Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-21
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Short Notes.

Short Notes.
The anti Sunday funeral question
is being warmly agitated in Louis
vile, Ky.
Two counties in Georgia went Re-
publican. The South is not so solid
after all.
There is report in circulation
that Bryan will turn Presbyterian
preacher.
In a fight in a church yard at
Clifton, S. O., on November 11th,
Pasco Bradley was killed and Thomas
Gibson wounded. The row caused
great excitement.
The Chief of the Naval Bureau
says that this country needs great
many more men to man the ships.
We have good ships, but are short
on men to run them.
AS an evidence of prosperity in
the country the attention of the peo-
pie ls called to the fact that Stand
ard Oil stock has advanced several
points since the election.
President Mckinley has committed
to life Imprisonment the sentence of
}. NJ. Hanson, an Alaskan Indian,
condemned to death for the murder
Of Burt and Florence Morton.
Fire totally destroyed the plant
of the Appleton Manufacturing COM
pany of Geneva ILL.,, on November IS.
Loss, S250,000. The company manu-
featured farming machinery.
According to dispatches from Sc
bastopol the Gar of Russia's illness
is due to poisoning. The report says
Nihilists obtained access to the i'm
perial kitchen and mixed poison with
his food.
The machinery in the new Samp-
son mill of Greenville is about all
placed. The smokestack will be
completed in couple of weeks.
Then 10000 more spindlcs will be
humming in the suburbs of Green
vile.
Hon. Seaborn Wright, very able
and consistent leader of the temper
ance movement in Georgia, has intro
duced into the Legislature of his
State a bill providing for State
Dispcnsary law similar to that now
in force in South Carolina.
II. r. IL. Albert Edward, Prince
of Wales, at the request of the no.
BILE Queen, his mother, has consented
to set his face against the docking of
horses tails. Great is the influence
of royalty 1t can be made to serve
a good purpose at times. -
John Sealcy, treasurer of the Gal
weston, Texas, relief fund, makes the
following statement Donations re-
ccivcd from October 25th to Novem-
Der 10th, Sl13,351, of which $6,771
was received through Mayor Jones.
Previously acknowledged, s1,140,-
3GS ; total to date, s1,153,719.
All the church folk of Richmond,
Va, are interested in the decision Of
a Jewish and Baptist congregation
there to celebrate Thanksgiving Day
by a joint service. Some time ago
the Grove Avenue Baptist church,
one of the most costly churches in
Richmond, was destroyed by fire.
Many offers of places in which to
meet were rendered the congregation,
and it was decided to accept the
offer Of Beth Ahaba congregation
there. The Jewish congregation in
vitcd the Baptists to meet with them
on Thanksgiving Day and the offer
has been accepted. No creed will be
know. aU this joint service.
Postmaster General Emory Smith
has framed his estimates to be sub
mittcd to Congress and will ask an
aggregate of about &121 100000 as
the appropriation for the entire SER
vice for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1902. This includes an estimate
of S3,500,000 for the rural delivery
service. BY the close of the fiscal
year 1900 rural delivery routes
throughout the United States will
have bceu established, and the gene
raj extension contemplated for next
year will involve about 4,5OO addi-
tional routes
Both makers and circulators of coun-
tcrfcits commit fraud. Honest mon will
not deceive you into buying worthless
ccuntcrfcits of DcWitts Witch Hazel
Saivc. The original is infallible for cur
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