Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-01-23


On the suppression Of the commpbe Id
4 t'aris, 0u0 boys were among the prisoners
takon. and 1t was proved that largo mum
bers of the murders and incendiorsms were
committed by them. They we're sent ia 4
rotormatory at Roucn, mud on being care.
fully inspected by two eminent physicians,
it was found that 337 were Of very d d,cato
form and stunted growth. " They we're,
however, among tho most mischievous, and
all tho childron of drunken mothers.
This advertisement is found 10 number
Of tho Boston Euening Post, edited by
Thomas Fleet, in 1856 "1'o be sold, by the
printer of this paper, tho very best ucgro
woman in this town. Sho has hud the
smallpox uud measles, is as hearty as q
horse, as brisk as bird, aod will work like
q beaver"
biologists having reported that there is
in japan enough workable Goa! to produce
yearly yield equal to that in Grent Britain
for 1000 years, the Japanese government
have agreed to grant loan Of Sl,500,00
tor the purpose Of working them.
IL WONDER uncle" said little girl, "if
men will over yet live to be five hundred
or thousand years old?" "No my child,
responded tho old map; "that was tried
onco and the race grew so bad that the
world lad to be drowned"
Alcohol was Invented $50 years ngo in
Arabia, and was used by ladies with pow
der for paintiog their faces. Siuce that
time it has been used mainly by gentlemen
for pointing their noses und used in pluin
state because they required no powder to
fire them off.
a kind husband wEo appeared on the
witness stand ut a murder trial in France,
testified that he heard two pistol shots on
the stairs nnd sent his wife to sec what was
tho matter as he was afraid to 60 himself
81 hopo there orc no cannibals around
hear sad traveller to frontier Girl, as
she was mixing batch of dough. "Thcre
arc plenty of EN-" returned she, pouring
some corn meal iuto the pan. ave always
cat little Indian with our bread"
TIE Suez Canal. among its other curiosi
ties, presents the Traveller with tho cxlraor-
dinary spectacle OF vast flights Of hyinv-
fish, which at times suddenly appear n the
vicinity OF tho vcsscl an! rs suddenly dis
appear.
The $50, 500 900 paid for taxes on spirits
In the United States. the last fiscal wear,
makes an average of more than n dollar
Tor every man, woman and child 10 the
country.
No matter how good -oaturcd man may
be, he will invariably get mad whep he dis.
covers there is no towel in the room, and he
is compelled to dry his face on the bed
quilt.
Commissioner Of Agriculture LcDue dis
tribued 10000 tea plants during 1878,
and proposes to distribute an equal puu Der
this year.
For the third time since 1871 the Chi.
cago post Office buildings have been burned.
The loss is estimated at nearly half mil.
lion dollars.
The class in grammar will please stand
up and answer this question: "How do you
parse the word dollar?" "picase, if it's
trade dollar, you parse it for ninety cents"
Professor Henry Dick, in balloon as
ccnson at Johnston, Ark few days since,
fell from trapczc a distance of 1000 feet
aud wos instantly killed.
We trust that the nndcrmosL man iu the
fight will not forget that the provcrb says
the anvil lasts longer than the hammer.
Alabama clears $4,000 by hiring on,
her convicts, and keeps ouly few ir the
pcntentaries.
Each leaf has colony Of insects grazing
Oh it like COWS 10 meadow.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
Oconee County.
In The CoURr OF COMMON PLEAS.
Margaret L Hughes, Anna 4 Miller and Myra
Doyle plaintiffs, against John II Steele,