Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-03-17
LOCAL MENTION.


c MENTION.
Cotton is al the same stand-from five
to six cents.
The peach blooms are having a hard
time in the freeze.
Mrs. S. P. DENLY is visiting relatives in
Pendleton this week.
Mrs. A. P. McClair and her daughter,
Mrs. r. a. Erwin. are on a visit to the
Gate City this week.
Hon. Judscn c. Clements, of Georgia,
has been appointed Interstate Commerce
Commissioner by President Harrison.
The South Carolina ~Presbytery will
meet at Walhalla on Thursday before
the second Sabbath Of April next at 10
o'clock a. NJ.
Col. il. Orr has accepted an invita-
ton to address the mass meeting of anti
Tillman Democrats, to be held at Laurens
or Saturday next.
The Appem-4ealaache says: Take an
opera glass and look through the large
end and you can form some idea OF the
prospects of the Third Party.
School Commissioner Macaulay says
that the school tax in oconee for 1890 is
paid as follows By the whites, S1.4oS.42:
10y the blacks, S521.0l.
The latest electrical scheme is for an
electrical railroad between st. Louis and
Chicago. One hundred miles an hour
will be made.
The report of hecomparative earnings
of the South Carolina Railway for Janu-
airy. 1891 and 1882. Shc VS.: 1891, Sl15.-
746. 40: 1892. s114,590.lo;~ crease. s3.136.-
90, or 1913 per cent.
The Democrats and the Alliancemen
of Kansas have agreed to combine against
the Republicans in the elections this
year. This arrangement will take Kansas
out of the Republican column this year.
The oconee County Medical Associa-
ton will meet in Westminster at II a. NJ.
on Thursday, March 3lSt, to elect dele
gates to the State Association and to at
tend to other important business.
Col. NJ. Donaldson, of GreenviHe,
says he will not lie a candidate for Gov
ernor or Congress, but would in all prob
ability be q candidate for State Senator
of that county.
- The Democrats in Congress are carry
ing the two issues of tariff reform and
the RECOMMENDATION Of silver side by side,
and in this they are carrying out the
known wishes of the people who sent
them there.
Hon. J. E. Tindai, Secretary Of State.
has issued 4 charter to the Mason Bank
Company. to be located at Westminster,
\ Oconee eera1ty, capital stock $3e.ooo,
Niyided into loco Shares OF so each.
Perpetrators: Robert E. Mason. Wm. +.
Isuker anG Waiter c. Mason.
The cott5n mills of South Carolina
spend a considerable sum Of moneye every
year for WOODEN shuttleS. The Carolina
persimmon and dogwood make the very
best shuties. but our people do not care
to 20 INFO small industries. and the mill
men GET their sl1attleS from the North.
The wife Of Chief Justice BIcckiey
died recently at Atlanta. For nineteen
years she had been IN invalid and unable
to walk. AShort time before her death
she recovered The powerto walk Amos
nigaculeuSlv. bet a;a1oSt a suddenly as
her new JOY came, death followed.
We learn that Mrs. E.A. Sell. of Clay
Ton. ca. has concluded 70 become a per
mcnt residento of W#lhal}a. having leased
orreuted her farms andSoe1ter property
out in CLAYTON. We are Siad 70 welcome
her as such. The painters brush Is
making hernew home Iookcozg and ele-
CANT inside.
Mrs. Lena Owen. wife oil 5. :. Owen.
died at Pelzer. :. c. or March 9. aftera
brief illness. She was daughter OF j..
a. and Martha Bell, and a native Of oco-
nee. She leaves a sweet little babe two
weeks old, her husband, faeher. brotherz
and sisters 10 nnourn heruntim depart
ure. Her body was inferred at Bethel
Presbyterian church on Thursday. 10th
instant.
7Ie ladies' Missionary Society of The
Salhaiia Methodist church had an eiec-
ion OF officers on last Sunday with the
Glowing result: President, Mrs. 5. \.
'itchford: yice-President. Mrs. is.
;aukmght: Recording Secretary, Miss
Laura Thompson: Corresponding Seere-
tary. Miss Fannie Mouzon; Treasurer
Mrs. II. T. Jaynes. The society is in a
good working condition, with 4 member
ship OF twenty or more.
On the afternoon of the nth Of March.
1892. at the residence of the brides
mother. near Bounty Land. Nh. George
Reid audZNisS jamie Fisher We're united
in marriage. Rev. J. \. WilSon,of Seneca.
officiating. The groom isa member OF
n of Oconee'S Oldest and best families
and is a representative young farmer OF
that section. The bride is universally
popular. BY her winning grace and
lovely nature she has many friends
and admirers. Many good wishes attend
this young couple in their new relations.
several very pretty prizes We're awarded
by the individual members Of the faculty
OF the Charleston Medical College AT the
recent commencement of that instita-
zion. The prize Of Professor Parker for
the best report of his chemical lectures
on the eye and car was presented 10 Dr.
W. J. Linley. Of Oconee, at the request
of DR.. Parker. 10y Nr. p. II. Gadsden, a
membero of the Charleston bar. PROBES
sor Manning simmons prize for the best
examination IN surgery was presented
70 Or. II. j. Linley, of 0conee. at the
request of Dr. Simmons. by William
Henry Parker. IT., a member Of the
Charleston bar. Professor Wasdin's
go .a,;o.;a 80, ,ro