Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-06-10

Good rains on Sunday night and Monday
morning
The blackborries arc riponing and wo con
soon have pies.
Court will begin hero on the third Monday in
June, Judge Wallace presiding.
A largo attendance of visitors from abroad |
is expected OF our commonccmonts.
Got ready, yo housewives, for tho COM
moncoments which will soon be upon US.
The annual catalogue Of Adgcr College for
the session of 1879.'8O numbers 143 students.
Tho frequent rains during tho Inst month
have produced fine crop of garden vegetables.
The groat and oil absorbing question that is
agitating tho minds Of tho sporting men of VOL
,halla is dogs, dogs, dogs Please give us q rcs.
gentlemen.
The names of the standard bearers for tho
present State and National campaign will DO
found in our paper of this week. Read them
md then rally to their support.
Walhala and Oconoo County arc preparing
for q big dog show in tho near future. Dog
ology 10 engaging tho attention Of our sport~>
men gonorally.
Tho Parker cottage residence has recently
been ovcrhaulcd from collar to garrct, painted,
now fences built sc. Rev. S. l.. Morris and
family will occupy il this week.
Wo aro informed that another County
Convention ia expected to DO called before
the meeting of tho Congressional and Judi>
cial Conventions.
Our hotels and boarding houses should
begin now to mako preparations to accom-
modato tho large number of summer visitors
who arc expected to arrive hero in fow
weeks
Tho growing crops more promising than
usual at this season, but tho wet weather has,
in some sections, given tho grass good start.
Ten days of dry, warm weather would put al
things right.
Now posloffcos have been established in
this county on mail route No. l4,2G3, rs
follows: Grisham, Il. NJ. Warren, postmaster;
Perry, VIM. John Hunnicuts, postmaster;
Cannon, Mrs. Cronshaw, postmistrcss.
A beautiful and novel lot of gold and
silver jcweIry just open at Norman's. Re-
member Normans cholera cure is warranted
to cure collie, diarrhea, &o.
The graduates of Adgcr College this year arc
j. p. Cary, fScncca City, j. F. Cooper, of King
stree, J. L. MoLccs, Of Greenwood, II. e. Strib.
ling and b. F. Smith, Of Walhala. The two
first named carried off the honors in the GLASS,
Cary receiving the first and Cooper the second.
Tho time has now como when our Legislature
must pass q stringent dog law. We are in
favor of passing on Act taxing every dog in the
State from one to two dollars, said tax to go
into the county fund and be appropriated for the
benefit of the public schools
Tho Court House Ring is happy in the fact Of
having the best laughing man in the State. If
you don't believe it get our friend Joe to tell
one of his good yarns and you will bo fully con-
vinccd that our laughing man can do tho SUBJ
ject justice. He does not mean a bit Of harm
by it.
Mr.. G. Wanncr informs us thet hc has been
grinding monthly during the present year from
eight hundred to one thousand bushels Of corn.
He ground $50 bushels last month. Mr.. Wanncr
is active and energetic and makes his machinery
pay handsomely, ginning in the fall a large
amount Of cotton.
We havo understood that some persons claim
that tho trado dollar is worth but ninety cents
and will not take it for more. 1t passes at the
bank Of Erwin & Werner for hundred cents,
and wc believe our merchants all take ii at that
value. The trade dollar with us is dollar.
We arc indebted to the committee for an
Invitation to tho commencement exercises OF
tho Carolina Military lnstituto, Charlotte,
N. G., which arc in progress this
wcok. This institution is under the
management of Col. j. P. Thomas, and gives
promise of great usefulness to tho country.
We wish it success.
Wc arc in the midst Of harvest. The wheat
crop, with but few exceptions, is q failure.
Oats, not affected with rust, arc yielding finely.
Mr.. John Bremen harvested last Monday
twenty-thrcc dozen of wheat from 100 feet
square, being little less than one fourth of an
acre Notwithstanding it was partially injured
with tho rust, Mr.. Bremen expects to realize as
much as eight bushels Off OF his patch.
We have received copy Of the annual cata-
loguc of tho Walhaa Female College for The
session Of 1879-'80. We notice that tho whole
number of students in attendance were l04,
classified as follows: Senior class G, inferno
diatc class 8, junior class 10, academic class
II, primary class l3, juvenile class 81.
''Thc South Carolina Agriculturst" is tho
title of now weekly paper published in Co
lumbia by Mr.. j. A. Sclby. 1t is to be "Family
journal and Record of The Grange, tho Agri-
cultural Department and the Agricultural and
Mechanical Society" The "Agriculturist'' is a
large eight pago paper, tho subscription pricc
being So year. We learn TINT Col. II. Nj.
Sins, Secretary Of State, will devote r. nort;on