Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-01-30
Local and Special

1'he arst ;oinquiils OF Siio season
bloomed last week.
3 Miss G. rie Crenshaw is visiting rola-
tives In Layonia, Ga,
Tho time for exchange on books is out
ut the School Commissioners office.
Miss Emma Stribling, of Seneca, is
visiting the family of Judge J. j. Norton
this week.
Peter Grogg, a colored blacksmith,
died and was buriod near Salem on the
Goth instant.
Ex-senator Riddleberger, of Virginia,
died at Winchester in that State, on the
oath instant
Tho Grady monument fund of Atlanta
has run up to nearly $4,000. Tammany
Hall, of New York contributed $500.
This is election year, and already it is
considered suspicious when you SEQ somo
cultiyating the art of Misunderstanding.
Col. Il. w. MoMaster, of Columbia, tho
Senator from Richland, replies to the adj
dross of Col. Shell. 1t is worry weak
production.
TIE negroes are leaving North Caro-
lima for tho West, over tho Air Limo rail
road, by tho thousand. Moro than 10000
have passed through Atlanta this season.
The internal revenue officers destroyed
an illicit distillery on Chattuga River, on
tho Nth instant, having on hand about
800 gallons of beer
Natural gas caused . fcarfal explosion
In the house of VIM. James, in Colum-
bus, Ohio, on tho 24th instant. Five pcr-
sons wcro killed and sixty injured.
Thorc are twonty-seven widows Of sol
diers of tho Revolutionary War on tho
pension rolls, despite the fact that the
war closed 100 years ago.
Mcssrs. Gregg e 'rimmons, of Jeffrcy's
Creek, s. O., sold thoir Allen long staple
cotton, ginned on PratPs double rollcr
cotton gin, for 104 and II cents pcr pound.
The Bennottsvillc alliance says: Last
Sunday night Judge j. II. Hudson was
1 baptized and received into full mombcr-
ship in the Baptist church in this place.
There was a collision between two
freight trains on tho Columbia and
Greonvillo Railroad, near Honca Path, on
tho oath instant. Bon. Burkct, colorcd
train hand, was killed.
The following officers wore elected on
the 23d instant for the town of Fair Play
to serve for ono year: Intcndant--D. V.
Wright. Wardens--R. II. Marct, L. NJ.
Davis, b. M. England and w. j. IIix.
Miss Nellie bly, has made the trip
"around tho world" in u days, hours
and II minutes. She travelled over 23, 900
miles and arrived in New York on the
20th instant, tho point from which she
started.
James King, Sam Rosamond and Aus.
Garritt have bcon up before Commissioner
Mcrrick, on charge of violation of the
internal revenue law. King and Garritt
have been sent up to Grccnvillc for trial,
and Rosamond has been discharged.
Col. Thad, D. Bryson, of Swain county,
N. O., is dead. lie was useful man,
and represented tho mountain region of
North Carolina in tho Legislature for
many years. He was sixty-onc years of
age.
A telegram from Washington states
that all tho Representatives in Congress
from South Carolina arc opposed to Mr..
Buffers bill for the deportation of tho
negro. Let tho agitation cease, and lot
everybody 90 to work and mako tho best
of tho situation.
An illicit distillcry, between Bachcl-
or's Retreat and Shcldon's mill, was cap
tured by the informal revenue officers,
on last Friday morning. 600 or TOO gal
Ions of becr were destroyed. A ''run'
of whskey had been made there. Will
Entreken and Bill Blrditt arc believed
to be the owners of the Illicit goods
They made their escape.
There are moro than eighty National
cemeteries in America containing in all
three hundred and fifteen thousand five
hundred and fifty-fvo graves. OF these
ono hundred and thirty-three thousand
one hundred and forty-six arc the graves
of unknown soldiers. The remains of the
poor Confcderatcs arc bleaching every
battlefield in the country, unmarked and
unknown.
The Atlanta Constitution says the South
Carolinians, residents in Atlanta, arc got
ting ready to form q permanent organi-
cation, as have the Virginians and Ten
nesseeans already. There arc many poo
plo of wealth and prominence in the city
who claim tho Palmetto State as their
birthplace, and when organized the
South Carolinians will form strong in
stitution made up of some of the best
people Of Atlanta.
Tho Atlanta Constitution says that the
--latest now road mapped out by Tcnnes-
SEQ boomers is an airline from Kansas
City to Port Royal, s. c., crossing tho
Mississippi river at Cairo, ILL.,, running
through Tennessee, crossing the East
Tennessee Railroad at or near Cleveland,
Tcnn., up the IIiwassce river to Rabun
Gap, and on to Port Royal. Itisa "hum-
NOR" in breadth and scope and they say
in Tennessee that there arc millions be-
hind it," Is this the "Cumbcrland Valley