Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-06-19
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States.
Most Of the shadows that GROSS our path
through life arc caused by our standing in
our own light.
"A man that keeps riches and enjoys
them not, is like tho ass that carries gold
and eats thistlos.
Senator Thurman, it is said, is proba-
bly the most accomplished scholar now in
Congress. Flo delights in literature, and
manages to keep pace with current publioa
tioDs.
Moro than one half of tho Inhabitants
of sunny Italy can neither read nor write.
They arc natural musicians, however, and
many of thom ploy hand organs by ear.
Tho American nickel FIVE cent piece
contains seventy-Gve per cent. of copper,
twenty live per cent. Of nickel, and weighs
77.l6 grains.
Tho first important shipment of gold
from this country to Europe, since the re-
sumption of specie payments, took place on
Wednesday, when S250,OOO was sent out
by the steamer Algeria.
1t is probable that atmospheric air
extends about fifty miles above the surface
of the earth, though this rests, of
course, upon conjecture. It has been tested
only to distance of seven miles by bal.
looms.
MIR. james Gordon Bennett has pur.
chased one thousand acres of land ia tho
Saw Mill River Valley, one of the outlying
districts of New York, on which, it is said,
he designs erecting large number of un.
pretentious houses fc- occupancy by work.
ingmen.
The Mormon missionaries count one
hundred and twenty-eight frosh victims,
who arrived at New York en- route for Utah
on Wednesday. They are composed of
Irish, Swiss, Scotch English and Welsh.
They report that three moro batohes are
about to sail from Europe
Coinage at tho Philadelphia Mint in
May: Gold, 80, 400 pieces; value, $3.50, 800.
Silver dollars, 100000. Baso, 455 900
pieces; value, s4,708. Total value, 1904
sos.
-Ethnologists and statTcians agree that
life is Of longest duration in countries where
people are most civilized. A great number
of people are born in uncivIizcd comnuni-
ties, but fewer reach maturity than among
the civilized
Gen. Thomas Ewing sent the following
dispatch upon being notified of his nomina
ton for Governor of Ohio by the Demo
Gratis: 81 accept and thank the Democracy
of Ohio for tho distinguished and unsought
honor conferred upon me. Victory will
crown our struggle for the supremacy of
frcemrn over the dollar and tho bayonet."
The esprit was moving" and there was
quito revival in the church. An effort
was being made to bring forward members
who had strayed from the path. Brother
S. arose, and warming up with his subject,
exclaimed: "Thore is nothing that the
Lord hates so much as ID backelider!'
A triumph of zeal over grace.
Several patches of wheat in Andersen
have been threshed during the past week
some of which made very fno yields,
among them are the following: DR.. s. NJ.
Hollands, II acres, 55' bushels; Mr.. T.. w.
Byrum's, II acros, Coz bushels; Mrs. "
Burress', II acres, Sd bushels; Mr.. p.
Spclman's l ! acres, 634 bushels.
Every iron mill in Pittsburg, Pa, with
single exception, are now idle, the manu-.
facturcrs having refused to pay $5 per ton
for pudding A long siege is expected;
howevor, have appointed committees res
pectively looking TO settlement by arbi.
tration.
Tho London City Mission Society en-.
ploycd last year 448 missionaries, who made
nearly 3,000,000 visits, distributed 25,342
Bibles, and 3,642,204 tracts, held $4,000
meetings, induced ,48S persons to become
communicates, restored 348, reclaimed
2,153 drunkards and 900 fallen women,
and put 4 > IL children in schools.
Of tho forty millions of dollars of property
burned in the United States since January,
1870, it is estimated, that more than twon--
ty--fvo millions was the direct and imme.
diate result of inoondiarism prompted by a
dosiro to get the insurance. Not that
overy ono who sustained loss by iDcendiary
fires was an incendiary, but that incondiares
kihdled fires to recover insurance, which
extended and caused this great loss
The Paris (Tenn.) Gaxeue nominates
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana,
for President, and ex. Governor James D.
Porter, of Tennessee, for Woo President
The Gazette says: eve, in to-day's issuo
offer onr country, in tho persons ofThomas
A. Hendricks, of Indiana, and James d.
Porter, of Tennessee, the honest standard
bearers of'the great and triumphant Demo :
cratic party Of 1880.
--Ex- Governor Seymour, Of New York,
who is one of the wisest and most expert,
onood of tho Democrrtio statesmen, ex.
presses the opinion that the only effect Of