Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-08-14
VOLUME XIy.--No. 80.

Michigan, whore spring wheat is being
gathered. Two or three moro favorable
days will probably see tho greater part Of
the wheat in Minnesota safely housed.
The total crop of the State will bo from
Dc, 1000, 900 to sc, 900, 900 bushels, averag-
ing 10 to Is bushels to the acre in the
Southern part of the State, and fifteen to
twenty Eve in the Park region, North of
Minnesota River. 1t is Believed that thrco
quarters Of tho wheat will grade as high as
No. l., which is unprecedented. BY the
close Of tho week little grain will remain
out of tho stack, aud tho berry is reported
hard bright and firm. The farmers of the
Northwest arc jubilant.
SEARCHING FOR CoAt.-The Columbia
Register of Wednesday last says: "Profcssor
Bibikov leaves tho city to-day on pros
pecting trip in search of COAL He will visit
Georgia and several points in this State, aud
will be absent about week. He is conf
dent that he has found uumstakable indi.
cations of this valuable deposit in several
localities in South Carolina. Heretofore it
has not becu supposed that there was any
euch deposit here, but it may have been
overlooked in the years before tho war,
when planting was the principal pursuit of
our people, and paid them so we'll that they
did not find it necessary to give much
attention to other resources. If Professor
l}lbikov's researches arc successful, it will
rcvolutioniEo tho commerce Of the State"
Dispatches from different parts of tho
State Indicate falling off of the Demo-
cratic vote cast at Mondays election for
State officers and members Of the Legisla-
ture of Kentucky. The Democratic central
committee estimates tho totu vote at not
over 200, ,0OO-a falling off Of over $4,000
on the Tildcn-Ilayes vote, and Of over
$4,000 on the last gubernational vote. In
Louisville alone the vote falls of over 5000.
Tho Republicans make slight gains in the
Legislature and defeat the Speaker Of the
last House, but the Democratic majority is
still overwhelming in the General Asssem-
bly,.
Tho Lauronsylle Herald takes very
proper view of the University question aud
says "It is not very likely, however, that
the University will be opened soon. If tho
State is unable to afford means to properly
carry on the common free schools, or support
her conviots in tho Penitentiary, aud barely
auiV w SuooioI hei puupCiS, hoW 10 Iuo ~ ul-
versity to bo reopened, inourrng thereby
large additional expenditure annually?
The Legislature must either elevate its
reference to reopening tho University and
LONDON, August Financial articles
published this morning state that the with.
drawul of gold from the Bank of England
yesterday for the United States was the
probable precursor of larger shipments in
payment for quantities of American produce
arriving hero and in France, and that tho
steady deolino in rates of exchange has
pointed to suoh movement in bullion for
some time past. 1t is understood that tho
Bank of England holds large amount in
American eagles,
The last Congress made considerable
Roadway upon bill to grant annual pen
sions to tho veterans of the Mcxican war.
This bill did not become law. 1t will,
however, without doubt, be passed OF tho
next session Of Congress. Both pension
committees, a very good majority of both
Houses, and tho Treasury Department arc
favorable to doing this much Justice to the
men who bore tho heat of tho battle in tho
war with Mexico.
Now England has over 230 farmers
clubs, with $4,000 active members and
library books to the number Of 2l 1000, and
in the United States thcro are nearly 1000
agricultural societies, $4,000 volumes in
their libraics, and with ac,css to 860
different agricultural publications, all ex.
erting direct influence on the intelligence
and future prospects of the tillcrs Of tho
soil.
a Connecticut paper, published at Litch.
field, has this gloomy report: Gland was
never lower in New England during the
present century than it is to-day, farming
was never more unproductive, nor tho pros-
pcct for tho future more gloomy. Must
our history be one of steady decline in vital
force, far beyond that indicated by our
decline in population, until tho wave shall
iualy set back from an ovcrpopulatcd
Wcst?"
A couple Of hot weather stories: Tho
heat of tho sun was so intense that n tray
sof corr, set sinaMajor Poole's yard at Talla-
hassee, sTla., to dry popped open as though
fire was under it, As Knoxville, Tonnes.
SEQ, reporter was passing by agrooery store
lie observed slight oommotion in basket
of eggs, ond suddenly one Of the eggs burst
and vigorous littlo chick popped out.