Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-05-22

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Black straw hats and tan colorcd shocs
are all tho go this season.
"a Every Democrat in tho county should
look up his registration certificate.
There is said to bo moro money in tho
South now for Investment than eyor be-
forc since the war.
Mr.. James T.. Wilson has bought tho
house and half aero lot of Capt. G. +.
Secba, on Main street, for $3.50.
Noat, we'll kept streets, pretty resi-
donces and handsome business houses
mako q good advertisement for any town.
Hon. John G. Carlisle has been elected
United States Senator from kentucky to
succeed Mr. Book.
Mr.. Il. l.. II. McCroskoy, of Tennessee,
was in Walhalla last week on business of
Importance.
There is n constant and increasing de-
mand for residences in Walhala. Thorc
is not an empty dwelling house in town.
Wo arc indebted to Gen. B. d. Fry for
an invitation to the ceremony of unveil-
ing the monument erected to Gcn. Robert
e. Leo in Richmond, Va, next Thursday.
Mr.. ii. ID. A. Bicmann has commenced
tho erection of another fine residence,
with eight rooms, on Faculty Hill. 1t is
now framed and raised.
Died, Oh Wednesday, 1lth instant, Mrs.
III. J.Tribblc, of Townville, aged thirty
five years. She leaves her husband and
fiNaGhildrcn to mourn her death.
MS$C. G. Strong and children left
Tuesday morning for Maycsville, Sumter
County, to visit hcr sister, Mrs. j. w.
Cooper, and family.
Tho Pickcns Sentinel says the only way
to work reform in the State is to begin
i'll tho counties which have been sending
tho wrong mon to tho Legislature.
Sam Jones received $4,000 for tho eight
days he was in Charlotte. S275 day
these hard times will keep Mr. Jones
from starving at least.
EX-Gnitcd States Senator Charles W.
Jones, of Florida, has been adiudged in
sane and committed to tho insane asylum
in Michigan.
Bicmann's hotel is being greatly i'm
proved i'll appearance by tho brush in the
hands of Mr. Richard Balstcr, applying a
new coat of paint.
An effort is being made to hold Con-
grcssional Convention from this District
ut Abbcville, June 6. This date is too
early. 1t should be held at least n month
latcr
Out of li,770 murdcrcrs who took hui
man life i'll the six years from 1884 to
1890, only 55S paid the penalty of their
crimes by yielding their own lives to tho
law.
Mr.. Henry Ticticn has recently given
his dwelling house a fresh coat Of paint
and added Il new fence to his front yard
These improvements help worry much
the looks of things
Rev. Pinckncy Moore, of tho Long
Creek settlement, in this county, died on
last Sunday, the 18th instant, aged seventy
years. The immediate cause of his death
was Il tumor of the bowels.
Mr.. j. j. Haley, of Oakway, has been
appointed by Gov. Richardson Notary
Public, has received his official seal and
is s.prcparcd to transact any business per-
tanning to the duties of his office.
Parties who desire changes in the pro-
posed new School Districts will have an
opportunity extended to them to present
their claims at the meeting of the Board
OF Examiners for Oconcc County, notice
of which meeting will be given through
the KEOwEE COURIER.
Capt. }. II. Petty is now our West
minister correspondent, and gives this
week some interesting items from our
cnterprisiMg ncghbor. Let all who are
interested in the growth of their town
furnish Captain Petty with the nc,cs for
publication in the old reliable KEowEE
COURIER.
Summer visitors will soon begin their
annual excursion from the low lands to
the mountains. The railroad schedules
arc conveniently arranged for reaching
all the favoritc summer resorts in the
Piedmont belt. Tickets are now on sale
good to return until October lst. Tho
fare from Charleston to Walhalla is
r &l3G0.
Pierce G. Taylor and f.. c. Caughman,
charged with the lyncling of Willie
l.caphart, were before Judge Kcrsl,aw at
Camden last Saturday on an application
for bail. Caughman was refused and
Taylor admitted to bail in the sum of
$1,000 w. J. Miller, the champion ani-
davit maker, was given bail in the sum
of 1000.
Mcssrs. Phillips e Lee have about com
plctcd their contract of putting up the
posts and signboards at all the forks and
cross roads Of the county. They say that
one hundred and sixty-scvcn posts wifi
fill the bill, and something over three
hundred signboards. They have only
twenty more posts to put up. They took
the contract at cighty-ivc cents per post
and say they have made good average
wages for their work.
Mr.. II. a. Condo and wife, of st. Louis,
Mo-, havo decided to spend the summer
in Walhala. They have rented tho Cap