Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-10-24
Interest blinds some and makes some

Tobacco was introduced into England
1858.
The population of Momphis when tho fever
broke out was 10000. Now it is 1000 whites
and 6,000 oolored.
Tho Chinese claim to have invented the
telephone in the year 96S.
Tho famine iu China leaves the yellow
fever in tho shadc--7,0 100000 deaths arc
reported.
Tho Grecnyille and Columbia Railroad
is doing fino business. Immense trains
of cotton pass over the road daily.
Reports como from some of the mission.
AIRY fields, of tho roasting and eating of five
missionaries.
Seven negro men outraged four white
women in Indiana last week. Great excite
mcnt prevailed.
The Supreme Court of Virginia hos pro.
nounced illegal and finabIo in that State
matrimonial alliances between whites and
blacks.
Farmers in Gonzales County, Texas, give
half OF their cotton to pickors, the crop is so
abundant.
The total valuo of all taxable personal
property of Laurens County, as returned by
the Auditor, and cquolized by the County
Board, for tho year 1878 is SGG8,S34.
Adjutant General Noise says that Char
lesion has the finest regiment Of colored
troops in the United States. owing to the
efficient management of Governor Hampton.
Daring our civil war Sir Garnet Wolsclp
visited the Confederate army aud formed
tho opinion that Lee was the greatest mill
tary genius since Napoleon, and that he was
greater than the German generals of this
generation.
A boy of 10 and girl of eloped from
Brookline, Mass, and went to Boston, where
they soon got lost in the crooked streets
Their expectation was to get married and
live in fine house somewhere. The real.
ity was in spanking.
The Grecnwood>and Augusta Railroad is
being pushed ahead rapidly apd success
fully.
A Cook County, Texas man has set of
furniture made from tree on which his
father was hung ten years ago.
A lady sent note to newspaper to got
a receipt to cure tho whooping cough in
pair of twins. by mistake receipt for
picking onions was unconsciously inserted,
and her namo attached, and received the
the answer through the "Answers TO Cor.
respondents" ."-"'Mrs. i. H. B.-If not too
young, skin then, pretty closely, ilnmersc
in soalding water, sprinkle plentifully with
salt and immerso them for week in strong
brine"
Any husbandman can get good crop
out of good soil; but God is tho husband
man who can grow ccdars on rocks, who
cannot only put the hyssop on the wall, but
put tho oak there too, aud make the grcatest
faith spring up III the most unlikely posi-
ton. All glory to his gracc tho great
sinner may become great in faith.
The great man is he who chooses tho
right with invinciblc resolution; who rcsists
the sorcst temptations from within and with
out; who bears the heaviest burdens cheer
fully who is calmest in storms, and most
fearless under menace and frowns; md
whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on
God, is most unfatering.
BY loves delightful influence the attacks
of i'll humor is resisted, tho violence OF our
passion abatcd, all the injuries of the wsrld
alleviated, tho bitter cup of affiiction sweet
ened, and tho choicest flowers plenti-
fully strewcd along the most thorny paths
of life.
How quick is the succession of human
events! The cares of to day arc seldom the
cares Of to morrow; and whom we lio down
at night, we safely say to most Of our trou.
bles, eye have done your worst, and VIC
shall meet no more."
Two distinguished lawyers in Alabama
formed partnership after the war, and the
junior stated to the senior that there were
two things they must guard against---tho
poor house and the ponitontiary. Very soon
the junior collected fec OF $4,000 in a
cotton case which involved but little trouble
and counting out 81, $50 to tho senior re-
| marked that it didn't look much like the
poor-house.
"No," said the junior, "but it rubs the
penitentiary closo."
The Abbovilo Medium has the best Of
reasons for saying that tho Radicals have
determined TO put out ticket in that
county and contest the coming election with
all their power. This is no sorry of wolf
for tho purpose of creating q false alard,,
but is based upon most accurate and celia
bio reports from men who know tRo pro-
grammo.
On last Tuesday the quantity Of cotton in
Anderson was larger than wc have seen
during tho past six years. At one time the
line Of wagons leading to the depot to have