Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-04-21

Mr. Godfrey 10 up and 1t work, ane cured By 80
simple q remedy" {. aHT
IL assure yos, that II 10 true that hs 10 en-.
tirely cured, and. with nothing ba. Hop Bitters.
and only ten days ego. his. DOCTORS gave him up
and sadd he must die!" iw9tH II
''Weii.a-dayt Thatis rsmarhable!.I will 60
this day and get some for my pppe qsorgs--I'
know hopsare good. .".-Salem Post:' Y
WAsutsoToN, April IA There are rum,rs.
TO day Of al intention on both sides to bring.
the Senate deadlock to q speedy end A.
good many Senators fool ashawed Of esoh
scenes as made yesterday an qppreasdsnted;
d,y 10 the Senate. They say that il tho
contest were the occasion of displays Of wit
but it has come to be mere exchange of
abusive worda and insults, and tho better.
class Of Senators feel it to be degrading to
their body and lowering it in tho public re.
speot.-Ne,o York Herald n
CoNsTANrINoPLg. April l2.- Earthquakes;
Of considerable violence have begun again In
Chic. It is estimated that hardly twenty
houses remain habitable on the whole island.
Forty.fve villages have been totally destroyed
and the population in many localities has
absolutely disappeared.
MACON, April l2.-Thirty special reports
10 the Telegraph and Messenger indicate less
than half peaoh crop 10 Middle and South~
western Georgia, the Hg trees ara killed
piums, half crop pears and cherries badly
damaged; applos and Strawberries not much
injured. The Lecompte pear is failure irs
some sections.
The Department of Agriculture roports
for March shows increased area 10 winter
wheat 10 the Western. the same 40 last year
10 the Middle. and decrease 10 the South,
health but bad order with vast losses in tho
far West.
The census shows that establishments for'
| the manufacture aud manipulation of iron
and steel in the United States numbered
l,0O5 in 1880 against 808 in 1870. The
capital invested in suct industries was in
creased $l09, ,0c0,000 in the ten years. In
1870 Pennsylvania made so per cent. of oil
the iron in the country, and now makes 40
per cent. West Virginia increased her pros
duct from 1900 to l47 900 tons. Alabama
from 1000 to G8.00O, Georgia from 10000 to
$4,000, Tennessee from $4,000 to 77.OO0,
Virginia from $1,000 to $4,000. All the
States which made iron or steel 10 1870 in.
creased their product in 1880. except Maine
aud North and South Carolina.
LONDON, April s.-A dispatch from
Chic, dated Thursday evening, says: "SlighS
shocks of earthquake continue. Earge
quantities Of blankets, goods aud medicine
arc shipped from Syria by each steamer.
Two hundred sappers have left Pirareus in o
gunboat to bury she dead. The lumber of
killed is variously estimated at from four to-
six thousand. Tho Injured are moro thar
twice the number Of the killed."
GALVESTON, April l6.-A special from
San Antonio to the Nepe. dated April Is,
gives the details of horrible triple murder
about seven miles from that city. John
Simmons, heavy stock owner. left his homo
on Sunday. Yesterday his herder J. S.
Phillips, went out with sheep. About noon
Mrs. Simmons was found lying in tho herder's
room with her throat out and her body bear
ing evidence of an outrageous assault. Au
alarm was given, and soon after the bodies Of
Mrs. Simmons's child and hor mother, Mrs..
Parker, were found at the foot Of an embank-:
ment one hundred yards from the house
their skulls being crushed in with rock.
The herder esep.s to think that Simmons waa
the murderer but he himself was arrested
and committed without bail.
The Elberton Gazette says: '.We an
uounced few weeks ago that a small
oetton factory would be put up in EIbertop.
We now believe that one will be put up in
town and another 10 the country-that
Elbert county will have two cotton faotoriep
in operation within year. A $4,000
factory ia in contemplation 10 the lower
part of the county, and the stock 10 all
taken but SIS, 900, and this will be taken
10 short while. The factory contemplated
10 Elberton is to cost about 335 ,G00--not
less-to be run by steam, aud the buildings
are to be 30 constructed as to allow of an
enlargement at small expense
Yorkville is in earnest about cotton
factory. A temporary organization has
been formed, aud as soon as capital OF
$4,000 is raised permanent Organization
will be effected in such form as may be
most acceptable to a minority Of the stock
holders. The factory is to be known as the
York Cotton Mills, and is designed for