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

ie"to vi poor COTTON crop IN GeorSla.
Corn is still selling in some PORTIONS of
North Alabama at twenty cents per bushel.
A negro woman eighty.Gvc years old is
going to school at Canonvi'Ic, Georgia.
A Stouly County, North Carolina, baby,
thirteen months old, weighs 40 pounds.
Hogs may be kept from measles by mix !.
ing handful of good wood ashes with their
food twice week.
Mr. S. p. kinard, of Willamston, South
Carolina, has squash half the size OF a
-four barrel.
Charles Wise, son of Prof Wise, tho
acronaut, has given up all hopes Of ever
hearing from his father alive
North Carolina owes $4,000, 900 ond
owns only sl2T,009,0O0 of poopcrty with
which 10 pay it.
The court house bell is toled at Salem
North Carolina, when trial is on hand
before u magistrate.
The Southern cotton this ycur is much
finer than has heretofore been raised
Buyers say it is tip top.
Ex-senator Patterson, of "South Caro-
lima" is running Baltimore horse cur
line.
Georgia has made provision for her Grip
Piled soldiers. They are to receive sixty
dollars year for five years.
The return of deaths in Charleston for
the week euding October | |, shows total
of 2l-6 whites and Is colored.
Bishop Payne, Of the NJ. Il Church.
South, who is in his 80th yeur, is still Wig
orous mentally, and is now presiding over
tho Tennessee Conference.
Dr.. J. Il. Ensor, late Superintendent of
the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, has
received un appointment as Surgeon in the
United States Army.
Judah Z. Benjamin, tho remarkable
man, who has made name aud fortune over
again since the end Of the war, recently
sent a poor country editor in Louisiana a
check for $500
The colleges at Due West opened with
very encouraging prospects last week.
Eighty pupils answered to the first roll call
in tho Female College and .hirty five in
Erskinc College.
A uotcd and successful cotton merchant
predicts that if frosts be postponed until
November the crop will be not less than
100000 bales.
One Of the largest wool growers in Penn.
sylvania says that the red hills of the Caro-
linas and Georgia are vastly better for rais->
ing sheep than my part of Pennsylvania.
Gen. Walker, who is to supcrintcnd the
United States census of 1880, estimates that
the population will be between forty-.six
and to:ty-scvcn millions.
An active Northcrnor who settled at
Richmond Bath, in Richmond County, Ca,
has sold in the Augusta market, during the
season, $50 worth Of grapes from a single
vine.
Mark Hopkins, one Of the four magnatcs
of the great Central Pacific Railway mo.
nopoly, left property worth s23, 800, 900.
There arc about $1,000 walters in New
York Their wages run from $40 to SIS
month and board. About 10 per cent, Of
them aro married.
Harvard College has engaged an accom-
pishcd Cinnamon to teach his language in
the institution at salary of 5000 per
week
North Carolina has more licensed grain
distillerics than any other State in the
Union, the record showing lG5, Kentucky
comes next, ll0.
Farmers should plan wisely, ard carry
4 .,1 al, ~. =.
They should have a diversity of crops, SO
that if there is failure in one, there may
be Il hit in another.
The manure Of cows aud pigs resist de-
composition fora longer time than that of
the sheep and horsc--both the latter being
dricr than tho former, and dccomposing
moro readily in the soil.
The Houston 1cicyropA declares that
General llarcock will receive the solid vote
of the Texas delegation in tho next Ma.
tional Democratic Convention. Gen IIau-
cock will receive strong support from Gcor-
eia also. His boom is rapidly becoming
vigorous
An exchange says: if mau during fifty
years chcws every day two inches of solid
plug, it will amount at tho end of the half
century to 6,3G0 feet or mile and quarter
Of solid tobacco, half an inch thick and two
inches broad, for which ho will have paid,
at present prices. S2,373.
Squire Clark (ncgro) is in Lexington
Jail under charge Of killing Mr.. W. S.
Hook (whitc) October 8, and placing the
body on tho track Of the Charlotte, Coum-
bia and Augusta Railroad, between Sums
nit and Gilbert Hollow. Tho manging
of tho body by the night train was horrible.
A liItln nirl nhnut fcnr pnnra old nnd