Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-11-23
An Aurora Borealis.

NO o''B"' "s uuy.SGAt ot. l>aafs, n.y., IT wa
OF blood read color, the display boine
grand and fearful. AT Cheyenne the illu
mination last night was as bright as day
AT Denver tho display in The Northorr
heavens was most brilliant aud dazzling
In California the aurora was visible from til,
Northern part Of the State as fur South o.
San Diego and was most brilliant ut OF mpia
In Washington Territory tho aurora was
magnificent, tho heavens North and Eas
bcing brilliantly illuminated.
Tho great Northern light was seen hero
but it was not as bright as the above dc
scription warrants in the West.
The New York Sui, Of the 18th instant
has the following interesting article on this
subject:
Two storms ragged here and overa large
portion Of this continent yesterday. One
was patent to everybody; cold driving rain
storm-in some places n snow storm--.whci
made street travel difficult and dsagreeabo
Tho other storm was invisible in its effects
except in the telegraph Offices, but it was the
moro widespread and remarkable Of the two.
1t crippled the Atlantic cable for hours and
interrupted tclegraphc communication all
over this country and Europe 1t was the
greatest electric storm that has swept the
globc in recent years, exceeding in the in
tcnsity Of its effects, even tho great electric
storm of last April, which, it will be rcmcm-
bcrcd, was accompanied by magnificent dis.
plays Of the Aurora Boreulis. Tho earth
yesterday was like an enormous electric
magnet in full activity. Whether there was
phcrc disturbances and the electric storm We
cannot saw, but many scientific men have
satisfied themselves that such electric dis
tnrbances rs those witnessed yesterday have
their origin in the sun. At the timo Of tho
April electric storm the sun was greatly
agi'atcd, aud tho effects Of tho disturbance
in the solar orb were visible from the earth.
Vast chasms opened in the surface of tie
sun and one in particnlar was 50 immense
that it was visible without tcIescapic aid as
n black spot on The shining disk of the sun
In this great spot or chasn tremendous dis
turbing forces were seen to be ut work.
Precisely the same conditions now prevail in
the solar orb 1t is giving evidence of grcnt
agitation and for few days past SPOT fully
cqnal to the largest spot seen in April has
been visible upon its surface. evidently nn :
dcrgning great changes. a drawing Of this
spot, made on Thursday, shows that it is even
more complicated in its details than the great
spot Of April. 1t may seem very wonderful
that the effect of electrical or other dis :
tnrbances in tho sun should be felt upon
the earth when the two bodies are separated
by distance Of some $4,000, 900 miles.
But this appears less surprising when NO
reflect that the sun is removed from us only
il little over 100 times it's diameter Place
an orange, three inches in diameter, rs or 2G
feet from the eye, and you have n graphic
illustration of the distance Of The sun rs
compared with his size. Imagine that the
orange is the centre around which floating
spcck, which would represent the earth, is
revolving, subject to the controlling power of
its attraction and warmed and lighted by its
rays. and there is no difficulty in snpposin q
that intense electrical activity in the orange
would be felt by the speck revolving around
it, Every year additional evidence is OBJ
tained of the complete dependence Of tho
earth upon the sun in ways which were un-
dreamt of in the past.
Winlnrn Bros. work the "Lightning" photo
graphic process.
a FINE CRor-Mr. W. II Flennikcn has
made this year, on his farm on the outskirts
OF town, with two mules, the following:
lhirty-two bales Of cation, with tho cypcc-
taiton ot gathering five or six more; fourteen
hnndrcd bushels Of onts, with n sufficient
supply Of corn; fifty bushels of peas one ton
OF mi!!ct; over three tons of hay nnu five
wagon loads Of fndder.cnrn. Mr. Flcnnikcn'.
land is by no means rich and the crop he has
matte only shows what may be accomplished
ny good iarming and high culture JjInas.
jOr0 NcWs.
The present population Of Montana is
estimated at So 900.
Even Kansas the Republican strong hold ),
has elected a Denocratic Governor by TO-
0O0 majority.
Nine children were burned to death in a
lire in schcolhouse near Qaimper, France
a student has runaway from the South
Carolina University after swndling people
out Of 81 900.
IN Virginia the Congressional result was
five Democrats and five Mohoueitcs. This
Is better than was at first reported.
The Democratic majority in New York
Is larger than the entire voting population
OF Georgia by forty thousand.
at tic bcginning of the new year there
viii be twenty one Democratic and ouly
seventeen Republican Governors
Twenty Mexicans arc reported to have
been killed hy Indians near Cariitus, Mex ;,
a few days ago. Troops arc in pursuit of
the Indians.
Cremation has established firm foot