Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-06-19

Tho Commencement ball will be hold at .
Biomann's Hotel on Thursday evening Of COM
mencement day. It promises to bo d brilliant |
and enjoyable affair. /
Mr.. D. A. Mulkey and Mr.. E. P. vorner, tr., /
have presented us this season with largo stalks !,
Of cotton. We learn that Mr.. Verper's crop
promises to BIO very fine.
Mr.. James L. o. Frioks was bitten on tho
foot by a rattlesnakes pilot on Friday last.
Whiskey was administered in largo doses and be
recovered. Boys, and girls, too, keep out Of tho
way Of snakes. ap' iw AslgN 'lsHiHal
Though the examinations in our rnatc college
altogether written, s!ill to visit the different
apartments and find the young men with their
coats drawn, laborng with such vim, oannot but
interest one and impress him with tho fact that
they have been taught, among the MANY literary
truths, that great principle that labor is the
secret Of SUCCESS, and that without It thcro is
no crown. Tho papers Of many of the young
men really show proficiency. Such students
must mako an interesting commencement, which
comes off next week, and all are solicited to bo
present at that timo and hear tho addresses of
tho young men and the discourses Of tho dis
tinguished gentlemen who are to bo present.
! We publish in this Issue the proscntmont of
tho Grand Jury for tho information of tho
public. Judge Aldroh had oalled their at
tonton to the want of taste and comfort in
the furniture Of our oommodious court room,
and tho duty of tho public to provide whats
ever was necessary for tho comfort and con-
venioncc of thoso who arc required us jurors
or in other capacities to perform public scr,
|vico. In this connection the Grand Jury
recommend that tho County Commissioners,
rs soon as they feel able, should provide all
needed furniture for the court room and Offices.
We approve fully Of tho suggestions Of
Judge Aldrioh and hopo that with economy
there will be enough funds in our treasury to
expend some to preserve the shade trees
about the Court House and tho ornamcnta-
ton Of our public square. There is nothing
which speuks in stronger terms Of tho intcll-
gence and progress of people than tho
attention paid to their public roads and
bridges, their pubic buildings and grounds
and their aims houses. AS n general rulc we
havo good roads, but we think tho public
square should be enclosed with good plank
fcnco with revolving gates at proper points
for ingress md egress to tho court yard. In
tho first place this would preserve the bcauti-
full young grove, which will otherwise be
destroyed in fow yoars by bi.ching horses
to tho trees. In tho next place the square
would in n few years become soddcd with
grass and by having seats and benches here
and there, people coming to court or the
public Off COS on business. would find u nico
place for rest and for lunch. Tho square,
ut small expense, could be made q place
OF rest and refreshment and ornament. In
many States great attention is paid to tho
public grounds, and the effect is to mako tho
country moro desirable us cvidenoing tasty
and refined people. We would not say to
icunr debt for this purpose, but that some
money expended evcry year in this way would
prove profitable to the public at large If the
trees about tho Court House be permitted to bo
destroyed year after year any ono can see
how sultry and unpleasant it will be for
pcople attending court in the summer season,
and it is fur cheaper to to preserve the
native growth, than after it is destroyed to
hire tho sottiug out of shade trees.