Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-28
Short Notes.

Southern mill mon have petitioned for
the maintenance Of tho opening door in
China.
Yale will educate five Filipinos FREQ
of charge next year if they present them
selves.
Col. j. w. Robertson, tho new adjutant
and inspector general of Georgia, is n
graduate of tho Citadel.
The Daughters of tho Confcdcracy will
hold their annual convention in Rock
Hill on tho 9th and 7th of Dcccmbcr.
Charleston has finally decided to havo
fall carnival. Tho amount raised for
it was $4,000. 1t vii, bo in Decembcr.
A tobacco building is to be furnished at
tho Charleston exposition and tho to-
bacco growing district of the State will
fill it.
Judge Simonton's decision in tho st.
Matthews bank case has been upheld by
tho United States circuit court of appeals
| at Richmond.
The State Supreme Court will convene
for the November term on tho 9th of this
month, and will be in session until tho
last of January
In tho case of Webster Davis it was
double finish. Web finished the cam
paigh, and the campaign finished Web.
Kansas City Journal.
VIM. II. Evans, thirty years old, tolo-
graph operator, committed suicide at
Marion, N. c., Saturday afternoon by
| shooting himself in the head.
Two freight trains, through error in
orders, collded near IIargrovc, Ala,
last Saturday. Two people were killed
outright and several were injured, somo
| fatally
The executors Of the latc Governor
Ellerbc have sent the attorney general
q nj, ,nnly fn,,S ~
crnor was found to DO due tho State peni-
tcntiary.
The winter season opens up at Aikon
with the greatest prospects in its history.
John Jacob Astor and James Roosevelt,
Of New York will be among tho now
tourists.
The newspapers of tho country arc
making startling revelations as to the
extent Of liquor drinking among tho
women vi tho nation, particularly in the
North and West.
Charleston will not have fall carnival.
Lack of funds caused the project to be
Abandoned Tho coming exposition and
| tho numerous shows in other towns arc
said to have I'D All effect.
Tho American Rice Growers and
Distributing Company has entered the
field to control the rice market Of this
State. The rice mills are to be leased and
the entire crop controlled to command
higher prices.
The county scat of Dorchester has
several names. 1t is generally known
as ''St. Gcorge's," the railroad people
call it Georges" the postofllcc people
as est. Gcorge's," and some insist it
ought to be Dorchester"
The Government has made tho biggest
contract for armor plate in it's history.
The bill covers armOr for seventeen war
ships now in process of construction.
Carnegie and Bethlehem got the con-
tract at Sit20 to Si55.22 ton.
The Republican party now controls
every branch of tho government and
must bear the whole blame if work on
the Nicaragua canal is not authorized by
the next Congress. Construction Of that
canal will be powerful factor for dc.
yclopmcnt of tho South.
Sunday laws are strictly enforced in
Honolulu. Not only are all saloons and
bars kept tightly closed and stores for
hidden to sell, but any one who attempts
to play ball or indulge in any other sport
on Sunday is carried before q magistrate
to pay fine or 80 to Jail.
Colonel +. Il. Fleming, the clock mas
ter Of tho treasury department in Wash
ingtOn, has over 800 clocks in his care.
His friends call him "Father Time" IIo
starts winding his little army of eight
day clocks on Monday and gets around
to the last ono on Saturday night.
In The Northern Presbyterian church
out of Ill Prcsbytcrics "A have voted
against any change in the present creed,
6 give plurality against change, and %
have voted specifically against question
No 1, making 73, which is a majority
against revision of the Prcsbyterics re-
ported
The United States Supreme Court has
again upheld the constitutionality of tho
South Carolina registration law in tho
case Of Daniel Gray Wiley, plaintim in
held that Wilcy's right to vote for mem
bcr Of Congress was nndoubtcd, but that
tho plaintiff, having failed to register,
that defect was fatal.
The United States government is pre-
pairing to build barracks on Sullvan's
Island and as soon as the legal formali-
ties are completed the trade with the
island owners will be completed. The
price paid is to be $l35,000. 1t will be
necessary to close some of tho island
streets and tho Legislature will be pcti-
toned to that effect.
Five years ago 100 Kansas farmers
started mutual insurance company to
protect themselves against the cxtorton
of the insurance barOns. To-day there
arc $500 members, insuring two and a
half millions of property for themselves.
Last year the losses paid wcro 50, l5G-
or little over 81 year per ,unmbcr to
insure his house, barn and cattle from
fire and lightning.
This is tho season when big hogs are
slaughtered, and Mr.. j. ID. Ray, who
lives near landcrman, reports that he
has killed u thrcc-ycar old Red Jersey
which weighed 5l5 pounds net and
yielded fifteen gallons of lard. IIo has
two more that will be slaughtered be-
tween now and Christmas, which will
weigh 800 pounds between thcm.--Grcen-
vile Mountainccr, November nth.
Tho Baptist Congress is to meet in
Richmond this year, the dates being
November 20 to 23. President Montague,
of Furman University, will preside, and
among the topics are TRUSTS" "Roman-
ist Survivals in Professionalism" and
"Child Nurture in the Baptist Polty."
The speakers include some Of the abcst
of Baptist divincs, both in tho dcnomi-
nations North and South.
Mr.. Paul Simpson, Of Spartanburg
county, is the champion hog raiser. lie
has two hogs that will weigh 800 pounds
each and the hogs are about eighteen or
twenty months old. One of them became
the mother of seventeen well developed
pigs last week. Counting her weight at
five cents per pound and tho pigs at 81
each, would make tho price OF Il bale of
cotton. Nj. Simpson raised one last
year that nottcd over 100 pounds.
G. Clyde Whittlc, who died at Saluda
last week, was a son of tho Sheriff Of
Saluda county His was romantic
career. Though only ~ years old he
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