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

than its par vulue. This arises from the
ability with which it has been managed,
and the securing at once Of an ample cash
capital"
There arc very few inves estments that have
for the past six yeas averaged 20 per cent.
profit, and 10 farmer ever expects half that
amount. Many who have worked hard 10
pay for fertilizers from year to year, uro
poorer now than they wero when they began
Six years ago. Yet to resist tho cxorbitaut
demands Of these exao.ing taskmasters who
| lave conspired to enrich themselves at tho
cost Of tho farmer is in the language of our
Charleston contemporary, to follow tho
leadership of Kearney aud B. 4. Butler,
and to become the "cncmies of order, de.
ccncy and peace"
The Stono Company offers thirty shares Of
stock for sale. This company from bad
management, bad speculative Investments,
and the want of paid up capital to begin
with, has not furcd SO well US the more
fortunate Atlantic. Notwithstanding these
disasters, however, the Stono is still in
healthy financial condition, and the idcn IL
hello out in the notice that with the ia.
oreased price for phosphatos the stockhol.
ders will soon reap a rich harvest in divi.
dends, which have only been delayed by
the poor management of the company's
affairs in the past. But here is the notice:
"The Stono Phosphate Company was
Incorporated about the same time as the
Atlantic, but the capital stock of $lT0,OOO
was not paid up as promptly; the spccula-
tive idea of placing the factory on Central
wharf lost the company about $1,000.
After the site on which the works now
stand was purchased, delays occurred which
caused tho company heavy losses, not only
OF money, but most valuable time. It has
taken them several years to recover from
these early misfortuncs, but we ore informed
that the works Of the Stono Company arc
in good order, the capitol of the company
intact, and that by allowing the profits to
accumulate they now have commercial
capital over and above the capital paid in
of about S90,0C0 THIS ought to be v,ry
encouraging to tho stockholders who have
waited so patiently for profits on their out
10y, and it is hoped hereafter thnt regular
dividends will be paid by the company"
A story Of fath and charity from Russia!
Not long since n government functionary
died in st Petersburg in utter dcstitution,
leaving without friends or relatives two
email children, ono Of whom was boy
about seven years old. Alone, moneylcss
foodless, With his little sister crying for
bread, he wrote on piece Of paper as
last resort the petition: "Pleasc, God, send
mo three oopecks to buy my little sister
roll" This he carried to the nearest
church to drop it into an aims box and start
it on it's way to heaven. A passing priest,
seeing him try to put the paper into the
box, took it and read it, whercupon lie
carried the children to his house, fed then,
and clothed them. The next Sunday he
preached sermon On charity, in which ho
alluded to the incident. Tho collection
that followed amounted to nearly one thou.
sand dollars.
Mr.. Charles McGil, who was executed
at Cleveland, Ohio, last Thursday, should
be remembered in history as the model gal.
lows performer Of the country. Two days
before the hanging he c.rcfulIy inspected
the gallows and, as mechanical expert,
pronounced It a fine piece of work. When
brought out to be "worked off" he stepped
up aid took his place on the trap without
a whimpcr. The only remark ho made
vas, "Don't make any mistake about that
rope The execution was great success
MIR. McGilrs neck was broken with skill
and he was extinct in precisely thirteen
minutes and a half It mu t DO real
pleasure for sheriff to hang man who
acts we'll his part.
There are about forty female physioisns
in Philadelphia in full practice, OF least ten
artistic (paintcrs) and one sculptor, Miss
Blanche Nevin, lately selected by the Btatc
to execute the statute in marble of Mullen.
berg. Of lady lawyers we find no record;
of printers, school and music teachers there
is multitude; of lady clerks and attendants
IN shops and stores an army; of editors, cor
respondents, novelists, historians and sciep-
lists OF tho gontler sex 10 this city alone,
tho roster would be revelation. Among
lecturers, preachers and ministers NO merely
mention Lucretia Mott, Hannah Whital
Smith and Anna Diokcnson. The stage, the
opera, art in flowers, wax, lace, costumes
and decorations arc largely represented by
the women of Philadelphia.
A START CHILD Mrs Sally Smith IL
the mother Of a sprightly boy six years old;
who can read tolerably we'll. Ho he's all
ioqairing mind. Tho other day st The
breakfast table he looked his father full in
the face and asked:
"pa, die you ever have another wife
besides maj"
"Why no, my little boy; what makes you
ask such question:"
"Beoause saw in the old Bible whcro