Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-07-31

as q lsay. u. ~. Taols, wifo and youngest
child arc at Hartweil, Ga, on u visit Of
several weeks. S. 3
& Messrs. Biemann and Pratt hayo ship
ped from Walhalla since tho first of
March, 103 cars of iumbers averaging
from 900 to 8, 600 feet per car.
Tom wv olfoll< will hang, The Supreme
Court Of Georgia handed down its deci-
sionilast Monday scaling the fate of the
man who murdered nine of his relatives
sii SIS many minutes. ~.
q The lawn party of the Ladies' Mis-.
sionary Society of the Lutheran Church
tlfat was to be had on Thursday, tho 31st
instant, & is postponed until Tuesday,
August the 9th. An attractive program
mo is arranged for that evening, with
plontyof refreshments. A splendid limo
Is promised to all. 81
Roy. j. M. Carlisle preached in the
Walhalla NJ cthodist church last Sunday
to IN attentive congregation. He based
his sermon on tho parable of the ton
virgins, Matthew 25, .1-13. The able
divine, in most impressive manner. dis
coursed on the lessons of tho parable to
the edification of all.
Charles McKorn, of tho Oakway com
munity. was mp before United States
Commissioner, e. +. Cochran, Esq, on
Tuesday ut Walhalla, on tho charge of
Al 1ots s,,tn
falling whiskoy, andsa primo .tucic case
being made out, tho defendant was sent
up to tho United States Court at Green
villo for trial. Deputy u. S. Marshal II.
s. Rutlcdgo made the arrest of tho pri-
soner. 4g-- 49, y IS
Sheriff Moss returned from Irondalc,
Ala, last Saturday, bringing with him
Anderson Wright and Sloan Perry, tho
negroes who broke Jail here last January
and made their escape. Sloan Porry has
certainly found the way of tie trans
gressor to bo hard. He received! blow
OH tho head from another negro about
three weeks ago, fracturing the skull,
which came near killing him. For scvc-
raj days he could not speak, and now he
has but little use of himself.
Rev. j. e. Bcrloy, NJ. d., of tho Luthc-
ran church, died at Sclwood, Lexington
! county, o: Saturday, july 10, from
typhoid fovcr. IIc was in his thirty first
year and ono of the most promising
young ministers in tho Lutheran church.
At tho time of his death he was Secretary
of tho South Carolina Synod He was
woll known in Walhalla, having attended
| Newborry College here before it's return
to Nowbcrry. IIc was wcll known
throughout the State and had host of
friends.
The preliminary examination in case of
tho United States VS.. j. j.. Haley, for
perjury, was held at Walhalla, before
Commissioner Morxieo1s,1l xos, last lsst Friday. Tho
evidence failingIto make ont a primct
Iac'c case iC,<was dismissed. 1t was
charged tha@Halcy had sworn falsely in
the unltm States Court at Grccnville in
august, 1880, on trial of tho case of Unit
1ed States against NJ, II. Bryce. Tho dis
missal of tho case against ITaloy on the
showing made by the Government is II
complete yindication of the accused.
A writer in tho Grconville Nc,os, hail
ing from Oakway, in this county, COM
plains that one of tho Democratic clubs
at Oakway and Richland Club No. 2, did
not receive recognition ut tho hands of
tho late County convention held at Wal
halla. Calls were made for club rolls by
Mr.. Striblimg, County Chairman, when
ho organized the convention. No ono
presented the claims of tho club at Oak
| way to tho convention, and Richland
| Club No. 2 was disposed of by the con
vontion, as reference to it's proceedings
will show.
The Congressional Convention of the
Third Congressional District mot in
Bolton on tho 25th of July. All the
counties wcro represented. Out of a
total of forty-ono delegates thirty-tive
were present. Tho Convention decided
in favor of tho primary plan for nomina-
tions for Congress, and also in favor of
tho majority plan. The 22d day of Au-
gust was fixed for the first primary and
tho goth of August for tho second. The
following meetings were appointed, at
| which the candidates Tor Congress arc
expected to speak: Pickcns G. H., Au-
gust 0; Wallhalla, August u; Anderson,
August l6; Abbevillc, August IS, and at
Newbcrry, August 2l. This will mako
tho campaign short and extremely inter
esting.
The Alliance picnic ut Flat Rock muster
ground, on last Saturday, was pretty we'll
attended. At II o'clock there was an
address by Mr.. f. Il. Werner on matters
relating to- the Alliance, its objects, aims,
benefits; hc touched upon tho tariff and
the national debt; drew deadly parallel
between tho governments of tho Old
World and tho New; showed tho danger
ons tendency Of our government to cen
tralzation, and the concentration of
capital and intellectual power in tho
large cities and towns of tho nation, and
it's antagonistic opposition to the great
agricultural interests of this American
republic; he believed tho Alliance was
second in Importance only to the church;
That IL was destined and ia Workinu ont