Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-09-30
MATTERS AT NEwRY.
New Warehouses and Other improvements
A Pleasant Trip 10 Georgia.

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vacation in Georgia we will let your
readers hear from down this way,
and what we saw and heard while
away.
First, Newry is rising, Phoenix
like, from the wreck and ruin of the
flood of June 6. There will soon be
completed one of the best sets of
cotton warehouses in the State, a
splendid church and eight nice dwell
ings. There are also improvements
being made on the streets; so that
when the Messrs. Courtenay bring
to completion everything that they
have in mind, Newry will be model
town, and more healthy place can
not be found in the State. Those
seeking employment in healthy
place, where good, pure water can
be found, and good school that
runs nine months in the year, with
employers that will give you the
last copper that is going to you,
should come to Newry.
We read with pleasure and admi-
ration Capt. VIM. A. Courtenay's
letter, published in your paper of the
9th instant, to the survivors of
Earle's Battery. For the spirit that
it breathes, and the undying devo-
tion of it's author to the principles
and to those who participated in the
trying times to which it alludes,
when the last flower is plucked to
place over the graves of those who
participated in the trying events from
1861 to 1865, we know of no one
more richly deserving of that last
flower being placed on his grave than
Capt. Courtenay.
Now as to my visit to Georgia.
We boarded train 80 at Seneca, and
soon arrived at Cornelia, Ga. There
we changed cars for Gainesville,
which is the county seat of Haber-
sham, named in honor of Gen. Hab-
ersham, who presided as Postmaster
General under President Jackson.
On arriving at Clarkesville we
found a place of considerable beauty
and activity, situated in view of the
distant mountains, and containing
several splendid hotels, residences,
and a court house and Jail that do
credit to any county in the State.
Both are paid for, and, as was in
formed by the county treasurer, the
county has not, to his knowledge, an
outstanding claim, but he has in the
treasury over six thousand dollars to
the public credit. Taxes are only 90
cents on the hundred. This splcn-
did financial showing for Habersbam,
just across the river from us-a
mountain county like ours, too
with her splendid court house and
Jail all paid for, and with just as
good roads and bridges as we have,
made me feel ashamed of the pres
ent financial condition of our county.
After spending short while that
afternoon at Gainesville, as we were
looking after something dearer to
our heart than good court houses
and splendid financial showings, we
secured a team and set out in quest
of our better half and little ones,
whom we found about sunset at the
home of her uncle, Benz. Smith.
After spending the night here, the
next morning being the Sabbath, by
previous arrangement VIM. Soesbee,
of Demorest, Ga Yankee town not
far from Cornelia), sent us splendid
turnout to convey us to the baptiz-
ing and church near Gainesville,
where my wife met many old friends
and relatives whom she had not seen
in years. Services over, by cordial
invitation from Uncle Billy Palmer
and Cousin John Hill and wife, we
went to their home and found a
beautiful country site, situated not
far from the Tallulah Falls railroad,
about ten miles from Toccoa, four
miles from Gainesville and six miles
from from Mount Airy, on high
plateau overlooking the country
south for miles and with a sweeping
view of the mountains to the north
and west. This is one Of the most
beautiful country homes we ever saw,
with plenty of nice COWS and hogs
and broad acres studded with corn
that will produce at least twenty. i've
bushels to the acre, Notwithstanding
the drouth.
Our next place to visit was Uncle
Tom Loggins's home, which is owe,
toward White county, not far from
the Chattahoochee river. On arriv.
ing there we found a nice home
presided over by an elderly gentle.
man and lady. We spent the night
with them, and next morning Uncle
Tom proposed to carry us to the far.
famed Narcoochee Valley, the place
where the late Geo. w. Williams, ol
Charleston, first saw the light and
lived until he was 81. His father
gave him present when he was o
age-the wide world-and asked him
els that not room and materia