Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-02-10

Court for Abbesillo County is now in ses:
sion, Judge Kershaw presiding. There arc
l on the criminal eide Of tho court three oaseS
Of murder. The business Of the term ii
large and court 10 expected 70 hold thred
| weeks. The citiEens will petition the grand|
jury to see that the vagrant laws are strictly
| enforced in the county.
Thomas Oarlysle, who has ass.contributed 80
largely to the literature Of this century died
86sh year Of his age.
For several days there has been a dead.
look at Columbia 10 the shipment Of freights
! TO the upooantry by the Greenville & Columbia
Railroad, due to the want Of wood and coal
for the engines. At one time there wero
seventy loaded cars at Columbia awaiting
transportation, but everything is now moving
od again.
The South has moro than doubled the
fanount of cotton manufacturing capital in
tho ten ycars just closed. The North did
not add quito eighteen per cent. to her capia
tai. The South nearly doubled her product
Of cotton goods.
An effort is being made to raise enough
| capital to start q cotton factory at Hodges, in
Abbeville county. Fifteen or twenty thousand
| dollars have been subscribed by persons
living at Hodges, and an engine of one huns
dred aud fifty horse power has been pledged
in the way Of stock. Tho projectors Of the
movement expect to secure $50, 600 to $50, ,O00
| In Subscriptions, and have tho factory in oper-
alton by the first Of next October.
Secretary Sherman, in his speech a. Cos
lumbus, Ohio, Wednesday evening, said tho
South was about to be developed iu wealth
and population; that we have been surprised
by tho returns Of the census from tho South,
but that new surprises may be expected, and
that he expected ere long to see happy
South, adding to the wealth, population and
energy of tho country, and contributing oil
the great staples that add to woalth and pop
ulation.
Few arc aware how near completion is a
new railroad across the continent. But so
miles separate the Atchison, Topeka and San.
tn Fe Railroad, going west from the Southern
Pacific, coming east. But asfow days more
and passengers can oross the continent on q
road which escapes the regions Of snow and
ice. Not much fuss has been made about the
new semi-tropioal route, but it is a great
achievement, nevertheless.
w. w. AAarr'aon, OF Atlanta, who gave
tho negro Lloyd so much whiskey to drink
that he died. has been idioted for involuntary
man-slaughter.
The Board Of Directors Of The PenitentarY
have boon offered $3.50 per month cash for
all tho convicts they can supply.
At recent meeting of the New York
Agricultural Society it was claimed by q
speaker TINT q thousand pounds of sugar
might be made from on acre Of corn.
stalks.
DR.. Curry. Of Richmond, Va, has been
elected General Agest Of tho Peabody Fund,
vice DR.. Sears, deceased. The treasurer's
report shows on available increase of 500, ,OOQsg
in the fund. which is to be expended ia
educating teachers for Southern schools with
the usual permission for the expenditure Of
not over two.thrds Of the income in RELIEVING
destitute schools.
-, The buildings, machinery and material Of the
W.ndo Manufacturing Company on ASHLEY
River, nine miles from Charles, On were totallv
destroyed By fire oil the 4th instant. Tho
buildings and machinery were valued at S63. Don
and the works AID material on hand were in
surea Ior $o ,ooo IN various companies. Tho
cause of the fire is unknown.
In Congress the House has passed the Joint
resolution as TO tho counting Of the votes for
President and Vice President
A despatch from st. Paul, Mimi, Of Febru,rv
9th, reports whole family frozen to death.
DR.. W. L. Reynolds prominent dentist of
Columbia. died on the 9th instant, in the 6lst
year of his age.
Geo. w. Daniels, Of Columbia, was killed
near that city on Saturday night by the
bursting Of his gun, having got mud in the.
barrel. lie leaves q wife and seson chill
dren.