Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-11-06
Miscellaneous Items.
The Jest that gives pain is no lest.

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When thing is onoe begun it is almost
half flushed.
What is better than promising young
manf q paying QUO.
Poach trees arc in full bloom 10 Harri-
son County, Miss
Spartanburg claims population of nearly
In case ofivy poisoning, batho tho parts
10 sweet spirits nitro.
An olive tree at rernandiua, Florida,
produced two bushels of rips fruit.
A high agricultural authority estimates
the loss on English crops at sl25, ,OOo, 900.
Femae frioudship is 10 man tho bulwark,
Sweetness and ornament Of his existence.
If you want to be real happy, try your
best to make others think they are happy.
The Grecnbaok vote in Ohio, at tho re-
cent election, was less than 10000 against
$4,000 last year.
Anybody is apt to be mistaken, but
boy never but onco attempts to pat short
horned bull on the head.
Much charity which begins at homo is
too feeble to get out Of doors, and much
that begins out doors never gets into the
home oiroc.
In the depth Of the sea the water is still;
the hea7icst grief is bornc in silence; the
deepest love flows through tho eyes and
touch; the purcst JOY is unspeakablc.
George W. Williams, of Charleston has
gained the two first suits brought against
him in New York.
North Carolina has moro licensed grain
dstllerics than any other State in the
Union, the record showing 165; Kentucky
comes next, l49.
Tho Spartauburg AeraM of last week
states that Robert Lee Turner, son of Mr..
=. Henry Turner, picked 4O6 pounds of
cotton, few days ago, between sunrise aud
sunset.
Tho total coinage of standard silver
dollars to date is s44,453,850; of which
amount there is on hand in the treasury
s32,232,S40, and in circulation sl2,22l,-
OlO.
The Monroe College, at Forsythe, Ga,
was consumed by fire on last Friday night.
1t was one Of the finest in tho State Esti-
mated loss, $4,000. Tho furniture was
oil saved.
Tie great East River BRIDE enterprise,
to connect Now York and Brooklyn, has
already cost Sl1,073, $50, and the trustees
want Sl,700,000 moro to complete it,
which they think they can do in eighteen
months.
Aim at perfection in everything, though
in most things it is uuati-incd; however,
they who aim at it., and pcrseverc, will
como much nearer to it than those whose
laziucss and despondency make them give
itup as unattaiuablo.
IN 1860 there were 1,3ll,24G hands
engaged in the manufacturing industries of
the United States in 1870 the number was
2,O53, ,006; in 1880 tho number will not be
less than $500 900.
A ham, we'll packed in pulverized char
coal, after the usual smoking, will keep for
years. Butter in pots, well surrounded
with charcoal, will keep for twelve months.
Each atom of charcoal can absorb 1000
times its bulk in dcletcrious gases.
Millions Of dollars 90 annually out of tho |
State for supplies which should and could be
produced ut home, with profit to producer
and consumer. 1t is only necessary to get
out of the old ruts--lcss attention to cotto
and politics will do it.
Mr.. T. G. Hudson exhibited in Chester
last Saturday number of horse apples, the
second growth of this year. Some of these
apples were as large MS guinea eggs.
This shows tho extraordinary midncss Of
the weather Of this fall season.
The grand jury of Hampton do not seem
to have been pleased with the manner in
which the Auditor and County Treasurer of
that county havo discharged their duties.
They say that bill making all county
officers elective is much needed, and would
do away with the executive pensioning off
lot of pcrsous possessed Of antiquarian
ideas.
Last week Wisconsin Judge was shot
down in his doorway, and on the next day
his assassin was walking the streets unmo.
lostcd. Three foul murders we're committed
in the vicinity of Janesvillc, Wisconsin,
within short time, which somehow or
other have been overlooked by the Rcpub--
lican press of the North. The stalwarts
have of late been hunting up Southern hor.
rors. The North has no outrages to speak
Of.
The Augusta Chronicle says: ave learn
from gentleman who has fno cornfields on
tho river, that the grain was completely
covered, and has been seriously damaged
by the sudden and serious overflow. Tho
damage to one field nbovo Augusta was
from $1,000 to $500, while several
other plantations count up losses at $500
and upwards.