Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-09-03

ins ID lbs, and liable to crawl with man
upon his back, was secured u few days ago,
in the vicinity of Kutztown.
! GGN IIoUsToN' PROBABLE MlJoRITY.-Tho
! Galveston C'tgttiaa of the 18th ms =. thinks
| that Houston is elected Governor of Texas,
from l0,000to l2,00o majority. Much larger
than his merits deserve.
Close WoRK.-Onc Opposition candidate
for Congress is elected in kentucky by n
majority of three; ono in Tennessee hy
twcnty-siS; another by eighty and another
| by fifty a Democrat is elected in Kentucky
by sixty-scvcn
klLLED.-J. 'rc was killed in Campbell
CO., Ga, last Monday, by John and Thomas
Yanccy, Ticl was the only sober man in tic
aitrav, which caused his DEATH
NORFOLK. Aug. 23.-'rhc buicr of drolg-
ing machine exploded this M ,rning in the
Albcrmarlc and Chesapeake Canal, near this
city, killing three men.
Cure YANKEE.-A Yankee schoolmastcr
nanol ComStock, turnel drove of cattle
into the cornfcI of II farmer, in Dubuque.
Iowa. and during the confusion OF this act
created in the family, run away with the
farmers daughter and marie her.
MoRrALrTv.-Charlcston continues to be
the healthiest city on the Atlantic coast, saws
the .Nycmry. in ratio to her population. The
ofholal returns of the mortality of the city
for the week ending August 20, registcrs'the
death of sixwhitc persons and thirteen blacks
T1tal nineteen. OF the six deaths among
the white population, one was from old ago.
and the rest from five different diseases.
TEXAS GRApEs.--In Caldwell county, Tex.
as the wlltc Malaga grape, grated on the
common Mustang of that State, has provcl
q perfect success. M larger bunchcs or
grapes more uniformly ripc, than samples of
these Texas grapes. could be prosecuted. This
Is suggestive fact for fruit growers.
PORTLAND ME.. August o4.-The pcnob
scott Democratic Convention met at Bangor,
on Monday. Among other resolutions adopt
Ell, was one in favor Of the acquisition of
! Cuba.
TEXAS CENTRAL RAlLRoAD.-The Central
Railroad of Texas is completed to the 18th
mile. Ten miles more are expected to be
completed carly next spring.
| R,riD GRowTu.-lnwa, which had but
100000 population in 1916, has Goo, ,0J0-an
unparalleled increase.
NorE FOR GoveRxoR.-.lll save six coun.
ties in Alabama, have been heard from. II
is estimated that the majority of Moore, Dem
J 0crat over Sanford. Opposition, will bc about
/ $4,000.
BcAD.-John Blake White, Esq, an old
citizen of Charleston, died Wednesday.
FRoM kANsAs.-McCrca, who killed Clark.
a pro-slavcry man. in 1851, was arrested Mt
Kansas, on the 23I lust. Mr.. Clark was the
first man killed in the territory for political
! causes.
PUBLIC MEETING IN BALrIMoRE. The OK
tent to which row,lyism has e me in Balti
more, and its latest bloody and brutal mani
testations, has canSod general reaction in
the feelings of the citizens there. and public
meeting is called for Monday. tho 4th prox.,
to devise measures for putting stop to it,
The South should prepare for the rowdy and
murdcrons spirit forcing itself upon hcr
SENATOR IIANMoND.-Thc Democrat, n
leading German journal of Western New
| York. nominntcs the lIn. james H. Ham.
mond, of South Carolina, as the Democratic
candidate for the next Presidency.
F"R MAsoR.-The Charleston papers an
nouncc that there are three candidates now
in the field for the Mayoralty of that city,
viz; Hon. Charles McBnth. present Mayor !;
Col. a. o. Andrews and Col. John f., Carew.
| BE CARErCL-Chcmical examinations. it
is said. 50 to show that most of the vinegar
made in Now York is atlultcrated with sugar
of lead, vitriolic acid, and other poisonous
metals and minerals
| RE-ELEcTED.-John Ross has been re elect
cd President of the Cherokee Nation. Ross
was elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee
Nation, under their first constitution, in the
fall of 1928, ut New Echota. Georgia, and
has been the chief ever since, being re-clecte,l
every four years.
RAINpow.-A lunar rainbow was visible
at Culpepper G. H., Va, after the storm on
Monday evening.
| HOMIcIDE-Threeml men in this District
having been indicted for highway robbery
two of them gave bail for appearance at
| Cont and the GonstalIn Mr. S,muol IJ,r.