Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-10-07
There are elk British steamers I'm the port
ot tCharlestoh, loading cotton for Europe.

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Senator Hampton 10 now at Charlottesville,
W.. but will be at homo in . few days. pro-
pared to take part In the State canvass.
His valuable services will certainly DO called
into requisition.
few days ego worthy aud efficient
employee in the post of1ce at Greonvillo was
notified that the asscssmont on his salary for
campaign purposes was ten d0llars. Ho
refpsed 10 pay Il. On Thursday laet no was
notified ofa reduction Of his salary.
Tho New York Herald says: "The spirit
8 in which the Republicans arc urging tho
on.s aSsns 'es nny royS e 0o s1e
best for tho party which they love that it
should have a period Of adversely to give ito
Leaders, time to consfder their ways"
Stephen Greepy o young man about 81
years of age, accidentally shot himself in the
neck while out hunting on the 9th instant,
about three miles from Piokens @. II. and
died instantly. He was sitting on fenee
whom his gun slipped ous Of bis hands sud
was discharged.
A Duschman who married bic sseesd wife
soon after the funeral Of the 6rst, was visited
aith u two hours' serenade in token Of dis
approval. He oxpostulated pathotically thus:
II say, poys, yon ought to be ashamed Of
yoursclfto be making all dish noise ven doro
vas funeral here 80 soon."
The Charleston unity Convention a.sem-
bled to decide whether the county nomina-
tiops be made through a convention or pri-
mary, decided on tho 9th instant in favor of
tho convention plan by vote Of forty>two to
.hirty-throe.
PEN. Guffin was shot at Abbeville G. IL.
september q by Charles McCung, in
dispute which arose while they wcro playing
game Of Billiards. MIR. Gu(1in died in few
minutes McClung claims that h" acted in
self defense. Both parties orc white.
Tho Charleston Ne,os says: There arc to
bo soycn eclipscs this year-four of tho sun.
wo Of tho moon and one of tho Republican
party. The last will occur November 2, and
will be visible al over tho United States.
Great activity prevails at present ut tho
Democratic headquarters at Washington
Tho fnrcr engaged in packing and sending
y documents il kept ut work day and night.
The average number of documents sent away
iai'y is about 100000. They arc mostly
Rnnt to Indiana and Ohio, but Wisconsin is
ie,,ing o goodly share also.
The IIolyoke tN1ass.) Gazette saya: It is
a'aed upon excellent authority that in this
hcneo ont Of fund mado by selling rum
to her own husband. He is q drinking man,
md 81 his wife struck the bargain with him,
hat If he would drink he must agree to buy all
th" liquor of hor. She thus pocketod tho
profit, instead Of regular rumsellers
a. German postal card was exhibited at tho
Dusseldorf Exhibition, upon which was
written Voss' translation Of tho first three
books Of Homer's Odyssey. containing l | 900
words, and part of debate in German Puriia-
ment. containing $4,000 words. 1t was written
in tho Gabolsburg system Of short hand, with
the naked eye, and tho mattcr would have
h!tcd nine pagos of tho London Times.
Among recent importations by Now
York house dealing in Asiatic goods were ten
cases of human hair from China, weighing
in al 1880 pounds. Chinese hair is dark
ana coarse. and is worth from so to 65 cents
pound. It ie sold in bulk to the rotol
traders, who mako it up into switches pu If,
frizzcs and other capillary adornments for tho
Chairman Barnum says if the Democrats
carry Indiana next month New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Wisconsin,
would vote for General Hancock in Noyem-
bor. He says there is no trouble in New
York, Now Jersey and Connecticut and that
t!scso States are certain for Hancock. The
majority in Now York will not be less thnn
$1,000. Mr.. Barnum statos that the Repub-
loans Fact are sangune of carrying
Indiana but he regards it as q gamo of brag.
''IIow car,o the holes 10 your elbowe?" soid
widowed mother to hor only son. "Oh,
mother, hid behind tho sofa when Colonel
Goblor was saying to Maria that he'd tako
hor, evon If you had to be thrown in, and he
didn't know was there; and go I held nv
tongue and laughed in my sloeyes till burst
'em."
The oolored people of Co1lcton County are
becoming as enthusiastic in tho cause of
Democracy as their white neighbors. Zollar
y. Gates, heretofore u leader among tho
Radicals, has declared himself in favor of
Hagood aud an honest government, and has
He brings largo following of his race with
him.
A. E. Gilohrist, tho Sergeant-at-Arms Of
tho recent Democratic Convention at Marion,
elected from. the boil two young mon named
Swans and Powers Evans challenged
Gilchrist, who declined TO fight, and there.
upon the citizens of township held a meet
ing, commended Gilohrist's action, demanded
tho discharge Of Evans and Powers from
subordinate county Offices they hold, and
appointed committee to prosecute them
ono for sending and the other for bearing tho
challenge.
A correspondent of the New York Times,
writing from Richmond, Va, comedies TINT
even with division in the ranks of the Demo-
craey there is no reason to suppose that Re-
puhlicans can carry the State. IF outside aid
ho argues, is not extended to tho colored
voters to pay tho capitation tax, an insienii-
emit Republican vote will be polcd; aud if
outside aid is extended, tho two wings of the
Democracy will at once unto and cnrry the
State by an overwhelming minority. In
either event, according to tho Tines cores
Sf0t In.