Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-10-23
News Items.


Wofford College oponod last weok with ono
hundred students. Aud yct thoy aro OK
pectod to como.
Mrs. Martha Potts, tho great walkist, has
reached Philadelphia on timo and claims her
$4,000 wager. she ha. carncd It.
The majority for Foster, for Governor Of Ohio,
Is about 10000. Tho Legislature will DO Re-
publican and Mr.. Thurman will lose his seat in
the Senate of United States.
An old u,isor, having listcuod to pow
erfui discourse on charity, said, "That SCR
mon so strongly promcs tho necessity of aims.
giving that I've almost mind to beg"
The coin clippers should remember that
for every hole punched in silver quarter
thoy arc liable to 6nc of 81 900 and i'm
prisonment for two years in tho pcnitentiary.
Charles Hamburg, IN Israoltc, for many
years grocery merchant md wood dealer
in Columbia, committed suicide on tho 10th
instant by placing pistol to his left car and
shooting himself through tho head IIo died
instantly. Financial trouble deranged him.
Tho elevated railways in Now York city
aro ccining money hand over fist. During
tho last thIee months thoy carried 2,Ol2, ,95G
receipts will probably foot up $4,OQO,OOO
year in worry short time.
La Decoan, India, rats have become so
humorous that committee Of State has
been appointed to devise means for their
determination. They destroy every means
of human subsistence, and have spread ter.
ror through tho country Surely thoro arc
no cats in that country
Tho Governors of tho old original 'Thirtccn
States arc in Philadelphia making preparations
for the celebration Of tho centennial Of tho
battle of Yorktown ard The capture of Lord |
CORVALLIS. This will occur in 1881 Governor
Simpson is present, doing all ho can to make the
thing success.
Tho plague Of wild beasts and snakes in |
India is extraordinary indeed. Snakes alono
in 1877 killed nearly $1,000 persons, and
tigers, elephants, loopards and other beasts
nearly 5000 moro. Efforts wore mado at the
same time to destroy the animals, but without
apparent reduction Of numbers. About ;27,-
O0O snakes and %. 900 wild beasts woro killed
and $4,000 paid in rewards for their do
struotion.
We commend the eighth verso of the 18th
chapter of st. Luke to tho serious considcra
tion of tho advocates of the State Agr;cultu.
rel College; "And he answering said unto
him. Lord. let it alone this year also, till
dig about it and dung it." The idea of n
State Agricultural College in this State is so
supremoy ridiculous that it will bo laughed
out of existence before it ever gets started.
AJbevUte Medium.
Tho Edgcfeld Adcertiscr says that certain
negroes in Jail at that place, charged with |
adultery, wero promptly liberated by Judge
Mackey on tho opening of court last week. |
In Lexington, if wo mistake not, he released
several prisoners under like charge. lie
holds that tho statue does not define tho
crime of adultery, und that it is not punisha
bio by common law. lie regards the statue
as dead letter.
MIR. John Thomas Butcr, of the "IIambure
Horror" notoricty, is now in New York with
a pack Of bloodhounds, amusing tho New
Yorkcrs by running" negro in Fleetwood |
Park. This is done, rs Mr.. Butlor alleges, to
disprove tho existence of the cruelty which
Northerners supposed attached to tho hunt
ing OF runaway slaves with dogs. We believe
II Is now asserted thatit was n rero occur
renco tor " negro to be thus caught in South
Carolina.-Adbcvillc Press and Banner.
Directors of tho Bolton, WILLIAMSON and
Easly Railroad will petition the next Lcaisla,
turo to amend tho charter of tho road
80 as to change tho namc of the road from
the "Belton, Williamson and Easlcy Rail.
road to that of tho "AtIantic and French
Broad Valley Railroad" and to authorize it
TO consolidate with any othor road beyond tho
limits of South Carolina Books of subscrip.
ton ore to bo opened at tho following plnces.
Augusta, Charleston, Port Royal, Columbia,
Newborry, Abbovillo, Greenwood, Duo West
Anderson Q. H., Grcenvillo Pickcns and
Easley.
There is only ono country in tho world in
which thoro is no llitoao people; it is the
s'andwch Islands. The population Of the
itlands is $4,000. They have eleven high
educational institutions one hundred and
sixty"nino middle public schools, and forty
three private schools The public instruction
ls under the supervision Of committee ap-
pointed by the King and composed of five
anombers, who servo without remuneration;
the committee appoint q general inspector
and number Of sub,inspcctors. Tho Go.
vernment takes care that every person shall
20 able at least to read and write, and
pursucs energotically all parents who neglect
20 send their children to school.
Tho London Economist has been compiling
statement of gold and silvor now living in
various banks in Eurono ond tbo ,rro,,,,,, .,