Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-11-30

t0r tue REALTORS, MAJ. II. Y. MCLure Tor tho
Town Council and Mr. A. G. Brice for
sundry citizens of Chester.
COLUMBIA, November 26.-The proba.
bi!ity now is that the Criminal Term of the
United States Circuit Court will not last
very long. Not more than half dozen
cases rcluting to the late election are now
ready, aud these refer mainly to alleged
violations Of law iu the registration of voters.
AS announced previously, the old election
cases lying over from the last term of Court
will not be taken up.
WAsIHNoroN. Nov. 23.-Commissioncr
Loripg, III his annual report, estimates the
yield Of grain in 1882 as follows: Cotu,
1855 900, ,0C0 bushels; Wheat, 4lO, 900 600
bushels; oats, 470. 100000 bushels; barley,
As 600 600 bushels rye, 2O,OOOO0O
bushels; tuckwhcut. l2,oOO, 900 bushels.
ALLENTOWN, PEss November &c. Owing
to the depression in the iron trnde, work has
cea$cd in The pudding department Of the
Allentown Rolling Mill Two hundred men
ure thus thrown out Of employment.
Right Rev. p F. Crinnon. roman Catholic
Bishop of Hamilton. Ontario. Cnnnda. dropped
dead mere to day while eating dinner Causo
heart disease.
A fire at Calhoun, Gcorgia, destroyed ten
stores. Loss $4,000
Hon. Thurlow Weed, Of New York, ono
of the oldest newspaper men Of tho country,
is dead.
The Union Times snys that several farmers
in that county have decided to adapt the
intensive system Of planting. They were
fascinated with the results of the expert,
menn on the Furmnn farm in Georgia, ro-
Gently 20 much written about
The following gentlemen have been mem
toned in connection with tho Speaker$hip of
the Ilousc: Col james Simons, Jr of
Charleston, Col. George Johnstonc, of New.
berry, Maj. W. II: Parker. Of Abbeville,
Maj. Il. Is. Murray, of Anderson Knox
Livingstone. E>q of Marlboro, and Hon. G.
W. Croft of Aiken.
Col S. w. II L.nham, formerly of
Spnrtonburg, S. c., hut ,or many years
citizen Of Wcathcrfnrd, Parker Co. Texas,
has been elect ID to C0ng.css from the ! lth
Texas District. Col. j.. is one of The most
brilliant lawyers in Northwestern Texas.
He served during the war in tho Third
South Carolina Regiment.
United States census reports show that
Kentucky has twenty universities and
colleges, seven schools of medicine, six
thenIog cal schools, two law schools, and
one agricultural and mechanical college,
with several hundred grammar schools,
academies and colleges, each hold:nu
kigh standard of education With all
these means Of secondary education, her
primary schools ure cnufessrdy poor.
There are 250 900 il!iterates 10 the State
According to- the IM 0icul Times and
CnzcVe, the oyster confirms II per cen,
Of flesh Turning material, this being ar
most precisely the amount ohtun, d from
the egg. Lean beef cuDtnincs hut S Der
cent. more of mnsclt- making matter, and
but 2 per cent. more Of fat than tho oyster.
Among the many thousand species Of she'll
fish there are only two or three known to be
poisonous; yet hut few kinds, such ss
cockels, perwnkles and mussaIs, are used
besides cams aud oysters. The consump-
tion of pcrwnkles in London often amounts
to 2, 1000 bushels weekly.
a DETROIT saloon keeper aivcrtiscs
that he has paid $500 for years lieen nsc to
aell liquors, but that be means to volunta-
fily restrict his business within certain
moral bounds. "ro the wife who has y
drdnkard for husband he says ia an ad
vertiseneEt, "or friend who is dissipated,
| say. cmphatically, give me notice of such
cnses, and aiI such shall be excluded from
my place. Let fathers, mo hers, sisters
do likewise, and their requests shall be ro-
Harded. pay heavy tax for tho privi.
lcgc of selling whisky and o: her liquors and
| want 1t distinctly understood that have
no desire to sell to druukards or 10 minors,
or to poor and destitute. I much prefer
that they wonld save their money and pot
it where it will do tie most good to- their
familics'
According to writer In tho British
Medical Journal, the opium habit may be
discontinued with perfect safcty and with
out discomfort by gradually reducing the
doses of morphia, aud substituting bromide
of potassium in increasing doses. The
point is to keep up the proper proportion
between the two drugs, and hence .hc
necessity of medical supervision. 1t has
been said that suoh modes of euro simply
substitute one bad habit for another; but
it should be borne 10 mind that a bromide
habit is easily cured, while tho opium
habit sticks considerably closer than
brother.
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A Lnss PREvENrED Many lose their
beauty from the bnir falling or fading.
Pnrker's Hair Basam aupplies necessary