Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-09-23
LOCAL MA. .TT:.NRS. ]:

Cartors. s.tt
There arc os2 post Offices in this State.
Oconeo County has 20.
Business Of oil kinds is becoming actiyo,
now tho cotton crop is being marketed.
Cotton folds ovor tho county arc white with
tho staple and lubor is fully employed.
q For ten days tho weather has beon yory
favorable for harvesting tho crop.
Rov. j. j. Neville will preach in tho WaI.
halla Methodist Church. Sunday, Goth, at ii
O'Clock A. NJ.
Thcro will be special meeting at Oconec,
beginning Saturday,, tho 25th instant, at III
o'clock, A. NJ. Services conducted by Rev.
A. w. Moore.
A fine assortment Of ladies' dress goods, silk
ties, linen cuffs and collars. silk handkerchiefs.
cdging aud insertion at j. NJ. Carter's.
Sportemen can now clean up thor guns
and got ready for business as tho gamo law
has expired.
Persons holding agricultural liens should
deposit them With the Clerk of tho Court
Their liens arc worthless rs against Judgment
creditors, unless lodged with tho Clork.
Died, at Fort Madison, s. c., September 49,
1880, Samuel D., youngest son of James A.
Doyle, Esq, aged % years, 8 months and 9
days.
We arc requested 10 give notice that there
will be meeting of the Westminster Demo
cratic Club OH next Saturday, the 25th instant.
ut IL A. NJ.
Judge Lewis two yenr old colt Don, sired by
Red Chief on the 18th instant, trotted one. fourth
Of n mile 10 u heavy sulky, OH the county road,
in 454 seconds. Whose two year old colt eau
beat this time?
Little boys had better gather few quarters
together, by picking cotton in thoir leisure
Al, .1,
9th Of October when old John Robinson'S big
circus aud mcnageric visits our county.
There will bo preaching in tho Lutheran
Church on the lst 81. Ith and 5th Sundays
Of tho month by Rcv. VIM. Plz in German
and I'd Sunday by Rev. j. p. Smcltzcr in
English, at lo@ o'clock. Sunday school at
% o'clock A. Nj.
vi. NORMAN, Secretary.
The entertainment given by our young
people at the Court House last Friday night,
consisting OF tnbIcaux, pantomimes and mus
music by Mrs. Lcgaro and Miss lIahr was
skillfully and beautifully rendered, especially
''IIomc Sweet Home" which appeals to tho
tondcr and most pathetic feelings of nature.
The entertainment also embraced scioptic
exhibitions, comic, historical and religious.
Tho proceeds of the evening amounted 80
twenty dollars and sixty five cents.
Miss phocbc LOCKER. blind lady. will
give concert at the Walhalla Court House
on Thursday, tho 30lh instant. 1t is hoped
shc will bo literally patronizcd, rs sho has q
widowed mother and several sisters depend
ing OH her for support. Miss LOCKER will
give on exhibition showing how the blind
read and write. She comes well recon
mcndcd by ccrgymen from all parts Of tho
land Doors open ut 7. performance to COM
mcnce at 7.30 o'clock, p. NJ. Admission. 25
cents; children Is cents Miss Emma lIahr
has kindly consented to assist Miss LOCKER.
Sandy Springs Camp Meeting has been in
progress the present and past week. BY reason
of tho farmers being pressed to save their
cotton crop, tho attendance was not as large as
usual The preaching was of q high order,
instructive, interesting and convincing, and
in efficacy for good has hardly Teen cquallcd at
religious locality. Many Of the leading lights
of the Methodist denomination in Upper Caro-
lima wcrc in attendance and engaged in the
work of preaching, among them Professor w.
W. Duncan, Presiding Elder Jones, ana Rev
crcnds Coke Smith, Elwc, Iamcr, Carlisle,
lodges and Ataway Good order prevailed
throughout the meeting, and TO many il proved
both religious and social revival, in the meet
ing of old friends and acquainnnccs On our
way there and returning we noticed the crop
prospects we're iinc aud we found the people in
good spirits in the promise of IN abundant
harvest.
A show inr moro profitable to our people
than Robinson's circus can be seen Mt the
store of G. Il. Reid g. Co. They can sec there
for weeks to come and every day. what thcy
actually want. and can buy what they actu-
ally need. Mr.. Reid has Just bought in New
York largo stock Of goods for the fall trade
and they arc being received and opened every
day. He wants to show them to tho people
and offers to sell them to all at low prices.
lie has and has coming things to please the
children, things TO keep them warm and COM
Portable, things to make them look prottier and
happier. TO please tho ladies, with him, is
specially and bo has paid particular attention
to their wants in his purchases. For the
men, too, he has anything from n wedding
suit to substantial farmers dress, ready
made or in cloth as well as boots and shoes
in large variety for ladies', men and children.
His full advertisement will appear in our
next issue, which see and remember.
Onward! to SEQ Bicmann & Sons man.
moth stock of goods, fresh from market. AS
money is realized from tho crops it is the
duty and pleasure Of all to provide for their
houses and families such articles rs arc
required for fall and winter comfort In
doing this oil desire to have large and
assorted stock from which to select. This
can now he found at the store Of d. Bicmann
d. Son, who have been known as reliable
merchants in this town and county Tor thirty
years, and who advertise this week the larg-
est and cheapest stock for tho quality ever
shclvcd by them. They have an immenso
supply of mems and boys' clothing, boots and
shoee, hats and caps, groceries, hardware,
&C., while in tho Indies department. they
propose to supply every want. A new and
noeded enterprise is opened by this iirm,: in
buying for thcir customers such costly artis
cles Of dress goods ns arc not in sufficient
demand here 10 justify thoir being kept in
nuantitu md YnrictY. No merchnnt can