Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-04-20

Interesting Htonls Shortened Down for
tho Rsendors of tho Courier.
Herr Pollock, q well known engineer
and electrician, of Vienna, he's disoov-
cred q means of telegraphing 10000
words por hour over single wiro.
Attorney Goneral Griggs and his pri-
vato secretary arc in Atlanta, Ga. for
tho purpose of selecting tho site for tho
United States penitentiary to be erected
in that oity.
Duke GArcos has boen chosen as the
now Spanish minister to tho United
States, and tho United States Govern
mont was officially notified of his selec-
tion an April 17th.
Arch II. Wells, rs executor of tho
estate of the late Capt. G. G. Wells, has
filed in tho Office of tho Judge of Probate
a petition for appraisomento Of the estate,
the value of whioh is givon at $4,000.
q. B. Smith, of Columbia, and Paul
appointed second lieutenants in tho regu-
lar army from this State. Both are grad
uates of tho Citadel and membors of, tho
samo class.
Somo citizens of Rock Hill started q
movement to sond some of the indigent
old Confederate veterans to tho Charles
ton reunion and already twenty citiZons
have obligated themselves to each of
thcm send ono veteran to tho reunion.
Robert Miller, q plumber, of Toronto,
Canada, committed suicide at the Val
dosta, Ca, Jail on April 17th. He was
in jail awaiting examination as to his
mental condition. Ho cut his wind Pipe
and jugular voin with n piece of glass.
Judge Watts has granted a change of
vonue in tho case of Dispensary Consta-
bic Crawford, indicted for tho murder of
Mrs. Stuart, in Columbia, from Riohland
to Kershaw. The Kershaw Court of
General Sessions convenes at Camden on
the First Monday in Juno.
Several great expositions will be held
IN tho United States this year. Tho
most notable of them are being ar ranged
for in Philadelphia, St. Louis and Dallas,
Texas. Expositions arc educational
agencies, the value of which can hardly
be estimated.
Grcenvillo is 10 have Sunday paper.
Mr.. d. Barnott Foster, sergeant in tho
4th Missouri regiment, will issue a six
column, four page paper, "doyoted to
social matters and current gossip" The
paper will be known as The Sunday
Times and will bo printed at tho Green
villo News Office. Mr.. Foster has moved
his family to Greenvillo and will mako
his future homo thcro.
Attorney Gcuoral Bellingor, in ronder
ing decision celebrating previous one,
holds that beor disponsaries must order
their supplies through tho State board
only, and tho board has right to decide
what kind shall be sold in such dispon-
saries. Io holds that beer dispensaries
can sell beer on draught, provided it is
sold in quantities of not less than q pint,
and provided further that the State board
grants them permission to do 30.
Attorney General Bollinger has ron
derod an important decision in the mat
tor of The pay of County Auditors. Tho
substance of the opinion is: "That tho
amount called tho annual salary, to be
paid by tho State Treasurer, and the sum
referred to as additional compensation,
to be paid by tho County Treasurer, ARC
intcnded to ho in tho aggregate tho an
nual salary of tho County Auditor, and
arc only separately received in order to
apportion, as no ar rs may bo, equitably
between tho State and tho county tho
burden of paying the Auditor his annual
salary"