Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-10-30
1t is said that tho chestnut crop in the


suspended.
"Sec how I ride over the raging mane"
exclaimed man who was thrown over his
horses head into his ditch on tho other side
of the fence.
The official count Of the vote of Ohio in
the recent State election gives Foster
majority over Ewing Of l7,l29 in total
vote of 6G3,66
The difference between woman and
an umbrella is that tho latter can be shut
up.
Many woman dusts billiard chalk off
her husbands coat, dnd big tear stands
in her eye as she thinks how late he works
of nights at his desk by the whitcwashcd
wall.
1t is claimed that more than fifty per
cent of this years cotton crop in Misss.
sppi was produced by "hitc labor.
The Amcricus RcpuJlican is of the
opinion that cotton will command fifteen
cents before spring, and advises farmers to
hold their cropa.
DR.. S. M. D. Byrd has been elected
State Senator from Williamsburg to fill the
vacancy caused By the death Of Col. S. w.
Maurice.
Senator David Davis predicted that if
Ewing was defeated Grant would be the
next Republican President aud would never
leave the White House aliye.
The same sold story" that makes "two
hearts beat as one" is often like bar of
soap-so full of lye it won't wash.
The first Baptist Church of Texas was
organized in 1886. Now there ore in the
State l2O, 900 Isaptists, of whom 10000
arc whites and $4,000 negroes. The Bap-
lists have nine schools of the higher cluss
under their control
The colorcd people of tho town of Ander
son have temperance lodge of about three
hundred members, which is constantly in.
creasng.
There is n man now living in Franklin
County, Ga, named Dock Bond, 61 years
old, who never was sick, never took dose
of medicine, never sued person in his life,
| and has never been sued, and never lost
dollar in his life that was owing to him.
lie was raised in Madison County, Ga.
A firm of coin collectors has on cxhibi-
tion silver half dollar, Confederate money,
the only coin issued by the Confcdcracy.
This is valued by the firm at 81 900. A
Jewish shekcl made B. G. 1877, is also highly
priced This coin was struck by Simon
Nlaccabaeus during the frs. revolt of the
Jews.
There is strong movement in soine
parts of Georgia to make Gen. Robert
Toombs Governor. Toombs 10 brilliant
and ccceutric, sort of intellectual comet,
and like all other comets is as unreliable as
he is brilliant and attractive. If we re.
member correctly the General is not citi.
zen, either
The Ncwbcrry Herald says: eff the
South should ever reach the point where
she can hohl her cotton and demand fair
price for it she will then be the garden
spot of the world Our farmers should
direct their energies to this object. So
long as they arc compelled by liens, etc., to
sell their cotton as soon as made, they will
be at tho mercy of cotton buyers and spec
ulators"
A Washington dispatch to the Baltimore
Sun, dated October 18th, says: "A,torney
General Youmans, of South Carolina, to day
moved 10 tho Supreme Court to dismiss the
writ Of error in the case of Robert Smalls
from the Supreme Court of the State of
South Carolina. The motion waa made
with the concurrence Of both sidcs, and the
case was accordingly dismissed"
The Beaufort, Crescent says: "Our Co
lumbia correspondent inquiries why the
taxes duo tho State by the Air Limo Road
arc not paid when all tho courts havo dc.
clarcd they nrc liable?' We'll, we oan only
divine that, like all incorporated bodies
controlling means enough to buy the proper
influences, courts may decree and be d--d
1t results either from the greater respect
shown to the power Of money, or to the
unworthiness of confidence held in our
judicial tribunals, but does not show
condition of things Of which wo are igno.
rant"
General Grant, on being informed Of the
sweeping Republican triumph in Ohio, ex-
pressed much qualification. He said with
much emphasis that Ewing, as represen-
tativc of false and dangerous financial doc.
trnos, deserved defeat. For many years they
country had been struggling to reach
sound financial basis, and it was incxcusa.
DIG I'D any nan 10 tdko posilioli "hich
would ngain dcbaso the currency and im.
pair the public credit.
The conservative and Independent Re.
publicans of Now York, led by George
William Curtis, editor Of Harper's Weekly,
insist upon tho defeat of the Republican
candidate for Governor. The reason for
tho stand taken is that the election of Cor
nell tho machine candidate, means tho
nomination of Grant md the restoration Of