Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-10-08
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has really done nothing else since the wat
closed, Informed the "Macon Telegraph" that
ths planters Of the South were now playing
into the. hands Of speoulators most admirably,
in rushing t'''.ir cotton on the market e
was just what the New York buyers and spss.
ulators wanted. Three weeks ago cotton wss
trm in New York at IS cents per pound, but
just 30 soon as the planters got ready TO sell;
the price immediately receded to 80 and 80
cents. with strong effort on the part of the
bears to still further reduce it, This gentle:
man stated that there was not cotton buyer
IN New York, ofany intelligence or reliability
who does not believe that cotton will 20 to
80 or 40 cents per pound in that market BY
or before the first of next May; and they
candidiy and openly express such an opinion
among themselves; and are laughing in their
sleeves at the rush the planters are now MAX
ing upon the market Just so soon as the
bulk Of the cotton crop is out of the hands Of
planters, and close guess can be made of tho
years ofop, then you will see reaction in
the price that Will astonish you. This gen.
tleman expressed real modification and shame
at the manner in which the planters were
blindly injuring themselves just now, and
expressed the belief that even before Christ.
mas they would rue their present suicidal
policy.
How WoRKINGMEN LIVE IN ENGLAND.
The London correspondence of the New
YORK "Tinies" gives most deplorable pic
ture Of the poor Of tho large cities of Kng.
land
"hiillions of people in England live almost
entirely upon BAKERS bread. Here, for exam
pie, is the way oflife of sober, hard working
Eugishman, who earns lss. week (S4.5O
gold standard), and has wife and six chill.
dren. He neither drinks nor smokes, and
hands over his whole wages to his vito. This
is common practice in we'll ordered families
She pays As. week for rent; 1s for GOALS;
candles, soap, &C., 3D.. penny week each
for six children; to burial club Cd. ON
doctors bill due, Is. Here are rs. Sd. Of
the 1885, gone, and nothing to eat. Now the
bill Of fare for those eight persons: Ono
pound of bread day for each the childresI
scarcely taste anything elss-Comes to Is.
week; twenty pounds of potatoes, Sd; one
pound of butchers meat on Sunday, and two
pounds Of salt pork for week days, Is; one
pound sugar, half pound butter, one ounce
tea, I'D, made up tho weeks account. No
milk, no fruit, no clothing. The only way
they oan have that, is the children to get work
or die; then something would come in from
the burial club. Thousands and thousands o.
men work for twc-thirds Of thedS wages or
less. Plenty, even ia l.rgs towns, work for
22s. a week Thousands cannot taste even
the Sunday meat dinner.
BEAUTIFUL THoUanT.-Forty years onoe
seemed long and weary pilgrimage to tread.
1t now seems but stop. And yet along the
way DIE broken shrires where a thousand
hopes have wasted into ashes, foot. prints sa-
cred under their drifting dust; green mounds
#here grass is fresh with watering Of tears,
shadows evea which we could not forget.
We will garner the sunshine of those years,
and with ohastencd step and heayduward hope,
push en- toward the evening whose signal
lights will soon be seon swinging where the
waters are still and the storms never beat.
Dr.. TYING met an emigrant family going
West On one of the wagons there hung
Jug with the bottom knocked out. what ID
that9 asked the Doctor. 'Why, it is ny
Taylor Jug said the man. And what is
TaylorP p asked the Dsctor. Il had son ia
Gen. Taylor's army in Mexico, and the Gen.
eral always told him to carry his whiskcy jug
with hole in the bottom, and that's It. I$
is the best invention ever met with for hard
drinkers
THR RroH AND PooR.-somebody has
we'll said: "The rich depend on the labor.
ing poor for their work on the merry poor
for their amasement on tho learned poor fors f;s
their instruction; and on the pious poor fol
their sanot;aoation. We're it not for the poor,
how miserably poor would tho rioh Be-; zee
With all the dependence on those Who worn
for, amuse, and instruct them, they aGsSt 81,
Independence that is truly ludicroas,d .
TnE "New York World" tsHards ,be nr..., .
ent condition Of the moasS innsrket os aimilans
to that which preceded tho crisis Of asfsT.
There 10 great scarcity of small Sim, ana
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