The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-07-26
Needles Newell ! News.

We have had several good little show
ers of rain and crops are looking better.
The loafers' club is on boom and the
base ball craze seems to be growing.
Our enterprising Jeweler has recently
added to the electro plating department
of his business two mammoth equalizing
batteries ap1 is now better prepared to do
gold and 81. yer plating than ever. When
you need ANYTHING in his line give him
call. He will treat you right.
We are indebted to DR.. Tripp for q
very fine cantaloupe shipped to us via
"Foster's Express" last week. 1t was OF
the Nixon variety-"rougFl skin,, thick !
meat of rich flavor and sweetness" The
Doctor tells me that he has raised canta-
loupes of this variety that tipped the beam
at Is lbs. Can any OF the INTELLIGENT
GERS readers beat him :?
The game of checkers seems to have
taken a rise, most all the boys are trying
their hand at it. DIR. Talmage is quoted
as commencing the game of checkers
both as an innocent recreation and as a
beneficial study. "It teaches patience
and forethought" says the eminent
divine.
Although my love fer Benjamin
never did exceed that of Jonathan and
David, it makes me feel blue to see out
siders fling at him as the New York
World did last Wednesday when it said {:
"'Even if they were yankee brains,
South Carolina might we'll afford to i'm
port brains from any quarter If they
could be got into the head Of her Cover
nor.:'
The "public meeting" at Mountain
Springs on Tuesday, the 18th, was attend
ed by quite large crowd and was a
quiet and orderly meeting in. every re-
spect, the boys being in tie best of good
humor and on the lookout for an explain
alton ofthe silver situation. The meeting
was presided over by w. c. Pickens, and
the speakers were Col. Jos. l.. Keitt,
Hon. A. G. Latimer and j. Belt Watson.
Col. Keitt was the first to come forward.
He spoke at some length and descanted
with much fuency upon demands found
in the platform upon which Weaver and
Field were nominated at Omaha, Neb..
July End, 1872. He read the answers of
our statesmen to the New York World'S s
three questions, omittir1g Buffers. He
said that Butler had the thing mixed up,
was against them and always had been.
ITO any thoughtful observer 1t will not
be very difficult task to work out the
reason why Buffers answer wasn't read.)
When the Colonel concluded his remarks
the meeting was adjourned for dinner,
which was served on the grounds. After
dinner the speaking was resumed, Hon.
A. G. Latimer occupying the rostrum.
Having business that we were obliged to
attend to elsewhere from 1890 p. m. to
2.30 o. m. we did not get to hear the Con-
gressman's address. When we got back
to the grounds they hadjugt turned Belt
Watson loose and he was playing around
among the Psalms and shooting with g
shotgun. He said that he had the audac-
ity, the impudence, the impertinence and
the courage to criticise Judge-Judge
Hudson. We thought time or two
that we would draw our note book on
him but he ran 80 much on the "Dick
Daley" style we couldn't have took notes
for-for-well, we just didn't try 1t. This
is the way they said that Dick always
commenced: "Feller citizons. This are
day for the pompulation Of this kentry
like bob tailed pullet on u ricketty hen
roost, to be looking up, up! A crisis has
arriven an sometim's burt! Where are
we? all in bunch. Where am I here
I is an I'd stand here and expliate from
now n W till the day O. synagouges if you'll
whoop for Daley" After precipitating
the lary., tanks Of what was called silver
solution, have heard several say that
they beheld instead of the shining metal
an article of g different hue, which when
analyzed showed the ''pu blic meeting"
had the following objects iri view: First,
to accuse the President of not sticking to
the Democratic platform; Second, to
lower Senator Butler in tho estimation OF
the people; Third, to mssconstrue the
meaning Of General Gordcn's address at
Greenwood Fourth, to denounce Judge
Hudson; and Fifth, to instill the Noun
tain Springs and the Pisgah Alliances
with rallyism and imploSe them to re-
organize. NED NEEDLE.