Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-10-29
MISCELLANY. .
Abbeville Court.

Abbeville Court
Our Court adjourned on Saturday last,
after being busily employed during the
week. Notmar criminal eases were tried,
but from the number of bills found by the
Grand jury we suppose that the Solicitor
will have full employment at the next term.
One of the cases tried was an indict-
mcnt against the Captain of patrol, for
shooting and wounding ancgro who was
attempting to escape In charging the Ju-
ry, his Honor stated the law to be that the
Patrol had no right to use deadly weapon
except in a clear case of self-defencc.-
The defendant was convicted, but as the
wound inflicted was slight, and there were
mitigating circumstances, he was sentenced
merely to pay fine of five dollars.
Another case was the Indictment of two
of our most respectable physicians, for dis
interring the dead body of negro for the
purpose of dissection. They plead guilty
to the Indictment, and alleged, in cxtcnua-
tion of the offence, that it was done with
the design of advancing their professional
knowlcdgc-thc negro having been the pa
tient of one of them, aud his disease pre-
scnting some peculiar symptoms, they wish
cd to make a post norton examination
The Judge imposed nominal fine of one
dollar upon each, rcmarkng that the COM
mon law offences, many of them, required
some statutary modification.
The Issue Docket presented few cases of
important litigation, One of the most in
tcrcstng, from the principle involved, was
the case of The Commissioner in Equity
as. Partlow, being suit upon Il bond for the
purchase money of negro, sold at the
Commissioners sale, and which proved to
be unsound. Physicians testified that the
negro died of a disease which existed at
the time of the sale, and the chief qucs-
tion to be determined was, as to the right
of the purchaser to claim deduction in
the price, where the Commissioner had ex-
prcSsly refused to warrant The counsel
for the plaintiff contcndcd that this very
refusal to warrant had already diminished
the price of the negro, and this benefit
having cnurcd to the purchaser, must sub
jcct him to all risks The. Judge so char
gcd the Jury, and affirmed the right of the
Commissioner to disclaim all warranty at
his sales. In accordance with this Charge,
the Jury found for the plaintiff. An ap-
peal will be taken, and the law upon this
question settled definitely
[.ildc"iUe Press.
PmLApELruIA SYMrArnY-\ corrcspon-
don't of the Lancaster IS. C.) Lcdyc,' writes
from Philadelphia
cannot but relate n circumstance which
occurred here on the morning after my arri.
val. | saw negro man in front of the hotel,
apparently in deep distress. / approached
him and asked what he wished and he said
l,, Al tn hn lufI Nf bn. al
get one dollar from him to carry him back to
Savamna!, Goarg;a; t!:nt It was impossible
fr him to live here, rs he could get no Cm-
plOYmunt, and must starvc if lie staid lie
stated that his master had set him free for
certain services rendered to him that he
could not give him his freedom in Georgia
and that was why he was here but that he
preferred to live in Georgia in slavery till the
day Of his death. than to live in PHILADELPHIA
in freedom: and that he only wished one dol
lar now, that he could take the boat for
Savannah, and get his old master to take him
back. There seemed to be no sympathy Cor
thS poor wretch in the Quaker City" lie
was free to Stnrve; but had he been n fugi-
tive slave escaped from his master mobs
would have been around to protect him and
if his master got on his trail, and attempted
to rescue him in Philadelphia, he would have
keen mlbbcd. Beautiful government to suf-
phia. and consistent, very starve a free ne.
gro because he is "not property" and run
off slave from his master bccnuso "he is
property" and when they get him SO far
out of the reach of his owner that he cannot
get possession Of him, starvc him, too.
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AcTIoN or SUctEoNTHE TEETu.-M Larcz.
af France. in the course of his Investigations
I'm the teeth, has arrived at the following
conclusions: LIST. That refined sugar, from
either cane or bcets, is injurious to healthy
teeth. either Ly immediate contact with those
9rgAnia oi l.g the gas developed. ewing to is
sOppage IN tho stomach. ID. That if tooth
T. m0ccrated in a saturated solution of sugar,
it is so much altered in the chemical compo-
siton that it becomes gclatinous. and its en-
nmcl Opaque. spon2y and easily broken this
modification is due not to free acid, but to
q tendency of sugar to combine with the
calcarc9us basis Of the tooth.