Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-09-28
Short News Notes.

said to bo seriously ill. Ii Hung Chang
has been recalled to power.
Tho queen regent of Spain has pre-
sontod tho Spanish casino at Tampa with
600 books for library use.
Joromiah Looper, of Pickons, offers
to bet $4,000 with Neill that 5000 ,OOO
bales will be nearer tho pros ent cotton
crop than 12,0GO,O0O.
A cotton seed war is on in Anderson.
On Monday seed were selling for 234
cents per bushol. just keep it up; the
farmers will not object seriously.
Seventeen arrests of white men have
boon made ut Cartorsville, Illinois, on &C
count of tho recent killing of tho sevon
negroes at that place.
DR.. w. II. Zimmerman, State Treas
urer, lost his ginnery and six or oight
bales of cotton by firo on his homo place
in Edgetlold last Wednesday. Loss about
$1,000
Columbia has bought site for her now
city Hall on the corner of Main and Cor
vais street, near tho old Agricultural
Hall, and facing the State House
grounds,
Mexico granted her President twenty
days leave Of absence to visit Chicago
and appropriated 500, 900 for his Expenses
without dissenting vote in oithor branch
of tho assembly.
In digging an artesian woll in Allen
dale, S. c., rocontly Mr.. J. l.. Oswold
struck a cypress log at depth of coo
feet and at $50 feet ho secured flow of
45 gallons of water to tho minute.
Over threo thousand persons arc dead
and missing as a result Of tho recent ty-
phoon in Japan, according to advices
brought to Victoria, B. c., by the steamer
Empress of India, from tho Orient.
Much damage to shipping is reported.
Cotton is fast boing superseded by
tobacco in Sumter, Florence, Marion,
Darlington, Marlboro and othor counties.
Club and joint stock companies are be-
ing organized in Nowberry and Green
wood for tho purpose of experimenting
on tobacco culture.
South Carolina will have q regiment of
eight full companies in limo at the Dewoy
celebration in Now York under command
of Col. j. d. Frost, Assistant Adjutant
General of tho State. Governor Nc.
Sweeney and his stan will also attend.
IL farmer who raises ovcr hundred
bales of cotton estimates the present
crop at about three-fifths of an average
ono. cit farmers will raise their meat
and supplies at homo," ho added, "you
will mover hear of cent cotton again."
The Hampton Memorial Association
has rented q hamo in Columbia for Gone
raj Wade Hampton, to bo occupied by
him until tho permanent memorial home
is completed. Tho house to bo built by
tho Association will be located in Colum-
bia on Pondloton street.
Prices for seats along tho route of the
Dewey procession in Now York recall
tho stories of fancy figures paid for seats
and windows in London from which to
view tho Queens jubilee procession.
Seats for Dewey day 90 as high as SOC
each, while $500 is charged for desirable
windows.
Tho attorney general has begun the
drawing of tho indictments in tho SOW
oral criminal cases against Col, w. A.
Neal, former superintendent Of tho State
ponitontiary. Mr.. Bollinger expects to
bo ready to proceed with tho trial in the
October torn of tho court hore, which
is not far distant. State.
Gaffnoy Ledger, September 26 !: "Sincc
Rev. b. =. Robertson has been pastor OF
tho First Baptist church ho has receive d
into tho church 101 mombcrs by letter,
110 by baptism, 6 by restoration and by
experience, q total of 318. This is a
good record and shows that tho pastor
has boon zoalous in tho cause of his
Mastor."
"Septombor is ono of tho best m onths
to SOW fall OATS" says tho Cotton Plant.
"We have mover known September oats
to make q failure" Ono Of tho best
farmers in tho oat section of tho State
preferred August for poor land in order
that 1t might got woll rooted before the
frosts and srows of winter lifted it out
tho ground. September is early enough
for fairly rich ground, but late faI, has
to bo guarded against.
Mr.. w. Scott Popo, Of Columbia, one
of Col. Meals bondsmGr, has given
notice that ho will not pay any part of
tho ponitontiary shortage without suit.
Io takes tho position chat tho Board of
Directors arc responsible for tho irregu-
larltios in Col. Meals administration.
Col. Willie Jones and Mr.. p. II. Haiti
wangor arc tho othor bondsman. The
Attorney Gonoral will bring suit at the
lsichland torn of Court in October.
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