Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-10-07

hundred million barrels Of apples this ysar.
There is colorcd Democratic club in :
Columbia with forty two members.
One hundred and fifty British farmers
have sailed for Toxas.
A number Of otizcos of Anderson
County, who oppose tho railroad taxcs,
have employed two law firms to resist their
collection.
The world may be vilo place to live
in, but it would be little loss vilo if you
would become little less vile yourself.
An Illinois girl'a toast--"Tho young men
of Amorico-Their arms our support, our
arms their reward; fall in, men, fall in."
Baltimore will be $50 years old in Oolo-
Der Ii, and great celebration is in prcpara.
ton.
No bids have yet been received for tho
property Of the Grecnvillo and Columbia
Railroad, now advertised and if none aro
presented by thc 30th Instant tho sale to
tho Clyde committee will be confirmed.
unless new discussions arise.
Tho Republican campaign in Indiana is
to be mado remarkable by the participation
of two sensational inGlel orators: Bob In.
gcrao'l, tho inlidcl of religion, aud Henry
Ward Bccchor, tho inidcl Of matrmony.
Last fall thirtccn German Carp, about
M iuch and u half long, were placed in
the Capitol lnko in Columbia. They wero
taken outa few days ago and measured ten
to twelve inches in lengih. They arc said
to bo most beautiful fish.
Six white and four coorcd couvots wcro
publicly whipped at Newcastle, Delaware,
last week. The whipping post seems to be
useful institution in that State There
seemed to be no discrimination on account
ot race, color, or previous condition
| A remarkable. execution is to take ploco
in Atlanta, Ga, in October. Tho victim is
coloIcd boy, only eleven yoars old, who
blutn!!y killed a child some timo ago. Not.
| withstanding Lis youth, the crime was 50
icndish i'll conception and so utterly unpro-
voked that the Jury could not find no exten.
uating circumstances iii the case
Senator Conk!ing, Of Now York, doliv-
cred last week his first epcech of the
campaign. It consisted Of bitter TRADE
against the South scathing rcbukc of tho
Hayes administration, and Unlimited praise
of Grant.
Julids L. Brown, son Of Senator
Joseph E. Brown, and Dr. Westmorelond,
both OF Atlanta, started to Snnd Bar Ferry
few days ago to settle little unpleasant-
ness, hu: they were soooped in by the "min.
ions Of the law and put under heavy bonds
to keep tho peace.
E. Is. Dickson, OF Grcon,iIlc, was tried
iast week at l!aurcns on charge of grand
larceny, the oHcnsc consisting in his placing
his tags Oh cotton at the railroad platform
that belonged to other parties. lIo proved
that this was through mistake, aud he was
acquitted.
MIR. Tilden he's personally contributed
the handsome sum Of s25 900 toward the
Democratic campaign fund, and along the
line Of tho Erie Canal, among some Of h;a
old henohmen, he has given small sums for
local purposes. IN one town he Eas fully
uniformed and equipped Hancock legion.
New York. Times.
The Sumter Watchman has the follow
ing sensible remark: Ifany body ia deceived
by failure to nominate Republican State
ticket, NO are not. Wc predict there will
DC ticket polca by the regular Republi-
cans including every officer 10 the State.
from Governor to Coroner. We are fools
if VIC let thom catch US with this kind of
chaff"
"Why dou't you get married." said
young lady to bachelor acquaintance who
| was on visit. ~ have been trying for
the last ten years to find aomo ono who
would be silly enough to take mo, and havo
not yet succeeded" was tho reply. "Thon
you haven't been down our way" was the
insinuating rejoodcr.
Complete returns from tho election 10
Maine tavo been received. These figures
are tho town clerks returns to tho Secretary
of States Office, except those from tho
country, where 10 changes arc considered
probable. The veto il NJ follows: Plaistcd.
Democrat, 1880, DaYis, Republican 73,-
GO5; Nyc Prolibationist, 3l3; scattering,
lC7 Piaisicd's plurality, 23l. There is
the end Of it, and that seems TO settle, for
the time, the vexcd and long pending
question
A South Carolina correspondent writes:
"Thc cheapest plan I havo ever known
for making al oat crop is 10 sow them
in September 10 tho cotton field. Imncdia.
tcly after picking over tho field, where it is
intcptcd to SOW the oats put them down at
the ratio Of ono bushcl to the acre, ond plow
them in with two sweep burrows to the row
One plow will in this way ooyer three or
four acres day. tried this plan three
years ago, and wos SO much pleased with it
that Rave kept it up ever siucc. My
nciglbors bavc all adopted it md liked it,
An old fellow by the name of Fraly, who
lives in Helena, Ark and who has been a
lifo long Republican, and belongs to tho
nd e Il a..