Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-05-11
NEWS NOTEB.

1cLhcuy 10 III. Ih' a. OlihlllOIS llVor
Medicine.
NEWS NOTES.
Hutcrcsting Hteans Shortcnod Down for
tho Rcndors Of tho Courier.
1t is stated that tho wheat acreage in
Nowberry county this year Is larger than
ia ton years.
The Coast Limo will enter Augusta, by
way of Robins and the Port Royal road,
about tho first of July.
Andrew Carnegie has given his check
for 81, $780, 900 for additions to tho FREQ
library of Pittsburg, Pa.
1t is semi officially announced that
Gen. Joo Wheelor is to bo married soon
to Mrs. Geo. w. Childs, of Washington.
1t is said that there is o trust in
broom straw. A combination that would
corner broom straw would form trust
in hog plums.
About twenty-five million souls among
the population of Russia are on tho brink
of starvation as result Of tho famine in
European Russia.
The farm OH which Abraham Lincoln
vile, Kentucky, has been sold to David
Greer, of New York.
Two thousand people toasted and
danced in tho vault containing the body
of VIM. Hayes, at Petersburg, Ind, in
accordance with his will. 49,. ..
At Vancouver, b. c., advices havo been
received Of q terrible hurricane off tho
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persons were drowned.
New York has followed the example
of somo ot the other States and abolished
the custom of kissing tho Bible in the
administration Of oaths.
Tho Agricultural Departments year
book, which now takes the place of the
annual report, will soon be ready for
distribution by Congl ossmen.
Immense coal fields havo been scoy-
cred in Hululand, tho seams being mp to
45 feet in thickness, and of good quality
fC" locomotive and other purposes.
A Derby, CONNECTICUT, Sunday school
teacher, aged 80, wood and won ono of
her scholars, chap of 10, and married
him. IIe can attond Sunday school at
homo now. -..
4 Kansas woman, who achieved, famo
by tanning lions, found ono brute that
she couldn't bring under control. 1t
was her husband, and now sho wants q
divorce from him. II @
Tho Confederate homo at Atlanta.
w. Grady at a cost OF $4,000, and which
the Georgia Legislature refused to pro-
vido for, has been sold at auction for
$1,000.
Lieut.. Wondworth, Of tho Ninth Illi-
nois, now at quarantine below Savannah,
says Is per cont of tho enlisted mon arc
anxious to 60 to tho Philippines. All
they desire before going is 80 day fur
Tough.
Harry Froi, formerly of Roanoke, Va,
now of Knoxville, Tenn, has discovered,
by reading tho papers, his father and q
fortune of $4,000 And yot it is dini-
cult to persuade somo people to sub
scribe for newspapers.
Up to date thcre arc nino aspirants
for Spoakcrship honors in case Thos. b.
Reed pulls out, and all tho precincts
have not boon hoard from yet. But it
will take pretty hofty follow to hold
down TOMS scat as he did.
Mrs. Marion Troat Mckay, who has
just been married, received q wedding
gift of 100000 from hor divorced hus-
band. AS ho is now freed from paying
$25,0O0 year alimony the gift may DO
considered Thanksgiving Offering.
Tho Oxford (Mo) Rogistor contains q
personal TO tho effect that Mr. Coffin has
gono to visit his cousin, Mr.. Graves, in
Tombstone, Arizona. Tho paper seys
that Mr.. Coffin is on pleasure bent, but
nevertheless tho item sounds funeral.
Tho students of Wofford College have
tho promise of Senator McLaurin to do.
liver tho address before tho literar,
soc Jtios in june. DR.. Byrd, pastor Of
tho First Methodist church at Asheville.
will preach the commencement sermon.
The two litorary societies of New
berry college have boon fortunate In
securing the Rev. Or. A. Coke Smith. OF
LynchDurg, Va, to deliver the annual
address ut the commencement in June.
A rich treat Is in store for tho Newkerry
public.
; If "out of sorts,' cross and peeyisli,
take DR., M. A. Simmons' Liyer Mediy