Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-04-09

q reward Of Five Thousand Dollars for ahe ar.
rest and conviction of the parties who muir
dered Darden, which proclamation, with many
others, will be found on this page.
[Aountain Signal.
Giants PREot.DESr.-Tho Washington
Star" says: cit IS a rather singular oircum-
stance that the difficulty now existing in re.
gard to the secretaryship Of tho Treasury
should also have been met in tho experiments
of the late Confederate States Government.
It will be remembered that when that concern
was sct up the United States statutes at large
were adopted and put in force bodily, which,
of course, included the acts imposing ~restric-
tions on the Office in question. In time, Mr..
Trenholm ono of the largest merchants in tho
south, was called to the Treasury Department,
and he filled the Office For some time before
his ineligibility was discovered. When it
was pointed out he severed connection with
all mercantile Interests liz this country, al
though we believe he maintained his relations
with q foreign house"
EXAMINATIONS FROM TEE EXECUTIVE Or.
r1oE.-Dr. B. A. Boseman (colored) has been
appointed by Governor SCOTT Physician to the
Charleston Jail.
G. Herbert Sass has been appointed Nota.
~ Public, Of Charleston.
The following Magistrates have been ap-
pointed; John B. Plumcau, for Charleston ;
Warren D. Wilkes, Anderson County WIN.
NJ. Lcndermau, Greenville; John Parker,
Marlboro; Julius Mayer, Barnwell.
Charles N. Sheperd, Jr., Inspector of Gu
ano and Fertilizers, A. G.. Magrath, Jr. OF
Charleston, and George w. Watts, Of Ian.
caster, and F. w. MoBes, Of Greenville, have
been appointed Notaries Public.
J. B. Kerrigau, j. B. Craig and Jared
Marley, Magistrates for Clarendon County.
The ACT to determine the value of oontraote
made in Confederate States notes or their
equivalent, has been signed by the Cover.
nor.
RAPE.-Cases of rape arc Of almost daily
occurrence. The Macon (Ga.) Journal re.
cords tho case Of a negro in Dooly County,
in that State, who caught two little white
girls, aged eight and twelve years, attempted
to rape them, and because one of them
screamed, cut her throat. The other he tied,
and made several attempts on hsr. Late in
tho day, sho succeeded in freeing herself tot.
tered to a %neighboring house, where she told
her story. The negro was arrested, impris.
oned, and finally confessed his orime-sayine
the devil got into him." It is reported
that the negro was afterwards taken from the
jsilor and burnt to death. The Hillboro IN.
Co. Recorder records two rapes in that section,
committed by negroes upon white girls, each
only fourteen years old.
SALT WITH WuEAr.-A correspondent OF
the Southern Cultivator' gives tho follow.
ing result of on experiment in his wheat
sowing:
~ desire to give tho readers Of the "Culti.
vator" the benefit of an experiment made by
a neighbor of mine with his last wheat crop.
He sowed down with the wheat eighty pounds
Of salt per acre, and gathered q good Drop Of
wheat, clear Of rust while all around him
made a failure. If salt will prevent rust, ey.
cry farmer should know and use it. Again,
Mr.. George Cunningham, an enterprisins
farmer in this county, in March last, sowed,
as e top dressing, equal portions Of salt and
plaster, on a portion Of a lot in wheat. AZ an
experiments the effect was porceptible to all.
The wheat thus managed was good, while
that adjacent to it was very poor. These
experiments are satisfactory to my mind that
salt is a preventive Of rust. AS the cost Of
salt is triaing~ compared to the losses sustained
by rust, all should tost it for themselves.
BORROWERS or NEwspApERs.-When a
man makes a habit of borrowing your news.
paper, you may be sure there's q screw loose
somewhere. He is either too poor or too mean
to buy one; if tho former, he must have
reached the depths Of poverty, and the fact
becoming known would injure his credit ; il
the latter, the sooner you break squares with
him tho better, fox there Is no trusting him.
In this country newspapers are 80, cheap, that
every man can buy his own paper, and IL he
can't will go without. There 10 a Germ n
proverb which says; "When Satan wishes
to angle for, aud finally oatoh q man, he fYst
eets him a borrowings Ono drink ~ sS,n Il,