Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-11-09
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The following ,iccounts about court
:criers are clipped from two of orr most
valuable exchanges, the Newberry Job.
seryer and the Greenyille Daily Times: 5
Many commonplace stories are related
abnnt the court erters " The days "hey
fore the war; Newberry has always
had a number Of celebrities In this line.
In suoh manner that the word alarmed
the inhabitants because it was thought
he shouted fire" In ante bellum days
in Newberry tho voice Of Tom Chamb-
ers, tho court orier, could be heard threS
miles, tits said; aud in Union the sound
of tho oriers voice 80 pierced tho sur
rounding forests that it pooled tho bark
ments have now been exoelled in modern
days. The voice of the court orier in
Newberry was recently heard distance
Of eight miles. This Is wonderful, but
true. Whom p. i. Baxter called court
at tho recent term every word he said
was distinctly heard in Prosperity Sci
once played the important part. The at
North and conveyed the clear tones Of
tho court orier's voice across the street
and through tho opon windows of the
central Office of the Newberry telephone
exchange, and persons in Prosperity,
whose 'phonos were connected with tho
Newborry office, heard distinctly every
word of Mr.. Baxter Distance would
lar favorable conditions, the calls of the
crior could havo boon heard as we'll in
tho most romote parts of the county.
There arc 80 many wonderful things in
this age, however, that we must take
everything for granted and do not stop
to think how it all happens.
Observer.
We must confess that since tho recent
petition, asking tho court orier to modo-
rate his voice, was circulated we arc q
little behind Nowborry in rospoot t.,
stentorian tonos. After tho crier here
had ruined the town clook by jarring tho
atmosphere 80 that the bell would strike
every, timo he opened court, aftor the
sound of his voice had SO dontod up tho
sidewalk that it made pedestrians soa-
sick to walk ovor it, and after ho had
caused Reedy river to leap from it's mar
row confines, flooding the drydock and
drowning several man. of-warsmon,
prominent citizons joined in petition
asking that ho speak in a whisper, and
ho consequently cannot now 30 heard
furthor than ton miles.-GrconviIlo Daily
Times.
We woro inclined at first to doubt tho
truth of tho foregoing paragraphs, but
after examining our liars certificate and
ascortaining that neithor Bro. Housoal,
of the Observer, nor Bro. Carey, of tho
Times, had signed our certificate Off
cially, we arrived ut the conclusion that
it would DO we'll to observe closely what
effect "Uncle Bon's" voice, rs ho "crics
court" really has on Nature. Accord
ingly n reporter was assigned to take
notes of any change IN tho surroundings
at tho first call of court. AS tho notos of
Unole, Bons voice died away thore was n
sound in tho distance rs of q terrific
cyclone sweeping away in n direction a
littlo north of west from tho Court
House. Tho reporter graspcd tho situa-
tion and a fleet horse that stood near by
simultaneously, and rode aftor tho NOV
ing sound. Icro and thoro along it's
path ho noted trees uprootod and farm
houses loycled to tho ground, while
horses, cattle, sheep and hogs woro heard
high up in tho air above tho disturbed
clements-so high, in fact, that they ap-
pcarcd as tiny spocls floating about in
the crisp air. This vocal cyclone COW
| orod path about ono-half milo in width
and followed closely tho old Blue Ridge
Railroad survey. Tho Lord only knows
what would have happened had it not
io"Cu lto pttUll GlllCO IlllUS OuG
of town and gotten itself bottled up in
tho tunnel in Stumphouso mountain.
Aftor it all got into tho tunnel such q
rasping, grating, grinding and tearing
was novor before heard and never will be
again. Within tho short space of 4 min
utos and 8 seconds tho unfinished por-
ton of the tunnol--throc-q of q
milo of solid granito-was ground to
powder and tho excavation made COM
pletoly through tho hills. What hap
pencd further we cannot give in detail.
All day Monday and Monday night our
reporter lay in an unconscious state
about a hundred yards from tho mouth
of tho tunnel. He was rendered deaf,
blind and speechless by his experience,
and it was with great difficulty and tho
most oxcruciating pains that he wrote
down his experience for us. 1t is not
expected that ho will recover.