Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-31
The Philadelphia papers an--


nounce that Col. Thomas A.
Scott, late President of the Penn, )
sylvania Railroad, on Monday
last endowed the chair of mathe-
matics in tho University of Penn, !,
sylvania, now occupied by, Prof. &
Kendall, with $5O,OOO. At tho
same time he gave $4,000 to the
Jefferson College, $4,000 to tho
Orthopedic Hospital and $2O,O0g!.
to the .childrens' department of
the Episcopal Hospital of Phila-::
deIphia. The money is now at
the disposal Of the institutions
named, and the three gifts last
mentioned are unconditional. The
North American states that it has
also knowledge Of another gift of
$4,000 to an educational ilsti--
tuition in the South; of which au--
thoritative announcements will be
made in a few days. RI
COLUMBIA, March 24.-Thc
books Of the columbia and Lex
ington Water--power company
were opened at the office Of the
Gas-light Company to-day, at 10
o'clock, and were closed at 3 P. NJ:
During that time seven thou
sand dollars in amounts of
one hundred dollars to one thou
sand dollars,were subscribed, maxi
ing the aggregate subscriptions to
to date ninety-seven thousand four
hundred dollars. The books will
be open nine days longer, and
there is every reason to expect the
full sum previously estimated Gone
hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars) will be subscribed, as most
Of those citizens remaining who
will subscribe considerable
amounts are yet undecided as to
the exact figures Of their subscrip-
tions. On this account the sub
scriptions are expected to be re-
corded in even volume from day
to day, without a rush at any ono
time.
If we could only tax the follies Of tho
world the payment Of national debts would
DC mere bsgatellc.
The man who easily and quickly forgets
good turn is just tho man to avoid doing
ooc If he possibly can.
The diminutivo chains of habit arc
seldom heavy enough to be felt until they
are too strong to be broken.
A cunning man is often shrewd but
seldom wise. He sets 80 many traps for
others that he generally gets iuto some of
them himself.
There are now 500 cities in the United
States supplied with water works, involving
$4,000 miles of pipe, 10000 of which are
of cast iron.
! An Ohio man aud o Virginia man died
of heart disease on Wednesday. The first
dropped while waltzing in ball room at
Cincinnati; tho other was on his knees
saying bis prayers.
The delinquent tax list Of San Francisco
covers one hundred aud seventy pages, and
is spoken of by the spitefu! Nevadiaus US
new, complete and Invaluable directory of
tho great city Of the Pacific coast.
On Tuesday last j. w. Copeland, of Clin-
ton, S. c., was taken in and robbed by
tunko workers in Washington. They
took him 10 q house in the vicinity of tho
oentral police station, and managed to get
S2OO and his watch from him.
1t is not case, but effort-not faculty.,
but difficulty, that makes men There is
no citation in life ia which difficulties havo
not to be encountered and overcome before
any decided measures Of success can bo
achieved.
# we could ohly sec ourselves as We
really are we should probably set about the
work Of reformation at once. Tho onIy
reason why we are no. better than we are
is that &c honestly think that we arc better
than We are.
Ihe Birk of Ashevile has 80 far this
seas":' paid out $40, 900 for tobacco sold at
:te two warehouses in this place, and about
S20, ,O0O Oh sales at Marshal, besides bay.
lug about the same amount Of checks for
tobacco sold at DanviI!e and Lynchburg. -
AshcvRle Nc.os.
Tho agricultural editor of tho New
Haven Register rises to remark that sit
isn't the yellowest pumkin that makes the
best pie. Its the rosy-cheeked, dimple,.
elbowcd farmers girl that does that. But
don't 20 too fast young man. Her
answers arc sometimes as short as her pie
crusts.
An epidemic Of suicide prevails among
the higher classes 10 New Orleans. and The