Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-09-12
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Y 81 Miss Laura Thompson is visiting hcr
friend, Miss May Bel, Mt Clayton, Ga
Miss Lottie Blair, Of Georgia, is visit
ing Mrs. A. II. Mot oClair.
Soy. af mississippi, is 4 natiso
of Chesterfield county, South Carolina.
Mrs. A. II. Wheeler, Of Prosperity, is
4 visiting her daughter, Mrs. V. r.. Nor
man. "a s5 y n ii NV
Miss Mary Werner loft last week for
hor second years course in tho Augusta
Female Seminary, at staunton, Va.
Misses Florence and Lille Thompson,
returned Tuesday from u months visit
to friends ut Clayton, Ga. eas #
Ono good country road from one town
..aato another is worth moro than o cowpen
full of professional politicians.
Township trustees and teachers are re-
qucstod to read tho teachers' column OF
this ISSUE.
Miss Marie Dendy, eldest daughter of
Mai. s. p. Dondy, left on Tuesday morn
ing to attend tho Williamston Female
College
Tho annual camp meeting Mt Sandy
Springs, in Anderson county, will COM
monco TODAY, 18th Instant, and continue
until Tuesday, 18th instant.
Rev. S. J.. Morris began tprotraoted
meeting at Edgchold, s. c., OH last Sun
day. Ho is being assisted by the Rov. j.
T.. Fogartie, Of Walhalla, s. c..
A prominent merchant of Newbarry
says the greatest drawbacks TO the pros
pority of this State arc liquor, tho lien
law and laziness Aud ho is about right.
W. B. Boyd committed tho double
crime of wife murder and suicide last
Sunday in York county. IIc Slot both
himself and wife with pistol.
Remembor September is tho month for
sickness. SEQ that your promises are
kept clean. If you have hog pen tear
it down..
At Antwerp, on the 9th instant, thore
was n dynamite explosion in cartridge
factory killing thrco hundred persons
and seriously injuring ono thousand.
Married, in tho public street. by moon
light, ut 1 A. NJ, Wednesday, 11th in
slant, by d. S. Craig, Trial Justice, Mr..
James Dean to Miss Liza Roach
Mr.. Theodore Schroeder has recently
done nice job of painting on the resi-
denccs of Mcssrs. John y. Werner and
j. w. lIolloman. Tho work speaks for
itself.
Tho price of sugar was OFF littlo a
few days ago. With more decline editors
and other poor folks may afford pic oc-
casionally-if the price of flour don't got
on a rise.
It is stated that it takes fly two
billiOnth part of n second to wink. If a
wink was as sudden rs fly's he would
never get anything but plain soda at a
fountain in drug store.
About tho only place the elixir could
bc safely used would be upon tho store
keeper who don't advertise 1t might
succeed in keeping him awake ut least;
something tho rush of trade never does.
HOMES FoR YoU.-Those desiring to
& purchase improved farming lands in Hart
county, accessible to railroad and all
other convenicnccs, should apply to
DIR. g. A. WEBB, Hartwell, Ga.
Married, on Sunday, September 1, 1880,
at tho residence of tho brides father, by
Rov. j. r. Earle, Mr. VIM. Bruce, of Oco-
nee county, and Miss Carrie Bagwell, of
Anderson county.
Lutheran Visitor: Rev. j. Stcck, D. d.,
has bcen secured as n Professor in tho
Lecsvillo English and Classical Institute,
and will enter upon his duties at tho he
ginning of tho session.
Mrs. r. S. Thompson and children, of
~sarnwoll, have spont several weeks in
Wall,alla, visiting the family of Col. r.
A. Thompson. She >will return homo
in q few days, after most pleasant visit
to our mountain town.
Mr. Frcd. Webens writes to tho Hart
well S'n, that he was Mt Mount Vcsuvius
OH tho 10th of August ultimo, on his by
ciclc tour Of Europe, &c. IIe was to
leave in u few days for Egypt and tho
Nile.
B. M. Sullivan, of Due West, South Ca
rolina, as a cadet for Wost Point from tho
Third Congressional District, with Mr..
Thomas d. Parker, of Abbovillc, as al
ternatc.
Mr.. Jacob Reed a gcntloman of Oco-
neo county, living about seven miles
from Walhalla, showed us OH Tuesday
last tho largest turnip we have seen this
year. 1t is of the purple top variety,
and measures 20 inches in circumference
and weighs three pounds.
Sluggor John T.. Sullivan announces
himself as n candidate for Congress Mt
the next election on the Democratic
ticket, if he can got tho nomination. IIo
says hc thinks he knows how to repre-
sent Boston in Congress, and doubtless
ho is right.
Mr.. G. w. Pitchford has just received
n full stock Of fa'' goods, and tolls our
readers this week what big bargains
"C!arlie" can give III al! kinds Of dry