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ROARING ROCKY RIVER.
Pleasant Notes and Agreeable Echoes
From the Stream as it Hurries on
tn the Ocean.
JowNDEsy1LLE, April 9Oth. Is,

LowNDEsvILLE, April 90th, 1888.
Hon. Bolton Watson, OF Anderson Count!
and Miss Matte Britt Of Bordeaux were unit
ed In marriage on last Wednesday night.
Monday to be present at the Unfair OF he
brother, Hon. Bolton Watson.
DR.. ]. B. Moseley spent several days OF las
In the Fork professionally.
Col. w. Jas. Lomax has disposed Of hi
household and kitchen effects. has broken VI
housekeeping and is now boarding.
Messrs. Jas M. and ]. T. Latimer went tt
also had the pleasure of attending Gilmores
Grand Jubilee, the grandest musical event o
the age, so said.
Mrs. Albert Cllnkscales and Mrs. Jas. Clink
scales Of Montery, were in town on last
Wednesday and Thursday.
Whoopins cough now nbounds in this latt
tude. Juvenile barking is heard from early
morn till dewy eve and sometimes later.
Some Of the boys whiled away the greater
part of last Friday night, upon the banks o.
Rocky River, watching some "set-hooks" and
so far as Is known did not get nibble.
Miss Maud Lomax leaves to-day for Angus
Ia, Ca. where she will enter one of the -four
ishing schools OF that f1ourlshing place.
Mr.. H. l.. Huckabee,. OF Pelzer, spent the
greater part Of last week at our house and
with other relatives.
Mr. p. L. Sturkey's chicken industry is now
on boom. He has more orders for Wyan-
dott fowls, by all odds the best fowls that are
made, than he can fill, and q greater demand
for eggs than he can supply prior to the first
Mrs. D. l.. Barnes and Miss Emmie Bruce
went to Abbeville, G. H. last Thursday to
provide themselves with some OF the needful
Some OF our own merchants ought to have
enterprise enough about them to extend theiI
stock, so as to catch all these loose dollars
that are being placed elsewhere.
How enjoyable 1t Is to some folks to be
helped In all Of their undertakings. We once
heard of a woman who wanted to get nickle
changed into coppers, and ten cents worth OF
stationary to buy, and she, liberal soul, asked
one OF her female friends to share, with her.
Last Friday this writer saw at the depot one
bale Of cotton solitary and alone. If 1t did
not look like "the last rose of summer" 1t
certainly resembled the last bale OF the sea-
son.
The tillers OF the soil hereabouts, hold to
and express the same wish so pathetically ut
tered, once upon time by the old man whose
fire "broke out" and was "too many" for him.
All alone as he thought. and not speck OF
cloud to be seen, said, "oh that 1t would sea.
son little about here" We need rain.
Mr.. 6. E. Bruce having sometime ago OBJ:
tained some pets, /. e. on Ethiopian dog and
two beavers has caused sort OF craze in that
line among our young men, almost every one
of whom has some creature, fox, rat squirrel,
kitten, &C., to fondle and feed.
Saturday for few days on visit to his old
home, the home of his parents.
Prof J. F. Harper went to Mrs. H. H. Har-
pers last Friday, and on to Ebert County on
Saturday to visit his father and other kins-
folk.
At this writing DR.. O. r. Horton is danger
ously i'll. We hope for the best.
On last Wednesday night some of our young
men in conclave assembled determined to
form an anti-muStache society, and then and
there resolved to sacrifice these, their idols,
and In q short space Of time their pets "were
numbered among the things that were." and
now they have no wool upon their upper lip
"the place whar da wool ought 10 grow" 'Iis
said that when a rooster peafowl has his beau
tiiul tail pulled out that he becomes so much
ashamed of his appearance that he hides In
the bushes, till his lost appendage is replaced
by new one. Some Of these young men
would look better If they would bush it
awhile. TROUPE.