Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08
Editorial Brevities.

Editorial Brevities
The crop reports from oil parts of Texas ore
very encouraging
Texas is as large rs thirty.four States like
Massachusetts.
Tho Southern Baptist Convention meets in
Atlanta to-day, May 8.
Charleston is going to establish brewery and
hereafter manufacture her own beer
The monument to the Confederate dead will be
unveiled in Columbia on the 18th instant
The circumference Of the head Of Hon. A. II.
Stephens is 22a inches. while that Of his body
is 242. His weight is rs pounds
Governor Hampton it is said will return home
in few days, to remain until his wounded leg
improves. 1t has given him much pain since he
has been in Washington.
The General Assembly Of the Southern
Presbyterian Church will meet in Louisville,
Kentucky, May 10th.
AS mark Of progress in cotton manufactures
at tho South, we note that nine car loads of the
staple, embracing three hundred bales, were
shipped from Atlanta TO the Camperdown mills
in Greenv'lle, S. c., last week
The new tobacco law went into operation
on the first instant. Under its provisions the
tax is reduced from twenty -four to sixteen
cents.
Atlanta is having grand time this week
in the assembling Of able men from, all parts
OF tho country in that city. The Baptist
Convention is in session there and also q
convention of sanitarans and medical sci,
entista.
Mr.. j. w. Sparks, we'll known butcher,
was fatally shot hy his oonsn"aw. Drewry
Tye, in Atlanta, Georgia. on last Thursday
afternoon. Tye has been arrested and lodged
in Jail. The verdict Of the coroner's Jury was
voluntary manslaughter.
Commencement exercises of the Furman
University, Greenvile. begin on the 18th of
juno and close on tho 18th, which is com.
mencement day proper. The exercises of
tho Female College begin on Thursday night,
| the 18th Of June, and conclude on Wednes-
night, the 18th Of June.
Tho trial of Captain Ed Cox for the kill
| ing of Col. Allston in Atlanta in March last
was opened on the 30,h ultiu,o, a motion Cor
continuance having been overruled. The
trial is exciting great interest and will occupy
over week. Six or eight of the ablest law
firms in Georgia are on each side The arcu
ment is now going on. 1t is believed by
many that the result will bo mistrial,
The Ne,os and Courier md some of o,r
Congressman do not favor tho nomination Of
Mr.. Tilden for the Presidency. Col Aiken
says; II would rathor see South Carolina
throw her vote away than to give it to Mr.
Tilden." This ia the same old talk-srnlo or
ruin" Wo hopo never to hear Of suoh nons
sense again.
Senator Gordon has shecp rancho at w.
Ty Station, which comprises 10000 acres OF
good land. 1t is In charge Of his son who ia
starting with flock of 1000. The rancho
is boing incloscd with walls built by negro
conyicts, who, under tho Georgia law, are
leased out under contract. Already seven
miles Of wall have been built up.
In tho caucus of tho Democratic members Of
Congress on the veto of tho President, Mr.
Stephens, of Georgia, gave the opinion "tba
itwould be utterly wrong for Congress to fail
to appropriate money TO support the judiciary
the other coordinate branch of the Governs
mont, to say nothing Of other officers, and main
tain the administration Of the laws, which tho
constitution makes it our duty to do, because
tho President may veto riders Of this sort"
Some curious person has gathered up the
/. information that sinoa Tho fnpndot;on n,c ~.