Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-05-01


Blackberrics are in bloom. We arc safe.
1t is not long now before the small boy
will bc in tho swim.
We are going to have dry May, if the
weather profits are correct.
We regret to learn that Mrs. David
Dickson is quite i'll.
The Rev. Sam Jones is in Charlotte, N.
G., this week trying to down the dcvil.
Mrs. j. NJ. 1Iutchison and child arc
spending week with friends in Bolton.
This being an election year, latch
strings arc beginning to hang on the out
sidc.
Remember this is campaign year and
the demand for watermolons will be good.
Remember the big pic mic at Salem on
noxt Saturday. Let everybody attend
Capital has been raised to build a can
ming factory at Pcndleton.
Miss Carry Perry left on Tuesday to
spcnd a month at Ashcvillc, N. c., and
other points.
Mrs. E. A. IIeaddon, of Palmetto, Ga,
n relative of Mr. j. w. IIolloman and
family, is visiting them.
The coming campaign should be con-
Quoted in the most aNAiablo spirit posi-
bic. There is no occasion for any abuse.
Miss COrric VanDivier returned home
last week, after teaching successful
school in Orangcburg County.
Mr.. Lawrence II. VanDivicr, of Atlanta,
Ga. spent Sunday with the family of his
father in Walhalla.
Mr.. Mant McClair, who has been en-
ploycd on the East Tennessee Railroad,
with headquarters at Atlanta Ga, is at
home for some time.
Married, April 18Th, 1890, Mr.. ID. p.
Beardcn and Miss Eliza Harden, both of
Oconco County, Rcy. j. H. Stone ofliciat-
ing.
A Western editor remarks that news
paper and family arc the easiest things
in tho world to start. Bringing them up
is where the rub comes
Remember that wc are all Democrats.
There is no scnsc and much foolishness
in our abusing each other or becoming
violent partsans on one side or tho other.
Samuel Joffrics, one of the wcalthicst
and most prominent men in Union county,
was arrested last week for the murder of
DR.. White, twcnty-onc years ago.
Tho Republican platform of 1888
pledged tho country to q reduction of
lcttcr postage to one cent an ounce. 1t
has not yet been done.
Mcssrs. Dibblc, Cothran and Perry
decline to be candidates again. Has any
thing similar ever happcncd'in tho his
tory of tho State?
Tho first legal execution by electricity
will be that of Wm. Kcmmlcr at Auburn,
Now York, this week. The entire num-
ber Of persons allowed by law to witness
tho execution is twcnty-scvcn.
Tho material train, under charge of
Mr.. Ben. Gaillard, is now engaged in
hauling dirt and making the track for the
PURPOSE VI puIhiS uo"n Ilic bllfnlaDlc,
near tho water tank.
There arc twenty cotton seed oil mills
in the State, with an aggregate capacity
of $50 tons pcr day. These mills arc pay
ing their owners and the people of the
counties in which they arc located, hand
sOmcly.
Mr.. Henry Fricks, a citizen of this
county, aged nincty-omc years, walked
ono day last :, ook tlirty-iivo miles lie
had been OH a visit to relative in North
Carolina, and made this remarkable
journey on his return trip homo.
Col. /. G. McKissick, of Union, will be
candidate for Congress in Col. w. III.
Ferry's place. Col. McKissick is an ablo
man and q true Democrat, and in 1870
led forlorn hope in the district, but
was counted out.
Tho State Medical Association mot in
annual session at Laurcns last Wcdncs-
day and Thursday. It was q pleasant
and profitable session Among tho new
mombors elected we noto the name of
DIR. Joseph s. Stribling, of Seneca, ono
OF oconcc's rising young physicians.