Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-03-27

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Roy. D. Il. Fogartie will preach in tho
-srcsoy terian church next Sunday morn
ing ut eleven O'clock.
Sixty-cight regular passenger trains
now arrive and depart daily from At
lanta.
Master Walter Pitchford, of Atlanta.
Ga, is visiting his sister and brother in
Walhalla.
Bormott Freeman, highly respectable
eitlzen of Pickons, died suddenly, in
Gresnyillo, recently of disease of tho
heart.
Miss Florence Thompson returned last
Saturday from Augusta, Ca, and Barn
VOL, 5. c., whcro she spent several weeks
visiting relatives and friends.
The House of Representatives has
passed the pension appropriation bill,
amounting to something moro than $685.
100000.
There will DO preaching in tho Episco-
pal church next Sunday night at cight
o'clock, and Monday afternoon at four
O'Clock, by Rov. II. f. Gatlsen.
Married, Oh Sunday, tho 23d instant, at
Gat,s, by Lemucl G. Reid, Notaty Public,
Mr.. VIM. j. Perry to Miss Mary II. Fades,
all of Pickons.
w. w. Russell has been confirmed by
tho Senate rs postmaster at Anderson,
receiving the affirmative voto of every
Republican Senator in that body.
Five hundred and three bales Of cotton
on five hundre acres! That is tho kind
Of farming Which Colonel Tom Williams,
of Wetumka, Alabama, did last year.
The Griffin (Gcorgia) Cal nomnatcs
Bill Arp for Governor of that State on
the white mans ticket. If VIC lived in
Georgia wo would second the nomna-
tion.
On last Saturday at tho Burnt lanyard
quito severe accident happened to Mr.
Joc Berry IIunnicutt, whose horse fell
with him, breaking his leg just above
the ankle.
Mr.. Henry Thompson is visiting the
family of his father. Mr.. j. w. +. Thomp
son. "Smoke" is now an efficient engi
ncer Oh the Blackville, Aston and New
berry Railroad.
Mrs. S. NJ. VanWyck left Walhalla or
Monday morning for Augusta, Ga, tc
attend the Holiness Associations Of North
and South Georgia and South Carolina
which assemble in that city this week
Bismarck tho great Chancellor ot
United Germany, has resigned his posi-
tion under tho young German Emperor
Bismarck retircs, in his old ago, loaded
with titles and honors.
There will be preaching at RichlanG
Presbyterian church on next Saturday
and Sunday at II A. NJ, by Rev. J. p
Marion. The sacrament of tho Lords
Supper will be administered on Snnda,
morning after preaching.
Col. "Chris." Subcr, late of Ncwberry
gives by will $4,000 to Ncwbcrry College
and $1,000 to the Lutheran church OF
that place. This is fine monument
erected by unconscious hands to tho Nom
ory of tho lamcntcd Subcr.
The National Alliance was in session,
in Atlanta, three days last week Prcsi
don't Polk says tho Alliances is unit and
harmonious; that there will be plenty OF
cotton bagging this year, and that in q
few years bales of cotton will be greatly
reduced in size.
The contract to rebuild the Burnt
lanyard public bridge was lot last Satur
day by the County Commissioners to MI
John w. Cannon for $500, and the con
black locus timber to build the pillars
was let to Mr.. Nit Nicholson, Jr., fo,
$1,000.
The County Commissioners of Pickcns
and Oconcc have determined to build &
line bridge over Kcowcc River about five
or six miles above Ravcncps bridge. The
contract will be lot in a month or two
of which due notice will be given through
the press.
Mr.. N. L. FAINT has been restored to tho
United States mail service, and has re
ceived his commission. He will take his
first service on tho run between vii
mington, N. c., and Jacksonville, Fla
Mr.. FAINT is one of tho best postal officers
in the service.
Mr.. Simpson Moscley, an old and
respected citizen of this county, agc(
about seventy years, died on Thursday
goth instant. Mr.. Mosclcy was a consis
tent member of tho Methodist church a
Double Springs, at which place his body
was inferred on Friday.
Capt. Abel Robins, of milestone, OF
last Saturday paid for tho forty-iirst yea,
of his continuous subscription to the
COURIER. IIo began with the first num-
Der when tho paper was published at Ole
Pickcns In 1910, and has taken IL regu
larly evcr since. May he live many years
to come, and may his tribe increase.
The following town officers were cleo, |,
cd in Seneca on last Monday, to serve fol
tho ensuing year: Intendant--A. w.
Thompson; Wardens-R. M. Tribble, A.
w. Adams, Joo w. Byrd, and John
Welch. The gontlomen elected will make
good and faithful officers and Seneca will
continnc to GROW and nrOsncr rudcr tb nj,