Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-08-23
wALHALLA, CAROLINA THURSDAY, AUGUST 49, 1877.
N 9ws Items.
laurens is agitatiug railroad to Spar
tanburg.

laurens is agitatiug railroad to Spar
tanburg.
The area under wheat in Great Britain
was twenty-two por cent. less in 1876 than
10 1860
| A German literary man says that ia
Aneroa thieves aro so sosrce that rewards
arc offered for them.
Gov. Stone, of Mississippi, has been
renomioated by the Democratic State Con-
vention.
Only seven Southern railroads pay divi-
dends to stockholders. Six of these arc in
Georgia.
A shower of frogs about the size of flies
has been recent distraction in the country
about Petersburg, Virgnia.
The word Bible comes from JtJlos, tho
namo of the reed of which pupor uas an-
ciently made.
Hiram Weeus was shot through tho head
aud Instantly killed by Lewis Grant at
Tabernuclc (oolorcd) Camp Ground, in
Abbevile County, on tho 18th instant.
Judge Reed, 10 recent case in Charles
ton, decided that q summons in the Com
mon Pleas need not be sealed and attested
by the Clerk of the Court. 1t is not writ
under the common law, but mere potice
to the defendant that an action has been
brought, signed by the plaintiff or his attor-
! ncy. The practice has been various 10
different pntts Of the State on this subject.
] The first bale Of new Georgia cotton was
received on the 3D. instant fron. the pIanta-
ton of Col. p. W. Jones, of Albany 1t
was sold in Atluuta for II cents per pound.
Col Jones has sold the first bale of cotton
every year but one since tho war.
The dead body OF coored man was
found in the Congareo River, near Columbia,
on the 14th instant. The remains could
not bo identified and were in an advanced
state of decomposition.
One of Peuitentiar5 guard was saved
from drowning by convict pulling him out
of the river The boat containing the
guard aud two convicts had been capsized.
The Postmaster at Charleston has called
the attention Of the Postmaster General to
the practice OF county postmasters selling
| oIhthPo ob u ui"CouuL " luCT6HS6 (uclF CON-
pensation. The practice has produced
serious falling off of the receipts
of the Charleston "tlice, many of tho whole.
sale merchants getting their supplies from
their country customers.
George Il Gordon, life convict in the
Clinton On. ~ Prison has secured patent
for m invention to be used as a propeIing
power for boats and vessels of every de-
scri piion. lie has been offered S25, 900 for
half interest in his invention.
Gov Hampton has removed w. B. Nash,
S &. Gaillard. George l. Cunningham, W.
Il JerVey and w. II jones, the old Board
of Trustees of the Colored Orphan Asylum
and appointed in their place Andrew Wal
lace, .. NJ. Wilder, j. w. Harrison, Chris.
topher Haynesworth and G. j. Carroll. They
arc all colored men, but of better kind
than the old board.
About forty names were obtained during
tho meeting at Anderson as a nucleus for
the formation of State horticultural So
oiety The organization will DO completed
at the State Fair in November next
The Fort Nalley Mirror assumes all tho
responsibility for this item: IA Hardshell
| DdpliSL uIlul5tcI WntI6 Dre0CDln0
at Union Church last Sunday that he hoped
when the Mcthodiss got religion again they
would homestead on it,"
Mrs Hayes, of Allen County, Kentucky,
recently gave birth to four children, two
boys and two girls, which weighed twenty
four pounds in the aggregate. anH were all
at last accounts as we'll as could be expected.
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and industry, they might make fortunes out
Of the supor-abundant fruit crop. Gaming
and drying fruit is much more profitable
than shipping it in q fresh state to the
Northern narkots.
s. j. Lee, Solicitor of Judge Wigg;n's
Circuit, has resigned his office, since tho
Investigating Committee got after him.
This vaoates another office, which we doubt
not will be filled by a Democrat. II little
whiio there will be but few Radicals 10 Office
in this State.
One vote sent Oliver Cromwell to tho
Long Parliament, Charles Stuart to the
scaffold, revolutionized England aud mado
Great Britain free. Oae vote gave us Texas,
made war with Mexico, purchased CaIifor-.
uia, turned the tide Of emigration, and will
change the destiny of tho world.
Judge West, the Republican candidate
for Governor of Ohio, was prominent as
sistant in tho temperance crusade Of the
women about three years ago. He is now
making specohcs in aid Of the communists
of that State, His politics seem to be
governed by desire to destroy other peoples
business and property.
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