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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-07-21
New England's Industries.

The manufacturing industries Of Now
England represent over 700 avarie,ics of
articles msadc, ard amounting in annual
production to $4,000 900 in round nun.
bcrs The number of tacto rics. is 525, aud
employ l4,s50 working people, of whom
5000 are males, 4,500 females and $50
children. Carriage building embraces 10
al !ts branches fifty-one factories, employ.
ing l.40l hands. It's annual product is
valued at Sl,656. 500. Three firearms
companies employ 900 mep, and produce
yearly $2,3l4,000. In iron work and
hardware there are twenty seven establish.
ments, giving employment to 2,457 work.
men, and yearly production Of s2 ,Gl5 900.
Ia the thrco corset factories there arc
employed 1913 men and 1854 women and
girls. The annual product reaches So 900,
600. The four rubber factories, producing
each year s2,000,000 worth of goods, give
employment 10 1850 people. Two clock
works employ 600 workmen, aud produce
in year timekeepers to the value of $475,.
600. The remaining manufacturing inter
ests produce from $1,000 to s400, 900 year.
New Haven claims the largest Grearms,
hardware, rubber, cloak, lock and corset
factories in the country if not, in tho world.
Speaking of tho coming cotton exposition
at Atlanta, the Detroit Free Press soys,
cditorially There is interesting evidence
of the advancement which the South is
making iu the determination to hold an
"International Cotton Exposition" at Allan
to, Georgia, beginning on tho fifth of Oeto-
Der and reminding open until the end of
December. Although tho exposition, being
the first worlds fair ever held in tho South,
naturally derives its tilo from the staple
which forms the nuclcus of the widest range
of Southern Industry, the prospectus shows
that it is not by any means to be limited to
cotton or to the Industries connected there
with. Tho schedule of articles, whereof
exhibition is invited, covers wide range,
classified in six departments, forty one
groups and two hundred and twenty ono
clusses The buildings now in process of
erection arc on an ample scale, the principal
one being model cotton mill. The South
cannot fail to profit largely by au enterprise
which will show so much more satisfactorily
md oonclusivcly than nero statement what
she is really capable of aud actually doing.
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these points in Mr.. ils' theory. for the
reason that they differ in, some respects from
the instractinns givon in any of tho books
yot published. 7 beg to submit this state.
ment a asa warrant for any visionary prophecy,
TIM thnt canibe made as to tho effect Of this syss
pecially Of New England. If IL proves to be
what itpurports to be. These facts thas /,
have stated aro sustained by the most oom-
plste evidence OF cretfible witnesses. They
warrant the. expectation Of raising beef upon
the nov. deserted farms and hilsides Of New
England ne cheapiy as it eau be brought from
the rich iprairies Of the Westi it promises the
restoration of,the soil. less arduous labor less
dependenoo upon seasons and better, oondi-
tions OF life for the farmer than they hnve
heretofore obtained. It is probable that new
points will bo developed In tho practico Of
eensiiage that will DO of great Importance.
Eor instance, Mr.. Mills expects to bring his
urn gradually into moving land, to raise
large crops Of grass and to ensilago the
grasses when they aru in the flower-believ-
iog that ten tons Of such food will DO equal
.Gy 70 iosty tons Of corn s.alks; Also, he thinks
thas bean and peo vines and other plants of
mat ma class which contain putritive element id
d'herens proportions. and Of different kinds
may lead to such mixing of vegetable growth
10 the ensilage, pits as will develop tho best
Qualities Of milk for butter and cheoso max
ing, or for the production Of beof, with
greater certainty than to use miscellaneous
plants ensiaged without selection, or to feed
corn ensilage only. In fact, it seems to the
un'nstruoted mind that this PRACTICE Of on.
s'la!go may be tho great fact Of this genera
ration, ooanteracting the tendency developed
by the railroads to scatter population over
very wide areas, grently increasing the
number Of email landholders, who may up.
ply high degree Of intelligence to produce
ton on small parcels of land, experimenting
the work of the artisan and mechanic, and
in evory way tending directly to conditions of
society far better than either the present con-
oentration in cities or the wide diffusion over
soss praries. On the other hand l am in
formed that an association has bocn formed
in New York for tho purpose of supplying
wholesome milk, by whose rules tho dairy
mon arc forbidden to sell tho milk Of cows
fed on distllery slips or onsilage This
shows tho need Of q thorough, complete, sci.
entifo investigation of tho whole subject.
Distillery slops even may bo very wholesome
food when kept fresh and sweet and props
os,rly fed. as they arc in sumo of the great
Western distilleries whore tho bes. beef cat
tie arc fed upon them. Ensilagod fodder
may become sour and injurious if tho system
is not we'll understood, or may be perfectly
sweet and nutritious, like that of Mr.. Mills,
when it is thoroughly comprehcnded.
should not assume to make this state.nent on
q matter of which have no practical expo.
rence had not my reference to the subject
apparently called tho attention Of many pers
sons to it who had not previously given it any
thought.
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Hope on, Worker.


Who should hope, if not tho man =
Carrying out 9 choaen plan,
Working az his lot may be, 3,FH,
On heland or on the sea z
Homes. toll smakes life complete,
Sleep secure, end coarse bread sweet
For the toiler never knows
Aught that makes the idlel's woes.
I See 1.-The busiest in the through
Light his heart and clear his song;
Through, attised in golden grey,
Home from work he speeds his way.
Mark the farmers merry eye
AS he gleans tho wheat aud rye,
Sows his seed, or plows tho soil,
Happy In his chosen toils
Work Of hand or work Of brain,
Shall not be put forth in vain :;
In life's sunshine and it's shower,
Hope for these shall bud and aower.
Only do tho idlers lack,
Ever on the mental rack,
Hope, to light the track ahead
Hope to make downy bed
Blessed toll that gilds our days,
Covering up the thorny ways; II
Never let us miss thy crown,
Till, III death we 10y it down.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-07-21

At th Grand Pacific reading room in
Chicago On Wednesday night, un unknown
man applied stream of insulting and filthy
languango to President Garfield, aud was
rewarded by bciug knocked down ty an
other stranger, WHO heard the remarks.
The lalter's name could not be ascertaincd
but he is said to have been on cx,Copfcd.
crate soldier who served under Stoncwall
Jackson.
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---- v OI1N 7 VINs
Fcastcrville, S. G., June 8, 1881.
Eastern Interest in Southern
Mills.

Mr.. D. i Love, Of Huntsville, Alabama,
writes q letter to the TcrtRc Record in
some important facts going to show the
interest felt by Northern manufacturers
in cotton spinning in tho South. 1t ap-
pears that the figures recently given in some
of the official reports of Southern mills
have created a fever Of excitement ut the
East. Mr.. A. D. Lockwood, of Providence,
Rhode Island, is quoted as saying that his
smallest mill in that section consume
thirteen thousand bales Of cotton annually
and that If his mill we're located in tho
South in the ncighborhood of the cotton
fields, he would be able to save $4,000 q
year on tho cost of cotton alone, Itch
amounts to more than years profit of many
mills. 1t is also stated that Thompson &
Noylc, Of Providence, have published
volume in which they say that "no invest.
mcnt so safe and few so profitable can now
be found as cotton manufacturing 10 the
South" Among the statistics in tho same
volume is a table showing the annual divi-
dends of forty Of tho leading mills Of New
England. These dividends added tog ther
aud tho snm total divided by the number of
mills, giving an average yoarly dividend Of
only three per cent, while tho average
yearly dividend of tho samo number and
class of mills, as MIR. Love shows, is about
seventeen per cent.
MIR. Love refers to another fact which
is of great interest. The proprietors of o
little mil! in New York State, using only
about twelve hundred bales of cotton in
year, found that by moving South they
could co-opcrato with Southern mon,
double their capacity, save 81 200 in the cost
OF twelve hundred bales, and, by buying
from tho planters in tho seed, savo s5,400
more in tho value Of seed, making s12 900
saved in the cost Of years supply of cot.
ton. In every mill visited in the East by
Mr. Lovo ho found applicants to come
South. In every city he visited he found
willingness on tho part Of certain class
Of capitalists to como South and co-opcr
alto With Southern men in the building of
mills.
All this goes to show that there is a
healthy interest taken at the North, especial
ly in New England, in cotton manufactures
at the South. 1t may be, as Mr.. Atkinson
says, that the finer class Of cotton goods
will mover be manufactured in this section,
but, as tho Constitution has undertaken to
chow upon moro than ono occasion, tho
roosons ho gives in support of his assertion
are absolutely inadequate. Con-
stitution.
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Statement Of the Cotton Crop.
CHARLESTON. july i. 1881.

ss, ID. CHARLEsToN. July 1, 1881.
The committee delegated to tubulato replies
sent, as answers to questions touching the
growing cotton crop to ,30th June, reports:
AS to charaetor of weather. wtether moro or
less favorable, if any land planted abandon.
ed, how are the stands Of cottod, is the plant
blooming and forming WE'LL present condition
Of tho crop, how will tho crop compare with
last year. h;
From so replies from q counties we obtain
the following result:
Weather dry and hot from twenty seven,
dry from thirty, and unfavorablo from two,
weather less favorable from thirty elk, moro
favorable from nine, samo as last year
from one, fail to answer this question, twelve.
Forty ivc reply no land abandoned, seven
report same area, four varying from to IS
por cent.
Stands reported good from thirty, far
/ eleven, early planting good, lato planting,
bad seven, not good eight, perfect ono, lice
bud. one .u
Plant blooming and forming we'll from
forty four. not we'll from twelve, just com.
monccd blooming three.
Present condition-Crop favorable in
twenty one less. favorable In ton. o'ean and
we'll worked in twenty one. clear and email
in fur clean and backward in three
AS compared with last year. not as good,
twenty eight; later, wa ying from Ave to
twenty one days, eight; snme as laat year.
elk; better, eight; plant small but we'll fruitod
five; clean but backward, four
Variable and unfavorable oiroum stances
not covered by above questions: Plant small
owing to weather. six, growth retarded by
drought, twelve, blooming prematurcly, six;
suffering for rain, seven; injured hv lice, ono.
A. NORDEN,
II. D. MURE,
Il. G. WILLIAMS,
E. WILLIS,
Committee.
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MONEY SAVED is MONEY
MADE !

PURCHASE your ENGINES from us and save
L $l00 on n 10 horse, 5000 on 20 horse and
$500 ON a 3O horse -powe. engine. Send for our
prices before purchasing engines, gins, presses.
So" ana grist mills, ,hrcshcrs or any kind Of
machinery. We arc manufacturers agents and
guarantee satisfaction in quality and price.
WALKER & LOUD,
No. l36 Meeting Street. West side,
Nenr Charleston Hotel, Charleston, s. C.
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WqDtSSC4, ?

THE County Commissioners have a
oafl meeting of thu Board in their oflioo
on SATURDAY, July z3d Tho Super
visors of each Highway District arc re-
quosted TO meet tho Board on that day at
tho Office Of Messrs. Keith e. Vernof,
Walhalla, S. G..
j. s. WERNER, Clerk,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-07-21

Alexander II. Stephens graduated at tho
University in Athens in 1882, and is the
most remarkable man who ever received
diploma from chat institution. III has been
thirteen times elected as II, preventative
to Congress of tho United States, and once
as Senator; he was also elected to tho Con-
fedcrate Congress, ond received the almost
unanimous vote of tho Southern people for
Vice. President of tho Confederate States.
He is now 10 his SEVENTEEN year, having
been born February llth, 1912.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-07-21

To CURE WARTS. Cut a alico from a
raw potato and rub the hand Zach night;
let tho water dry on tho hand. 1t will
need but few applications,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
The Schubert Concert.

Notwithstanding the very unfavOra
BILE weather of Tuesday night, the
Schubert Quartette Glee Club were
greeted 10y full and appreciative
house. The quartette sing very well
together, and their selections were
warmly encored. They have not the
finished execution of the Temple Quar-
tette, but the voices are good. Miss
Knowles has a very fine voice, and
knows how to handle it her singing
was particularly enjoyed. Miss Blake
has good cOntraltO voice, but her
singing is rather too labOred to make
it enjoyable. Her singing of Pinsuti's
''Tis |" was encOred, and in response
she gave delightful Scotch ballad
which was very prettily done. In the
"Summer Shower" also, she improved
on her first effort. That charming
song by Sullivan, "Sweethearts," was
finely rendered by w. w. Clark, and
met with an appropriate encore. d.
w. Bahcock's singing of 81 am Roam
err was particularly appreciated, and
he was called out again on an encore.
The concert closed by sextette from
"Lucia," which was grand thing in
itself, and was rendered i'll good style.
1t was really the thing of the evening.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
The Death of Young Bowman.

The Burlington Free Press thus
speaks of the death of Frank Bowman
at the Van Ness House, of whom men
ton was made in this paper last week /:
At about half past five o'clock Wednes-
day morning, Mr.. Scott, the night
clerk, had a call to make on that floor,
when he noticed strong OdOr Of es-
Gaping gas. He traced it to Franks
room, and, bursting open the door, was
Mortified to find the young man dead
upon his bed and the room full of the
deadly gas. Death came very gently,
apparently, and when found the poor
boy lay as one in profound sleep.
But it was the sleep that knows no
waking. This fatal result was due, it
appears, to IL defect in the gas fixture.
The little rim which checks the thumb
piece at IA square cutoff was partially
torn off, so that, when the thumb piece
was turned to meet it, it passed the
right angle point and turned on the
gas to the extent of about One-half the
capacity of the burner. The window
was closed and the transom not only
shut but fastened. Had the transOm
been open the fatality would not have
ensued, probably, for Mr.. Scott was
upon the floor several times during
the night and his attention would, of
course, have been Immediately directed
| to the matter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
Walden.

Most all the schools in town have
commenced. Nellie Stevens teaches at
the flour corners" Ida Beale at the
north school house, F. P. Smith at
Noyesville, Lizzie Abbott of Cabot at
the "Hights," and Frank Lyford of
Hardwick in the Eddy district.
S. G. Harrington says he lost quar-
ter of beef and small quantity of but
ter out of his back room a few nights
since. We did not suppose we had any
one around here $50. Walden) that
would steal, and we don't think there
is.
Rev. Mr.. GOOdale thinks he shall
have a series of meetings in this town,
commencing next week at So. Walden,
and will probably continue through
the week. He will have help from
other towns.
j. p. Rea has sold L. o. Kittridge's
farm at So. Walden to Asa Buck OF
Hardwick. Price $1,000. What will
Put. do with Lyman nOwf
What is the trouble at the "Hights'
school? That is a hard school to
teach, and they ought to have a man
teacher there.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
East HardWick.

Clinton Keith is making preparation
to engage quite extensively in the
manufacturing of lumber this winter.
He has increased his power by putting
in one of Lanes turbine water wheels.
Many years ago, Daniel Ward, broth
er of DIR. and Samuel Ward, left home
for Montreal, and nothing has been
heard of him for forty five years, until
recently member of the family was
visiting in western New York, and
found him settled there with a family
of ten children.
Irving Dow was taken sick very sud-
denly last Sunday night with conges-
ton of the brain. He has been teach
ing school in Stannard, with between
fifty and sixty scholars, and Overwork
may have been the cause of it.
Mr.. Whitcomb of Cabot has sold the
Cole house to Silas Owen, who takes
possession next week. Price 5000.
A town meeting is called for Decem-
Der IL, to raise money to defray the
expenses of the town.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16

of plagiarism by Pastor Wild In the
memorial sermon on the death of Pres
ident Garfield will no doubt also come
into the deliberations of the council,
as will the dissolving of the pastoral
relation, as Mr.. Wild has asked this
and will no doubt insist upon it. Near
ly all the Congregational churches in
the county are invited to the council
by pastor and delegate also Revs.
Henry Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury, E.
P. Wild of Newport, and A. D. Barber
and c. S. Smith of Montpelier.
Miss Chamberlin writes from Boston
that she is still located upon James
ST., on Franklin square, but has chang
ed her number, owing to the sudden
sickness and death of one of the mem
bers of the family from malignant
diphtheria.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
ST, Johnsbury Centre.

Charles King has just secured a back
pension of one thousand dollars and
four dollars per month. Geo. Bailey
recently secured one of 1920 and Sl2
per month.
The village schools are progressing
finely, with a good number of scholars
in each school.
viii Mute has rented the upper part
of E. H. Stones house, and will move
in this week. David Badger and wife
will occupy part of Mrs. Diantha
Hallett's house.
John F. Moore cut his foot quite
badly while cutting up hog short
time since, and was confined to the
house for sometime. Charles Miles is
helping Geo. Williams on the meat cart
for a while.
w. F. Kelley, of the firm of Kelley &
Haskins, was up in Orleans county buy
ing butter last week, and has this week
gone to Boston and Newark, n. j., to
dispose of it. They have about 500
tubs. E. j. Stone is in Boston this
week on butter business.
Arrangements are being made to
have Christmas tree and concert at
the Congregational church, Christmas
eve
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
Rev. VIM. w. Thayer,

In the death of Rev. VIM. w. Thaver.
this week, our place has lost one of
its estimable and hOnored citizens.
For nearly thirty years he has been
most usefully identified with the inter
ests of religion, education and business
among us.
Mr.. Thayer was native of 1hetford /;
born June 3, 1909. On the maternal
side he was in lineal descent from John
Alden of the Mayfiower, the ''fair-hair-
ed STRIPPING" immortalized in Long
fellows poem. He inherited the spirit
of the Pilgrims. His early ambition was
to gain liberal education. 1t was
for this he sought money, working
early and late, at all sorts of employ
ment, on the farm, or the canal-boat,
in the store or in the carpenters shop.
He declined tiattering prospects for
business, that he might pursue his
studies. He acquired large experience
with men and things, and travelled ex-
tensively on foot about the country.
His first intention was to study medi-
cine, but Immediately ON becoming a
Christian, he turned toward the gospel
ministry with the hope of becoming a
foreign missionary. He was unable to
complete a college course as he had
hoped, but gained an excellent classi-
cal culture and was graduated at Ban
gor Theol. Sem. in 1887. He then re-
ceived "A commission from the Ameri-
can Board to accompany his intimate
friend, Cyrus Hamlin, to Africa. Prov
idence changed the plan kept him al
home apparently to die, and sent Mr.
Hamlin to Constantinople. Though
greatly enfeebled, Mr.. Thayer held res
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
The Lumber Interests of Essex
County.

AS has been mentioned in these col
umns heretofore, branch railroad has
been located from North Concord sta
ton, on the st. JOhnsbury and Lake
Champlain line, directly into the heart
of the timber lands of Essex county.
Five miles of the abOve-named branch
have been let to contractors Gallup &
Hawley, to be finished by July |, 1882,
and good force of men are now grad
ing the same. These five miles will
take the road up to the neighbOrhOOd
of DamOn's, in Victory, near the en-
trance to the "Bog," so well known to
all fishermen. 1t is proposed to ex-
tend this branch some seven miles
farther, into the town of East Haven !;
and eventually it will be continued to
Island Pond. Surveys are already be
ing made for this second section of
subscription of the landowners, and
the st. j. & L. c. Co. propose to lay
the iron. The timber lands of this
section are very extensive and valua-
BILE. This branch road runs near the
saw mills of Hastings & FOllansbee,
Colby & Gay, Calvin Morrill,, the Aver
mill, l.. d. Hazen's, the Gallup mill
and the Fletcher mill. Besides the
large lumber interests owned by Hast
ings, Morrill, and others, we learn that
L. d. Hazen has some four thousand
acres of valuable timber lands conven-
lent to this branch railroad, and that
Col. A. B. Jewett, C. H. Stevens and
VIM. P. Fairbanks have lately pur-
chased some three thousand acres in
East Haven and Cranky, the lumber
on all of which will conveniently be
shipped over this new road. The lat
ter parties are putting up a steam saw
mill where the Fletcher mill was loca-
ted, and Mr.. Hazen is also to erect a
large mill on the line of this road.