Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-03-02
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Thomas Pinols bey, Jr.s the pso,ait rent
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shot in Pstt street by an ssdinl lstiown peix
sol, satarday night, died at tho River
side iptirmaiy. february rs. The facts
|snsronnding tho shoo oting axe sterious
In the extreme aud many sensational
rnmors regard ling the d tfair arc abroad.
S{ RAILROAD ldipg In South Carolina ii
to- have the biggest revival kno own In 70
Cont years, Judged by She number Of new
charters granted by tho Genera Aasem.
bly, just closed. According to these
charters there are eleven new railroads
projected, having in round numbers an
agggrega rate length of 800 miles. S5il5 S5f58
J Peter Williams shot and killed Dick
Simpson y at Clinton, IIaurens county,
February 2sth. both; are naernaa z5& 35&
8 a. dispatch from Columbia, dated Feb.
rllary 28th, says thft Governor Tcllerbe
was rolled out ia Z his front yard on that
day for fresh sir. About fifteen aots are
read , him hiiim 6;aily for his approval, The
idea Of his temporarily giving up the
office OF Governor is hoo5ed at. ssi Et#
The !, Rey. w. ,Aiken Kelly, of the Me-
thodist church q of this State, who dis
appeared from Charleston on neceube
2Oth, 1893, has been found in Now Or
loans. Mr.. Kelly telegraphsd to his
friends several days ago for money to
pay hia way home. He gave no addresa
and the police of New Orleans had to be
appealed to. They found him, and his
family are now in communication with
him. ~ 3.E IS -l2 s,E ( II sgf & 8. .ss S
Senior Sagasta, tho Spanish minister,
has handed his resignation to tho Queen
Regent. E:EvS5
Last Thursday 1926 negro,s left Cal
houn Falls, in Abbeville county, for Mis-
sissippi. 9t.e-
s. Il. Poinier has been appointed post
master at Spartanburg. tG.
Senator Tillman has succeeded in hay
ing tho United States Senate pass an
amendment to tho river and harbor bill
appropriating $250,OOC for improving
Congaree river, $4,000 OF which is i'm
mediately available. ,.
Three persons have died in Rock Hill
within twelve months from drinking
"Wood Alcohol" That gots in tho wo~lt
quiclxer than single X, Palmetto brand.
The 4th of March comes on next Sat
urday, aud tho life OF tho prosont Con-
gross will then DO extinct.
The State Convention of tho Baptist
Young Peoples Union of South Caro-
lima will meet in the First Baptist
church, Columbia, Thursday, Apri, 9th,
and continue until Sunday night, April
8. Rov. Q. l.. Martin will deliver the
opening address on "Loyalty."
The recent freeze killed thousands of
birds of all kinds throughout tho State.
An Orangoburg man says he found fifty
two doves under an upturned troe frozen
to death. Ho also said covey of part
ridges had been found in his neighbor-
hood frozen stiff. 1t is said that some
ono counted eighty birds doad on the
South Carolina and Georgia Railroad
between Orangeburg and Jamison, q dis
tanco of sevon miles.
A dispatch from Washington of March
1st, says the house has accepted tho
French spoliation claim and by over a
two-thirds vote has passed tho Southern
war claims, which carry in them from
100000 to 100000 for each of the South
ern States