Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-01-27
[voL. mo. 49,.

discharge is to be given to the bankrupt from
all claims provablc under the Act; such dis
charge to be withheld, or to be invalid if grant
cd, in case of any fraud or violation on the.
part Of the petitioner of the provision of the
Act in that behalf.
No second discharge is to be granted to any
bankrupt whose estate is insufficient to pay
seventy per cent. of the claims against him
without the consent Of three fourths, in value,
of his creditors. And no third discharge can
be- granted in any case. But bankrupt who
has paid all claims existing at the time of a
previous bankruptcy shall be entitled to adis-
charge as though there had been no previous
application. Creditors may oppose the dis
charge, and have the grounds of their opposi-
ton tried by jury. All debts created by ac-
|Ntfbn of the bankrupt in judiciary capacity
are exempted from the operation of the dis
charge.
Similar provisions are made as to bankrupt
cy proceedings on the part Of partnerships and
corporations.
The proceedings in involuntary bankruptcy
on the motion Of the creditors, differ from those
III voluntary bankruptcy simply in their COM
menccment Whenever debtor avoids legal
process in an action for the recovery of debt,
or demand provable under the act, or disposes
Of his property in fraud of his creditors, or
Whenever a banker, merchant or trader, fraud
ulcntly suspcnds and does not resume the pay
mcnt of his commercial paper within fourteen
days, and in a large class of enumerated cases;
the debtor, on his petition of his creditors to
the amount ofover two hundred and fifty dol
lars. shall be adjudgcd bankrupt
| After the adjudication of bankruptcy, three
fourths in value of the creditors can, under
the direction and approval Of court, wind up
ana scJJle the banKrupCs estare In such man-
ncr as they may agree upon, land the estate is
then vested in trustees, the rights and duties
of the trustees being similar to those of the
assignccs under the ordinary method Of proce.
dure; and the discharge is to BE- in the same
form and of the same effect as though the
usual proceedings in bankruptcy were had.
[Ne~ YORK. World.
ATRocIous MunDER.--It has never been,
our duty to record a appalling and wilful
murder than That which occurred in this vi
cinity on Saturday evening last. 1t seems
that young man, Albert Geer, (sdn of Mr.
/ David Geer, Sr.,O was returning to his homo
/ from the village, some three miles distant, and
about dusk had reached within four hundred
: yards Of his fathers house, when he was bru-
tally attacked BY one or more persons, and left
| in manglcd and inscnsible condition. Hear
ing cries of distress, Albert's mother went in
the direction they indicated, and after short
while elapsed found the body Of her son, hor-
riply niutilatcd, His skull was badly frac-
tured in four places, as if with sharp instru-
mcnt OF course, he remained insensible,
and on Monday morning breathed his last
| No clue has been obtained MS to the provoca-
tion for this inhuman and dbrutal assault, which
ended the life Of a peaceablc, quiet and in
| offensive youth. The entire sympathy Of our
community is with the aged parents in their
deep afliction.
| Two negroes have been arrested upon sus-
| picion for completely in the murder, but as the
matter will undergo official investigation, we
forbcar comment.
[Audcrson Mtclligcnccr, 1871 INST.
.
JF any doubt should exist as to the terrible
state of decentralization in this city of million
of inhabitants, the annual report of the Me-
tropoltan Police Commissioners would pain
fully dispcl it. In the last year the number
of arrests, for various crimes, offences and
misdemeanors, amount to sixty-eight thousand
eight hundred and seventy three. There are
no Jess than twelve hundred (" fallen angels q.
(known as pretty waiter girlsI in concert sa-
looms. There are ten thousand barrooms in
New York and Brooklyn. There are horrible
dens hero whore men, women and children
sleep iii filth and vermin, huddled together in