Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-01-20
LOCAL. MA. .srr.1r.MRs. I
Tuesday was o cold rainy day.

Preaohing In tho Walhalla Methodist Church
on next Sunday morning and night at tho usual
hours. by Rev. @. ID. Mann, pastor.
The bucket Of the public we'll hos been miss-
ing Tor several days Cannot the proper au-
thorities furnish q now bucket and chaina
l. r. James, Esq, has received his commits.
sion as Trial Justice and Gun hereafter bc found
at his office in Seneca City.
De certain to attend the charades at the Court
House Friday night. Music will be furnished
by tho Dixie Cornet Band.
Attention Is directed to tho call for meeting
OF The citizens within tho line Of tho proposed
stock fence, to bo held at Walhalla on the 25th
instant.
We have tcen requested TO coll attention to
the fact that as the fence law goes into opera
tion March LIST that some plan or system be
adopted noo TO fenco the stock, 30 Tint fences
may be removed and pastures prepared at once
Mi. Wil'ouehby Reade, the celebrated clocu.
tion'st, reader and mimic who was to have OK.
hibitod in the COURT House last Monday night,
failed 10 reach here We are Informed by ,cle-
gram from him that he will be at Wahalla next
Monday night, the Oath instant, .citAout foil,
All who desire to combine enjoyment with
instruction for q few llou,s will do we'll to turn
out und hear him.
Paul Is. Kyzcr, from Lexington, is now
student of Adger College, and is giving in
struotions to the different classes in penmon.
chip. Mr. Kyzcr is an excellent tcachcr, bay, i,
ing acquired his proficiency from Prof. IIcrra.
dora. Other closscs will bo organized in town.
ahordipg oil chance to WELD that s'pcaccful
weapon, mighticr than tho sword" in such q
style as will be comm endable 10 them in future
life.
Last wcck the Revenue officers stationed at
this place, made raid in Pckens County and
captured two Illicit distilleres md destroyed
5,OO0 gallons mash and beer. Agnin on the
night of the l7th instant they made another
raid in Pickens County, near Bald Knob
Mountain, and seized an illicit distilery,
destroyed 1000 gallons mash and beer, q 100
gailtn copper still and cap and 40 gallons
distilled spirits. While engaged in destroy,
ing tho same tho officers wero fred upon by
tho moonshiners. Nobody hurt.
at the election for Inlcndant and six Wardcns
for the town of Walha,la, held last Monday, the
following citizens were elected:
lntcndant-J. D. Werner.
Wa'dcns-C Wendclkin, j. ". Stribling, G.
l.. Reid, a. Fischcsser, John J. Anscl onl d.
Dirmann.
The vote was small and there being but ono
ticket tho election excited but little interest.
The new Council will favor the extension of tho
railroad to town on any fair and reasonable
terms.
We have received reports from tho following
persons Of The number Of bales of cotton ginnel
by them in The fall of 1880:
Sloan Y. Striblug, 2os bales.
j.. Rogers, 200 bales.
Asa Leathcrs, rs baIcs
There arc gins run by water and there are
OF This Kind in the county twenty TO forty,
besides from six to ten gins run by steam.
The three gins near Walhalla have ginucd from
l,ooo TO 900 bnlcs, though we have received
no exact statement from them. We are satisfied
from l,6o0 to 1000 hales were ginncd around
Seneca City and perhaps nm equal amount near
Westminster. From the best cotton section of
the county we have heard nothing, but still
believe our cotton crop Of last year will fall
little short if any of 10000 bales, worth $780,
900.
In the recent election of town officers for
Waihalla no question regarding license was
made, nor do We think il should have been made
There has been very little abuse of liquor in our
town for years and good order is rigidy pre-
served. 10 continue This state of things is the
wish OF a,l and we believe it will be better
'eheclcd under license properly conducted than
under Inc excitement and feeling which The
refusal of license would produce. II is not the
mere selling or drinking of liquor that lead to
lis evils in so many parts of the Slate SO much
as The want Of observance, by persons dealing in
II, OF tho law regulating its sale and from the
'"'lorc 10 have proper police regulations en-
'cca' we believe our town is largely free of
thesc faults, and That no evil consequences are
likely to flow from The continuance of tho pre
sent condition of things
Several of our citizens have asked us 70
suggest Tho propriety ard feasibility of hays
ing map of this county made, delinea,;nc
the railroads and highways, rivers and creeks
and towns and residences in tho county, in
other words, presenting n birds eye Wow of
the facilities and conychionccs of our county
ms conducive to immigration and improve.
mcnt. Such map wou ID cost n good deal
OF labor and expense in tho getting up, and
no ono could afford to undertake tic work
without getting several hundred of our citi.
zehs to subscribe for it when completed. It
"oold certainly DO great advantage TO our
people and provo instructivc to the citizens
besides giving to persons desirous Of locating
mere view OF tho advantages Of the different