Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-10-18

Saturdays only, arriving at Wahalla at
11.l5 =: NJ.
by order Assistant Superintendent.
II. L. POE, Agent.
Preserve Tie coun,ls for future reference.
A few moro days to pay your taxes in, and
then the penalty will be added.
Look out for tho balloon ascension ON the
gath instant.
Advertise moro, and you'll havc less occasion
to talk about tho hard times.
Cols. Keith Thompson and Norton arc absent
On professional business at Pickcns this week.
Two marriages Of young ladies in our town
list week with many moro ahxious and waiting.
Tho Baohmani Endowment Of Ncwbcrry coi-.
lege has reached tho sum Of ST. ,954. SO, rs we
learn by the Lutheran Visitor, Of the 18th.
Mr.. ]. II. Wilson and YIN. Stcudcnimiro, who
graduated hero last juno, aro now in the Thco-
logical Seminary at Salem, Virginia.
Married, on the | lth instant, by Rev. Fletcher
smith, Mr.. T. W. Grogan to Miss Martin j.,
uuuSulcF VI MI. W. Y. NaUlucnt OIL OCOuCC.
Mrrricd, at the residence of tho brides
parents, in Walhalla, October 9th, 1877, by
Rev. J. +. Probst, Mr.. John F. VonIIalcln to
Miss G. Wilhclmina IIesse.
Married. on Wednesday evening, tho 10Th
instant, by DR.. J. 2. Smcl.zcr, Mr.. Luther S.
Rickcpbacker, Of Oangcburg to Miss Lizzie
Belle yanDvere, of Walhalla.
Mrs. Boincst and family, who have been
living in our town for the past three years,
have returned 10 their homo in Ncwbcrry county,
near pomaria.
Tho Y NJ. G. A. will hold union prayer
meeting at West Union on Friday night next,
at7@ o'clock to bc conducted by II. S. Van
Divierc.
Our town hns been full Of mountain wagons
for the last few days. loaded with flour apples,
cabbage, chickens, eggs butter, &c. All these
articles are bringing good prices III this market.
Mr.. G. kccls Maxwell has made 148 gallons
OF sorghum molasscs on ] / acres Of land. At
80 cents per gallon he has income on this
amount Of land Of $74, which beats tho produc-
tion of cotton NIL to pieces.
Don't tell married man any joke on the
hoys for he'll tell his wife, his wife will tell hcl
sister, and the sister will tell all tho rest Of the
girls. If you don't believe it, try it.
Every day brings tho year nearer end
and this reminds us Of tho approaching mar
ragcs. Wc have noticed more than ono Cir
with that far away look in her lustrous orbs
as if cndcavoring to pry into the mysterious
future.
W. W. Coles great monagcric and circus
will exhibit in Walhalla on Monday, the 90 tn
~Lpok out for the advertisement next week
Price Of admission so cents; children undc,
years half price.
On Sabbath afternoon next tho Young
Mems Christian Association will hold dc
votional meeting at tho Presbyterian Church
Exercises will commence at $50 o'clock ant
continue one hour. These meetings are un
usually interesting and II cordial Invitation
is extended to young and old to !ako part in
them.
Mr.. II. B. Wright and Mr. H. L. Wright
of Laurens County, have rented houses in our
town and will soon move here with their fami-
lies. They come to educate their children in the
excellent institutions of learning that We have
in our midst-thc Adger College md Walhalla
Female College.
The marriagcablc young ladies' OF our town
have been counted and number just twenty ,fyc.
: Tho marriagenble young men have also been
counted md number just too. This will be a
good place to make tho acquaintance Of old
maids after awhile.
The Abbcvillc Press and Banner suggests tho
name Of our fellow townsman, Hon. u. Biemann,
as suitable person to fill the position of As
sociate Justice on the Supreme Bench of The
State. We are inclined to think that the funny
editor Of tho Press and Banner has an eye on
the place himself We have no doubt he could
fill the position quite aooeptably and intelli-
,,ibly as poor old Wright. Friend Hugh thinks
If hc emit get married, he'll try aud be Judge.
Mrs. Johnston, at Mrs. Piopor's, is prepared
to do stamping of embroidery or braiding
patterns in excellent style. Her patterns arc
worry select and pretty, and ladies desiring
auch work dono are requested to call and ex-
amino them.
The meeting Of tho Pomona Grange, ordered
for next Monday, the 22d instant, is one o.
groat Importance to every Granger. 1t is
nvpoctcI hv thot tin,n to hnye fu1l rcporta or