Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-09-26
locals.


Tho fall trade in Walhalla is improving and
i o good doal Of cash is changing hands.
QUERY: "Why will mon smoke common
tobacco, when they can buy Marburg Brothers
= Sealof Morlh Carolina,' ut the samo prce2"
$1.60 in advance will pay for the KEowEE
CouRIEn for ono year. Subscribe for it and get
your neighbor TO do likewise.
Three new arrivals in Walhalla in the past
two wqeks--all boys. Messrs. Keith, S. p.
Dendy and Bauknght nro tho happy trio.
Cotton is coming into Walhalla ovcry day,
though as yot but small portion of tho crop
is harvested.
Upland corn in most sections is almost q
. failure, yielding less than u half crop on the
. average.
Mr.. G. L. Reid, of tho firm Of G. l.. Reid
& Co., is in Now York laying in his fall
stock Of goods
The Anderson County Fair will be held on
"Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, October
%, "a and 25.
The Walhalla Democratic club at its next
meeting should appoint committee to select
a place for the Democratic meeting in October
and prepare stand and other conycnionces
A collection was taken up in tho Baptist
Church last Sunday for tho relief of the yellow
fovcr sufferers Most of tho congregation
having previously contributed, but small
cum was realized.
Wo aro requested to state that South
Union Club will meet at it's usual place on
O. ;,,n tl,t
candidates ore Invited to bc present and
address the club
w. G. Erwin, former cashier Of tho Wal
halla Bank, is in New York arranging to go
into tho cotton business. On his return we
expect to hayo q cash market hero for MI
cotton brought to Walhalla.
A protractcd meeting will begin at Fnirvicw
Church on next Thursday morning ut l o'clock.
Preaching on Thursday, Friday Saturday and
Sunday. This will include the fifth Sunday in
September. Rev. d. L. Whitaker and othcrs
will assist Rev. J. J. Neville in tho meeting.
Horny Iolways died suddenly of hcmor.
rhage of the lungs on Tuesday last. lIo was
in his 25th year and had been sufferer from
consumption. Nearly two years ago he fol
lowed brother to the grave, who died Of the
same disease.
Mr.. Calhoun is out in another letter on
uniformity in text books in tho schools aud
colleges Of tho county. We hopo there will
be full meeting Of tho tcathcrs on tho 2d
Saturday in October and that q plan may
bo adopted satisfactory to all interested in
schools.
Iror nIta N orr CO.
intelligence that Mrs. McGowan, wife of
Gen. S. MCGOWAN, died ut hor homo in
Abbcville last week. Mrs. McGowan was
the daughter Of Judge Wardlaw, one Of the
purcst and nbest of our ante-war judiciary,
aud excmplifed in lifo those virtues which
adorn tho character of wife and mother.
Tho result of tho match games of base ball
on Saturday afternoon last was as follows:
With Seneca City Club, in three innings the
score stood II to 3, in favor Of the Rough and
Ready; between the Rough and Ready and
tho College Nine, The score stood l3 to 8, ip
favor Of tho Rough and Ready.
Wo arc in receipt Of the premium list Of
the State Agricultural and Mechanical
Society, to be hold at the Fair Grounds
in Columbia on the 18th to tho 18th Of
Novcnbcr inclusive. The prcmiu,s list is
long and embraces nearly every branch Of
agricultural aud mechanical industry.
Attention is directed 10 the advertisement Of
the McSmith Music House at Grccnville, S. G.
Persons desiring music or musical instruments
can be supplied at this house. which is near
home, 30 they can examine The instruments be-
foro buying II is always better to doal with
ho.uo merchants as il is to their interest to soil
only good articles.
Three negroes were arrested at Westmin,
ster last Saturday, charged with stealing
steer. ti,> = property Of David King, and with
recciyipe and conccaling stolen beef. Two
of them. Sawne, y Brown and his wife, wore
brought to Walhai".e and lodged in Jail on
Sunday, while the other, Ed. Hampton,
escaped. Ed. Hampton sl,, co bis escape has
been re arrested and s now in ,'il.
Mrs, NJ. a. Boggs, vito of Rev. W. =. Boggs,
OF Mcmplis, in answer to Maj S 2. Dondy, who
sent forward the contribution from this place fol
tho benefit of the yollow fever sufferers says:
"My husband, Rev. W. Z. Boggs, requests me
to acknowledge receipt of package by express,
enclosing $26 from citizens of Walhalla. we
are deeply grateful for your remembrance in our
distress and for your kind words of sympathy.
Mr.. Boggs is too busy to write, being now tho
only white Protestant minister left in tho city
able to do duty"
Something over throc hundred and fifty cases
woro tried at Grcenyille at tho recent term of tho