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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-10-24
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Piedmont Air Line.
RICHMOND AND DANYILLEsRAIIi-s
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COLUMBIA AND GREENVILLE DIVISION
Condensed Schedule In effect Sept Goth, 1882
Trains run by 10th Meridian Time.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-10-24

DOCKS ana Sood society rs ne nau.
We were alike capable Of spiritual
and intellectual companionship, but
], forgctful of my first duty, sclf-dc-
velopmcnt, gave up all advantages
and opportunities for Improvement,
and lived wholly with children and
servants. | took no note Of the
world without, no interest in the
laws and constitution OF my country,
no interest in the national questions,
in the subjects that absorbed his
mind. With extensive reading,
thought, good society, foreign travel,
his views grew broader day by day,
too broad to meet me in the narrow
grooves were all my thoughts and
interests were ccntcrcd. Absorbed
in family sclfishncss, ] knew nothing
OF he people, books and subjects
that cngrosscd his later life. We
bore the same name, my solitude was
respectable, but my heart ycarncd
for companionship."
Oliver ellsworth, chief juscicc of
the supreme court Of the United
States: and successor of Benjamin
Franklin at the court Of Fran CO,
married the granddaughter of the
Governor of Connecticut, Roger
Wolcott. She was well educated,
saw the best society Of the time, in :
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Cheek Carried him Through.

Henry A. Cook, of Leominster, Mass,
wanted to be elected 10 the Legislature,
so early last month be published notice
to that effect in the local paper, hired a
hall and on October 9Th placed himself
in nomination before Il convention of
enthusiastic fellow. citizens. He asked
no one to ratily The nomination, but he
ratified it himself. Hetold his con:titu
ents Why he was good man for the
honor, and that, being sensible people,
be knew they would take his advice aud
vote for him. He said that there were
now eight or ten candidates in the Re.
publican party to 60 before the conven.
lion and that he intended to spike all
their guns by telling every mean thing
be had ever done, together with
some of his good deeds, and thus forestall
the possibility of being slendered by his
enemies.
He began with his birth, ard showed
that he had been hostler, a peddler, u
chair maker, comb maker, carpenter,
a blacksmith, manufacturer, gambler,
o thief, large real estate dealer, a law.
yer, detective, and that bis present
occupation was seeking the Office of rep.
resentative. He wanted it understood
that he was total abstainer without
being prohibitionist. The humor and
fran kness, ofthe would be legislator made
him hosts Of friends. He ran as an in.
dependent, and was elected By ap!urality
OF 81 votes over the Republican nominee
in strong Republican district.
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Hampton's Hot HAste.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-President
Harrison is responsible for Senator
Hampton's indignation at Postmaster:
General Wanamaker. Wanamaker did
promise Hampton when Hampton was
here that he would not disturb Hampton's
relative, Postmaster Gibbs Of Columbia,
until February. At about the same time
be said he would not disturb the Postmas.
ter at Anderson Court House, S. c., until
February, both terms expiring at about
the same time. He also promised the
South Carolina Republicans that Col.
Russell should be appointed postmaster
at Columbia, and that Mrs. Cockrane,
widow of Senator Cochrane of reconstruc-
tion days, should have the Anderson
postof6ce.,
Within q short time after these promi-
ses we're made w. w. Russell, the until.
ial son of Col. Russell, whom Wanamaker
was to have made postmaster at Colum.
bia, came to Washington. and going to
the President (who knew nothing Of
Wanamaker's promises apparently per.
auaded him, on the ground that be, w.
W. Russell, would thus be helped in bis
efforts to build up white Republican
party in South Carolina, to appoint w.
w. Russell himself postmaster at Auder-
son Court House, and his friend, Virgil
Clayton, postmaster at Columbia, being
obliged to make removals to do it, When
this ness got out the South Carolina Re-
publicans in town rushed down to see
Wapamaker. They did not care about
Hampton's relative, the postmaster at
Columbia, but they did not want Wana
makers other promises carried out.
IT did not know that w. W. Russell
and Clayton had been appointed" said
Wauamaker, "until you told me. l will
see the President about it."
When be had described his awkward
situation to the President, and appealed
to him to help him keep his promises,
the President expressed regret, and caus.
ed q suspension of action. Wanamaker
thereupon hung the Presidents appoint
ments up, and it is pretty safe to say that
they will never be taken off the hooks
The postmasters at Columbia and at An
son will probably remain until February,
when Col. Russell will succeed at Coium-
bia and Mrs. Cochran at Anderson.-Dis-
patch 10 Chattanooga Times.
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The LIntless Cotton Seed is no Hoax

spARTANBURG, November 1S.-The
Greenville Daily Neaus yesterday stated
that Col. J. T. Moore had put up ajob
on Capt. E. P. McKissick, agent of the
News and Courier, concerning Mr.. Fer
guson's lintless cotton. This was sur
prise to those who knew Col Moore, as
be is not man who would impose on the
credulity of any one. MIR. H. T. Furgu-
son, of Woodruff, called on your cores
pondent to- day. he makes the following
statement in regard to his lintless cotton
seed (:
Several years ago he and Capt. Bowden
of this city, ordered three packages of fire
cotton seed at $3.50 a pound. In
watching the growth of this cotton he oh
servedstwo varieties, white stalk and 8
red stalk. The red stalk produced the
lintless cotton. He planted some of the
seed to themselves, thinking that be
would get an improved lint, but it pro
dueed the same kind of seed. This year
he planted about one sixth of an acre,
getting good stand. He states that
:here is no lint on this plant, but that the
stalks are we'll loaded with bolls. He has
gathered two to three bushels of the seed, !,
which weigh fifty pounds to the bushel.
He believes that the seed with proper
culture will yield 300 to 400 bushels to
the acre. He refers to Hampton j. Pear
son, Frank Pearson, w. w. Simpson,
George Hanna and James Ca!mese, of
Woodruff, who have seen the cotton
growing. So it would appear that your
correspondent was not the victim of q
hoax.-Nsws and Courier,
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South Carolina Ahead of Georgia,

COLUMBIA, Nov. 24-The following
clipping is from the Atlanta Constitution
of the 2lst inst. 1t is published with
immense headlines, and has good deal
of Georgia brag in it, but may be quoted
in full for the purpose of showing how
much jubilation has been wasted by OUT
friends csef The river:
"MAcoN, GA, Nov. 20-It is reserved
for the Constitution to tell the people Of
Georgia that the Hon. ". L. Peek, of
Conyers, Rockdale County, Ca, has been
awarded the prize offered by the Georgia
Agricultural Society for the largest and
best yield of corn OIL one acre in the State.
Col. Peek raised 1901 bushels. Desiring
to promote increased yields through the
country, the American Agriculturist, of
New York city, offers five hundred dollars
for the largest yield of corn on one acre
of land. This premium is open to any
State in the United States. If it should
be taken by farmer in this State, the
State Agricultural Society will add two
hundred and fifty dollars to the premium
offered by the Agricn,'urist. f the pre-.
MUM is not taken il Georgia, to still!
further encourage aor!s on the part Of
Georgia frrmers, the society gives one
hundred dollars as an award for the lar
gest yield of corn per acre raised in this
State, provided the yield reaches as much
as one hundred bushels. The 500 WAS
awarded to Col Peek in accordance with
the announcement. Col. Peek is compel
ing for the $500 offered by the American
Agriculturist, and should he win it, the
Georgia Agricultural Society will give
him $3.50 in addition to the 500 already
awarded. As the South Carolina and
some Georgia papers are Dragging about
the yield of corn by farmer in that
State, who made 100 bushels on one acre,
and los on another acre, Secretary Nisbet
of the Agricultural Society, desires it to
be known what Col. Peek has done, and
that Georgia farmer is ahead of the
Sonth Carolina champion"
It is reserved for the Ncacs and Courier
TO tell the people of South Carolina that
the Constitution is mistaken, The corn
record stands: South Carolina, 100 BUSH
els, so pounds; Georgia, l90 bushels, %
pounds. Mr.. J. Smelling, of BarDwell
County, S. c., in competing for the
American Agriculturist prize, made l3O
bushels and 50-56 ofa busheI, or only 6
pounds less than 131 bushels of corn on
one acre. Mr.. Smelling made last year 27
bales of cotton on nine acres, aud was
awarded the first premium at the Augusta
(Ga.) Exposition for the "lest bale
upland cotton"
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An officer of experience, writing on
s,4ba behavior Of horsea in battle, says:
when it comes to battls a horse seems to
know everything that is going on; but
he does Ills duty nobIy, and seems to be
Sin his element. BE enters into the spirit
Of the battle like human being. BE
shows no fear of death, and it is singular
SHAT ifhis mate is ahot dow be will turn
In look at him and seem pleased. A
5 Torse in my battery was once struck by
!: niece- of she'll which split his skull, 80
II # one side was loose. l'he driver turned
hin loose, but ho walked up BY the side
.soif5 the gun and watched the firing, and
s.yrhen q shot was fred would look away in
5 tha direction of the enemy, as if to gee the
! alIsct Of the shot. When shell would
s hurst near by he would calmly turn and
z$iook 81 Sc. When he asw his owR team
!. i 81, ,,ings back for ammunition he ran back
sto: lis own place and galloped back to the
:s,.s.ii,son with the rest When the lieuten-
sa,nspushed him aside to put in another
sEonieS he looked at the ether one sorrow.
sfulIY while he was being harnessed up,
s1.aii when he seemed to reslize that there
- !; "a; further use for him be lay down
s ,,,.fsdied. The lientenspt strongly as.
sssrssd that Hs dkd dta Bg8ken heart.
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This was only one of the encouraging
features of last nights meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Eufaula Cotton
Mills. After mature deliberation it was
decided to declare only S per cent. divi.
dend.' Some were in favor of a larger
dividend as the profits fully justified it.
But this is equal to 10 per cent. annual
dividend as the Mills had been running
only about six months up to the time the
profits applied to the dividend were real.
ICED. This is certainly good news for all,
it is good for the factory, good for the,
stockholders and good for Eufaula. The
factory is success, aud that is guaran
Tee to other manufactures that.are locat.
ing here and that will wish to locate here
in the future.
The watchword is onward. The Direc.
tors last night also resolved to double the
capital stock of the Mill. Many of them
sigDi6ed their willingness to take addi.
tional stock and the public will .soon
have an opportunity of taking stock in an
institution whose success is assured. The
probability is that this investment will
pay Is to 20 per cent, and the growth and
success of the factory is promise of the
growth aud prosperity of Eufaula. We
only have time and space to add that ne
congratulate the President and Board of
Directors on their success In, to them,
new and untried field, and express the
hope that books of subscription to the
new stock will soon be opened and that
all will aid This most worthy and prosper
Gus institution,
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Are We Going to Make 1t.

The cotton crop of the State, as return.
ed by the State Department of Agricul.
ture for 1883, was $50, ,642 bales.
The report for this year puts the crop
at 100000. This would indicate some
$4,000 bales in excess of last year. We
fear this estimate will not be realized.
a great deal of the late cotton still hangs
in the fields without opening. How
much of this fruit will come to cotton it
is impossible to say. We hear in many
directions. complaints about cotton not
opening. 1t may be that these bolls may
never come to cotton.
All things considered, re do not look
to see the cotton crop of this State for
the present year exceed that OF the last
by more than 5 per cent, amounting to
27,432, which would make the crop of
the year some 5S6, 900, instead of 100000,
as previously estimated. And yet, if the
bolls that are low in The field come to
cotton, the estimate of the State Depart.
ment might prove rather lower than
above the fact. Our experience teaches
US, however, that many of these bolls are
chilled 0eyonQ all nope VI leutulpIiou.
This has been very peculiar year for
the cotton crop. There have been so
many interrupting incidents occurring
to partially late, but exceedingly pro.
missing, crop at one time, that it is not
singular that the correspondents should
he somewhat confused in their estimates,
Upder these circumstances The Fed eral
Bureau has declined to make any estimate
Of the possible crop. We are glad our
State Department has given US its best
Judgment with all the facts it could
gather. It will not be discreditable to
our department should its estimate not
be reached. At the time of the estimate
nobody could foresee the nipping frost
nor yet the strange fact that apparently
good fruit bangs on in the fields without
opeDiug.- CalxmJia Register.
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The Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta,
Ga, closed only a few weeks since, and
I syet4he energetic uianagers have already
mapped out their plans for another show
In 1899, which, it is promised, will be
Stbe grandest exposition ever seen in the
South" It will open on the 18th Of
October and c.oss November l. a beau.
stiful and imposing art and music hall
will be erected on the grounds. The
pouHry and pet stock. cattle and horse
.showswill be carried through the entile
exposition. The racing purses will te
!: cut down, and the money thus saved put
Into other amusements Three days have
been set aside for great chrysanthemnm
show. Premiums for chrysanlhemums
will be offered at once. One of the spe.
sciallY.. interesting features will be the
Z cotton palace. This will be tuildipg
filled with exhibits pertaining to the
growing and manufacture of cotton, and
70 cotton seed and tie different uses to
which il is put. The last exhibition was
sa great success, financially and other.
wise, and was the occasion of pleasure
and. profit to those who attended.
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HELLO THAR !!
,Tha've done it again.

Tha've done it again.
What's that, sir?
These blasted fellows down here at the 10
Cents Store has jest gone ahead and got the
drop on all these other fellows in this town.
That's hit.
Wall, you're right now, fer went down
thar tother day aud theyuns jest showed
ME the whole thing. 1hevuns do expose
the extortions Of the old togies here right
along.
Dog my cat sir! Since yon make me
think ofit they sell ME good cooking soda
at pounds for 25 cents, uSual price 1Oc
pound. Starch at &C., usual price lOc.
Axle-greese &C., usual price 10c.
And that amt all, man. Tia showed me
II barrels which they said was all glasswar
and fine Nmas goods. Also I hogsheads
full of best quality English crockery
which tha say thael down the town on.
Tha'ye marked ther notions lower than
ever. Theyuns call themselves Hcadquarr,,
ters for Nmas goods, and now thael sell
more of 'em and cheaper'n any body agoin.
Come, let's go down thar and see that G.
S. Minor, anyhow. Broyles' building An
deeson, S. g.
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49,
Isasc q. Vincent, ex-State Treasurer,
ofAlabama, who is nou serving fifteen
year sentence in the coal mines for the
sembezzlement Of s22,a00 of the States
money, wants pardon. He does not
want an ordinary paldon, and will not
Iallow his friends tointercede with the
Governor in his behalf. he wants the
people Of his State to pardon him. Vim
cert proposes to ask the Legislature to
) submit the question Of granting him
pardon SUBMITTED to the people at The
next election, and let them vote on it.
ia majority vote for a pardon, he thinks
he should be free, while if a majority
zyote:no pardon he will serve out his SEN
stencs Vincent has teen in the mines
stWo years, and with the usual allowance
sfor! good conduct his sentence will expire
II. in ten Years.
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Hiram Lester, now an inmate of the
poor house at McDonougb, Ga, is thought
to be the Oldest man in the world. His
age!is 120 years. Col. Sloan, of McDon-
ougb, who is over eighty years of age,
saws when he was boy Lester was an old
man. Testers teeth are perfectly sound
and his eyesight and hearing are good.
Bis skin is wrinkled and as hard So
parchment. He eats aud sleeps we'll,
and Gays he has given up ell idea of ever
dying. He remembers all about tie
Revolutionary war and knew George
Washington.
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: Z -
The Atlanta Constitution says there are
ssi gns that the colcr lire is to be broken
ssbYs the intelligent l,egroes, who realize
that the interests Of the two races
ssare: identicallythe same. In Virginia, in
Sspite Of the tremendous appeals made to
race prejudice, thousand of negroes voted
asfor;the Democrstic candidate for Cover.
! nor, rather than support sn INSCRIPTIONS
ssnd responsible Dan like Malone.
gS5onids ds-s.s;sfe Ills feeling develop asnong the
negroes. Tes shall hear no more of the
sco. .or line or the negro problem. for the
prejudice ofthe whites will be disarmed,
sanes the two races will flourish side by
side peace. prosperity and mutual
sfriiendliness.
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The Cotton hill will Pay.
EUFAULA, Ala, Nov. 90,

EUFAULA, ALA, Nov. 90, 1889.
Mr.. EDITOR: Below ! send you the
first report of the Directors of the Eufau.
Ia Cotton Mills, which I have clipped from
the daily Times of this city. I would be
glad to see it in your columns. As An.
derson is now building cotton mill, I
think this report would be encouraging
to those who have invested their money
in it. What our mill has done, the An.
der.on mill can do.
Very respectfully,
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PErERspuRG. Va Nov. 23.-Robert

PETERSBURG, VA, Nov. 23.-Robert
Bland, who on Thursday last attempted
to commit criminal assault on Miss
Annie Gee, aged 1G years, daughter of
Hon. Charles Gee, United States Inspec-
tor of Lumber at Sitka, Alaska, but
whose family reside in Prince George
County. short distance from Disputanta
Station, on the Norfolk aud Western
Railroad, WAS taken from the Jail Of
Prince George County to day snd lynch.
ed. A mob, consisting Of forty mounted
men, we'll masked, went TO the residence
of Henry King, the negro jaiirr, ond
demanded the keys OF The Jail lie
stoutly refused to surrender tie keys or
to go to the Jail 10 unlock the door. The
mob then burst open tic door Of the
jailer's house and again demanded the
keys. On bis refusal 10 give them up
they placed a rope around his neck and
dragged him to the Jail, several hundred
yards from his house. Despite the strug
gle, King refused to tell where the keys
to the Jail were. Just before reaching
the jail the ke; were heard rattling in
Kings pocket. The mob then took the
keys from him and carried him into the
jail aud made him lesd the way to the
cell in which Bland was confined. Bland
had nothing to say when the lynchers
came to his cell, but was perfectly quiet.
He was tied hand and foot aud carried
off about seventy FIVE yards from the Jail,
where he was swung up by rope to a
brauch Of tree. He begged piteously
',r his life, but the lynchers were deaf
10 his appeals for mercy. His body was
riddled with bullets and left dangling
from the tree, where he was found at
daylight this morning Bland was about
81 years of age and worthless charac.
ter. He was arrested Thursday night by
posse of men who went in pursuit of
him, and he had been cent on by Magis.
trate L. L. Austen for trial at the Decem.
Der term of the County Court
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The farmers Of the northwest seem to
sbsas good as their word in taking their
affairs into their own hands. They are
preparing to slaughter and psck their
SoFn live stock in aa immense establish.
snents 10 Lincoln, Neb. The packing
shonse will cost tsoas 100000 to $4,000,
and the plans i6r its construction are
ALREADY dymade out. There will be $4,000
subscribed to set the work on its feet.
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Tie Nix failure in Greenville is the
biggest thing ofthe sor. that has occurred
"a the State in yeas. A meeting Of the
creditors was held in Greenville last
Saturday, and through his attorney, W.
;A. Williams, Mr.. MI offered them rs
sper cent as compromise, provided a
msjority5 accepted. After deliberating
sabont six hours, q snail majority did
accept, ,and will receive their pay within
Eve days, provided no unforeseen circum.
stances prevent it. TIE liabilities, as far
as can be ascertained, aye about one hun.
zdred and seventy five thousand dollars,
and available assets about forty thousand
dollars. L.sW. Parker WAS elected agent
sof the creditors, and they are to have
another meeting about the middle Of
December. The action of this meeting
was not final, and it is probable that
there will be number Of lawsnits, and
Mr.. Nix will be given great deal of
ztrouble beforea final settlement is-made.
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SrPERANNUATED.

VIC Patterson, d W Scale, L M Hamer,
Manning Brown, Sid Fl Browne, w Hut
to, S Leard, NJ A Connolly, T w Munner-
lyn. Lardy Wood. L G Loyal. w Smith.
J Newberry, NJ Carlisle, R l. Dutlie, E
G Jones, Simpson Jones, W Carson, j
Neville, w W Mood, R P Franks, A H
Lester.
Place of meeting of Conference of 1890,
Anderson, S. c..
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aoyernor Gordon will deliver lecture
sin Chicago on the 30.h of this month for
The benefit of the iund which the ex.
Confederate associa ion in that city is
raising, be devoted to the erection of a
:Elonnment to this Confederate dead.
Governor Gordon sill speak on "The
sinfuencs;o the late civil war upon the
character Of the American people and
Sthe: future of the american republic"
sHe3will receive royal welcome in Chi
scago and will surely rise to the require
sments. Of the situation.
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Tie naval commission appointed to
ssele t:the site for the navy yard on the
Southern coast has SUBMITTED its report
s:toths Secretary Of the Navy, recommend
Sing the establishment of dry dock,
repair shops and supply depot at Port
Royal. The commission recommends
sthe establishment Of 8 dry dock, depot
of:nayal supplies and coalipg station
on Paris Island at the > ite of the present
naval station. An estimate accompany.
ling the report fixes the cost of timber
dry dock, similar to those now building
for the Government at s675 900, to be
! completed in three years.
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The animal meeting of the National
Farmers and Lahorers' Union will be
held in the city of St. Louis, beginning
Son December 3rd. It will be the great:
Nest gathering of farmers ever held in the
United States, and questions Of impor.
tance To- them will be discussed.