Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-07-28


Florida saw mills arc crowded with orders
for lumber.
Newberry and Columbia are to be connect-
cd by telephone.
A cotton factory is in course of erection ut
Lake City, Florida.
Tregsueer Spoar's books show s)T4,06 100
In tho treasury Of Georgia.
A devastating food has passed through
great part Of tho Suite Of Iowa.
There wtto 81 deaths from suntroko In
Cincinnati July 18th.
The Mayor of Philadelphia is enforcing tho
law against concealed weapons.
The wharves at New Orleans aro to DO
lighted by means of electric lights
Tho agricultural outlook in this State is
just now by no means encouraging.
The corn crop of Florida Is said to be very
much dumnged by the drought.
Mrs. Eliza Garfield, tho Presidents
mother, is extremely i'll at Cleveland. Ohio.
the Arkwright mills, died at Savannah on
July l7th.
Tho Atlanta Constitution is becoming
alarmed at the rapid growth of Mormonism
in Georgia.
The capital and capacity of the Charleston
bagging mills have been trebled within threo
yeura.
COL j. p. Thomas delivered strong ar
gument in Grcenvillc, last week, fuyoring
prohibition.
The four negroes who burned the Opera
House in Greenvile 5. G., will bo hanged
Sep. 9Th, 1881.
Judge Presley decides that freight on cot
ton must be charged by weight and not by
| measurement.
So great is the heat ut St. Louis that tbs
| steamboats, aro unable to discharge cargccs
| in tho aytime.
Tho largest nill in Georgia. that Of Rcp.
pard & Wnter, was destroyed by fro on the
night Of July l7th.
hlidhat Pashn. who was lately ssutonccd
| to death. attempted to cut his throat, but was
prevented by his prison wardons.
The earnings of tho louisville and Nash.
willie Railroad for the year ending juno 3Oth
amount to $l0,9l0,l39.
July 18th was the hottest day ever known
| in Richmond, Va. The thermometer reached
| LOG in the sla,lo.
A bar tender of tho Augusta Hotel fell
from tho fourth story window OF the hotel
while in q state of somnambuIisn.
Tho tobacc" factory of Williams & Routh,
Of Petersburg. Vn. was destroyed by fire
duly 18th. Loss So 1000.
The Viglant and Mt. Wolaston, the
whnlers lost in tho Arctic Sea, have been
found, with four corpsos on board.
Rev. Mr.. Wellnns and his wife, who taught
echoOl for colored people in Charleston at
one Iimc have lately departed for parts un,
known.
The recent hot weather has told upon the
inmates Of our Siuto i,unntjc AsyIum
number of deaths has recently occurred from
this cause.
Three families, descendants of tho Wash
| ington estate, still live nt Mt Vernon. Moi
ther they nor their ancestors huyc known uny
other homo.
The grain prospects on the cont incnt Of
Europe arc boltar than usual.
Chill and tho Argentine Republic havo
settled tho boundary question between them.
Moro trouble in Transvaal-tho Boers ro-
Royal Commission
Anti clerical clubs are being formed in
Rome to promote tho perpetual expulsion of
the papacy from that sity.
Sheffield, England, is growing alarmed ut
the free trado tendencies exhibited in Pnr-
lament and hus petitioncd that tho law
remain as it is.
The menacing attitude of tho Arabs at
Cobb hns induced many of tho resident Eu-
ropeann to seek refuge on board the shipping
in the harbor.
At tho recent Orange demonstration in
ireland, several riots occurred in which seyo-
rnl women and mon were wounded. No
deaths are reported
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