Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-03-08
THE NEWS IN 8 aIEF FORM.
Items Of News Of the Pa Week Gathered
from Various S. ,rces.

The State will have to b rrow $3.50, 900
during the current year.
Enoree Presbytery has dec led not to
buy Cbicora College at Green lille.
| Seventy-five bales of cot, IN were
burned on the depot platform at TcColl,
s. c., one day last week.
The smallpox situation in Green 'lle
has become serious and compulsory v. y
ciDation has been ordered.
i Raymond Bowman, the Charleston
fire-bug Jewish boy, has been found
guilty and has been sentenced by Judge
Gage to ten years in the penitentiary.
Former United States Senator, John
l.. McLaurin, denies most emphatically
that he would accept place at the head
of the proposed committee for trade ex-
tonsion.
Twenty-Five bales of cotton were de-
stroyed By FIRE at Pendleton one day last
week. The cotton was on the platform
at the depot and caught fire by sparks
from passing engine.
Every newspaper, every merchant and
every bank should aid in every legitimate
way the efforts of the farmers to hold
their cotton for a fair price. In the end
everybody will be benefited.
The 6-year. daughter of John
Springs, white farmer of the Heath
| Springs section, near Lancaster, died
recently from the effects of burns re-
ceived while standing near a pile of
burning cornstalks, her clothes catching
| fire.
Greenville is on the verge of chicken
and egg famine. There are no spring
chickens at all on the market and COM
paratively few hens which bring the
fabulous price of 40 to so cents. Eggs
are 25 cents dozen and extremely
scarce.
1t is possible to figure out the date of
Easter this year as falling on March 26
or April %. Greenwich time makes it
the former and Washington time the lat
ter date. The litter joker is a matter of
twelve minutes before midnight on
March 20 when the moon is full.
George, Ernest and Ella Gray are dead 1,
and Clarence Gray is dying, from the
effects of powder burns sustained near
Gadsden, Ala. The children found a
can of powder, and were throwing the
contents on the fire to see it burn, when
the can exploded, ignitirg tho clothes Of
all four.
DR.. S. M. Orr has been elected presi-
dent of the Orr Cotton Mills at Ander-
son, succeeding his brother, the late Col
Jas. l.. Orr. DR.. Orr had been vice presi-
dent of the mill since it's organization.
j. r. Vandiver has been elected vice
president. DR.. j. l.. Orr, of Greenville,
now fills the vacancy on the board of
directors occasioned by the death of his
| father.
| w. b. Ellenburg, we'll known farmer
living near Valdosta, Ca, died Sunday
from injuries received in a run-a way
Friday. While on his way home with a
| heavy load of guano the mules became
frightened and jumped out of the road,
throwing him under the wheels. Both
wheels passed over his prostrate body,
causing internal injuries which resulted
in his death.
Edgar Sampson, negro boy is years
of age, attempted criminal assault
Mrs. j. M. Rives at their home, 1903 Tay-
lor street in Columbia, last Tuesday
afternoon. He afterwards made his
escape, but has been located in another
county and the announcement of his ar
rest was expected. So quietly had tho
secret been guarded that persons living
in the house had not heard of it.
Dudley Hughes, president of the Geor-
gia Agricultural Society, sets good cot
thousand acres of land and his tenants
run nearly two hundred plows. Last
year they planted twenty-five acres to
the plow. Recently he offered that if
they would cut down their cot n crops
TO fifteen acres to the plow aud reduce
one-hais the quantity of fertilizers used
he would take corn. peas, fodder, oats,
cane or any other farm product i'm pay
mcnt of rent at market prices. And
every one of his renters gladly accepted
his proposition.
The jury in the case against w. S.
Paris, charged with killing Peter II.
Shore, at Tallulah Falls last August,
after four days trial, at Clayton, GA,
brought in verdict on last Saturday,
March 18th, of not guilty. The evidence
in the case, while conflicting, showed
that Mr.. Paris called at the house of
Mrs. King and asked to see Miss Ida
Duncan, a client of his; that Mrs. King
attacked him with pist )l at the front
door, and Mr.. Shore took up the quarrel
aud attacked him also and that Mr..
Paris shot Mr.. Shore in his own de-
Tense.
James Irby Earle died at his residence
in Augusta street, Greenville, S. c., on
last Friday, March Sd. The immediate
cause of his death was pneumonia. Mr..
Earle was son of the late DIR. j. w.
Earle, of Oconee county, South Carolina.
lie was born June 30, 1862, and moved
to Greenville with his father in 1868,
where he prepared himself for college at
the Patrick high school. He graduated
from Furman University with high
honors in 1882 He read law in the
office of Wells & Orr for two years and
was admitted to the bar in 1884 and since