Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-11-24

their laugh is-lia, he, hc.-S0 900 900
Bibles hevc been distributed among the hea-
thon within tho last half century, by the Bi-
bic Society z British and Amcrc IN. M
profit grows swhere there is no pleasure -,
~ "e@ cotton f,ctnry h,s been started at
Prattv'lle, near Montgomery, Ala, which
gives employment to $50 persons. .--Thc
personal expenses of the Pope, it is said, does
not amount to five shillings day--A Yam
kce paper says that Con. Baaurcgard has pub
licly declared that no man shall have omplov.
mcnt on tho Railroad Of which he is Prcsi
dent who has not served in the Confederate
army.
nea- y family of eight persons were found
IN hovcl in Chattanooga, Il few days siuce
three of whom were dead of starvation, and
the rest almast n extremity.
Rss- The aggregate population of the Tur-
kish empire is nearly 42,O00,OOO, of which
100000 arc in Europe and $4,000, 900 in
Asia. Of the whole population, II, 500 900
arc Christians
In a T-snEIL.-Govcrnor jenkins. of
Georgia, thus epitomiscs the objection to the
constitutional amendment:
"To submit to injurious changes in tho
Constitutions, when forced upon a State, ac
cordlnS to the fornls prescribed for its amend.
hent, would bc one thing; to participate in
making them, under durcss, against her sense
OF right and Justice, would boa very different
th'nS. The difference in principle is rs broad
as that which distinguishes mariyrdom from
suicide. Furbrttcr calmly await a returning
sense OF justice, and a consequent rciux of
tho t'd"- 'ruuutnS -ottung'y "s.;uot .,e.'
esS- Alexander Mcl}cc, ESQ, has been clcc-
ted Representative in the Legislature from
Grecnvile District without opposition, 10 fill
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation Of
w. 2. Price, Esq.
eED~ James NJ Carson, Esq, has been elect
cd Representative from Charleston, in place
OF lon. Il. d. Richardson, resigned.
Gt'- Mrs DAVIS has donated a valuable
set of jewels to the Washington and Lee As
socl't'on of Norfolk ladies', to be disposed of
and the proceeds appropriated to the benefit of
the orphan children of Southern soldiers.
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EE- Mrs. Garvin and daughter. who resi-.
dcd near Orangeburg, S. G., while out riding,
recently, were killed by two negro men, who
knocked them in the head with an axe. tits
stated that the murlcrcrs have been huny by
the citizens. The freedmen were 50 nccnscd
against the perpetrators Of the outrage, that
they wanted to burn them, but were prevented
by the whites.
GS- During thn first ao."n months of this
year Great Britain imported 1874 ,435 cwt.
ot grain. In 1864 the United States gave
England most of her imported grain, but they
now give her less than any other country.
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GS- a letter in the "Litle Rock News"
in reference 10 the cotton crop of Arkansas,
says: Take the whole cotton crop for one
hundred and forty miles from Little Rock, on
tho Military Road for one hundred miles, and
from that to Centre Point, and it is the most
interior one that has been raised in twenty
years. On one plantation where they planted
largely, do not believe the crop will average
I'VE hundred pounds to the acre. The owners.
however, calculate on an average of six hun.
dred pounds to the acre On this place there
is, in cotton, some six or eight hundred acres,
two hundred Of which saw; and if that mart
IS an average of tho whole crop, it would not
DC out of the way to put down the quantity at
three hundred pounds
LIVERPOOL Nov l3.-On Tie Sd tho stock
OF Cotton in port was $685. 900 bales of which
10000 was American.
twenty-five persons had persisted in the
ColIlery explosion near New Castle. All
legitimate encouragement has been officially
promised the delegation in behalf of tho Mic.
aragua Railroad enterprise. The Paris cor.
respondent of the London Times" says tho