Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-08-28

A letter was received in Washington Sats |
drday fron, Con. Ewing IIo says he is worry
confident OF his election rs Governor of Ohio; |
that tho people ore enthusiastic. and TINT the |
vote will be largo. IIo also says that ho be-
iieves ho will get tho whole urecnback vote.
We take the following item from the Abbe-
villo Mctltum: A prominent Radical politi-
cian OF this county says that thoy Intend to
Carry tho next election by violonco." Those
Of our people who claim that there is no dan.
ger should make noto of this. Violence
md fraud aro tho only cards the Radicals can
play, and they understand thoir uso.
Tho Ne,os and Courier gives son,o very
coneoling information in reference to our dan.
ger of being struck by lightning. Out of
population Of fifty million. only seven have
been strucb in three months. From this it
appears that n man is ten times as opt to
commit suicide rs ho is to be struck By light,
uiIg.
The largest bridge in Europe will be COM
pletcd next year. 1t will cross tho Volga, in
tho Government Of Samara, Russia, on the
Siberian Railroad. Tho river, ut tho point
of crossing, is four miles wido in the spring
and 1872 feet wido in tho autumn. The cost
Of tho bridge will be $3500,OO0. Twelve
piors, IS feet high, at distance of over 3e4
feot, will support the structure.
Tho local sensation at Romo, Ga.. is de.
falcation nggregating between 100000 and
100000, Of tho oashiersof the Cilizons Ma.
tional Bank, Of which cx-Postmaster Cress-
well is President No specific details have
been made. Tho defanlter, whose name is
w. N. Rose, is a young married man, very
respectfully connected.
We learu that General James Conner, Re
ceivcr of tho Greenvillo and Columbia Rail-
road, in Wow Of the largo amount of freight
which will this fall aud winter be moved by
his road, has decided to mako q new freight
tariff that shall materially reduce the freight
charges now in vogue. This will be highly
commended by all business men, and will
unqucstionably rebound to the benefit Of tho
railroad Columbia Icomoa
Con. James Conner, Receiver of tho Groom.
vile and Columbia Railroad, and Col. IIuger
General Freight Agent, wero in Anderson
closetcd with the Board Of Trade for several
hours on last Tuesday, having consultation
on tho freight tariffs 10, and from this place.
Wo arc Informed that satisfactory promises
wore made on tho part of the railroad author
itics, and our merchants arc confident of hay.
ing their heavy fall stocks delivered on equi-
tablo freight rates, and therefore we may
expect an increased trade at this point during
tho next senson.-Anderson Journal
Tho lingio or brown coal warfare between
the Charleston Ne,cs and Courier Prof. F.
S. Holmes, Of Charleston, and Prof. N. A.
Bibikov, of Columbia, is progressing. Some
of the citizens of Columbia have had oooular
demonstration OF the fact that the mai aorial
which Prof. Bibikov has found will not only
burn but produce gas. We hopo it may DO
fully demonstrated that South Carolina has q
iiuc coal bed within her borders, and that
now source of industry and wealth for the
old State may be Developed.
The new law age'nst- -tsan,,,a. ..4 % -sl. IN
last week. Every vagrans is to be arrested
and imprisoned twelve months in county
Jail every vagrant entering house, or kind
ling fire on highway, or discovered with
a dangerous weapon which no uses for intimi,
dation, is to be imprisoned three years The
net of begging is made prima jacic evidence
that the person is q tramp. A State Which
requires such law as this must be overrun
with desperadoes, and that is what is the
matter with Pennsylvania. Tho tramps.
under the pressure of tho new law, are
already pouring into Maryland and New
! York.
Mr.. j. W. Edwards, largo planter in the
canebrake region of Alabama, says, in n
letter to tho SELMA Times, that the common
notion that it tnkos boil of cotton six weeks
to mature after tho bloom drops from tho
stalks is nm error. lIo says TINT from the
latter part of Juno to tho 18th or goth of
July it takes boil of cotton thirty days to
become fully grown after tho bloom drops
from the stalk, and from then on to the 10Th
Of September it only takes from twenty to
twenty-five days for q boil of cotton to get
grown from tho time tho bloom drops.
The Ne,cs and Courier says: Congressional
committees have been hunting around for
fraud in NIL parts of the country for the last
two years, but mono of them can show rs
enoctual work for tho first day as that of
which Gen. NJ. q. Butler is chairman. at
Newport They have discovered perfect
mine of evidence in an old Federal soldier,
who at one time was clerk under Brayton,
who was the postmaster Mt Newport. The
| postoifco, according to this old veteran. was
tho headquarters of the Republicans. Thore
the campaign of the party was planned, the
posofice clerks were made political apostles
for the surrounding country, and tho letter
carriers used as courora for tho distribution
OF tickets. A vory nice little hest Of DOR,