Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-08-22
Interesting Paragraphs.

Thecotton season has opened in
Southwestern Georgia. Hon. Pli-
mus Jones, the fret bale man. man, has
marketed fourteen bales at Albany,
Ga. Z
The constitutional convention OF
Montana has decided that Helena
shall be the capitol of that State.
The vote on woman suffrage was a
tic! b .s #
An excursion Of eighty capitalists
from Boston, representing fifty mil
lion Of capital, arc on their way to
Sheffield, Ala, with a Wow to en-
gage in the manufacture Of iron and
steel. "a
elbow much gold did you find p
is a common question among the
small boys at Mccormick after a
rain, says the Neaos. A number Of
nuggets have been picked up recent-
ly, some being worth as much as two
and three dollars. This is the old
Dorm mine.
Every line in newspaper costs
something. If it is for the benefit
of an individual it should be paid
for. If q grocer were asked to do
nate groceries to one abundantly
able to pay for them, he would re-
fuse. The proprietor of nowspa-
per must pay for the free advertis-
ing if the man who is benefited
does not. And yet it is one of the
tardiest things to be learned by
many people that newspaper has
space in its columns to rent and must
rent it to live. To give this space
away would be as fatal as for land
lord to furnish house rent free.
The following is a list of tho
grapes exhibited Mt Pendleton at the
recent show ct that place: Oconce
Grape Growers Association, Wal
halla, 81 varieties; G. w. Gignilliat,
Seneca, 13 varieties; A. Il. Thomp-
son, Seneca, 2 varieties; II. b. Buist,
Greenville, 8 varieties; Dir. r.. II.
Weldon, Greenvillc, varieties; e.
II. Shanklin, Pendlcton, varieties;
Jno. w. Cochran, Pickens county,
3 varieties; Matthew Crenshaw, Pen
dleton, 2 varieties, Samuel McC Crary,
Autun, 3 varieties; p. r. and p. IT.
Brown, 4 varieties; Elias Day, Eas-
Icy, 3 varieties; Capt. Thos. M.
White, Anderson, 4 varieties; A. e.
Patterson, Pcndleton, English
Grapes.
The Greenville Daily Neacs says
cditorially: eve congratulate the
people of Pendleton on the brilliant
success of their stock and fruit show
and the meeting of tho agricultural
societies. The result shows what a
plucky and determined people can
do when they try and work to-
gcther. Pendleton is small town,
but from all the accounts We get the
affair would have been a credit to
any place in the country"
1t must have been noticed how
Office seeking or oflicc-holding in
South Carolina adds to mans fund
Of knowledge. In such cases the
lawyer, the teacher, the financier,
the politician is promptly converted
into n scientific farmer.
One If the notable events in the
history of the Southern people will
be the unyciling Of the equestrian
statue of General Robert e. Lee at
Richmond, Va, some time in No
vember. The ceremonies promises
to be both imposing and interesting.
Every Southern State should be
represented.
The Senate of France has found
Gen. Boulangci guilty of conspiracy
and high treason to that country.
Daniel Avingcr, Of Orangeb,,rg,
was killed last Thursday while out
with his hands telling timber. One
tree was cut and lodged upon an
other, breaking off a limb which fell
to the ground and crushed Mr..
Avingcr's leg from the knee down to
his foot so badly that it had to be
amputatcd. The negro who was
with him had his leg broken also,
and knocked scnsclcss. Mr.. Avin-