Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-11-06

"a grippe Is prevalent is Cincinnati.

ysiie, Iennys last fhursday.
The Legislature OF Georgis convened
ON Wednesday, 9th instant.
This Is TIN, peoples year, and the peo-
pie are Democratic.
Miss Laura Crisp Is visiting her brother
in Jacksonyple, Fla.
4Gssiie Master Cd Yoofttt ..sSs several yaiuapie
tracts Of land for saleday in December.
5 5S Eleetlcas %ere held in thirty-nine
States on Tuesday. ma
Mr. D.A. G. Quiz, Of tho Charleston
World, wa in Walhalla on the I'd in
slant.
Mrs.. E.G. Roberts and her daughter,
Miss Margie, of Chattanooga, are visit
ing the family Of Mr.. VIM. Perry.
Miss sallie Mulnseo,n left Tuesday morn
ing for Columbia to visit her sister and
other relatives. IS
This years. ~cotton-crop is the largest
s as.srr rs|ht!a tA,,s United SSttates, being
estimated at !, 760,OOO bales.
Mr.. r. r. Garner had tho misfortune to
lose Q fine horse on Monday last. He
aysthis Is the seventh horse he has lost
since the war.
w. j.. Thomas, the eolored teacher Of
Z Seneca, has accepted the pr noipalship of
high school in Alabama, and will leave
In a few days for his work.
Mr.. Clarence Sigh is expiess messon-
ger oil the route from Walhalla to Groom
Vile. We wish u young friend much
success.
%2 Capt. J. E, Lawson, conductor on the
Blue Ridge freight train, has. moved to
Walhalla for the winter. His family oc-
oupy the latham house.
Sec the fresh advertisement of Wal
:, halla's wide-awako merchant, Otto III.
Schumacher, who has on hand one of his
finest stocks of goods for the fall and
winter season. Read and give him q
call. H.,
Two ships collided on. Thursday night,
October 80, six miles East of Barnegat.
The steamer Viacaya; hound from New
York to Havana, ran into q four-masted
coal-laden schooner, and both vessels
sank within five minutes. Nearly q hun
dred persons were drowned.
Two trains were put on the Air Line
Railroad on Sunday last between Green
vile and Danvillo. This arrangement
gives tho people between these points
three trains each way daily. The bal
anco of the people on tho balance of tho
Air Line road must be content with two
trains. And 60 we go.
Rachel Wilson, of Walhalla, and Carrie
McAeth, Of Seneca, stood crcditablo
examinations before tho Board of the
coiored Baptist Sunday School Conven-
ton. which met at Flat Rock church,
and they will leave soon for Spollman
Seminary, n school for girls, in Atlanta,
Ga. .. >
The revised schedule of the Richmond
and Danville, Atlanta and Charlotte Air
Line Division, which went into effect
November 2, Is published this week.
This schedule Is the fullest ever pub
lished, giving tho arrival and departure
of the passenger trains at every station,
however small. -.
The following arc the unclaimed let
tors remaining in tho Walhalla post Office
for the month of October: Miss II. Nj.
Aiken, Mrs. Caroline Boozor, Samuel
Boggs, Mr.. Croft, Robert Gilmer, w. W..
King, Miss Sara Love, Miss S. a. Morris,
e. G. Peck, w. p. Pullen, Mrs. Sara Read,
j. G. Smith, (2), John Sorry, Luke Will
son. -'
1t is so much easier to criticise the
way in which some ono else is discharg-
ing u certain task than it is to do it bot
tor ourselvcsl If wo would only be just
enough TO put ourselves into tho places
of our fellow-toilors, and to take into
account the disabilities under which
thoy labor, VIC should not DO long in lay
ing aside our habit of unkind and con-
serious comment.
Mr.. Samuel j. Pryor, O. graduate of the
Cedar Springs Institute for the blind
and the deaf and dumb, was In Walhalla
on Tuesday. He has spent six years in
this institution, and graduated last Juno,
having become proficient in both tho
educational and industrial departments
for the blind. He will teach music in
tho Richland Academy, beginning with
tho opening of the session this fall.
An ugly cutting ARRAY occurred at
'Timmonsville on Thursday, October 30.
That was tho day appointed for the Re-
publican campaign meeting, and during
tho speaking Gurley Jackson, a. trining
white man, cnt E. IL! Deas, Republican
candidate for Congress, and Col. II. l..
Morris, a most highly respected citizen
of Timmonsville, who interferrcd rs
peace maker. "
Mr.. r. b. Norris, agent, has received
instructions from tho railroad authorities
to sell round trip tickets from Walhalla
to the State Fair next week ut 81. 10,
which also includes admission to tho fair.
This rate is less than ono fare and will DO
strong inducement to attract visitors to
the capital city. Tickets will be on sale
from the 10th to tho 18th, and will DO
good to return until and inclusive of the
18th.
The ladies of tho par.onouo All