Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-02-19

stated decision
"In tho case Of tho United States against
William j.. Frost, indictment for q false in.
come return for 1866, the jury have returned
verdict of not guilty. It appearcd that Mr.
Frost's return for that year showed an income
of about $40, 900. Tho Government claimed
that there ought to have been returned about
81, 1000 in addition. What tho defence sci
up was that this sum was exempted from tax,
alton as bad debts. The case turned on a
law point. Judge Drummond decided thai
a man was not bound to return Us income
debts or promises to pay, but was only required
to return the gains profits, or income, of his
business, actually received. He thought that
it would be unreasonable on tho part of the
Government to require q man 20 pay a Tax on
a promise to pay or q nero debt, when Meth.
er might be collected, especially as the party
would have no recourse upon the Government
to recover the amount SO paid The court
instructed the jury that they would be JUST
fled in finding the party not guilty, under the
opinion which he had intimated, although he
desired to so qualify it as to state that if q
person had q note or an account due him,
and he neglected to collect it when it matured,
or refused tho money when rendered, or if he
received other money in exchange for the sum
due and in liquidation Of the indebtedness,
then he would be liable"
DANGERS OF BENsINE.-Thc "Scientfc
American" has the following warning para
graph:
"From the facility with which it removes
grease spots from fabrics, this substance has
come to be regarded almost as a household
indispensable. But few persons, however, re.
alize the explosive character of bcnzinc, or
the dangers attending the careless handling
of the liquid. Being one of the most VIOLA.
tile and inflammablc products resulting from
the dlstillation of petroleum, ii vaporizes with
great rapidity, so that tho contents of a four
ounce vial, if overturned, would render the
air highly explosive. The greatest care should
be exercised in handling this substance in
proximity to fire, and it is important to re-
member that the vapor escaping from an un
corked bottle will cause a flame to leap over
a space of several feet"
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A MAN who has been travelling in Texas
says: cit is the hottest and the coolest, the
wettest and the drycst, the richest and the
poorest, tho best and the mcanest, has the
best women and The mcancst men, and more
pretty ladies', with prctticr little feet, and no
calves to suit more sickness and less health,
more streams and less navigable waters, more
corn bread and less corn, moro -four and less
biscuit, more COWS and less milk and butter,
more chickens and less eggs, more gold and
silver and less money, more deer and less ven
son, more negroes and less labor, more Blu
rcaus and less furniture, than any country in
the United Statcs-and where house flies
always live and mosquitoes never die %
NEW POSTAGE STAMPs.-Thc new series
of postage stamps, shortly co be issued by tn,
Postoficc Department, will differ from previ
GUS ones in size, being smaller, and in respect
to the engravings, which will not, as hereto.
fore, all be likeness Of public men. The de.
signs are thus: On the two cent stamp is m
engraving of a postboy on horseback on the
threc-ccnt, a locomotive under a full head of
steam; on the f~ive-cent stamp, a head of
Washington; on the ten cent stamp, a pic.
tu!re of the Declaration of Independence on
the twclve-ccnt stamp, an engraving of an
ocean steam ship, and on tho thirty.cent stamp,
the surrender of Burgoync.
TIE new House of Commons of Great
Britain, composed of 65S members, contains
IL Independents, S Bnptists, S Quakcrs, 2
Wesleyan Methodists, l Calvanistic Metho.
dist, II Unitsrians, 10 Prcsbyterians, 6 Jews
and rs Roman Catholics, of whom one only
represents an English constituency. The re,
naming 574 are probably members of the
Church of England.
NOT only woman's rights, but the practice
of advocates Of woman's rights, are getting to
be very popular out west. AS for instance
the following: Rev. Miss Augusta Chap,
having received a call from n Milwaukee Uni.
%vcrsalist Society, at a salary of SO, 900 a year,
has promptly resigned the pastoratc of a Uni
v~crsalist Society at Mount Pleasant, Iowa,
where she has been settled for some fine,
and as quickly accepted the call as any mas.