Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-15

for 50, l2O 900 cash.
Col. A. P. Butler is industr;ously stocking
tho waters Of South Carolina with fish. The
State will owo him debt of gratitude. ~
| Tho South Americans are getting blood
thirsty. Chill hos declared war against
Peru, and active preparations are now going
on for the conflict in which Bolivia is also a
participant. Tho citizens Of Lima, in Peru,
arc enthusiastically rendering thoir money
and their services to the government.
The French Government is resolved to
provent tho Roman Catholic clcrgy from in
terfering with tue system Of public education.
Serious results may follow, but in the end
th@ PRIESTS will be compelled to submit
North Carolina furnishes tho world with a
| large proportion Of medicinal remedies in the
way plants. One firm alone in Statesville
sold last year half million dollars worth of
| herbs gathered in the State.
wagon from the mountains camo into
Greenpille the other day, drawn By an OK
and q mule. The load consisted Of four
horned shoep, wild cat and two small bears.
lie found the market rather dull for his barter
and left for some point below.
Tho desire to return to tho whipping post
is SO strong in Kentucky that in some coun,
ties candidates for tho Legislature are COM
pelled to pledge themselves to sustain the
measure or lose their chance of election.
Three men paid the penalty Of thor crimes
on tho gallows m the 10Th instant one in
North Carolina for burglary and two in
Georgia. for murder.
A religious newspaper in London has re
covered damages in libel suit against a
man who spoke evil Of it. Make a noto of
that, and be careful how you speak of news
papers. It's poor rule that don't work both
ways.
Tho appropriation made by Congress q
| short time since for tho purchase md dstri.
button of seed will not take effect until the
first of July, and our farmers can save them
selves tho trouble of sending on for seed MS it
is stated that none will be obtainnble before
| fall.
Although tho United States Supreme Court
has declared polyga crimo against the
laws of the land the Mormon delegate TO
Congress recently in Salt Lake City, made a
most elaborate defense Of polygamy to the
largest congregation over assembled there.
And yet he is permitted to hold his seat in
| Congress.
a resolution has been adopted by tho Ponn-
sylvania Legislature authorizing tho appoint
ment of joint committee to welcome Grant
on his arrival in this country in tho namo of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. provided
thorc shall bo no expense to tho State.
The father Of Charley Ross has boen again
disappointed in finding his long lost boy. lie
has visited over six hundred lost children, all
of whom were believed to DO Charley. The
case will probably pass into history os
the most remarkable OF its kind on record.
New York City has nearly 500 churchos
and chapels costing $40 1000 900 to build and
$5.0Oo0OO moro per annum to keep them
going. 1t has ffty-nino hospitals and asy-
loms for the sick. agcd, blind, deaf and dumb,
lunatics, inebriatos. orphans and soldiers,
which have cost $20,OO0,O0O to build, and
require $5000,O00 year to sustain. Tho
public school ediGcos have cost $6,OO0,O0O,
and 81 900 900 year to operate.
The Holy Land is subject to famine rs of
old. Now, however, instead of sending to
Egypt for corn, tho wants of tho pcoplo are
mot by importatons of flour and grain from
New York As Joseph collected corn in
Egypt, in anticipation of soyon years Of
scanty harvests, 80 exports from tho bountiful
crops of the new world arc now storing at
Jerusalem to meot impending famine. a
The American Medical Association rccon,ly
in session at Atlanta. Ga, favor the reouisi-
ton Of attending throo courses Of lectures
preparatory to graduation as physician
This will bear hard on many worthy poor
man, but if it will prevent the graduation of
men who are not properly educated in tho
duties and responsibilities of tho profession
tho public will bavo no ground of complaint.
The subscriptions to tho Bonner bale, in
this city, Gays the Augusta Chronicle, amount
to nearly throo hundred dollars. The sum
will be sent to tho family of tho late Liouten-
ant Bonner, and tho bale will DO forwarded to
tho Charleston Cotton Exchange, where it
will bo raffled or sold for Tho benefit of tho
Bennor fund and se.dopated.