Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-02-06
News Items.

A bill is before Congress to apply tho
proceeds of tho sales Of public lands the to edu
cation of the people of tho different States.
Tho Azor. tho Liberian immigration ship,
will sail for Monrovia about tho Goth of
February with another load of colorod i'm
migrants. The passage faro from Charleston
is $3.50.
Mt Airy, on tho Air Limo Railway. is to
DO colouized by Swiss. Some Of thom haye
already arrived. They AFRO very industrious
pcoplo and will make good oitizons.
The Beaufort Tribune wishes TO SEQ Gen.
James Conner, of Charleston, elected Chief
Justice of tho Supromo Court Of South Caro- ,
lima when tho term ofcorrupt the carpet Dagger
Willard expires.
Samuel Lee, n notorious coored politician
of South Carolina, and ono who did 80 much
during tho last campaign to stir up race
conflicts, has boon rewarded by being ap-
pointed Postmaster ut Sumter, S. 9.
The Greenwood and Augusta Railroad is
rapidly progressing, and tho farmers are
anticipating tho prospect of sending their
next cotton crop to Augusta instoal Of Char.
lesion.
llero is an extract from listlo boys first
composition. "W'en cats is n swenrn' and n
biusphomin' and tryin' tho cages of their
steam b'ilers in tho back yard ut mite, it
makes fellcr oflo fradc, if he isn't a slcopin'
with his big brother"
1t is rumored that Whitelaw Reid is to
n,,l,,,>
if somebody would pick up Susan b. Antho-
ny the world might have little rest. as these
two old chronic diseases might, If married,
find something better to do than running
around trying to mike men out of women.
Nouns ending in cy form their plural rcg-
nlarly by adding S; rs key, keys; monkey,
monkeys: journey, journeys, attorney, attor-
neys, money, moneys. Ignorance loads somo
persons to writo at.ornics and monies instcnd
of tho correct spelling. The word whisky
has no c in it, and its plural is whiskics not
whiskeys.
Our usually quiet town was yesterday,
about IL o'clock shocked Mt tho sudden death
by the hands Of Mr.. Hampton Addison IIarth.
Of Mr.. Morriz Ullman. who was known in
this community as Frank ScgcndorG a
difficulty arose between them at Paul Wise's
blacksmith shop, from trivial cause which
ended in Mr. IIarth's shooting Mr.. Ullmann
with n pistol, just above tho heart, which
caused his instant death.
Lexington DisDatch
The Ahbeyilc Medium, records tho death of
Jesse Wimbnsh, the great Radical disturbcr
of tho Duo West section, whose pleasure it
was at one time to ride rcugh ahod over the
law abiding people of that locality. IIo died
while serving in tho chain gang on the Greens
wood and Augusta Railroad All TINT we
dislike about it is that Smalls or Cardozo will
not be sent to fill his place.
The Social Science Association of Boston
publishes the statement that several mills il,
Now England are grinding white stono into
powder to be used in adul,crating sugar
soda and flour. Dr.. RI. a. Mott recently
analysed 10 samples Of coffto taken from
stores in New York or Brooklyn aud found
that seven contained chiccory. The most
disquieting discovery thus far made is that
blue clny is ground, moulded and roasted so
as to present the perfect scmblance of the
coffee Dcan.
Only one Of the big trees of California has
been fclled by the hand of man. TO accom-
plSh this it required tho work CT five men
for twenty two days, rot chopping, but with
long augurs, boring it down. After the tree
was completely severed, the veteran Stood
still urmorcd and refused to fall, until by
ropes, pullcys and wedges, tho enormous
trunk was brought to tho earth. The tree
was found to be over 500 feet long, ninety six
feet in circumference at the base and sound
to the very heart.
Last Saturday twenty dollar gold piece
was circulating on our streets, bearing date
1879. The gold was taken from tho mine,
expressed to the mint at Philadelphia, coined,
and returned to Spartanburg, and put in
circulation between tho lst and 25,h of the
month. Capt Charles r. IIammctt is the
entcrprising man who did this work He
has several gold mines that with rude and
unskillcd labor yield fair gain In tho
hands Of skllful miners the amount would
be greatly increased Carolina Spartan.
ln thc foftySSlHln congress, which begins
on tho 9TH Of next March. the Republican side
of the Senate will be mentally and morally,
as well as Numerically, weaker than it has
been for scoro OF years, whiio the Democrat
ic side will be stronger in w. samo propor'
ton, than it has been since the day when the
Democracy fell into the arms of secession.
Thurman Bayard. Wallace Herman, Pcndle-
ton. Voorhees,, Mcdonald Hampton, Hill,