Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-07
Locals.

Manila hats aro the novelty for little girls.
Children's skirts aro worn longer this season
. Artificial flowers hayo now descended to !
dresses.
Blank Liens just printed and for salo
ut this Office, FOR the cash.
Our price for publishing candidates. cards is
$5 each, to be paid in advance.
Bugs are ipjuring cabbage, beans, watermelon
vines, &c., in our gardens.
Cradles arc in demand-wo neon grain ora-
dies, of course.
Green peas, Irish potatoes, acas, bed bugs
and gnats are now in season.
Tho fair sex begin to look particularly charm=
ing in their summer costumes.
A handsome thing in ladies' hats--a lady's
head.
Be true, DO honest be humble-be anything
but . politician.
Ladies' reddon their ohccks by the aid Of tho
looking glass, gentlemen by the vino. glass.
Mock. turtle-kissing before company and
then quarrelng afterward.
Lilto girls believe In man in the moon
young ladies bclcve in man in the honeymoon.
ruTHlcrS 0Vc WucttIuS up Nuo ooytuo uho
throshers are beginning to travel.
The man who makes his own hog and hominy
is the man who always prospers and adds to the
real wealth Of tho country.
People who think It fun to publish a paper, if
placed at the wheel, would find that fun had
just left to take q vacation.
We have often noticed that q man that knows
s,oth;no Ia fotl H. to tho fret nerson that
hasn't found 1t out.
A stas Which will rosist the action of wator
is made by boiling one pound of glue in two
quarts of skinned milk.
Said Wesley: Get al you can, savo oil you
oan, givo all you can. The rule nowadays is
to give rs litto as you can.
AT d printers festival lately tho following
toast was Torcd-"Woman-Second to tho
press in The dissemination of the news"
Preaching in tho Baptist Church of Wall
halla by tho pastor on next Saturday and
Sunday at the usual hours.
Dry weather has prevailed for some time
to tho injury Of gardens. Field crops arc not
suffering.
Mr.. Wm.J. Beard received tho "frst honor
stood seven" for tho "second honor"
j. Brooks Wngard received tho "frat
honor" of Ncwbcrry College Mr. I. P.
Hawkins received tho "sccond honor"
Mr.. John Bromcr. Of our town, on about
one-cighl oran acre, made thirty three dozen
shocks Of good whoat.
Rev. j. J. Neville, pastor in charge, will
preach in the Methodist Church in this place on
Sunday Mt A. NJ. and 8 p. NJ.
Gus. Norman has q "brd" in his "icosod
water" room down town. Tho bird is nameless,
Of q dark blue color and shows fight every
occasion. It was brought from tho mountains
Gus says It won't bite his customers.
On Monday night last wo wcro visited with q
cop:ous shower Of rain. 1t camc in good time.
as tho gardens and spring oats we're beginning
to need it.
Whenever fellow gets the inside track in
visiting girl its astonishing how many of his
rivals begin to sympathizc with him and fear
that ho will bo used up before ho gets through
We arc requested to announce that tho Rev.
Mr.. Wingo will preach in tho Union Sunday
School room, at West Union, on Sunday after
noon at nalI-pa6t o CLOCK.
A fine milch COW, belonging to Mrs. Kimrod,
was killed on Friday morning last by tho train
on the Blue Ridge Railroad Tho COW was on
The track and the engine could not be stopped in
timo to save the animals life.
Last Monday was confessedly tho hottest
day Of tho season, continuing close and sultrY
until about sunset, when several heavy clouds
roso and passed around tho town. with thuns
der and lightning. About dark slight
shower foil at Walhalla.
A scientific gardner in our town undertook
tho other day to destroy the bugs on his garden
vegetables by pouring salt water over them
which resulted in killing the young plants in
stcad Of tho bugs. Salt won't preserve every
thing.
We arc glad to learn that Mr.. J. s. Bauk-
nights littlo son, who has been dangerously i'll
for tho past ten or twelve days with putrid sore
throat, is better and in q fair to recover His
sufferings have been great and his young life
was despaired Of several tines.
The Court of General Sessions ana Common
Pleas has been in session this week at Abbeyile.
Next week the Court will bo opened at Anderson.
On the third Monday Court will be opened at
this plaoo. Judge Korshaw will preside on this
Circuit. t,a .s 6n t
The Grecnville City Democratic Club moeta
weekly and discusses the questions of tho day.
Co!ored voters woro invited to join the club. We
think The clubs in Ooonee should moot oftener
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