Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-02-27
The Spring Outlook.

The United States Economist and Drv
Goods Reporter of this city discovers, since
the first of January, encouraging business
prospects of the future. Values of all
kinds Of property have been adjusted to a
specie basis, and tho close of the first mon h
of resumption finds moro gold in the Ma,
tlonal Treasury than at it's commencement,
although $25,000,000 havo been paid out
therefrom. This fact eets at rest the doubts
that croakers originated about tho failure of
the Treasury department. to continue to nav
gold on demand, and assures the public that
honest money is once more triumphat.
The excess of our exports over imports for
tho year 1878 exhibits the gratifying bal
anco OF $305, 100000, with every pros
peot OF being further increased during
1870.
During the first three wocks of January,
1879, 5000 packages of domestic goods
nave been exported in excess of the amount
shipped from all other ports for the CORES
ponding period of 1873. China. Japan,
Mexico, and South America are cultiya;i pg
with US closer commercial relations, and our
cotton fabrics arc finding in these countries
widely extended and rapidly growing
market. Our brcadstuffs and praniss;;oois
are chiof articles Of freight~c6rried bv Tho
large teet of teeHeesss the! almost daily
'ease QUE sseeaUoard cities for European ports,
"sa tho shipments promise to assume such
magnitude IN tic future that larger vessels
OF immense freight capacity are being CON
struoted to accommodate this growing trade.
The trunk lines of railway are being used
TO their full capacity in transporting the
produce of the West to the scaboard, while
the elevators in tho chief cities of that re-
gion are crowded with grain waiting for
cars to transport it Fast.
Tho recent large advance in railroad
bond aud mortgages is an indication of tho
confidence felt by the public in their sccu
rity as permanent investment, while the
rise in railway stocks also demonstrates
clearly that the cffeots of tho panic arc rap
'dly disappearing, and that new tide of
prosperity awaits tho country. Railroads
were tho first to feel the financial uphcaval
10 1873, and they also give the first sure
Indications of commercial revival. Real
estate is improving, and 10 this city vacant
lots that could not have been sold at even
nominal price two years ago, have advanced
in some cases 100 per cent. within tho last
six months
Tho great dry goods interest, which is
larger than that of any other in the land,
has before it on encouraging outlook. Prices
OF cotton and woolen fabrics, both for
oign and domestic, are now so low that any
change must DO upward Instead of down.
ward. Merchants cannot loose by the wide
tuctuation of values as heretofore. Inoom.
petent and unsound concerns have pcper-
ally been we.dod out, higher degree of
mercantile efficiorcy aud honor is being
developed, and tho business generally is
passing under more Systematic methods and
control. There are 40,000,00O of peoplo
to DO clothed, tho chief portion of whom
nave made but limited purchases during tho
last i've years, and now, with better times
IN Wow, Will become largo consumers of all
klods OF merchandise. TO tho capitalist.
banker, merchant, manufacturer, artisan.
and laborcr, thcre is tho sign of q business
Improvement. It will bo slow, but il will
DO steady and permanent. While Eurono
is threatened with sooial and commercial
dioastcrs, and distress and suffering prevail
through declining trade, in tho iJnitod
States peace and plenty abound, and the
business OF tho entire country is rcviving
on tho solid basis Of specie payments. Wo
have had our disasters and trials, thoy mul.
tiplied for time thick and fast; but having
boen led by n kind Providence safely through
them, wo onter upon higher commercial
destiny than wo have ever known before.
TENDING TO MATRIMoNY.--"W don't
you got married7" said young lady to a
bachelor friend tho othor day.
"Beoauso," repliod he, "I havo been
looking around for ton years.. but havo
aevor seen any girl fool enough to have mo-"