Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-06-02
LOCAL. MA AIsTMRS.


WAsrED-A good cook, washer and ironer
Apply at this office.
Music at the Brewery Park on next Thursday
night BY the Dixie Cornet Band. us a8
The Court House square has been broken
up and seeded down inrye.
Tho examination Of the under. graduates of
Adger College will commence on next Monday.
Mr.. wa,liok, editor Of the Seneca Journal,
wss in town on Monday last.
Several cotton squares ore reported among the
farmers Of 0conee; some as early as ten days
ago.
The locusts arc still furnishing music. such
as it is. Their lungs are evidently weaken
Ing however. a.
Tho first peaches Of the season found their
way to Charleston from Georgia onsThursday
last.
Forfeited lands are to be sold on Monday,
the 9th day of Jane, instant. Fay up. We
hope there will be no sales in Oconee.
The fourth of July is approaching. Let
US return to tho good old days of celobratin
the birth of the country's independence.
Now isthe time to commence preparation.
The General Assembly Of the Southern
Presbyterian Church has adjourned. The
ncxt meeting will be held next spring in At.
lanta.
The monthly concert Of prayer for foreign
missions will be held in the Methodist Church
on next Sunday night at the Usual houc. Rev.
q. D. Mann will conduct the exercises.
We have had refreshing rains throughout tho
fv 10 bsot bov nok
to the growing crops So far as we are able to
learn the ground has been thoroughly wet.
No mortal man con edit a paper and be
popular with everybody; and any man who
would even try to. should be looked upon as
colossal lunatio. ta
There is great scarcity of bacon and corn
in Columbia especially bacon. That is be-
West. Givo them q gentle dose of cures,
brotbor Register.
Biologists and scientific men generally shy
that the earth would at sometime lose all it's
water and become perfectly dry. Tho slater
day" prophets are taking heart, and are Ak
ing timos for the final conaagrationl
Two colored men in West Union by the name
of Jim Henderson and Ed Owens fell out about
ditch and had fight in which the latter was
badly choked by tho former. Like two good
Christians they made peace and settled their
grievances without going to law.
Mr. Neuffer is the right man in the right
place as Interpreter at the Office Of tho Commits.
sioner of Immigration says the Columbia Regis
ter. We are surprised 10 hear this. Sometime
ago Mr.. N was the wrong man without any
place. So ne 60.
Deid. near Waihalla. on tho 3Oh ultimo.
Mrs. Nina 'Mycrs, in her 77th year. Her
death was caused from fall sometime ago, by
which her hip wns dislooated. She was
buried on the 3lst utimo in the Lutheran
Cemetery, utter appropriate services in the
charch.
Mr.. G. Wanner, in company with Professor
Manney, is devoting his spare time TO visiting
tho newly arrived immigrants in our county
Prof Nianncy speaks nearly every language of
Europe and made poor Bohemian happy at
Mr. hloorhead's who had not heard his mother
tongue since he left tho old country. This
bohemian is well pleased and has written for his
brother. So the good work goes on.
Personal property is to DO listed this year
by the County Auditors from the first day of
June to the Goth of July. The law says that
''persocal property Of every description shall
be valued at the usual selling prco of simi,
lar property on the usual terms at executora
or administrators sale at the time of listing,
and at the place where tho returns arc
made"
The Walhalla Dramatic Club will give choice
entertainment at the Court House on Wcdne sday
evening, 18th of June instant The comedy
entitled "Our Boys" will be presented. This
comedy is given up to be The best one over pro-
duced and ran for fifteen hundred nights in
London and five hundred in Philadelphia
with great success financially. New stagel New
eccncry! Do sure and attend Admission 60
cents; gentleman and lady rs cents; children %
cents.
Nearly year ago Mr.. Sidney B. Smith,
of Boston, came to Walhalla in the last stages
of consumption. He was accompanied by
his wife and children. Mr.. Smith fingered
until the 28th nltimo. when ho died. Ills
remains were carried to Boston by his faith.
ful wife and will be deposited in their native
soil. This family have received the sympa-
thy of the citizens Of this place in its mis-
fortune. The devotion of Mrs. Smith to her
dying husband for many months illustrates
fully the love and constancy of womanl She
has the respect and sympathy of tho people
of Walhalla and vicinity.
A young man by tho name of W. D. Waters,
mailing from Ncwberry, was arrested in West
Union on Saturday last, under n warrant from