The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-09-01

The Southern Railway will sell tickets
| ct one fare for the round trip to Norfolk.
| Richmond and Washington. September
| 1st to 4th inclusive, limit thirty days from
! date of sale. These tickets are open to
| any one wishing to take advantage Of such
very low rates.
G.. F. Jones Il Co. are moving their stock
| of clothing and gents furnishing goods
| into their new storeroom in the Webb
J block to-day, and are filling the vacated
| room with their stock of dry goods, It
| will be another week before they can move
the latter into their new quarters.
The death sentence of Austin Sammens,
the Piedmont boy murderer, has been
COMMITTED to life imprisonment in the
Penitentiary by Gov. Ellerbe. The com-
mutation was recommended by the Judge,
| Solicitor and the Jury that convicted bin.
He was to have been hanged on the 18th
inst.
Rev. D. X. LaFar, sof Charleston, died
| suddenly last week at Brevard, N. c.,
| where he was visiting. Mr.. LaFar refu-
| geed to Anderson during the war and re-
| sided here several years, during which be
supplied the Presbyterian Church and
taught school. On account of his age, be
had long since retired from active minis.
try.
Rev. Chas. Manly, D. D., and family,
moved from Greenville to Anderson last
week, and are warmly welcomed by Our
people. DR.. Manly will be one of the pro-
fessora in the Patrick Military Institute.
| Col. Patrick is fortunate in securing the
be a strong addition to this excellent
school.
Pelzsr Herald: miss Pearl Farrow.
the ffteen-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. T. Farrow, of Pelzer, died very
suddenly Wednesday night. She had
only been sick two or three days. Blood
poisoning was the immediate cause. She
was buried Thursday afternoon at New
Harmony Church in Laurens County near
Fountain Inn"
We have received a copy of the Dover
(Ky.) NeWS of last Thursday, and it is full
OF encouraging news from the Black Dia-
mond Railroad. The engineering corps
are at work in Ohio and Kentucky. and
will soon enter Tennessee. The Ne'cS
speaks in very complimentary terms of
Col. Boone. and says he is going to sue.
coed in this great enterprise.
Rev. W. r. Richardson, pastor of the
u lESU Nl6LuUQlSU OuulCu VI Gulo Why VA
preach the opening sermon of the fall ses-
sion of the Williamson Female College on
Friday evening, 10th inst. The sermon
will be delivered in the College Chapel,
which has just been beautifully and thor
oughly r%ejuvensted by the Alumnae Asso-
citation as 9 twenty. fifth birthday present
to their alma mater.
MI. George Harrison, of Landrum, s.
O., was in the city last week. George is
an old Anderson boy and his old friends
were delighted to greet him. He came
over more especially to buy an engine,
and MADE a trade with the Sullivan Hard
ware Company. He gays he tried the
dealers in Spartanburg and Greenville,
and his trip to Anderson saved him fifty
dollars in the purchase.
The first bale of new cotton was received
in Anderson last Thursday. It wss sold
by Mr.. Albert S. Bowie, an energetic
young farmer of Corner Township, to
Brown, Osborne & Co., and brought ten
cents. which is the highest price paid for
the first bale in any market in the State.
It weighed 455 pounds and was classed
good %middling. The first bale last year
was received on the 9Th August.
Anderson needs a society for the preven-
ton of cruelty to animals. 1t is nothing
uncommon to witness the cruel and bar
barous treatment of poor, old worn out
and disabled mules and horses, right in
the streets of the city. There is already q
law against such inhuman cruelty, but we
need some one to enforce it. Here is q
good chance for those kind hearted people
who wish to do a wise and humane thing.
The Elberton (Ga.) Star says: "Rev. L.
Carlyle Branyon, the talented young Bap-
tist minister, has been elected professor Of
the chair Of English and languages in the
John Gibson Institute. A wise selection"
Mr.. Branyon, who is a native of Anderson
County, recently preached at Royston,
Ca, and q correspondent Of the Star writes
q lengthy account of the meeting, in which
he speaks of our young friend in very
complimentary terms.
The Christian Ncighbor of last week
says: "a letter from Miss Florence Geer,
Palmetto, Ala. brings sad intelligence
the death of Mrs. Nancy NJ. (Browne)
Carpenter, widow of John Wesley Carpen-
ter. She died at her home. Palmetto,
Alabama, August II, 1897. She was the
youngest child of Elijah and Sally Browne,
of Pendleton District, now Anderson
County, South Carolina. She was mar
ried to Mr.. Carpenter in 1S43. They, with
bu6lG CulluIGu, uOSSo hllQCbSOJ ~
bama, in 1860. Here they continued to
maintain their integrity as disciples OF
Christ to the end Of their lives. One year
and ten days after, the death of her hus.
band the sorrowing widow followed to the
heavenly kingdom" The deceased was q
sitter of Rev. Sidi II. Browne, editor of the
Christian Neighbor, and has many old
friends and relatives in this County who
will regret tc hear of her death.
The following telegram from Asheville,
N. c., under date of August SOth, appear
ed In the daily papers Of yesterday; In
Dillsboro, Jackson County, last Saturday
afternoon, the clothing of J. w. Grant,
said to be a lawyer from Anderson. S. G
WAS found on the brink of the Tuckasee-
gee river. He had been fishing with Prof.
Williams, of that locality. The latte gave
the alarm and had the river dragged for
the body, but 80 far without avail. Grant
is said to have told several persons be
would not 20 back to his home at Ander-
son, s c. where he has q brother, also 6
lawyer. In his Pocket was found a letter
addressed to +. 81. Grant, his brother, at
Flat Rock, D. O., stating he would leave
for Flat Rock. Grant is said to have re.
marked to several people at the hotel that
he was going to drown himself. It Is said
he had been drinking Saturdayafternoon,
but was not badly Intoxicated. He appa-
rently was about rs years old and had ust
returned from the Nashville Exposition"
The missing man did not reside in Auder-
SOD, but spent q few weeks here recently
whiting his brother, J.. 81. Grant, Esq.