Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-05-26
Dynamite VS.. Despotism.

mauu, eeh1eneeu 70 ueRtn iOr C0mpil0ltY IN
the murder Of tho Gear and reprieved on
account Of hor delicate condition has been
delivered of q stillborn child. Another
conspirator's den, containing large store of
arms and dynamite, has beon found near
Warsaw, The occupants have deserted the
sY@PATnY IN NEW YORK FOR THE CONDEMNED
JEwEss.
From the Now York Sun, Of Friday.1
preparations are being made for publo
meeting in this oity to protest against the
impending execution Of the young rexicldal
Jewess Hesso Hoffman,. now under con,
domination of death, and who il to bo hanged
In st. Petersburg, as the sixth of the con-
spirators, as soon as her child is boru.
"A destructive caterpillar is eating up
tho crops around Charleston.
The cotton crop about Abbeville is re-.
ported injured by tho recent warm dry
weather.
Cotton in Sumter County, Ga, is half
log high and has woll formed squares.
The GreonvilIe Ne,os cnlls attention to
tho existence Of gambling resorts in that
city. Drought prevails throughout that
county.
-"Thc German people," says Bobal of the
German Keichstag, ''have now only one want
and that is for money enough to get to
America"
Tho Greenvlle No,os suggests the selling
of poultry by the pound instead of by the
hoad. This is certainly tho fairest rule and
should 30 adopted in all cities having reg.
uar market.
MIR. r. G. Davis. of Columbia, brakes.
man on the Columbia and Greenvile Rail-
road freight, was killed at Grove Station on
the night of the Goth by being Knocked from
o ladder Of tho conductors cab by the water
tank.
AT meeting Of tho Board Of Agriculc
turc, on the Goth instant. the Commissioner
was instructed to institute proceedings
against oil parties. who arc violating tho fish
laws in any part Of tho State.
--Femalo su ffrago rallied so votes in tho
New York Assembly, ax loss than majority
and q less than two thirds. The votes cast
for the measure steadily increases year BY
year.
Earthquake shocks have been felt in the
last few days in tho Northeastern portion of
Indiana. There was heavy rnmbling but no
damage. The area Of tho shocks was $50
SOU, miles.
"A couple Of fellows who were pretty
thoroughly soaked with whiskey got into tho
gutter. After laundering about for fcw
minutes, one of them said: "Jim, lots 20 to
another house, this hotel leaks"
The hangman who bungled the execution
of the Nihilists ut St. Petersburg had prmed
himself for tho task by swallowing too much
brandy. lie wns. in fact. drunk whom he
oficiatcd at tho gibbet. IIo was heavily
logged in payment for his services, but this
did not add any impressivenoss to tho romon,
branco of spectacle which excited the hor.
rar Of all who Witnessed it,
Tho Emperor of Russia is said to have
nearly porished by poison on tho 18th instant.
One of the palace scullons. who has bcen or,
rested since, had sprinklod arsenic over
bowl of salad, of which Alexander is known
to be vcry fond AS tho dish did not fieuro
on the menu, tho attempt was fortunately de.
tected. Tho Lanterne says that on the DIV
proV'pus tho emperor received an invitation
to his own funeral.
The longest cotton row in the State per.
haps is in Spartanburg County, laid off by
Mr.. E. Is. Huff, who works land of John II
Montgomery, Esq, two miles North of Spar-
tanbnrg villago. 1t is 9,76o yards long, and
tho rows being three and half feet wide.
covers fraction over two and one third acres.
Its length is little more than Eve and half
miles. 1t would require about six hours 70
run round this ono row of cotton,
"A New York fruit dealer. who bo. ;,s.
returned from an extended tour in the peaoh
aistr'ots OF Delaware and Maryland, reports
inc outlook to DO hopeless. lilo says he wac
prepared to hear that the severe winter had
1one some damage, but had no idea tho whole
prop was ruined, not only for this year but
Tor somo years to como. The cold has boan
moro severe down there this winter than auv
or the last forty years. IIe Gays he made q |
personal examination Of the trees and found
thom blghted
The spooal correspondent of the London
l.mes thinks that the number of persons
killed byltho Chic earthquake does not preatlv
1 at oil, exooed 1000, and that this IA no.s;.
by too large In the Southern balf Of tho
sland scarcely house remains in q habita-
DC condition, 80 that q population of nearly
,o'ooo persons is camping out in the open air.
throughout the Northern portion of The ID
land the repeated shocks wrenched tho housas
ma frightened the inmates without doing
hem any setiouc bodily harm, oxcopt IN vore
ew instances. -