Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-20
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JUNE 18th, 1873. 3aI'
Among the possibilitiosin this section Is
the organization Of q Farmers and Mechan.sg III
ies' Club. This is, doubtless, q step Id the.
right direction and it is hoped that 4 meet
ing will be called ut an early day ,~and
plan of organization considered. We would s.
like to hear something from our worthy
editors in regard to this matter. SIS .S.s
Mr.. James N. Hopkins has ripe peaches.
Mr.. II. has neatly arranged orchard and
will continue to increase his varieties Of S
fruit. There arc number of our farmers
who might follow Mr.. lis example WITH
pleasure and profit. llS.
Rev. II. N. Hayes will consider the
popular subject of future punishment on 4
the second Sunday in July at Shiloh Bap. /
tist Church. a.$,, VI
Mr.. j. w. Hopkins has about, twenty
acres Of fno looking cotton. This fiold Il
fully illustrates tho progress made in tho
growing Of cotton in the last few years !.
MIR. HIS field, ten years ago, under the
mode of cultivation then employed, ".
would not havo made over two hundred
pounds per acre. @5
An American resident in China Is reported
by Mr.. S. B. Adams. of Charleston, as giving.
On account of the great destruction Of life aud
property caused there by q tornado on tho
| llth Of April. It swopt over tho cty in a 4
Northeasterly direction, leaving ruin along
it's track, and it is estimated that 5000 or
5000 houses wero blown down, and rs many
persons killed. X =.
A correspondent of tho Abbovile Press and )
Bdnncr suggests that when tho Demooratioie
clubs hold thcir primary elections to nominate
county officers they also put in nomination.
suitable persons for appointment of County,
Auditor, County Treasurer and Trial Justices
and that tho result bo forwarded to tho CO.
Aernor for information. S
CoME TO GR1EP.--Wm. l.. Springs, Deputy,
United Statcs Marshal, who was bound over;
few days ago for his appearance to answer
an indictment for entering tho house of MI.
Bell, OF this county, and committing violent
assault upon the latter with pistol was.
committed to jaii yesterday for grand larceny.
stealing n watch, after a preliminary hoaringt
before Justice Vance, GreenuiNe Ne,os, l8tE:,
| MoDEE Co1oKED FARMEH.-Wo have in
our county tho model colored farmer in the
State, tho Rcv. Sias Cook, who commenced
whom freedom came with nothing oxcept n
largo family to raise and support, going to-
work with will, and attending to his own.
business strictly. IIe has bought and paid
tor two-horso farm. built franc house in,
good style, and has to>day one of tho best
crops, Doth corn and cotton, in the county,
| Marion Merchant and Furn,cr
Smaller animals brood moro nbundantlyy than
tho larger ones, because. in u state of nature.
tho smaller oncs ore designed to be food for
tho larger ones, and are, therefore, created in
numbers adapted to- thas epd An elephant
ptouaees but Que calf, the whale but ono young
FROM 1000 to 1000 eggs, the wasp 5000, tho
ont 1000 to 5.000 tho queen bee, s, 600 to 6 900
| or 10000 to $4,000 in q season, and q speoies
Of White ant produces $4,000 eggs in a day.
birds OF prey seldom produce moro than two
eggs; tho sparrow and duck tribe frequently sit
upon ".slozcn. In rivers thcre prevail a thou
sand minnows for. one pike, aud in sea- n million
herrings for single slars; whilo of the ami
malcules upon which tho whalo subsists, there
must exist hundreds Of millions for QUO whale.
LIVER IS KINo.-r liver is tho imporials
organ of the whole human system, rs itp,>n.
trolls the liie, health and happipY U3 D M
When it is disturbed in its proEJ7 81 nm
kinds OF ailments are tho na q n ~,
Tho digestion Of food, tho mov II as KIM
hcart and blood, tho action OF IL 20 LII
nervous system. nre all immediat thoro oro ,,o
| with tho workings Of tho liver. l, $500
successfully proved that Grcen's uush iro,sn'
| Flower is unequaled in curing all Hy o'tet
affected with dyspepsia Or liver con.plat,
and all tho numerous symptoms that resulI =.
from an unhealthy condition of tho livor and
stomach. Sample bottles to try 10 cents.
Positively sold in all towns on tho Western.
Continent. Three doses will prove that It is
just what you want.
| WAsHINoToN, June THE House
Committee on Naval Affnirs concluded their
Investigation of the affairs of tho lato'
administration of tho Navy Department and
adopted resolutions for tho action of tho
House looking to the trial and punishment
Of ex-Soorctary Robson, and of Wood,
Hanscome and Watmough respectively, late'
chiefs Of the bureau of steam engineering.
construction and repair and provisions and
clothing. The committee, on presenting
the resolutions, sny the cvideuoo for the,
most part is taken from tho official reportss
and records Of the department. The oom-
mittee find that vast amounts which, under
law, should havo been turned into tho trca-
sury were disposed of in secret and impropers
ways and the proceeds applied to naval ac-!s
counts. $,t &Es&