Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-07
Short Notes.

Horny j. King, of Tuscaloosa, Ala. 4,
chief of police, shot and instantly killed
two strange negroes whom he was trying
to arrest. The negroes tried to pull n
pistol.
Frank E. Smith, of York county, has
a novel protection against thieves. Ho
got hold of an old gallows on which
for fence posts. The negroes don't visit
him at night.
Charleston is to have an elegant now
hotel on the Battery, at the foot Of East
Bay. 1t will be immonsc in size and have
ono of the finest harbor views in the
world.
1.-The only way to kccp tho price of
cotton at ton cents, says the Rome (Ga.)
Tribune, "is to SOW plenty of wheat, so
that you will be independent and can
hold your cotton"
Prudent farmers in South Carolina
should bear in mind during tho next few
weeks that, whichever candidate may bo
elected, their prosperity" next year has
got to come out of the ground Plant
somo wheat, and plant it early.
Gus Fellows, the negro who was con-
victed of assaulting Miss Dora Hood,
near Harmony Grove, Ga, October 24th,
is spending his time in the Atlanta Jail
praying. lie has been sentenced to hang
on November oath.
Only three companies contested in the
prize drill in Columbia last week. They
were the Sumter Guards, the TimmOns-
villo Guards and the Liberty Hill Rifles,
and each won in tho order named, the
first $500, the second 5000, the third 500.
Our farmers have begun to SOW wheat,
and we understand that a large acreage
will be sown in this section. Senator S.
G.. Maytield will plant between 250 and
300 acres. IIe is trying tho Nicaragua
wheat this year which is said to be less
subject to rust.-Dcnmark Times.
Two members of the Georgia body of
law makers have given striking owl
dence of breaking in a cutting aiIray
on a train bound for tho State Fair at
Valdosta. Processing to be good friends
they got drunk and ono Of them nearly
carved tho face off tho other. They still
say they arc friends.
G. p. Sanders, Of Spartanburg, and
Ellis Graydon, of Greenwood, arc an
nounced as candidates before tho noxt
Legislature for Judges for the Seventh
Circuit to succeed Judge Townsend, WHO
is also q candidate for reelection. j. p.
Ferguson, of Laurens, is also spoken Of
as a possible aspirant for the place.
The State Fair closed last Friday. In
three days tho paid entrance reached
about thirty-throo thousand. Wednes-
day and Thursday the electric street rail
way handled 81, 900 people. There was
not n single fight and not a case Of
pockotpicking. The fair was tho best
that has over been held.
Tho Georgia papers appear to be alive
to the paramount issue for the farmers
of that State just now. The Macon Tolc-
graph advises them: "Poltcs are as
uncertain as tho wind. Trade and traf-
fic GIBBS and flows But wheat at tho
mill is n consolation and a JOY so long as
it lasts" Tho time to plant is at hand.
Phoenix, Greenwood county, where the
famous election riot occurred two years
ago, seems to DO affected with lawlcss-
ness. Joo Lake and j. Style Watson,
two leading citizens who have prosecuted
some rioters, have received anonymous
warning notes. Mcssrs. Lake and Wat
son are out in strong statements in reply.
A dispatch from Pckin, dated October
31st, says that an International commits
sion has convicted the Chinese grand
treasurer, the Tartar governor of Pa0
Ting and n Chinese colonel of being
accessory to the murder of English and
American missionaries, and they have
been sentenced to death. The oxccu-
tions will occur shortly.
Official reports show that tho area
under cotton cultivation in Russian Cen
trail Asia, has increased 30 per cent this
year. Tho crop is estimated at 1900
900 pood, or half tho Russian require.
mcnt, whereas previously only G,O0O,oO
pood has been procured from Russian
possessions. This result is attributed to
tho increased raw cotton import duty
last winter Tho situation in tho cotton
industry is improving.
Ex-Judgc Joshua III. Hudson is still
very much in demand as u Judge. Under
tho now law providing for extra terms of
court Uncle Joshua is suprcmcly popu-
lar. Lately he was on tho bench in Spar.
tanburg and since then has been called
to Cherokee. 1t is rumorcd that Judge
Buchanan will not stand for reelection.
What man in tho State is better qualified
for this place than Judge Hudson? We
doubt if no has an equal in that circuit.