Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-03-18

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Approved February 20, 1880.
Scissorgraphs,
Six of tho ton delegates from North Caro-
lima favor Grant.
An almond treo has been successfully
planted and borne fruit ut Murfreesboro,
Tennessee.
Half grown and thrifty looking peaches
were reported at Fernandina, Florida, three
weeks ago,
The whiskey crop of Kentucky for the year
ending June. 1880, is estimated at 10, $780,
726 gallons. The taa on this will DO $lO,-
100000.
Tho Mayor of Charleston, S. c.. assorta
that never before in tho history of Charleston
has there been as much gambling and de.
bauching in that city as is going on now.
Col. w. G. Bartholomew, of .Gadsden
Point, Florida, had good medium sized ripe
watermelon grown on his place the 28th Of
February.
Mississippi proposes to put a premium on
matrimony by taxing bachelors three dollars
a poll. Such law would work WE'LL we
think, in South Carolina.
/ The Legislature of Georgia have passed q
law to regulate railroad freights and fares.
Three commissioners have been appointed.
They have gone to work in earnest. Georgia
il&ring things about right.
Georgia has l87, 900 spindes in her cotton
factoriee, $4,000 moro than any other Southern
State; and Columbus claims 10000 of them.
All of them put in since 1866.
The Florida Baptsts nevor do things by
halves. When n convert is baptized they
just loiter little till an alligator in search Of
game comes along, md well, you never
hear of that convert backslit,img.
Two men from Colleton County fought a
duel at Sand Bar Ferry, near Augusta, and
nobody was hurt. They hadn't taken the
precadtion to Notify the peace officers Of their
proposed meeting and have themselves ar
rested and consequently they had shot at
| each other.
BY recent decision of Judge Hudson at
Bennettesville. tenants occupying rented farm
lands cannot remove manures accumulated
by them during the year. even whcro they
| haul in litter from the woods and add to the
| accumulations about the lots.
! The Democratic have ONLY two .Justices on
| the bench of tho United States Court-Jusc
| ticcs Field and Clifford. The rest of tho
Judges, being Republicans, completely ignore
the rights of tho States. In fact their decis,
ions deny the very existence Of the States as
| such.
Heavy rains have fallen in Columbia
| and above there for two days and nights, and
the Congaree and Wateree rivers arc conside-
| rnbly swollen aud out of their banks, flooding
| n number of plantations in Richland County.
Planters on the Congaree. below Columbia
report considerable loss ofcattle by drowning.
The phosphate business this year has been
unprecedented. One firm in Baltimore has
applied to the Port Royal Railroad for storage
next year for 10000 tons, showing that the
continue.
Hon. Henry f. Soharrett, planter. of Pass
Christian, Mississippi, says that on account t
of the negro exodus and the disturbed cordi-
tion OF things in his section. planters are
rers, and some Cinnamon will probably soon
be set to work in Southern Mississippi.
The House Judiciary Committee have
decided to report favorably on Mr.. Thomp,
sons bill relative to supervisors Of elections.
1t provides that only ono deputy marshal
shall bo appointed in any voting precincts
that he shall receive only $3.50 per day, and
shall make no arrests on election days, but
that warrants may be executed at any time
after its close.
AT the March term Of Hampton Circuit
Court, just closed. the grand jury found q
true bill against Walter s. Lynch for breach
of trust with fraudulent intcntion. and for
grand larceny of n package Of $4,000. en-.
trusted to his care as q messenger of tho
Southern Express Company, November 5th.
al, -, so.l
| will be tried next Juno. lie has been at
| liberty for the past five months.
The grand jury Of Edgofeld County, in
their recent presentment, gladly report that
crimes ola high grade arc on tho decoasc, but
deploro tho fact that carrying Of. concealed
weapons is still prevalent and productive of
crimes, and recommend that stringent laws
be enacted on the subject.
A writer in the Edgefeld advertiser says:
"Strong drink and pistols are tho instruments
by which our land is deuged with blood
But there is an initial point beyond the reach
of statutory regulations. Fashionable folly
especially dancing--is the gate to tho broad
way that leads to destruction. There is food
for reflection on every side, md thore i.
always room for improvement. Will ou,
people pause and reflect before it is too later
The New York Graphic sreoulates thus
"Mr. T1Non is rich. The Democratic party
is poc A presidential campaign cost,
money. Rich Democrats arc not liberal
Mr.. Tilden will spend money il he is can
didate. Ho will not spend cont if he is not
And besides oil this, there is shrewd suspi.
cion that If Mr.. Tiden is not the Cincinnati
nominee. his friends 10 Now York viii