Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-06-16
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evening" at 8oolook 'and don't you forget it,"
Walhalla is full Of strangers, enjoying
our comrnoncemont exercises. sVa
Rov. j. Hawkins, editor Of tho Lutheran
Visitor, is here in connection with matters per-
tanning 10 the female college. .s.
Rev. a. p Nicholson, native Of our county,
but now located at LaureLs, and Mr. A. B.
Towers, Of Anderson, are attending the meeting
81 the Board Of Truestoes Of Adger College.
ci We are glad to meet in Walhalla DR..
John Simpson, Of Newbefry county, who is
IN attendance upon our COIN nj en- cement cx-
eroises. .3a'.'yt n s3it
Attention Is directed to the article In this
Issue on tho culture Of tobacco. Mr.. Pend
icy Is now running tobacco factory at Wal-
haiia ana is prepared to pay tho highest cash
prices for leaf tobacco.
Mr' Williams Thomas and lady, of Missis-
e'pp'' VINO for several years have spont tho
summer 10 our town, arrived hero last Fri.
uay. MIR. Thomas says the crop prospects
IN the upper counties Of the State, both for
oorh and cotton, are moro advanced tbon in
"ississ'ppi or any where on the r. nd so far
US no could judge. We hear like opinions
from travellers generally.
An inquest was held near Walhalla on tho
toth instant over the dead body Of colorcd
'niant' The jury found that tho child came
to it's death from injuries inflicted by it's
mother, Janet Maxwell, and its grandmother,
Daphne Maxwell, with instrument unknown
TO the jurors. Tho parties were ot onoo
arrested and have been lodged in JUL upon
the charge of murder. They claim tho child
was still~born.
Mr. ). =. Hemphill, Staff Correspondent of
the charleston News and Courier, is In Walhalla
feportng the commencement proceedings of our
coheges. Ihe News and Courier is ono of the
DeSt conducted and enterprising journals in The
south, and for this as well as because of its
aole and persistent advocacy Of many leading
moral reforms, merits large patronage. Mr..
ii. is forcible aud experienced writer. md h;s
correspondence constitutes one of the many
features of interest in the News and Conr;cr
Wheat and rice growers will iud il to their
interest 10 read tho advertisement of Wilson's.
formerly Cappelman's, mill. Mr. Wilson has
put this mill in thorough repair and offers good
returns in Hour for all wheat sent to IT,. IIe 10
low country man and understands tho rico
business and as many Of our people are begin
ming 10 plant rice, we arc glud to SEQ hns
procured good machinery for its cleaning, Ills
corn mill is also kept in good repair and good
meal made. Try this mill.
Tho wheat crop in our county thoupb
small in area, is reported to be aboyc m
average. we saw some heads brought in by
Or. Burley, from neur Walhalla, which hns
tour well developed grains 10 q mesh. We
heard MIR. Wanncr coy he had been thro.h
ing some, and SO fur il hud yielded bushcl
to three dozen,' which is above the average
IN this county. Generally wo believe oil tho
small grain is low and com parutively thin,
but the heads ore we'll filled and tho grains
plump. 1t is now being harvested generally.
We hear that tho exhibition of the Fair
Play high school camo off with great success
on Friday last, The young mon Of Prof.
Caihoun's school detained with great credit
to themselves and showed that the Professors
labors there havo not been in vain. j. S.
Werner, Esq, Of Walhalla, after defamation
by the young men of the SCHOOL, interested
the largo audience for some 80 or 30 min
utes by on address on the FREQ school syetem.
Alter speaking the large audience went to
tho table, under the spreading oaks near the
academy, and partook of au elegant picnic
dinner. The hospitality Of Fair Play is pro-
verbal, and reports say that it moro than
met its usual hospitality on this occasion.
The best field Of cotton we have seen this
year is on tho old homestead of Samuel
Reid, now owned and cultivated hy Can't.
l.. B. Lee. lie has eight or ten acres which
will average III inches high, much Of
it being from l3 to Is inches high. 1t was
planted early, highly manured with compost
and has been regularly and carefully worked.
The stalks have numbers Of squares and are
limbing out rapidly. We never saw better
field Of cotton ct THE season. All the crops
in that noighborhood look we'll and forward
and are ID good growing condition. Wher-
ever wo have been or heard from our pros.
pects are good.
Attention Is directed to the communication
OF Mr. Wanner found in our columns. We
approve heartily of his suggestions, and if
carried cut with proper spirit and energy,
good will result to our county, by bringing
into notice its products, and through this
means inducing population and capital to
come among us. In this way our lands will
increase in value and our resources so lone
dormant may be developed. Tho exposition
'at Atlanta will bo largely attended from all
'seotions of the United States, and we should
not be laggard in exhibiting our advantages.
AIR. W. proposes to give his personal aid to
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