Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-09-03
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TWo.MoRE DIABonIoAI OUrRAaEs nv
NEaRoEs.-Information was received hero
Yesterday that two white girls, aged respee.
.veiy hfteon and thirtceh years, daughters OF
highly respectable citizens of Rockbridpe
County, whose lame we withhold for the nra
sent, was most brutality outraged on Ftidav
last BY two black fends, the Oldest Of whom "a
not moro than sixteen years and the youngest
but about fifteen. We were unable to pathe,
the iull particulars of these fendish deeds.
ous from what we can learn it Appeals that tho
villains waylaid their victims not far from the
house of their parents, and accomplish the;,
atroclous purpose. One of tho scoundrels
was captured Sunday morning and lodged in
jail in Lexington. Tho other was still At
large Sunday evening, but the people Of tho
entire noighborhood in which. the outraaes
were perpotrated are securing the country ia
search of him, and he has probably been .ar.
rested by this time ,-Lynch6urg (Na.) Mews.
HI RADICAL GRAINS" PLAYED Our.
-"What have we for President 2" cries Wen.
doll Phillips in the last number of the Auts-
Slavery &aadard-"what have wo for Pre-.
sidont? A jockey and seaside ~louuger +: a
restless boy, needing constantly to be amused
and so impatient Of business that he cannot
stay at his post more than a week at a time"
And again : 'To your tents, O,Israel ! for a
second buchanan sits in the White House.
temporizing while the enemy gets in battle
array"
So calculates the man who furnishes brains
for the Radical party. He is nearly at his
wits end, for his party is nearly at its davis
end "Ihe man on horseback" the epaeulet.
tes and g%unpowder they dragged into their
service to secure another four years lease OF
power, bothers them. He does not suit them.
Neither dees ho suit us, except when he makes
fanatics like Philips and scamps like Wells
and Stokes howl. We reckon Wendell p.
is at the end of his row, aud while he calls
Isreal to "your t%onts," It wont be- long before
no will have to take to his hole of disappoint.
ment, defeat and obsourity.-Ao6ae Regisses.
THE CENsUs.-The~ Columbia oorrespon.
dent Of tho charleston News" says:
lns the expense Of taking the census Of
shis State, ordered by the last opulent Leg.
%islature, will DO at least 800, O0O-so an oAic.
ial OF that party estimates. The United States
takes tho census in 1870, end one would
think that an eye to . reasonable economy
would see that q separate State census might
be dispensed with, at least while "Our dear
Carolina" Gas Governor SCOTT facetiously
called ~ is struggling under the oppressive
load OK so many financial burdens; but then.
after all, we have q Kimpton yet in the field
that "young man Of much ability and prom.
isseifr--who ia to put tho finance of the State
through in style, and it is ungrasoious to
gramble about anything like this.
ExpREss RoBBERYs@ey1,ss $50 sroLsH.--
On tho night of Monday last, 10Th ultimo.
the Depot Of the Laurens Railroad, at this
place, was entered, and the Safe belonging to
tho Southern Express taken to q car, some
distance of, where it was broken and robbed
OF eighteen hundred aud eighty-nine dollars.
One package, containing over sixteen hum
dred dollars, had been deposited, ON the even
ing Of that daysrby Mr.. JOHN KYLs, Of this
village; the other package had been deposi.
ted BY Mr. SAMUEL F. VANCE, Of Martin's
Depot. 4gl.l.
The Depot was entered, it is supposed, BY
. key. We have not heard as othe means
employed to enter tho safe. sG0
No Clue as to the guilty parties, but, it is
supposed, several participated 1t the robbery.
ss.D [L~aurensu,2Ae Herald.
SERtoUs Aoo1bENr.--The Chester Is. or
'Reportep' Of the 10th ultimo, says:
On Thursday evening, 18th instant, Mr.. j.
Alexander Rosborough was crossing the rail
road st Devils turnout, on horseback, at .
rapid gait, when his horse tipped upon the
iron and fell, throwing Mr.. Rosborough d
considerable distance, and rendering Him uu.
conscious. Z Assistance was promptly render.
cd and he was found to be very severely ia.
jurod, the left side ofhis body being paraly.
,zed. We arc glad to say he has Improved
somewhat, and that no doubt Of his recovery
is entertained.
THE frequent marriage Of widows sosms 10
have been aiwavs more or iess disenura0ad.