Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-22

$1,000. The crops now in the field will
pay him out.
Samuel MITCHELL Of Quitman, Ga, has
been sentenced to pay $40 and costa .or
thirty days in Jail for working on Sunday.
He preferred tho Jail, and there he is now. !
Tho citizens of Anderson arc taking steps
to have tho Town Council purchase and
paco in the steeplo of tho Court House, a :
| town clock.
| A new clerk in q drug store was dis
charged tho other day because he didn't
know how to look wise, roll his eyes, and
aay "seventy five conts" without turning
rcd in tho face, as he handed out o little
powder that had cost the concern two cents
and fraction. Emotion and business
don't jingle.
An indianapolis man gavo his poor.
starved horse two miserable nubbins of corn
and five or six blades of hay, re-
marking rs he did SO, ;'Thar, now, cat
| till you bust"
| If ladies would cat meat but onoo day,
| pickles but once mouth, and sweet moats
mover; if they would batho freely in cold
water and live Us much as possible in tho
open air, thoy would not require any other
! cosmetics. &
In tho municipal election Of the town of
Anderson lust Monday, the Republicans
wore utterly routed. A large number Of
| colored men voted the Democratic ticket in
whole or in part. M
Farmers, provide for your stock. Water
that is not pure enough for you to drink,
is not fit for your horse or cow. Do unto
them as you would have them do unto you
about water, at least.
Hens hatch best on tho ground, sinoe
the rising dampncss materially assists in
incubation. When tho fowls sit upon the
| floors or in boxes, the eggs become so dry
and parohed as to prevent the young
from discncumbcring themselves Of the
she'll n.
The United States bureau of agriculture
reports that about $4,000 ,0D acres of corn
are undor cultivation thiS year. Tho
increase of acreage at the South is yery
largo and the condition of the crop is re-
ported good.
Governor Hampton has committed the
sentence of the five Georgetown murderers,
who were to be hung on tho Esd instant, TO
the following terms Of imprisonment:
Benjamin Rodgers ton years and W.R.
Lambeth five years in the penitentiary;
John Nj. Lambeth, Phillip lambeth and
Canaan Ward each five months in tho
county Jail from the 9th of July ultimo. n
One hundred new coils have recently
been made tonabe in tho South Carolina
Ponitentiary by tho putting of a roof on tho
main structure. A new wall on the North
side is also being built, tho foundation Of
of which is nearly completed.
The essentials in keeping butter in sum.
mer consist in making it properly, having
cool place to keep It, and excluding f
from the air. No butter can be safely packed
in warm weather which is not perfectly
made, nor can it be kept if exposed to tho
ar Dalry-rooms cooled with q cheap
refrigerator are coming into use now among
butter makers, both for kooping milk and
Keeping butter, and with 100 and salt secure
q low temperature at small cost.
Cremation is favored by the medical
fraternity of New Orleans. The nature
of the soil about the city is suoh that oniy.
the poor are inferred in tho earth, most
bodies bciug deposited in tombs raised
above the surface. There arc several
cemeteries within tho limits of the city still
used.
1t is stated that siuoc tho Cd of Juno.
the date of the attempted assassination Of
the emperor by Modelling, there have been
563 arrests of persons in Germany for in4-
sulting tho Emperor Of this number 52I
have been convicted, including 81 women.
The aggregate sentences of imprisonment
imposed is 8l1 years. Five of tho accused
| committed suicide hnforn triol 3#
Mary Medill, comely white girl of sig
teen, was on Thursday of last week stripped
to tho waist, tied to the Elizabeth City, Vir.a
ginia, Court House whipping post and given
twenty five lashos with q raw hide, tho
master OF the cato nine tails bong negro
constable, big, burly and accustomed to
hard knocks. Tho girl had stolen q pair Of
shoes. The constable barely touched in his
strokes, but it is said that all CONCERNED in
tho whipping were miserable at the time,
only executing tho law under protest. s'5
a very successful merchant in largo
New England city once remarked: sI alwoys
advertise most when timcs are dali. In
busy seasons it only necessary to keop my
namo bofore tho public; / am sure to get
my share OF the spontaneous traffic. But
whon business isslight then illuminate my
broadsides of special bargains, and thon la
just tho time whom special bargains arc
sought for" Z B h Ss'S
A largo ordor has been received BY mica
concern in Now York for plates OF mica to-