Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-03-25
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, LOCAL MATTERS

Have your corn cribs at home and not out |
Road the summons to absent defendants,
Cothran & striblipg plaintiffs attorneys.
The Probate Judge can now be found at oil |
hours Of the day at his office in the court house
building. ~
'0olonel" Sam. Dendy, during tho rainy
weather last week, killed sixteen wild ducks In |
Wanners mill pond, near town.
Carolina Literary. Society Of Adger College
celebrates its anniversary on Friday night next
in the Baptist Church.
The knights Of Honor meet on Friday night
next OF Z O'Clock sharp. Members arc requested
to be punotual in attendance.
We understand that Pick Turner, the witness
who swore so nightly in the Moore-Bryce CASE,
at our last court, died recently.
It is said that one of our county officials Is 80
polite to every one that he meets that he oven
pulls his hat to every old barn and stable that
he passes.
On Monday last, Mr.. John G. Cary was elected
Intendant Of Seneca City, and Messrs. w. 0.
Hamilton d. L. Lowcry, James L. Boyd and J.
N. Wilson, Wardens.
Mrs. Sohneider's now house, on Main street,
is approaching completion, and will be quite
nice family cottage when the finishing touches
arc put on.
Adger College has now physical and ohemi
cal apparatus. purchased ., eat bargain
from Col. Lees estate, of Ashcvils, N. c. We
understand that other pieces are expected soon
from New York.
L. B. Crows, President Of tho State Press
Association has called meeting of tho Ex-
ccutve Committee to meet in tho CITY Of
Greenville on the 25th instant at 8 o'olook
P. nj.
Under the energetic management of General
Conner the Blue Ridge Railroad is rapidly be-
coming first class road New cross ties OF the
best quality arc being substituted for the old
ones. The drains, which had been allowed to
become choked, havo been opened, and in d
word, the whole line of road, if tho past i'm
provement may be taken as sure promise for
the future, will soon reach condition of excel
lcnce very crediable to the present manage
mont.
County Treasurer, II. Il. Alexander, re.
turned from Columbia on Tuesday evening,
where he lind gone for tho purpose of complet.
ing his annual settlement for State and County
taxes with tho Comptroller General for the
fiscal year 1878. His settlement with tho
County Auditor was approved by the Comp-
troler General without tho alteration of a
single item or figure on the sheet The
whole settlement amounted to $l9,456.98,
and was made in about an hours time. Wo
soy we'll done for Oconee's Trea surer and
Auditor.
We understand Mr.. Wm. Holden, of this
county. is the successful bidder for the mail
routes between Westminster and Walhalla
daily and from Wahalla to High Falls,
Fort George, Fall Creek, Jocassee, Flat
Shoals, Cannon's and buck to Walhalla, once
week MIR. Holden gets SITS year for the
former route and $50 a year for tho lattor
route. We cannot see how it ia possible for
man to carry daily mail, having to employ
horse and buggy and driver for SITS q
year. Eighty dollars q year seems to be q
very small price for carrying horse mail,
consuming two days In ench week. How
ever. We suppose Mr.. Holden has made his
calculations about carrying these mails and
has figured out his profits. If lie does not
come out at the end of four years rich mar
it will be strange thingl
Rev. 8. L. Morris. of the Presby terian
Church. preached on excellent and appropriate
sermon last Sunday morning on tho observ,
ance of tho Sabbath day from the 20lh Chap
ter of Exodus. 9th to the llh verses incu~
sive: Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy. Six days ehalt thou labor and do all
thy work; but the seventh day is tho Sabbath
of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt do no
work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
thy manservaut, nor thy maidsersant, nor
thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within
thy gates, for in six days the Lord made
heaven and earth, tho Gea and all that in
them is; aud rested the seventh day, whore-
fore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and
hallowed it."
All the Methodist Sunday Schools in the
South were engaged last Sunday in the study Of
lesson on "The Evils of Inlempcrance" from
Prov. xiii 20-35. 1t appears that there arc in
United States 83,G37 minister's Of the Gospel,
costing annually for their support, and the our
rent expenses connected with the churches they
serve, SAT .G38, ,d95. The annual contributions
per capita for religion eqnal about Sill. There
arc in the United States sc, 600 saloon keepers,
costing the country $70O 900, 900, or $G62. $685.
600 moro than the church The cost of liquor
per capita is $l7--for education, So. The pri-
sons. aims houses. penitentiaries, asyums, re-
formatories, chldren's aid societies, poor houses
and tho like. costing hundreds Of millions Of