Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-09-26


debtor with most tenacious honesty has
turned up. In the year 1910, young
joiner in this city became involved to am
extent that rendered it necessary for him
to ask the Indulgence OF his creditors, and
many of them signed release. In the
course of the efollowing year lie obtained a
discharge from his debts under the State
insolvont law. Shortly afterwards he left
the city for Cayuga, where he obtained en-
! ploymcnt for a while at one dollar per day
He then got into employment with the in
yontor of a patent plow, and slowly toilod
his way through the world, finally estab-
fishing himself in Ohio. Here, during the
past year, in the way of business, he ac-
quired money to the amount of some So
600, with which he at once started for New
York, to seek out his old creditors He,
however, found but one living. On calling
at the residence of that gentleman, and in-
quiring of him if he recollectod young
man by the name Of Joseph Ridgeway, a
joiner, in 1910, the creditor, who is now
about eighty years ofage, replied: '1 have
some recollection of the boy; and believe
he owed me something when he left the
city, but don't remember how much. -
MIR, Ridgeway, who is now seveuty-four
years old, then said: al was that hoy +; and
| have now come to pay you double the
amount of that debt to which you refer"
He then took from his pocket and unrolled
a list of his old debts, amounting in the ag-
grcgatc to about $4,000, varying in sums
from So. so to 1924, In liquidation of the
latter indebtedness, he handed over to a liv-
ing daughter of his creditor the sum of
$44S; to the son of another creditor he
paid $3.50 in discharge ola debt half that
amount On offering to liquidatc the last
amount, Mr. Ridgoway was referred to an
executor; whcrcupon he replied, "I want
to sec no executor; am legally discharged
from tho debt; besides your father releas-
cd me, and debt of Al years standing must
be outlawed. No, l obey the law of con-
science, and if any of my creditors are not
living, Ipay to their children the respective
amounts of my indebtedness" 1t will per-
haps add still further to the singularity of
this antique honesty to remember that
Ridgcway is still poor, what little property
he has in Ohio being under mortgage
TnE WHEAT CRop.-The Charleston
correspondent of tho Memphis Bulletin
writes
1t is estimated that the wheat crops of
| Tennessee, Georgia, North and South Car
DINA, viii amount to four and half million
bushels, and that of this amount Charleston
| is likely to receive 250,000 barrels of -four,
and 300, 600 bushels of wheat For the
last nine months there have been exported
to Spain from this city 10000 barrels of
flour. There are now in Georgia and Ten
ncssee twenty large merchant mills, with
the capacity of two hundred barrels each
! per day, besides large number of smaller
capacity; there arc also several large mills
in North and South Carolina and n great
many smaller ones, so that Charleston may
now be termed flour and grain market.
COMMITTED SuIcIpE.-We regret to hear
that the youngest daughter of Peter King,
this District, hung herself with hank
of yarn. OH Tuesday of last week. For a
week previous the family noticed that her
mind was affected, but apprehonded no dan
ger. On Tuesday morning she attended to
her duties rs nsual-brought water for her
mother, and her father proceeded to the
fodder field, expecting that she would come
TO his assistance as usual. Her not doing
| so, drew him TO the house to ascertain the
reason of her delay; not finding her there,
the family became alarmed and made a
search, when they found her suspended to
bush dead.-A@derson Gazette.
! BRANDY FROM THE CHINESE SUGAR CANE
A correspondent of tho New York Post
sends to that paper sample of very good
brandy made from the syrup of the above
named plant and says that it costs about
thirty cents per gallon to produce, and is
worth in the market from 81 to So per gal.
Ion, according to quality. He suggests that
the growth of this crop will enable the far
mers 10 manufacture the spirit in the win.
ter season, when they have no other occu-
patton They can make gallon of proof
spirit for each gallon Of fcrmcnted syrup,
and it will find ready sale at The reclifiers,
who will turn itinto alcohol for camphene
and other uses. The writer adds:
The quantity of alcohol now used for,
purposes of illumination alone, to say moth
ing Of yarnishes, chloro(orm, and medical
extracts, is enormous, and was beginning to
have serious effect on the price of bread,
owing to the wholesale destruction of Ger.
eals required to produce it, Now, howev.
er, we have found substitute, which, be.
sides supplying syrup and alcohol, viii also
yield from the same crop large amount Of
forage and grain for the fatiening Of stock.p
HIr HIN AGAiS,--Gcn. Gad6erry has
written to the Unonyille journal, another
letter, in which he asserts positively that
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