Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-05-07

Shares in North. Eastern Railroad Oompa-
ny, $4,000; shares in Spartanburg and
Union Railroad Company, $3.50, 900; shares
in Blue Ridge Railroad Company, s1,310.,
900; shares in Columbia and Augusta Rail
road Company, $4,000; shares in Cheraw
aud Coalfelds Railroad Company, 5000, 900 !;
shares in Laurens Railroad Company, $50
600; shares in South Carolina Railroad Com.
pany, $4,000; shares in Charleston and
Savannah Railroad Company, $500, 900
shares in South Western Railroad Bank,
$4,000; shares in Keowee and Tuckasccgec
Turnpike Company, $4,000. Total, s 2,754,-
660.--IHouic.
INTEREsTlNo.--We copy the following
from the darlington Democrat: -
TIMMoNsvILLE, S.. G., April 10, 1869
Married at Timmonsvillc, SC, on Saturday
night, 10th ult, by II. D. Cook, Esq. (whitc.)
Jim Gour, (black as the ace Of spadcs,) to
Bet Hancock, (white)
INDIGNATION Observation-Disclosures to
previous notice q meeting Of the citizens of
Timmonsvillo was held on the 18th instant.
Rev. John NJ. Timmons was called to tho
chair, and James N. Garner requested to act
MS Secretary. The chairman explained tho
object of tho meeting to be to give expression
on a recent marriage of a negro to a white
woman by a white Magistrate of this place.
The meeting was addressed by DR.. Byrd,
Capt. johnson and others, all strongly oppos.
ing the above marriage. Afterwards the
following resolutions we're adopted:
ResozOcd, That we look upon the marriage
of Bet Hancock, (whito,) to Jim Gour,
Cblack,) as contrary to the laws Of God and
civil society, and we take this method to ex.
press our indignation, not only in this case,
but all like cases, aud will use our best efforts
to prevent such q disSraccful occurrence
in this community again. .
Rcsot0c;t, That we ccnsure the Magistrate
(whitc) who married them, and return thanks
to Stephen Gett, (colorcd,) for refusing to
marry the above party.
R:so'vc1, That the proceedings of this
meeting be ~publishc | in the "De.nocrat" and
tSouthcrncr."
JOHN NJ. T[MMONs, Chairman.
JAMES N. GARNER, Secretary.
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SWEET PoTAroGs.-Wc would impress
upon tho reader the necessity of getting this
important crop out as early as possible. Last
season, by the use Of glass, we commenced to
put out on the 18TH of April. At digging time,
VIC carefully measured the yield from each
successive drawing. The first brought some
thing over three hundred bushels to the acre,
those of two weeks later a little over three
hundred and fifty bushels, and the next un-
der two hundred aud SO down to the usua,
:" seed patoh." There is great economy in
bedding out seed enough TO make a suficicncy
Of slips to complete the planting at the first
good season after the middle Of April. We
use no manure for 0 If s"cct potatoes, but sub.
soiled the ground both ways. Made tho beds
three feet apart, and kept tho ground clean
but never broke the ridge. 1t is an excellent
crop, and when nil our farmers shall have pro.
vidcdcd warm, tight cellars for storing and
preserving them through winter, it will get to
be q very important one. --Southcrn Farmer.
ONE of "Mack's" best 10 this picture Of a
carpet bag senator from South Carolina:
called to my mind tender recollcctions
of the late %fratcrnal struggle by looking exact.
ly like q sutlcr from whom Z used to buy olay
pipes at twenty-five cents apiece, and tobacco.
ct ton conts q pipcful during the siege of
Vicksburg. He he'd the sutlcrian style to a
dot-even in tho o%ratorio gestures which first
preceded a declaration to the hungry boy of
the-th Ohio, that the mince pics were all
out, but that no had sent to the lanyard for
tho w%hcrewithall to make q fresh supply.
BY which l must not be understood as dispar-
aging tho honest oeoupatiou!ofa satler, ,orin.
t%imating that there is aught in it that units
man for beinga Senator. afterwards. On the
contrary,sI am Of the opinion that the latter
day Senator cannot have had a better school.
ing than the rugged discipline tho suffers
wagon affords. Ittrains him in those habits
Of selfpreservation and economy, which prac.
ticed on a large scale In his nov position ena.
bles him. to save a million. out Of d salary If
five thousand aud the mnaledictionnsI oyos
his scale Of price or the imprecations over the
toughncsD and leatheriness Of his dried beef,
prepared him to bear with fortitudo tho un.
friendly criticisms Of political opponents, or tho
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