Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-03-24
SCARLET FEvEB.r-- There were seventy-fiye
deaths from scarlet fever in Now YORK, during

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last week.. :">nH
AN Active CeRoNER.---Tho report of the
coroner of New Orleans gives the number of
inquests held for. the past three months as fol-
lows; Homicide IL, drowned 3, suicides 6,
ininnticides 9. iuebriates 23, casualties l6 sud-
den deaths from diseases6 68-makiug total of
l49 inquests in 90 days.
New oRLEANs, March l0-Tbe steamer Gen.
Mirnmon has been captured off Vera Cruz by a
United States war Steamer md brought into
this port as a. prize. The Liberals rep0lsed
Miramon's attack on yera-Cruz
Tne IScREAsE--The trade at Charleston and
New Orleans, it is.stated is nearly fifty per cent
lAr2st' thap usual this spring. which fact is ow-
ing to the abstraction of SO much trade from the
small jobhers and dealers in New York, Phila-
dclphia and Boston.
"A CHRISTIAN TURNED Jgw--Tn Russian Po-
land, ayoung Christian has lately become jew.
For long time, he has been eudeavoring to pre-
vail on the Rabbis to- allow him to do so, but
they made strong objections, as the Talmud
prohibits proselytng.
DRowNEp--Fivo persons were drowned near
Blairsvillc, Penn, recently. In attempting to
cross the Concmaugh river. the boat upset and
ivc persons, male and female, were drowned
BALTIMORE. March ll--Tho police of-tbis
city yesterday arrested q man named William
Is. Bagly. on teicgraphio information from Sa.
vnnnah, charging him with having fraudulent-
ly obtained, by means of forged drafts twenty.
one thousand d,llars. from tho State Bank, at
Savannah.
CosTLY Do1R.-One of the bronze doors for
the new national capitol, at Washington, is to
cost $25 900!
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Cnyton (Ohio) Journal publishes the marriage
of MIR. stephen S. DoSSct to Miss Emma H.
Harris, both of that city, The ceremony took
place on Saturday, the 25th' 'ut., ato O'Clock a.
m. lnthe same paper, appears the notice o +
Dogget'S death, ON the same day of his nuptials.
at holf-pnst i2 o'clock p. IN. The deceased was
in his twcnty-frst year.
FLOUR EXPoRTATiON FROM CuARLEsToN.- The
Spanish polacrc Jascfn was cleared ut Charleston
on Manday, for the Canary Islands. with n
cargo of -four equal to 1000 barrels. including
the finest brands Of North Carolina, Baltimore
and Richmond.
FATM.--Tho scarlet fever has been raging
fearfully in Illinois and Ohio At Bloomington,
|. Illinois during the paSt winter, it is said TINT
some four hundred children have fallen victims
to the disease. In S,eubcnvillc Ohio, the deaths
number from two to five daily, and already
sono two hundred children have succumbed to
its deadly influence.
ANDERSON CouRr adjourned on Saturday last.
Much of the time of the term there was consumed
in the disposition of State business. A number of
ltigated cases were continued or not reached.
How THEY lloLD CouRT IN UTAH-Indian
Agent Humphrey who has some fifteen thou
sand Indians under his care in Utah, some six
ty miles from Salt Lake City, thus describes.
IN letter to u friend in Lafayette the IMPOSING
opening of n United States Court by our Gov
ernmcnt officials:
The most imposing scene I have witnessed
since my arrival here was the opening of the
United States Court at Ncph bv his Honor
Chief Justice Eckels. Just imetnc Won sec
him as ending the judicial r,strum, with his.
usual amount of dignity, with large Colts
revolver hung to his side, and take his scat
Then the Marshal. p. X Dalson a long, dark
complexioncd Nirgmian, arose, with two ro.
volvcrs SWING to his side, and calls Court in
the usual form, "H Hear yc, yo ' do Thcn John
f. Risely, good looking young man. Formerly
of Sullivan County, Clerk of tile Court, arises,
armed in the same style, and reads the minutes
The court then calls the list of attorneys each
armed rs before stated, arise and answer to his
namc. The jury are then called, every one of
whom comes in With n revolver swinging to hiI
side. and i'll this condition are instructed aud
sent to their room
And after all this, their court is perfect farce,
and their trials but mockerY of justices The
fault however, is not in the officers the Court,
for they are faithful and fearless in the dis
charge of their dnties Bntthc difficulty rests
hcrc tho jurors the criminals and witnesses
are all Mormons, and for this reason it is i'm
possible to enforce the law. The truth is
Brigham Young's word is law, and it is non
sense to undertake to do anything to the con-
trary. =
THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILnoAD-T
Annual Report of the Officers of the South
Carolina Railroad Company, in very neat
pamphlet form, has been reCeiveG We have
already published some leading features of
tbls report, but n few other items will be in
tercsting
The whole number of passengers which
travelled on the road for the past year is IL
933 the amount of fare $3.50, 1850. The
whole amount of freight, up and down, was
$1,000 $4,000. The transportation of mails
sol ,96o, l3. Total income 81, ,596,605.
I There were 303 300 bales of cotton carried
over the road during the past year. Of this
amount 1S8,477 bales came over the Ham
burg road; 172.303 over the Columbia road,
and $1,000 over Camden Branch. Colum-
bia sent 37,797 bales; the Greenvillc road
90, 100 bales and tho Charlotte road 40 ,875
bales. From this it will be seen that the
Grcenville and Charlotte Railroads have car
rIed past our market over 10000 bales Of
cotton. -'
The other produce carried over the road in
1909 was divided as follows: 1880 barrels
flour (about half IS many as the previous
years. I28,854 bushels grain 33,237 bar
rels naval stores; l0,l40 bales merchandise,
and I4, ,04O heal Of live stock. =,
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