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

doctor, you must prescribe something
for me-" dMy dear lady, you need no
medioina--only little rest aud then you'll |
be as we'll us ever" "But, doctor, surely
/ ought to be given some medicine Of somo
sort or other. You've only felt my pulse,
examine my tongue" Clio docs So "pro.
oissly, madam; your tongue certainly needs
a rest, too"
COLUMBIA, September 17.-Tho County.
Democratic Convention mot to-day and
nominated the following gentlomen to rep
resent tho county in tho Legislature: Senate,
John II. Kinslur; House, John O. Seogers,
Judge Bacon, John A. Elkius, j. @. Has.
kcll, Mack Clarkson. Tho ticket is
strong ono, and will undoubtedly be
Captain s. p. Lanford, in charge of
special roYonuo forco, made successful
raid in tho upper portion Of Spartanburg
County near the North Carolina limo, on the
Sd and 4th instants, capturing and destroy
ing six distiIleries, about 4,500 gallons Of
beer, 500 gallons peaoh pummios, 100
gallons of whiskoy, two horses and wagon,
and two prisoners. And this after the
amnesty"
"Doctor, what do you think is the matter
with my little boyT "Why, it is only
curruitifiod oxegosis anti. .apasmodicaly
emanating from the germ of the animal re-
trigerator, producing a prolific source of
irritability in tho perioranal epidermis of
the mental profundity." All! that's what l
told wife, but she lowed it was wurrums."
| Queen Victoria has boon paying visit to
| one of hor royal sisters, the monarch of a
| Gypsy tribe. Queen Roynolds-for this is
tho tito of tho Gypsy potentate-rooeived her
august visitor with becoming stato and dignity.
she sat on u platform. olad in purple and
white luce, and tended by two dnsky hand
madons. Thore wore, moreover, two Roc
many uobloman (snsak thieves probably in
private life,) gorgeous in red coats. Tho real
Queen behaved with due humility.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows has
adopted on amendment changing the title
Of tho supreme body from Grand Lodge of
the United States to that of Grand Lodge
of the independent Order of Odd Follows.
The matter relative to establishing Con.
sumptive Odd Fellows Homo in the South
was postponed
1t is reported that DR.. Ensor has with
drawn from the Congressional raoo iu this
District. Good thing for Ensor, as Colonel
Aiken would have 'ssnatohed him bald
headed"
A North Carolina editor declares that the
mau who will read q Newspaper two or three
months, and then refuse to take it out Of
tho post Office, is mean enough to pasture
goat on tho grave of his grandfather
ATLANTA, September 19.-An old lady
named Farmer, aged eighty, was murdered
yesterday in Clayton County Her daugh-
ter living with her, had her skull crushed
in. Tho house was set on fire and it is
supposed that robbers committed tho deed.
From tho beginning of tho century until
now New Orleans hns boen periodically cursed
with yellow fevor, which, imported from tho
tropics, has fouGd n fayorito home in that hot,
500 poopo died of it there, and 10 1910 the
deaths reached 2.l90; in lS47 2.259, in 1853
o,n7. in 1854 24lO. in 1855 3,O73, in 1868
1880, in 1867 2,072.
| Baso ball has been q dangerous game since
the introduction of dead" OF hard balls and
tho practice Of extremely swift pitching. A
few days ago James Barry, tho catcher of a
club in Boonville, Now York, was hit in tho
| stomach and Instantly killed.
New ORLEANS, September 1.-THE
official statement Of the cotton Drop of
America for tho year 1S77-1S7S has been
published by The National Cotton Exchange.
The receipts at all ports were 4,334, 100,
overland movement 295,s06, Southern
consumption l44, 1863; total Drop, 4,773,s65.
The Democratic Convention of Orange
burg County have nominated for tho Logis
lature NJ. j. Keller, Ira II. Shoemaker, J.
S. Bowman, w. 9. Homo, white; and B.
G. frederick, oolorcd A colored man
was nominated for one of the County Com
missicners.
In The case of John G. Steele vs. the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad,
for damages sustained at tho accident at
Fishing Creek trestle in Nov. 1877, tried
at York the 10th instant, the jury give o
verdict for $1,000.
The Now Custom House at ChaIeston