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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13
MARTINS CREEK LOCALS.
Juno 10th, 1873.

Juno luth IS78.
Wo arc sorry to state that tho interest for-
mcrly manifested in tho Sunday School ut this
place (Shiloh) is nbating. Wo hesitate to
assign tho cause frcm tho fact that NO might
possibly do tho Sunday School workers of
this vicinity an injustice. Tho objects Of
Sunday Schools arc ever tho samo, and to
those who begin to think tho exercises monoto
nous we address the poetic injunction:
"WorL while life is given,
Faint not though It's hard;
Work is tho will of heaven,
Aud peace is tho reward"
The prospects at this seaspn FOR arcmuno-
ratiso crop (or. at least largo ono) were
never moro encouraging.
Tho most beautiful church in this section is
that Of IIepsibnh. Tho members meet ovory
fourth Sunday in tho wood near Mr. T'ilman
McGco's. 1t is a beautiful groyo and tho
attendance Of tho people at this church seems
to Indicate that they delight in "Camping
awhile in tho wilderness and then goins.
home"
A terrific hail storm visited this section on
Sunday evening, Juno 9th Tho hail was
partial, injuring crops on somo farms, whilo
others were unhnrt. The wind, wo think,
was general. Two stables on tho farm of
Mrs. Fredcrcks wcro wrecked. p.
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TAX RET URNS
COUNTY AUDITORS OFFICE.
WALHALL., S, G., May Is, 1878.

w, WALHALL., S, G., May Is, 1878.
NJ oTiCE is hereby given that this. Office
~ will: bc open Mt Walhalla from June lst
to July Goth, 1873, to receive Tax Returns of,
oil Zeal Est"to and Personal Property, ALI
returns not mado on or before tho 2Dth of
July, 1878, will DO written up according ia
law from tho old Tax Book, OF made from thS
best information that oan bo obtaine0 and
fifty per cent. added thereto, ~
AL malc persons from twonty-ono, to sisfR
years OF ago are required to return theifr'
POLLS. Parties claiming exemption from Poll
Tax on account of disabilities, will be re.
quircd to make oath that they are exempt
according to law. a
Merchants and manufacturers must mako
their returns strictly according. to law.
BY Act of Assembly, 1878, Auditors ara
required to make 20 now assessment Of all
Real Estate in their respective Counties" and
oil persons owning Real Estate in their own
name, rs Committee, Trustee, Guardian.
administrators. 80, as the case may be, on
the lst of Juno, 1878, must govern themselves
accordingly. .., .... u
In order to avoid osrors in the Returns each
tax payer must make. their own returns. and
With the Wow Of enabling, them to do this nv;
assistants will bo at the following places ag
the time specified, viz:
Wost Union, Monday, July 1st. Il.
Seneca City, ono woek, ,'July lst, I'd, Sd, 4tEl,
Sitton's Mills, Monday and Tuesday, July
9th and 9th.
Bird Abbetts, Wednesday, July 10Th. M
j. B. Sanders, Monday and Tuesday, july
lst and I'd.
Fair Play, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday July Sd. 4th antf 5th.
BACHELORS Retreat, Monday and Tuesday,
July 9th and 9th. !: ,I,., ,-,->,S:,'' i.
Westminster, Wednesday, Thursday, Fri,
day and Saturday, July 10Th, eth, 18th and
Thomas powell's, Monday and Tuesday, dh
July 18th and 10th. -.
Fenton II. IIalPs, Monday and Tuesday,
July lst and I'd. -" q. ,0I
Mrs. ,Barkers. Wednesday and Thursday,
MoDado,s Mile, Friday and Saturday, July.
VIM. ERowland's, Monday and Tuesday.
July 9th and 9th. ~ ~ i
Lays Mills. Wednesday and Thursday,
,o.I Ialloy's Shop, Friday and Saturday, July
High Falls. Monday, Tuesday and wcdues.
qay, July 10Th, 10th and Nth
After the goth Of July, 1878, this oillco will
bo closed for taking rcturns, and ffty por
cont. penalty added on all rotnrns not ynado.
q. n. w-A.TSc3N.
May 80, 1878 Auditor o'8s's ee9ssy. ss:
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13
FOR CONGRESS.

Tho friends Of Col. D. WYATT AIKEN re :
spectfully announce him candidate for ro.
election to Congress from tho Third soutb
Carolina District, at tho ensuing election, sub,
jcct, however, to tho decision of tho confetrca
sional Convention,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

The decline in rents this season, for New
York City, is estimated to DO $4,000 600.
Tho Astors lose 81 900 day. Tho Stewart
estate has shrunk 500 900 out of 100000.
Mrs. Stewards Fifth Avenue palace, which
cost 81 ,0O0,OOO, to build would nut bring,
to-day, $500, 600.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

Tho Commune begins to show its head in
Philadelphia, At socialistic meeting in
that city, ono OF the orators threatened tho
employment of dynamite in tho crusade
against property and society.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

a BLESSING TO Mornrns.- There Viii bc no
necessity for. mothers leaving tho comforts Of
homo, with their sick babies, this summer, if
they will give DR.. Moifctt's Tccthina (Tcethng
Powdcrs.) Teethinn will regulate lhe bowels
and mako teethng easy. 1t cures cholera in
fantuln aud the summer complaints Of children
heals cruptiohs and sores, removes md prevents
the formation of worms. Il. Il. Norman s. Bro
and all druggists keep il.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

The grain area is said to DO larger in the
South t'!nn it has been at any time since 1866.
The South will bc the most prosperous country
in the world-aftcr awhile.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13
AruExs, Ga, October %, 1877

DEAR SIN: Last night called at the Drug
Store, Dr. Kings old stand, and bought n bottle
of "Worm Oil" and gnvc it 10 my lille boy as
directed. This morning he passed 81 worms.
had previously tried other worm medicines
w. a. BAIN.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

King cotton has his throne in Texas, over
$4,000 bales moro than the product Of any
other State in the Union, having been raiscd
there last year.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

WASHINGTON, Juno 6.-Gov. lamp
tons visit to Hayes had for its object tho
release OF several persons imprisoned at
Albany, convicted under tho Ku Klux
prosecutions whom Gov. Hampton believes
wcro legally convicted. Hayes Promised
an early Investigation, and assured lamp.
ton II Executive clemcncy way riicritod 10
would not hesitate to extend it.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

Blank Lions just printed and for salo
at this Office, for tho cash.
The second Quarterly Conference of tho
Walhalla and Seneca City Circuit will DO hold
at Fairviow Methodist Church on Friday,
Juno 2lst. Rev. o. A. Darby, Presiding Elder,
will preach at II a. NJ, and on Sunday at tho
samc hour. Delegates 10 tho District Confer.
cncc will DO elected at this meeting.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

A profitable ponitcntiary is rnrc institu-
ton. but Albany has had ono since 1910.
Under General Amos Pilsbury from 1860 to
1872, its earnings were S20G,G0i over orli.
nary expenses. Undcr his son. Louis d.
pilsbury, from October, 1872 to October,
1877. thcy wcro SlGS 500 Out of these,
$685., 900. more than two-ii(ths has been paid
into tho county treasury in cash. nnd ono. half
of tho whole hns been spent in onlarging and
improving the prison.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

Fiftcon persons havo 90 fur died from tho
great cyclone at Richmond, Missouri, ar,
two more aro expected to ,iio. Forty are
seriously or mortaily wounded.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

The Liberia, bark OF about 500 Ions, has
arrived in Now York from Africa, and offers
TO take omigrants to that sunny lind. A
colony ct negroes in North Carolina is form
ing to take passage on that ship.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

On Saturday last tho total debt Of tho
United States was. according to nm official
statement, $3.50, 500, ,8O23l. The Balti,
more Gdzeftc proclaims that the books are
mu'c to balance by forged entries. and backs
up Senator Davis declaration that 5000 O00-
600 have disappeared somewhere since Rad-
calism carried the bag.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

Fifty years ago a poor boy, named zulueta,
went to Cuba. BY the sugar and slave trade
ho accumulated $40, 100000 and died Mar
Quis.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13
LAGnANGE, Gh., March 10, 1875

DR.. r. S. Iiradfcd:
Your Balm saved mo many days Of suffering
from bone fclon. Mus. GRANT.
Dr.. J. A. Baugh, Of LaGrangc, Ga author
ICES me to say hc has used it with the very
happiest results IN the treatment of bois, burns,
piles and eczema of long standing tha! had de-
vclopcd in n severe sore on the nose.
Prepared by L. S. Bradfcld, LaGmngc, Ga
For sale By r. Il. Norman S. Bro, and all Drug
gists.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

There is reason to fear that tho outbreak of
the Bannyck Indians, which is reported from
tho ti West, will result in formidable war.
Iho saSaScs appear determined and several
murders at their hands arc already announced.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13
LADIES STORE

WYE TAKE PLEASURE IN ANNOUN~
w ClNG TO OUR PATRONS AND
THE PUBLIC GENERALLY THAT OUR
WE'LL SELECTED STOCK OE
5PERIN% GOODS
Which have been bought exclusively in North
ern markets arc arriving daily and will soon
be complete in NIL departments.
Our stock Of DRY GOODS, (one Of our
specnltics, both Foreign and Domestic, oan-
not be excolled in tho up country.
To our Friends, the Ladies':
We would specially call your attention to
tow new and beautiful articles in Dry Goods,
Notions and Fancy Goods, such as Dress
Linens. Elegant Patterns Of Prints, Swiss,
Striped and Jaconct Muslins, Cambrio' Do
mestio and India Long Cloths, ,Ruohinge;
Rufflcs, Linen Collars and Cuffs, Gloves,
Hosiery (all kinds) Jaconet, Piluo and Lace
Edgings md Insorliugs.
Wo havo q most beautiful assortment of
Ladies' trimmed and untrimmed Hats and
Hat Trimmings:
Our stock Of GENTS FURNISHING
GOODS is also complete. consisting in. part
Of Clothing. Caasimeres and Cottonades, Hats,
Collars and Cuffs. Cravats and Silk Ties,
Suspendcrs, Half Hose, SO.
We have beautiful assortment of tho we'll
known Winchester Ladies' and Chldren's
Shoes and Gators. Also, q complete stock of
other brands both cheap and good. :! -
0:ber departments besides the above named
arc and will be kept full, !.
10 make room for our Spring Stock, we will
sell Blankets, Shhwls and Gents Winter
Clothing At COST FOR CASH.
With tho full assurance that wo can please
all who may examine our goods, wo remain,
Respectfully,
CT. RETIl g li(l
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

For sale by r. Il. Norman s. Bro.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-06-13

CINcLG MEALS OR LoDGrNG,' SO CENTS.
y Transient por day Sl6b Special rates
Tor longer time. j. Il. KEITH"
I'm Proprietor.
April rs, 1879 g3-
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BOESTER,s MILLS.
Hancock House, M. Hancock, Proprie.
tor.
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The Rates of Postage.

Postal cards, one cent each, go without further
charge to all parts of the United States and Canadas
with an additional one-cent stamp they goto all part
Of Europe.
All letters to all parts of the United States and
Canada, three cents per l,aas zeunce
Local, or "drop" letters that is, for the city OF
own where deposited, cents if delivered by car
riers and cent where there is no carrier system.
Newspapers, daily, semi weekly, tri weekly and
weekes, regularly issued and sent to regular SUBJ
scribers, cents per pound, payable at the office Of
publication, newspapers and magazines published
less frequently than once week, cents per pound.
Transient newspapers, magazines, pamphlets books
and handbills cent tor each two ounces or fraction
thereof. ALI other miscellaneous NATTER including
unsealed circulars, book manuscripts, proof sheets,
photographs &C., and also Seeds cuttings bulbs and
ROOTS and merchandise not exceeding four pounds in
weight cent for each ounce or fraction thereof.
The following are the postal rates with Europe;
The rates for letters fer the halfounce or rac-
tion thereof, and those for newspapers for four
ounces or fraction thereof
To Great Britain and Ireland, letters cent !;
newspapers cents; France, letters cents, news
papers cents; Spain, letters cents, newspapers Q
cepts; all pats of Germany, including Austria,
letters cents, newspapers cents; Denmark,
letters B cents, newspapers cents; Switzerland ,
letters cents, newspapers cents; Italy, letters
cents, newspapers cents; Russia, letters cents,
newspapers cents; Norway, letters cents, news
papers cents; Sweden, letters CENTS newspapers
cents; Turkey, European and Asiatic, letters 5
cents, newspapers cents; Egypt, letters cents,
newspapers cents.
For Asiatic countries, the half-ounce limit for
letters, and the four ounces for newspapers, still
holding good, the rates are:-
To Australia letters, via San Francisco Except to
New South Wales) cents,via Southampton Is cents,
via Brnd1sl 10 CENTS newspapers via San Francisco
centsv via Southampton cents, via Brindis cents
China letters, via San Francisco 10 cents, via South
smpton 10 cents, via Brndisi 10 cents, newspapers
India Italian mail. letters 10 cents, newspapers
cents Japan. letters via San Francisco cents. via
England 10 cents, via Brindsi 81 cents, newspapers
viS Brndisi cents
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Dnpfuned Grapeyines.

Where there are but two or three vines to
be cared for, it is often the case that other
claims upon the attention will cause post
poning of the necessary pruning until it is
too late to do it without being followed by
"blcediDg." True, the roots of the vine sup
ply this watery flow of crude sap so album
dainty that the loss of portion seems to
have no perceptible effect detrimental to
growth, but the bark is injured by long
continued flow, and bit is almost painfully un-
slightly. To prevent this, and at the same
time TO secure the advantageous effect of
pruning, the following recourse is convenient:
Having the vine tied in place on the trellis-
separating the strong canes of last year as
much as possible, and leaving the upper two
or three feet of the trells for their issue to
clasp and climb over for support-rub off all
small buds and all buds from small twigs,
including all that should have been pruned
away and all that are not likely to have full
room for tho expansion Of their leaves in
full light and free air. This can be done
during the latter part of April and May in
the Middle States; and rubbing out of the
superabundant blossom thyrses in June will
do as much more toward securing large
punches of handsome, juicy berries. Still
later, any redundant shoots can be suppressed
by timely rubbing out or pinching, but no
healthy leaves should ever be removed. The
bare shoots from which the buds were rubbed
off can be pruned away at any time after the
leaves of the vine have fully expanded. There
will be no bleeding after that. If the leaves
are healthy, they give off all redundant
water.-"W," Tyrone, Pa, in New York
Tribune.
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Cahbaxes After Grnss

There is no real difficulty in raising fair
crop of late cabbages after cutting the hay
crop, if the land is good and care is taken to
manure well and work the land thoroughly.
If this cannot be done it is folly to attempt
it. The grass should be cut and taken off as
early as possible in June, and heavy coat
of horse manure, ten cords per acre, spread
upon the sod and ploughed under; the land
should then receive good dressing of night
soil, about six loads per acre, or if this can
not be had some geduine chemical fertilizer
the land should then thoroughly narrowed
and rolled, using Randall's or Shares's har-
row, which will work up mellow surface
without tearing up the sods. The roller
should be run every week until the plants are
ready to be set, which should be about July
to 10, choosing time just after a rain if
possible, when the earth is moist; or in case
the rain fails, watering the plants well when
setting them.
A little fertilizer in the drill at the time of
planting will do no harm is the land is
poor and the manure not we'll mixed, or
rotted.
In drawing the drill let the plough run very
lightly SO as not to turn up the sods and run
roller over them to prevent the land from
drying up; frequent cultivation and hoeing
once week or ten days will insure good
growth after this preparation, unless the sea-
son is more than usually dry or the land I'm
suited by nature for the growth of cabbages
In which case 1t would be wise to plant tur-
nips which will do better on dry and poor
land,-Mass. PleaghmGa.
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AUBUBN.
Elni House, Court. 81. ", -. a. a. gseEE
Proprietors.
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PATRIOTIC ORDER Sons OF AMERIc

PATRIOTIC ORDER Sons OF AMERICA-Camps No
and convene at 2. G. S;ofNNo Gan, Mum Mum
day evening of each week; No. Q at School House,
Turner's Island, Cape Elizabeth, Friday Evening.
FoRIsT CITY CoMMANpERY No. 16 convenes at
P. O. S. of A. Hall, Plum St., on fist Thursday of
each month.
BoswoRTH POST G A. R.-Meetipg every Friday
evening in Mechanics Hall. corner OF Congress and
Casco streets.
PORTLAND TEMPERANCE REFORM CLUB-Head.
quarters corner of Congress and temple streets.
Open day and evening. Business meeting Tues
lay evenings at "a O'Clock.
PORTLAND TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, No. 75--
Iecond Saturday OF each month.
PORTLAND SOCIETY OF NATURAL HIST Y
at their library room, City Hall, on the first and
third Monday evenings OF each month
SovEREIGNs OF INDUsTRY-Dirigo Council, No. /
meets every Friday evening, at Arcana Hall, at "a
O'Clock.
MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION = Harrington
Block. Second Monday in each month. Delivery
OF books daily. to 9, day and evening"
PAYsoN LITERARY SocIETY-Meetings every
Monday evening, Browns Block, cor. Brown and
Congress streets, at u o'clock
PORTLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY AND READING
ROOM-Open and free to all from 10 a. m. to 9p.
M. City Building.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs-Bramhall Lodge, No. 3
Tuesday evenings; Munjoy Lodge. No. 6, Monday
evenings; Pine Tree, No. IL, Friday evenings. at
heir Hall, Capp's Block, Market Square. Section
1S1 Endowment Rank, fourth Wednesday in each
month.
MAINE CHARITABLE MECHANIC ASSOCIATION
Corner of Congress and Casco Streets First Thurs
day in each month.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARs-
Arcana, Monday, Congress Hall, 1901 Congress
St.; Mission, Wednesday, Williams Block, Congr nss
street; Mystic, Thursday, at Sons of Temperance
Hail.
PORTLAND TEMPERANCE UNIoN-Congress Hall
Business meetings Thursday evenings public meet
ings Sunday evenings, att O'Clock.
JUVENILE DEMONSTRATION Temple, No. "a,
at Congress Hall. every Wednesday evening at
month.
PORTLAND ARMY AND NAVY UNION corne
Congress and Brown streets. First Tuesday in each
month.
PORTLAND FRATERNITY-No. A Free BIT. Block
Every evening.
Young MEMS CHRISTIAN AssoCIATIoN-Oppo-
site Preble House. Congress Street. open day and
evening. Union Gospel Meetings Wednesday and
Saturday evenings at Il O'Clock
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AUGUSTA.
Augusta House, State So, M Whitehead,
Proprietor.
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Thinning Fruit.

The earlier this operation is performed, the
better for the tree and for the specimens that
remain. The only advantage in deferring it,
1t that the poorest, or those which are knetty
or detective may be picked off and the largest
and fairest may be left to grow. Those who
have not given this practice trial, errone-
ously suppose that it is not attended with
great labor and expense. On the contrary,
the labor is actually lessened. If a tree has
thousand specimens on it early in summer,
and these are allowed to grow and ripen,
one-half may require pickinf out to render
the other half salable. The whole must
therefore be carefully assorted after all have
been hand-picked. 1t is much easier to strip
off the half when one-tenth grown an with no
careful handling. The scrubby ones taken
out in autumn have impeded the growth of
the good ones; but if picked off in June, free
growth is allowed to all the rest. 1t may not
be that the proportion of poor specimens to
be assorted out in autumn is equal to one.
half; but the diminished size of the rest
would be an equal loss. A neghbor, removed
early in the season, two-thirds of the pears
on part of his trees of Louise Bonnie of Jer-
sey these gave as many bushels, as the I'M
thinned trees; but still there were too many
left, and he was satisfied it would have been
better to have taken at least three-fourths.
A successful peach-raiser obtained as many
bushels from his trees after severe thinning
as before, the peaches being SO much larger
as to make up in bulk the difference in num-
Der, while the price received for the large and
excellent specimens was triple that received
from the small and poor fruit on crowded
branches Owners of orchards have often
observed that the last peaches on a tree are
finer in flavor than those which ripen first
while the branches are crowded, the few days
OF rpening with ample space, producing a
striking difference in quality. Still greater
would be the difference both in size and flaw
or if the ample room was given early in the
season.
We need system of experiments to deter
mine accurately how much space should be
given for different fruits. When for instance,
there is full crop of peaches, they often
touch each other. Let number of trees or
branches on the same tree be selected, and
on one thin the peaches TO four inches dis
lance; on another to six inches on another
to nine inches, and on fourth to foot.
When the fruit ripens, weigh and count the
specimens, and observe their appearance and
quality. Try similar experiments on apple,
pear and plum trees. This may be very east
ly done, and it may give, by several repeti-
tions, valuable information as to the result.
1t should be borne in mind that the fewer
the number which are left on the tree, other
things being equal, the less the tree will be
injured by exhaustion, and it is not advisa-
Bile to attempt therefore to get the largest
number of bushels, but rather to preserve
the health and vigor of the tree Country
Gentleman.
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HIRAM.
Priesor
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DAMARIACOTTAM MILLS.
am0set House, Trask Bros. PropriefOrs