Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-10-14

The Presbyterian Church, North, is
calling for five hundred young men to
recruit its ministry.
The corn crop is standing right by the
present administration. The West alone
will produce 100000, 10000 bushels.
At the next meeting of the State Board
of Education the matter of the standard
of the colleges of this State will come up
for discussion.
1t is said there have been fifteen kill
ings in Saluda cour;v, in eight months
Breathitt county, 5.ss!tucky, will have to
look to its shooting laurels.
Announcement was made Friday of o.
gift OF $685. 900 to the University of North
Carolina by Judge w. p. Bynum, of
Charlotte, as a memorial to his grandson.
DR.. p. H. Nell of Clemson College is
making preparations to get out bulletin
of the proceedings of the recent Farmers'
Institute. When completed it will be a
very valuable pamphlet.
AT Louisville, KY, Sunday negroes
attacked party of young white mon,
members of the boat club, while they
were sailing on the river. When the
boat was tied up fight ensued, and one
of tho negroes killed Robert ID. Burdine,
well known young man.
The lawyer who wants to bully-rag a
witness makes a mistake when he picks
out newspaper man for his victim.
The pencil pushers "see the wheels 90
round" They gaze at the inside Of
things. What is there in lawyer to
awe them p-Columbia Record.
Senator Russell A. Alger, of Michigan.
has been sued for $5 for failure to cut
the weeds on property he owns in Kansas
City. The law provides that non-resi-
dent property owners must keep their
real estate holdings clear of weeds or
pay the city for having it done.
Governor Hayward has commissioned
and granted power of attorney to w.
Boyd Evans, of Columbia, and Adrian
Sezer, of Washington, who will look after
South Cardinals claims against the
United States government contracted
during the Spanish. American war.
The friends of Rev. Jas. T.. Grier will
deeply regret to learn that he was
stricken with paralysis last week in
Philadelphia, where he is under treat
ment at hospital. He ia the able
pastor of the Central Methodist church
of Spartanburg. Since the foregoing
was put in type Mr.. Grier has died.
Lee Hardin, the negro night watch
man at the Victor Oil Mill, at Yorkyille.
put his pistol to the forehead of Belle
Hardin, negro woman staying in a
mousse near Cne mill Monday between
0 and 10 o'clock, and pulled the trigger.
The woman is dead. Both parties We're
drunk. They had quarrel as a result
of the woman's refusal to yield to Hart
din's wishes. The murderer has not vet
been arrested.
Tillman's attorneys might as we'll try
to split sweet gum log with wet dish
rag as try to rattle Gus Kohn. He ranks
too high in the fourth estate to be both
cred by any lawyers gad-fly methods.
A marble statue has no more composure
than Kohn. The Record will bet dol
lar to a doughnut that Kohn enjoyed
his tilts as witness with lawyers Croft
and Nelson much more than they did,
| Columbia Record.
Major Gen. Corbin, adjutant general of
tho army, is to be assigned to the com
mand of the department of the East,
with headquarters at Governors Island,
N. Y. Gen. Corbin will assume com
mand of the department at once. An
order has been prepared directing Cen
Chaffee TO take station in the war de.
partmant for the purpose of familiarlz-
Ing himself with the duties of chief OF
staff, which he will become when Gen.
Young retires In January.