Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-04-18

from the largest farms in strawberries fivo to
eight thousand dollars had boon realized
per nnnum. saw as many as 20 hands in
one field picking strawberries. Tho hands
get l / cents por quart for piching. saw
yam vines IL inches long. They had been
propagated in hot house bed, but wero
transplantcd.
Tho next placo Of interest TINT visited
is tho Battery or White Point Garden. It
is kind of substitute for park Here
the eye rests on old oceans immensity. The
ship masts along the wharvcs, tho largo sail
ing vessels moving along like "thiug of
lite," Fort Sumter, Castle Pinkney, Mount
Pleasant and Sullivan's Island, with their
historic fame, forms aDother picturesque
scene that can better bo imagined than do
scribcd
The next place I visited was Sulivan's
Island. Myself and several friends repaired
to tho Sullivan Island Ferry landing and
found the samo boat, "Pocosin," flying as
in days Of yorc that "tricd mons SOULS"
and soon We were enjoying "lifo on the
ocean wave" But when wo reached terra
frmo how changed Every house on the
island was destroyed during the war; but
| better stylc of houses have been erected and
the buildings have been extended higher up
than before tho war. l saw but one thing
that was not changed by the ruthless hand
of war, aud that was tho willy chicftaiu's
last resting place marked by marble stub
| with this inscription, "Osccola."
Aud last but not least of tho Queen City
of tho South's points of interest L shall
notice its artesian wells. Tho old we'll is
l'25o feet deep, strongly imprcgnalcd with
soda and other minerals and highly recon-
n,ended as mcdicatcd bath. The Charles.
ton Hotel uses it, and comfortable bathing
houses are fitted up by tho City Council,
and many resort thither 10 batho. l have
no moro faith in mcdioatcd buths than I
have in pills and poLions; but of its deter
gent qualities any washer. woman ought to
be familiar, when tis known to be strongly
imprcgnated with carbonate of coda. The
most convenient feature connected with tho
artcsian bath is its temperature, which is
7S0 Fahrenheit, and consequently is always
ready. Tho new we'll is 1880 feet doep.
Tho contractor usos steam engine to
psopol tho machinery for bouring this woll
Nearly two years have been spent in
bouring this wol. Tho contractor is paid
by tho City Counrel 81 per foot, and tho
contractor binds himself to produce 100
gallons of water per minute. One day this
week the shaft or augcr suddenly sank two
fcot and tho water increased from 80 to lao
gallons per minute. The we'll is lined with
iron pipe and as the boring progresses tho
pipe is driven from the top and other joints
of piping added. The water rises with such
force as to raise all tho gravel as it is
looscned by the augcr. The temperature Of
this we'll is about blood heat (08o) and
smokes whero the water comes in contact
with air, like pot boiling. It is found by
experiment that the temperature increases
10 every 100 feet after tho fret 4S feet,
wbich is the samo winter and summer. We
see from actual experiment that tho sup.
position TINT tho oontcr of tho earth is
mass of molten lava, is based on q worry
reasonable suppositlon. A few moro feet,
it is thought, will be below tho bed Of mari
and the water will bo as pure as it is at the
fountain head, and this is the philosophy
why tho water is forced to tho top of tho
we'll, the fountain hoad being tho highest.
The United States Circuit Court con
vencd on the lst of April, Judge Bryan
presiding. The charge to tho Grand Jury
was pointed and explicit and so plain that
"wayfaring man though fool could not
err therein" Eight cascs came before tho
Grand Jury. True bills were found in oaoh
case. Tho most important oaso was
against P j. Murry for increasing three
post Office money orders Tho Grand Jury
was discharged on Friday, the 5th instant,
and Court will probably adjourn by the
10th.
forgot to notice in tho proper conneo-
tion, as We skinned along like swallow
through Abbovilo and Ncwb berry, wo passed.
many vordant ficlds of oats, forming quito
an oasis 10 the arid wintry appearance of
the cotton fields. l could but reflect how
much of this happy change from call cotton
and starve," to diversity of crops and
prosperity, was attributable to tho teaching
Of that staunch aud scientific farmer, as
we'll as statesman, Col. D. Wyatt Aikcn.
AS portions of this letter wcro penned
while travelling by railroad, will in somo
degree account for ilegibilty and mistakes,
trust. Vcry respectfully yours,
McGowAN FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Wo have been informed that Colonel Sim,,.
son will not be q candidate for recollection to
the Office Of Lieutenant Governor We regret
| tnls. Do clucionI nl 0lHccr, no nOn0rnDlo,
| patriotic and wise n statesman should DO kept
in tho public service. But in lcu of tho
vacancy thus to ho mado. We nominate our
| distinguished fellow citaon, Gen. McGowan.
Abbevllo has had no representation on tho
State tickot, though it is conceded evcryo
whero that she has as many ablo mon within
her borders as any county in tho State, and
foremost in tho ranks Of these is General
Mcdowan. In company with Hampton ho
hOo fbn snr II ~ kl,n,>. koo.o kl,As
load us on to victory in tho fall. groator in
| nnmber Of votes than TINT Of 1876. Tho ball