Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-10-24
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5 an assistant in Wagener Academy.
Miss May Keith left I last week for
Augusta Ga, here she Is Waiting rela-
/ tiyes and fris1d s.
ss, DIT u. B. Johnson was extremely ill
last Saturday night, but it is thought that
s2he is now much bettor. q &s,.s!
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Grimshawe, Jr.,
Of Wbiteside Cove, N. G., are visiting
the family Of Gen. G. A. Washburn.
Miss Ella Dendy, Of Richland, is visit
ing her uncle, Major s. p. Dondy, and
family. u En- a a { iis5 q s,5 5ss ii
DR.. j. l.. Miller, Of Due West, diod at
his home in. that town on Thursday, nth
instant. &#
Messrs. j. T. s. Hopkins and w. p.
!, fLinley, of Seneca, arc IN attendance
upon the Medical College of Charleston.
South Carolina has fourteen stt,donts
4 at the Southern Baptist Theological Semi-
nary, Louisville, Ky.
Mr.. and Mrs. r, G.. Kay, of Anderson
county, were visiting thoir son, Mr.. j. II.
Kay, near Walhalla, this week.
There seems to be an epidemic of ty-
pl,"sd fever in Rabun county, Ga, and on
tho Western border Of Oconce county.
In defiance of all tho old-fashioned
signs, the weather during tho week hes
been absurdly flno.
Attention is called to the advertisement
OF MIR. V. l.. Norman, offering for ront
his nice little residence, "The Ccdars.'
Messrs. Striblng & Horndon, Attor-
neys, have money to loan. SEQ advcr-
tisement
Pay your dues for subscription to the
COURIER to County Treasurer j. w. Hol-
leman, whom you pay your taxes, rs he
goes the rounds of the county.
NIr. VIM. Oppurmonn loft at our office
this week lot of delicious October
peaches. He informs us that no has
peaches from juno until November.
There has been a sharp rise in silk OH
account of tho lirited production this
year. Prices have already run up ten to
tifteon per cent on the raw article.
Subscribe for the old reliable KEowIsls
COURIER whom you pay your taxes.
County Treasurer Hollcman will receive
subscriptions.
Married, October 9th, 1880, by j. d.
Land, Trial Justice, at tho brides mo-
theirs, Mr.. F. III. Cathey, of jackson
county, N. G., to Miss Matte E. McDado,
Of Oconec.
Mrs. Hattie Kay committed suicide at
Bolton, s. c., on tho 18th instant, by
drowning herself in a fish pond near
town. Tho cause is thought to have
been an over-taxcd brain in the struggle
to support and educate her child ION.
Mr.. William. Wclch, who lives near
Tunnel Hill, accidentally fell ard broke
his right leg below tho knce lasi Satur-
day. Dr.. Bramlett was summoned to at
tend him, and at last account Mr.. w. was
getting along very we'll.
Mr.. Il. S. Crayton, of Pcndloton, died
last Saturday, 10Th instant. Ho cut his
hand sometime ago, and although tho in
3ury was considered trining at tho tmo,
it developed into crysipolas, which caused
his death.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Norman loft last
Friday morning for Georgetown, S. G.,
after spending thrco weeks most pleas
antly in Walhalla on their honeymoon
They carry with them the best wishes of
many friends for their every success and
happiness.
DR.. D. B. Darby went to Spartanburg
last Thursday and carried his son James
to enter tho Wofford Fitting School.
Wofford has opened with the brightest
of prospects this year, there boing near
two hundred students in tho collegiate
and preparatory departments.
Henry Murphy and Bud Barr, both
colorcd, had difficulty atWcblcy Chapel,
negro church, five miles from Easlcy,
In Anderson county, on tho goth instant,
which was Sunday, about a watch chain.
Murphy hit Barr on the head with rock
and killed him. Murphy made his escape
on tho train from Easlcy.
1t is greatly to be desired that tho SOW
ing Of largo crops of oats and wheat
will not be too much delayed this fall.
If this is neglected tho farmers will bo
tho losers. They arc OH tho highway to
prosperity and nothing should bo al
lowed to impede their progress towards
an absolute independence.
E.. a. Burke, ex-Trcas,,rer of the State
Of Louisiana, who is now in London, is
wanted on Il charge of dcfrauding the
State IN various bond transactions. He
is said to be $3,OOO,O0O short. rho Stats
Treasurers of Tennessee, Polk, and Ala
bama, Vincent and Kcntucky, Graham,
were caoii several hundred thousand dol
lars short i'll their official accounts. And
strange to say they arc all Democrats.
The Cotton Plant, published at Green
vile, S. c., by Mcssrs. IIoyt and Keys,
has been issued as somi-monthly herc-
toforc.~ Beginning OH tho first of No
yember tho Cotton Plant will bc printed
evory week ut $1.25 a year; in clubs of
ten and upwards, 81. 1t is live agri-
cultural journal and worth greatly more
than tho subscription price.
Rcv. II. f.. Gadsden, pastor of the
Episcopal church, will begin series of
meetings in tho new Episcopal church,