Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-12-03
Mere-Mention.


Tho bank Of Ncwbcrry is rcdccming its bills
in currency. .-7----Thc first s!ad Of the sea-
son appeared ! Savannah, Nov 13--------
Now Jersey has 5000 sous of Temperance
--s7 100000 of Northern capital has
been invested in Georgia this year Mr..
Pcabody's noticeable donations during his
lifetime amounts to $7,99G,O0O- O--Thc
Office Of Federal assessor for Talinfuro and
Wilkes Counties, Ga, has been plundcrcd,
and the assessor warned to keep away. .--------
The Charleston "Acadcmy of Music" has been
completed. - Tx President johnson will
winter in Washington. .---Gov Ftzpat.
rick, of Alabama, is dead --Dr. Living.
stone, the great African traveller, has been
heard from. .-Ncw York State milks
100000 COWS to supply 3l5 cheese factories.
--------Thcrc will be six cclipscs in 1870,
four of the sun and two of the moon----
Fifteen tons of tracts have hccn sent from
Dublin TO the Chicago Christian Association.
--Thc jurics in York scaled old debts
to 334 cents on the dollar. -Water rcd
dcns tho rose, whskcy the nose, and Jack
Frost tue tocs.--Thc soriginal press used
by Benjamin Franklin is said to be in ITO
different American printing Offices
Melbourne, Australia, has now 10000 in
habitans. Thirty years ago it was solitary
log hut. .----1 1Icnry Ward Bccohor has been
elected president Of tho Womon's Suffrage
Convention at Ceaveland, Ohio. -Want
of prudence is too frequently tho want Of yir-
tue. -Emigrants FROM tho North, arc
settling in Ashvilc, N. C.----Spirit wrap.
pcrs-bottles. ---Omaha has II 900 in.
habitants --D Brazil has abolished fogying
in the army. .-----"From Maine to Texas"
is now superseded by "fron Florida to Alas.
ka. --A telegraph cable is to be laid
along the the bottom Of tho Sucz canal.---
Busybodcs mover have anything to do.---
a Canadian has been fined five dollars for
calling his ncighbor an alderman -lraup-
man has confessed to numbering the kincls
family in France, eight in number --Rcv.
Henry Ward Bccchcr's income from preach
ing and lccturing amounts to So, 600 year.
--Thc gentleman who attempted to look
into futurity strained his eyes ----Ver.
mont is tho richest Stats, per capita, in the
Union. n.--Why is colt like an cgg? Hc
cause it's of no use till it's broken n---Ihc
Germans in Chicago are to build theatre to
cost $50 600 Congress will begin with
nineteen contested election eases ----SIan.
dcrs issued from beautiful lips arc like spiders
crawling from the heart Of osc---:-Onc
hundred Of Brigham Yo, ng's missiono RIGS
arc on their way Eastward
EGy" Professor Shepherd, State Inspector
Of Fcrtilizcrs, in lis report to the Governor,
gives some interesting items Of information re.
lativc to the phosphatcs Of South Caroline.
From january lst to November 20th, there
were shipped to Europe from Charleston b.
7G5 tons fphosphatc, and 20 ,030 tons co,,st.
wise. He calls the attention of tho State au.
thortics to the investigation Of dcpositrs of
iron pyritos which arc known to exist in this
State, and which must ultimately prove an
Important source Of sulphur used in the man
utacturc of super -phosphatcs judging, he
says, from the analysis of various articles Of
tcrcd for sale, think that the planter is Oh.
tanning excellent commercial manures, bet
ter even than those from whose use lc obtain
cd such fine rcsnlts tho past season. Unless
some unexpected circumstances intervene,
there is every prospect Of good crops next
season. Our beds of ofphosphatcs, he says, arc
apparently incXhaustiblc, and arc attracting
universal attention. Ito advises that no
changes DC made in tho law for the inspection
of fertilizers
EFT stormy autumn, ''thc oldest inllabi
tant' says, may be followed bya comparative.
ly mild winter. However this my be, VIC
have certainly since tho middle Of September
had remarkably stormy autumn--the most
destructive in its foods and winds throughout
the States, from Maine to Texas, and from
Connecticut to California, of any on record.
We think, too, that the elements having thus
expended their wrath in September, October
and November, there is some reason for tb.
| theory that the winter mouths will be com.
parativcly mild. At all events, we hope So
IARIs, November 29.--Thc Emperor nd
dressed the reunion members Of the Senate
and LcSislatilf, saying between those who
would change all, and those who .:ould grant
nothing, glorious course might he chosen.
---e- S------
WASHINGTON, November 22.-Rcspontl.
ing to the dayticn Minister, colorcd man,
President Grant said
" "Gcncral--If any proof were wanting of
the unfoundcd character Of the prejudice
which until recently pcrvadcd at least parts of
this country against tho race from which Won
arc sprnng, it might be found in tho high
tone and polished style of tho remarks which
you have just uttered. That, however, like
all similar prejudice. no mattcr how lccply
'mTnlaniedj !.ust yield to the force of truth.
The throes by which tho new birth here was
accompanied were indeed agonizing, and thci,
effects even now arc scarccely over. promi.
ricnt statesmen, however, have neglected no
fit opportunity for sancationing and sccurina
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