Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-11-06


people arc suffering greatly.
Forr hundred and scventy.threc persons
died of yollow fever in Memphis, nonrlv
half of whom wero negroes.
Secretary of tho Treasury Sherman says
s'a period Of initiation" has sot in.
Bucharest dispatch says that small-pox
is prevalent therc.
A revival of religion has broken out in the
Tennessee State prison.
Jefferson Davis is said to be growing blind;
and his wife, since the death of their son, has
become an invalid.
Col j. G. Pressley, formerly of Williams
burg, S. O., has been elected Circuit Court
Judge in California.
Liberia imported over eight thousand bar
rels of American flour last year.
America is furnishing horses and mules
for tho Zulu war
Ho that has no bridlc on his tongue, has
no grace in his heart.
The increase Of cotton export at New York
this year is thirty eight per cent oyer that Of
the eame period last year
The cholera is rapidly subsiding in Yokus
hama. Official returns show upward of l5O,-
600 cases since the outbreak in April and
$4,000 deaths.
An Illicit distillory was captured recently
at Atlantic City, Nj, with property valued
Mt SO 1000.
A Vermont editor claims to have seen n
rainbow at night, and tho temperance peoplo
despair of him.
Tho women of this country squundcr $l4.-
100000 year on ribbons. just think how
many cigars that money would buy.
The Hudson River tunnel, New York. will
cost $l000O,000. 1t will connect New York
with jersey City, by railway.
Gen. Joseph Hooker, who was defeated bv
tho Confedcrates at Charlottesville, died in
New York on the 3lst ultimo.
A Michigan tramp, who has been shot at
fivo timcO by farmers wives, says be has only
to watch tho end of the gun to avoid the con,
tents, ne women always shuts both eyes
when she pulls tho trigger.
Wealthy beggars arc becoming quito com.
mon in New York. An old woman mcndiI
can't was arrested on Sunday whose bank
book ehowcd the sum of $50. 900 to her credit.
The Ohio River is nearer dry than has been
known for many years. Thousands of pas.
scngcrs and large amounts Of freight hitherto
going by river aro now compelled to make
use OF the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
The Kcrshaw Democracy havo instructed
their representatives in The Legislature to use
their best efforts to abolish the Office of County
Auditor and Treasurer and to establish
moro economical mode Of collecting taxes.
Fourteen years ago there was only one
Bessemcr steel establishment in the country.
Now thcrc are eleven. with an annual pro-
duction gilmore than 100000 tons.
Aim at perfection in everything. though in
most things it is unnttained; however, tbcy
who aim at it, and perscvcrc, will come much
nearer to it than those whose lazness and
despondcncy make them give it up rs unat.
tainable.
The United States Grand Jury at Lake
City have preferred large number OF indict,
ments of Mormon polygamiss. who are to be
tried at the next term Of the United States
Court.
Great riches hayo sold more men than thew
have bought out. AS baggage is to an army
30 are riches 10 virtue. 1t hinderoth the
march, yea, and tho care Of it sometimes
losoth or dsturbeth the victory.
a Michigan paper says: "If tho young
ladies really want husbands with small in
comes thoy should adopt tho German system.
Over in Germany every girl, whether rich or
poor, goes through thorough course of
training in cooking and housekeeping"
Wheat can be raised in the Western United |
States and shipped by rail to tho Atlantic
seaboard, and thence by steamer to Europe,
cheaper than the Russian farmers can dciycr
it in Odessa.
Charcoal finely pulvorizel and mixed with
the feed of turkeys. meal or potatoes, is said
to aid greatly in fattoning them, and to i'm
prove the flavor Of the meat.
The largest Touring mill in the orld is at
Minneapolis, Wisconsin. Tho building is
100 feet one way, $50 tho other, and stories
high. The capacity Of the mill is $500 or
5000 barrels per day.
hlr.A. d. Forcacre, son Of Col G. j. Fore.
acre, General Manager of tho Air Line Rail
road, died in Atlanta on Friday last, of
typhoid fever, after lingering illncss. Wo
learn that tho employees Of the road attended
ne funeral services in n body