Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-01-09
Local and Spe cial. !.

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.s Droxes of ,anles ard hogs 5p,ssss.
Ii through town on Saturday last.
The subscription to the Grady inonu-
) 3 mont fund has reached s15, ,052. 95 to date.
Damascus, the Bible city, is the Oldest
Inhabited town in the world.
There was /. large attendance hcre on
& salcsday. Land bsought fair prices.
Rev. u. A. Sigh, of Newberry, has
beon nominated rs q candidate for Con-
/ grcss.
The Act of the Legislature reducing
8 tho ratio of interest, does not 90 into of
feet until the first day of March, 1890.
Con. @. j. Stolbrand, the now Superin-
tendcnt of Public Buildings In Charles
ton, has entered on his duties.
Notice changes of advertisements in
the papor this week. Attention is also
directed to now "ads"
The many friends of Mr. j. Add Perry
will bc pleased to learn that his health
Is mich impsoved.-
Mr.. Leo II. Hooper, formerly of our
Carolina, from consumption.
Mr.. John Burnsidcs, of Clemontyillc,
Indiana, arrived IN Walhalla on Tuesday
to visit his brother, w. w. Burnsides.
The colorcd people of the State have
just brought their State Fair, at Column
bia, to a successful close.
Messrs. Thomas Keith and Robert Leo
have entered tho Wofford College Fitting
Schcc! ut Si,.Tts,iibuTg.
Mr.. Edward Suttlcs left for Atlanta, Ga,
on Tuesday to enter Moore's Business
College.
Hon. d. Biemann has been suffering
from vertigo for somc time. He is i'm
proving now.
Capt j. p. NTicklcr, who recently re-
moved to Greenwood, returned to Wal
halla OH 'uosday evening to spend few
days
Married, OH Sunday tho 10th day of
December, 1880, by Rev. David Murphy,
MI. Richard Morgan to Miss Emalne
Murphy. All of Oconcc.
Teachers will please remember the
teachers meeting on Saturday, tho 18th
instant, at Wagcncr Academy. The sub
jcct is "NGistakcs in Teaching"
Katie WrghS, a colorcd patient in the
Asylum, from Oconcc, at Columbia, killed
Dclina Shaw, another patient from Marl-
boro, recently.
During tho Christmas holidays there
were large number of visitors to Wal
halla and community. enjoying the hos
pitality of our people.
Married, at tho residence of Rev. w.
w. Abbott, by Rev. w. w. Abbott, Mr..
j. N. Sears to Miss l.. Moore, both of
Oconco.
The Richmond & Danvillc railroad is
putting up iron bridges over tho streams
eros ing it's road. The bridge over
Seneca River will he put up very soon.
Married, ut tho residence of Mr.. VIM.
Miller OH the 25th December, 1880, Mr.
Jessie Sanders to Miss Lula Miller, Rcv.
j. NJ. Sanders officiating.
Married. OH Sunday, December 90, 1889,
at the residence Of tho bride, Ashley
Powell to Martha Dean, both of Oconeo,
by G. W. Pratt, Notary Public.
The case Of Miss Lee against Col. r.
w. Simpson, in the Supreme Court of
tho United States, for tho possession of
Fort Hill, will be heard Oh appeal in
Washington, in February next.
Tho County Alliance was in session in
IN
Friday last. Tho attendance of mem
bcrs was large, and tho best of feeling
prevailed.
The Legislature at its last session re-
pcalcd tho prohibition law voted by the
people of Abbcvillc. The Senator, Con.
lIemphill, said that prohibition in Able
willie did not prohibit.
The Woman's Missionary Society of
tho Wall,alla Methodist Church will meet
at tho church on Friday, 10th instant, at
2.30 p. M. Members arc requested to
bear in mind tho change Of time.
Judge Norton loft on Wednesday morn
ing for Columbia where he has been
summoned to sit on tho hearing of cor
tain cases in the Supreme Court in place
of Chief Justice Simpson.
Our Carrier Boy, James Roberts, OK
tends his thanks to those who so liberally
awarded him Christmas morning, for his
labors of the past year, and wishes all
and every one prosperous New Year.
Mr.. Henry ID. Rowland died at his
house, in Central Pickcns County, on
Monday of last week, aged sixty years
He was hurled at Pcndcton Mr.. Row
land made fine soldier, and was a clever
man.
Mrs. Eliza Ann Sloan, wife of Col
John II. Sloan, died in Columbia recently
in the 77th year of her age. She was a
daughter of the late T.. B. Benson, ESQ,
of Pendlcton, and died as she had lived,
q Christian.
The IIcssian fly has appeared in swarms
in Richland county in the oats and wheat
fields, and the farmers arc scared Hog
killing is delayed by the continued warm
weather, much to tho discomfort of the