Monday there was severe gale
blowing most of the time, and at times it
seemed to be little less than 3 hurricane.
Considerable damage was done in small
way, such as blowing down fences, few
trees, many limbs, and injury to the cot
ton and corn crops. A few houses suffered
! TO. some extent, none seriously. There
was good deal of alarm among the peo.
pie, and many Of them slept but little
while the gale lasted.
The gales that blew so fiercely here and
in other places in the up country Sabbath
night were harmless compared to the
manner in which Charleston, Savannah,
Jacksonville and other coast cities were
treated. Columbia had severe expert
ence. A number of houses were partially
unroofed and many trees blown down.
Charleston vas badly damaged and it was
not until Tuesday morning that anything
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