Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-09-25
Local and Special.


Tie post onaceat Colneross has been discon.
tinNcdi 3s8l
Hon. John5D. Cappleman, Of Charles
ton, IS spending q few Lays in Walhalla.
Mr.. James II. Robins arrived in WAL.
hallaI last week with three car-loads Of
horses from Montana.
Married, September nth, near Towns
yilles.3B Mr.. ]. ~. Gaines tna Miss Kitt:e
Parker.
C%ottonis opening worry fast. Tho crop
is fino. Market price Is now about 81
cents for good middling.
Mr.. Breyard F%ronoborger has gone to
Asheyillc, N. C, whore he is employed
as u clerk,
Rov. D.A. Todd will preach at Rich
) land Presbyterian ohurclpnoxt Saturday
and Sunday.
Mr.. James Bryce, tho e~fiioiont mail
agent en- route from Wilmington, \. O.,
to Jacksonville, Fla, Is ut homo for o
!few days.
Tho English government has COM
moncod the arrest of tho prominent Irish
leaders. Tho motive for such action has
not transpired. 3%.aE5.
Judge Norton is holding court this
week in Piokcns. Court will be opened
by Judge Norton at Walhalla on tho first
Monday in October. .
Tho weather is warm. Much of the
time it is cloudy. Occasionally rain falls.
Lato fodder has been greatly injured.
Cotton is rotting more or less.
What a blessed world this would DO ii
every man i'll 1t followed tho divine in
junction of doing unto others as lie
would nave them do unto him.
We have received q sample copy of
Bolford's Magazine, published monthly,
by Bolford Co., Now York, for $3.50, por
Annum. 1t Is 4 first class literary work.
Mr.. John Adams loft last week for At
lanta, Ga, whore no has secured q lu-
crativc position in u largo mercantile es-
Establishments.
Superintendent of Census Porter has
appointed Earnest r. Cochran as %pcc;a,
agent to collect statistics of manufac-
lures at Grecnvilie, Piedmont and Pclzcr.
Roy. Geo. l.. Cook, evangelist of the
Prcsbytcry of South Carolina, will preach
at Old Pickons church on the Sd Sunday
in October noXt, and also on the day bo-
,foro at II A. N.
Goa, India is in a ''pcck of trouble"
They have elections over there, and OH a
recent occasion ono of these events ended
i'll a riot with a loss of s]cvontcen killed
and many wounded.
Rev. j. G. Brodfuchrcr, ID. d., once
tho popular pastor of tho Walhalla
Lutheran church, has recently como from
Dexter, Mo-, to Chicago, Ill. His friends
here would be pleased to hcar.from him
through tho prints.
Tho Sans Souci Driving Park Associa-
tion, of Greonvillo, is making extensive
preparations for tho races Oh October Sth,
9th and 10th. Over sov~onty-tivo horses
havo already boon entered for tho races,
and $4,000 will be given away in prizes.
. NIL. ~. d. IOllpNSuy VI CilttIatllooSd,
Tenn, is visiting his father, Mr.. J. w. f.
Thompson and family. lie has spent
two or three years in this on%tcrprising
city rs telegraph operator on tho Nash
villc, Chattanooga and ST. Louis Railroad.
Miss Eugcnia Moss left Monday morn
ing for Columbia to enter tho Winthrop
Training School. She received tho chol-
arship to which Oconcc is entitled, and
will devote a year to porfccting herself
for tho important duties of tho school
room.
Tho Radicals in South Carolina arc
contrasting with unusual spirit and zeal
every Congressional District in tho State.
They havo three negro candidates in the
Charleston District, and Brayton, white,
and Miller, colorcd, in tho It'll Oh 'blaok
District"
Two fatal railroad accidents havo oc-
cured. One at Paterson, n. j., on Sat
urday last, where three persons were
killed. The other in tho city of Chicago
on Sunday, where Jour persons were
killed. Quite q number wore wounded
at both places.
Tho contest in the Radical State Con-
vontion, hold in Columbia, was between
Brayton and Webster as leaders Of tho
party in tho State. Webster is an Office
holder and a carpet-baggo:, nd Brayton
represents tho onicc-scckcrs and tho
native white Radicals.
On Tuesday night, September 10th,
Deputy Marshal RS. Rutlcdgo captured
q still Oh Chattuga River, just this sido
Of tho Georgia line. In it ho found a
still worm that had been stolen from q
government distillory of Mr.. IL. ID. A.
Bicmann over n year ago. &c.
Col. John r. Cochran has recently been
appointed the Republican commissioner
from this State to tho Worlds Fair. Col.
Cochran il one of tho most acceptable
Republicans that We have, and will, no
doubt, perform tho duties Of his Office
to tho best interests OF his State.
Hunters who arc eager to get into the
folds and woods with thor guns and
dogs will havo to be patient for u whilo
1nnrnr 40 tbp fimo whom thcy con low.