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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-07-14

Joint Resolution Directing that Funds known
as "Cnnby School fund" Remaining in
hands OF County Treasures be appropria-
ted to the Free School Fund.
BE it resolved hy the Senate and House o..
Representatives of the State Of South Caro-.
liua, now met and sitting in General Assem-
bly, ard by the authority Of the same:
That such suns Of the Appropriation Of
so, goo for the support Of Free Schools for
the year commencing October 81, 1869, and
ending Nctolcr 81, 1868, and known as the
Candy Fund" now remaining in the hands
Of tic several County Treasurer, be, and
be, and The same is hereby, appropriated for
the payment Of teachers claims in the sever
al Counties, for shc fiscal year commencing
Novcmhcr | 1869, and any uncxpcndcd bal
lance Of the same shall be applied to the
Free School Fund of said Counties.
Approved March l. 1871.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-07-14

no. The Anderson Micihycnccr says :
"presdcnt Buiord, Of the Air line Railroad,
visited our town on Tuesday last. lie was
waited upon by a committee of gentlemen re-
presenting the town, and convcrscd very pleas.
antly in regard to the location of the road by
this place. lie seems quite anxious that the
surveys now being made from GrccnviIc by
way OF this town to Gainesville shall be
thorough and exhaustive, and further declares
that it would be gratifying to find an easy
cheap and desirable route by Anderson, in
consequence Of its local business and advan.
tagcs
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-07-14

joint Resolution to Authorize the County
Commissioners of kcls!iaw County to Levy
Special Tax, for the Purpose of Building
County Jail
Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representative Of tho State of South Caro-
lima, now met ard sitting in General Assem-
oly, aud by the athorty Of The same, That the
County Commissioners, Of Kcrshaw County
bc,and they arc hereby, authorized to lesy Il
special tax Of two mills on the dollar upon
tic assessed value Of the real and personal
pr pcrty in snid County, forthc purpose of
erecting y County jal ut Camden.
Approved March 8, 1871.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-07-14

Joint Rc;o.u'ion Authorizing thc Attorney
General to Purchase Fire Proof Safe for
the use Of the A;torney-Gcncral's Office
BE it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives, of the State OF South Car
oln,, uow met and sitting in General Assem-
bly,, and by the authority of the same:
That the Attorney General be, and he is
hereby, authorised to purchase n fire proof
s,fc Cor the use of the Attorncy.Gcncral' S
Office, Mt a cost of not more than eight huu-
died dollars.
Approved March 0, 1871.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-07-14

situate and lying in Marlboro County, latey
held by John Ross, dsccased, bo, aud tho
samo is hereby, vested in John Wetherspoop,
Executor of the last will and testament Of
the said John Ross, in trust, therefrom un
der ihc provisions Of said will
Approved March 9, 1871.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-07-14
Ayers Cathartic Pills,
For nll tho purposes of Laxative
Modicino
of q Laxative

Pcrliapsno onomcdi.
cine Is so universally
required by every
body ;ls a calhartic,
nor was ever any beS
tUrc SO universally
adopted into use, lin
cvcry country md
among all classes, as
this mild but efficient
purgativc Pftt. Tho
obvious reason is,
thatit Is Il moro rclia.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-07-14


Port Royal Railroad, and every part thereof,
is hereby extended for the period Of two years
from the passage Of this Resolution.
Approved March 8, 1871.
NASHVILLE, July "A train of two
coaches and ~ sleeping car, hence at $50,
yesterday, on the Nashville and North west.
crn Road, after the locomotive and baggage
car was over, went through the bridge at
IIarpeth River. Fifteen were killed twenty.
three wounded Kiled-John Marshall,
Nashville Judge lIornborgcr, GAINESVILLE !;
Clnrlcs Campbell, wife and child Edgclicld,
and three men unknown; Mrs Wm S. Heat
man and Mrs. Thomas Dunn, Kingston
Springs; Mr.. Pcndergast and Mr. Wright,
| White Bluff; j. c. Brockct and brother,
Wm. and Wiley Howard, Marshall County.
The wounded arc w. w. Gee, brakeman,
| Y. Hale, Point Isabel, Ind; Mrs. Heard,
Trenton, Tenn. j. W. Scott, Mr.. Wthcrst,
Miss Glen Leak and John Campbell, Nash
vile; j w. Thompson, Amherst Court
House, Va Alex. Wright, White Bluff wv.
Walker, Union City; w. II. Ycatman, Mem.
phis; Thomas II. Yeatman, Kingston
| Springs; Mrs Brown, JohnsonvilIc John
Pcgram and brother; conductor Lands; S.
S. Brown, Nashville; Robert Daniel, Bed
ford County, and Thomas Dunn, Kingston
Springs. None of the wounded arc mortally
hurt Dead and wounded brought to Nash
vile.
WESTERN KLUx.--Thc Ku-Klux arc
pretty lively in Illinois and Indiana Meth
or of these States hss been fully reconstructed
since its "rcbcl' days In Illinois man
recently hanged school mistress for wbir.
ping his child, and shc was nearly dead when
She was cut down; and in. Indiana some per.
sons unknow threw torpedocs and shells into
tho house Of quiet family, iniuring nearly
all the inmates and firing the house. B
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-07-14
An Act to Authorize Sylvanus Mayo t
Build Wharf in the Town of Beaufort.

An Act to Vest the Right and Title of the
State in and to Certain Eschcatcd Proper.
ty in a Certain Person Therein Named
SEcrroN |. BE it enacted by the Senate
and House Of Representatives of the State
of South Carolina, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by tho authority of
tho same:
That oil tho right, title and interest which
the State may have in certain tract of land,
containing two hundred acres, moro or less,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-07-14

April 81, 1871
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-11-03


laceratcd flesh, he reached the insecure
asylum he sought.
| In the meantime, the Roman Senate
had hurriedly assembled. Emboldencd
by the instruction, and by the ap.
proach Of Galba, they passed decree
declaring Nero TO be tho enemy of his
country, and booming him to death,
more mgjorum-that is, according to
ancient custom. Some one of NerO's
companions brought him tho tidings in
his hiding place. Pallid and trembling,
he inquired, "And what is death moro
mqjorums" ?" The appalling reply was ::
at Is TO be stripped naked, to have the
head fastened in pillory, and be
scourged to death !"
The monster who had amused himself
in witnessing the torture of others, re-
coiled with horror from the dreadful
ailliction. Selling dagger, he again
endeavored to nerve himself to plunge
it into his heart. A prick from the
sharp point was all he could summon
resolution to inflict. lie threw the dag
ger aside and groancd in terror. lie
then strove to talk himself into courage.
"Ought Nero" said he, I" to be afraid :?
Shall the Emperor be coward? No
Let me die courageously ~
Again he grasped the dagger, anxious
ly examined its keen edge, and again he
threw it aside with groan of despair.
Just then the clattcr of horsemen was
heard, and party of dragons was seen
approaching. His retreat was discov-
cred, and in a few moments Nero would
be helpless in the hands Of his enemies.
Then there would be no possible escape
from the ignominious and agonizing
death. In the deliriUm of despair he
ordered freedman to hold sharp
sword so that he might throw himself
violently against it. He thus succeeded
in severing the jugular vein, and his
life blood spouted forth. AS he sank
upon the ground the soldiers came up.
He looked at them with malignant
scowl, and saying, "You're too late! "
died.
Thus perished this monster of deprav-
ity. 1t is said that this event took place
on the 10th of June, A. d., 6S. Many
Christians at the time supposed Nero to
be the Anti-Christ. The wretch had
reigned thirteen years, aud died in the
thirty-second year of his age. In view
of his career, the only solution upon
which the mind can repose is found in
the declaration of Scripture: "After
death comes the judgment"
These events occurred eighteen hun.
dred years ago. During the long and
weary centuries which have since claps.
ed, what spectacle has this world al
most constantly presented to the eye of
God. The billows of war have with
scarcely any intcrmission surged over
the nations, consigning countless mil
lions to bloody graves. Pcstilence ant
famine have ever followed in the trair
of armies, creating an amount of misery
which no human arithmetic can guage
Slavery, intemperance, domestic dis
cord, ungovcrhablo passions, the tyran
ny of kings, the oppression of the ricf
and powerful, and the countless form:
in which man has trampled upon his
feebcr brother man, have made this
world indeed vale of tears. The stu
dent of history is appalled, in view OF
the woes which, during century after
century, man has visited upon his fel
low man.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-11-03
COL. DEM. -. VOL. XXXV-- NO. 81.

banks in manner so uniform and
measured as to CONCEAL around the
edges OF the great lake, and build for
itself barrier around the fearful cal
dron of fire. The lava thus walled in,
gradually roso many feet above the
level where ! and others stood, at first
quite unconscious of the terrific process
that was going on so near us. The fiery
waves, tapping over the margin, con-
gealed where they fell, and thus builded
up, little by little, their inclosing wall.
The surface ofthe sea of fire was elevated
about thirty feet above the level Of tho
bottom of the crater IL was boiling
mass of fluid lavas, half q mile in diam
eter, that surged and Numbered and
sent down threatening roar. Splashes
Of liquid fire, hurled over tho margin
of its combining barrier, fell among our
company. Warned by this danger, we
withdrew to short distance, and
awaited the breaking forth of the i'm
prisoned fire. We had hardly gained
our new point Of observation before the
lava wall gave way in two places with
a laundering crash and roar, and from
each of the rents thus made q torrent of
liquid fire poured over a cliff fifty feet
high, into a rough channel of former
flow. Roaring, glowing, smoking, and
wreathed in blush flames, it ground
along the lava channel with a peculiar
dull thunder, that was caused by the
ponderous weight of the motion mass.
1t Tapped up huge rocks and bore them
away upon its surface; I could SEQ them
oscillate slugglshly upon the red river,
and finally melt and sink into it like so
much wax. The power and splendor
of this sudden display, the fierce sweep
of the mighty torrent, the strange pro-
cess that had heaped up the flood of
lava to disgorge it with such resistless
power, all made spectacle never to be
forgotten by any of the party who
witnessed it.-Dr. Z. NJ. Coan, IN Serb
3ler's for OcfOJer
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-11-03

portaDt or what possible use In a
pulpit can any man be whose weeks arc
FILTERED away in mean cares and dirty
economies? Every month, or every
quarter.day, every pastor should be
sure that there will be placed in his
hands, as his just wages, money enough
to pay all his expenses. Then, without
a sense of special obligation to anybody
he can preach the truth with freedom,
and prepare for his public ministrations
without distraction. Nothing moro
cruel to a pastor, or more disastrous to
his work, can be done than to force
upon him feeling of dependence upon
the charities of his flock. Tho Office of
such Il man does not rise in dignity
above that of court.fool. He is the
creature of tho popular whim, and a
preacher without influence to those who
do not respect him or his Office suili-
GENTLY to pay him the wages due to a
man who devotos his life to them.
Manliness cannot live in such man,
except it be in torture-a torture en-
dured simply because there are others
who depend upon the charities doled
out to him.
Good, manly pastors and preachers
do not want gifts: they want wages.
1t is not kindness to exc out insufii-
cient salaries by donation parties and
by benefactions from the richer MEM
bers of flock. 1t is not merit, as
they seem to regard it, for parishes or
individuals to do this. 1t is an ac-
acknowledgement of indebtness which
they are too mean to pay in business
way. The pastor needs it and they
owe it, but they take to themselves the
credit of benefactors, and place him in
an awkward and false position. The
influence of this state of things upon
the world that lies outside of the sphere
of Christian belief and activity is bad
beyond calculation. We have had
enough of the patronage of Christianity
by halfscofiing, half.tolerating world.
If Christians do not sufficiently recog-
nize the legitimacy of the pastors call
ing to render him fully his just wages,
and to assist him to maintain his inde-
pendence before the world, they must
not blame the world for looking upon
him with a contempt that forbids ap-
proach and precludes influence. The
world will be quite ready to take the
pastor at the valuation of his friends,
and the religion he teaches at the price
its professors are willing to pay, in a
business way, for its ministry. Il.
G. Holland, IN Scri5ner's for October.
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Miscellaneous.
The Royal Family of England.
Is QUEEN VICTORIA INSANE?- THE
STORY or GEORGE III. AND
A PARALLEL.

Simple, stubborn, affectionate, big
oted " George III.-grandfather to Her
Gracious Majesty Queen Nictoria-has
been sadly brought to mind again by
the extraordinary statements attributed
whether falsely or not the cable tele-
graphers are not agreed) TO Mr.. Disra-
eli. Should the condition of the Queen
he really what Mr.. Disraeli is reported
to nave declared it is. the theory con-
corning congenital disorders, mental or
physical, will find signal Illustration.
The Third George "worked according
to his lights"-so Thackeray tells us in
the mastery sketch in which Farmer
King is vividly pictured-"what virtue
he knew he tried to practice; what
knowledge he could master, he strove
TO acquire. He wished nothing but
good, therefore every man who did not
agree with him was Il traitor and n
scoundrel." Pure in his life, courageous
and honest, the awful will of heaven
made him "dull of comprehension, OBJ
stinate of will, and at many times de-
prived him of reason" Does the paral-
lei hold good with the present Queen,
who is Just now the target of new
flight of arrows? Within the month
the London Spectator and the other
moderate journals of England have re-
buked her for Incidence, and now the
telegraph brings non-authenticated re-
ports of her insanity. Victoria is as
pure in her life as her grandfather was
not, perhaps, so "sociable," chatty, I'M
reserved as he, but still good wife, good
mother, and conscientious as woman,
if useless as ruler; but since the death
of the Prince Consort she has rarely ap
peared in public, ard has taken scarcely
any other part in affairs than that o.
aiiiXing the royal signature, and by
seduiously abstaining from the dutie'
incumbent upon the monarch, has made
herself the subject of sharper animad
version than Englishmen have beer
wont 10 bcslow upon their Kings ant
Queens. Her gloomy mood and hel
continued seClusion have unquestiona
bly, given some degree Of color to th'
rumors which have been industrouslS
circulated without authoritative contra
diction.
1t is interesting TO rccur to the histor.
of George ii. in order TO trace the pro
gress of his malady-and weagain quot
from Thackeray, who says;
"All history presents no sadder figur
than that of the old man, blind and dc
privtd of reason, wandering through
the rooms of his palace, addressing
imaginary parliaments, reviewing fan
cied troops, and holding ghostly courts.
And then the kindly satirist goes on
81 have seen his picture as it wa
taken at this time, hanging in the apart
ments Of lis daughter, the Landgravin
! of Iesse IIambourg-amid books an,
Windsor furniture, and hundred font
"reminiscences Of her English home
The poor old father is represented in
purple gown, his snowy beard fallin
over his breast, the star Of his famou
Order still idly shining on it. He wa
not only sightless-he became utterl
deaf All light, all reason, all sound G
human voices, all the pleasures Of thl
world of God, were taken from him
Some slight lucid moments he had, Il
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-11-03
Shepherds and Their FlOcks.


A misunderstanding mistake is made
when pastors and people fail to estab-
lish and maintain between each other
a business relation just as Independent
Of the spiritual as it is possible to make
it. The physician may be, and in null
titudcs of instances is, the dearest family
friend; but he lives by his profession,
and his services have recognized
money value which he expects to re.
ceivc without a question. He would
prefer, perhaps, to render his services
without reward, especially to those
whom he loves /; but he has mouths to
feed and provision TO make for rainy
days, and for the days of helplessness
that come at last to all. So, though
love and sympathy, and selfdenial for
love and sympathy's sake may have
actuated him in all his daily round of
duty, he goes home at night, takes
down his blotter, and enters his charges
as formally as if he had been selling
farm produce or tin-ware.
There is a feeling in many parishes
that it is gift by whatsoever any
pastor may be profited by them, that
a pastor earns nothing, and that in all
things he is the beneficiary Of the parish.
To make his matter thousand times
worse, there are pastors not few who
take the position to which the parishes
assign them, and assist in perpetuating
the mistake. They are men whose
hands are always open to receive what
ever comes who delight in donation
parties, and who grasp right and left,
with unsuitable greed, at gifts. They
become so mean spirited that they do
not like to pay for anything, and do
not really think it right that they
should he called upon to pay for any
thing. They are sponges upon their
people aud the community. Wherever
they happen to be, they " lie down u
on the brethren. There is nothing OF
value that they are not glad to receive,
and there is nobody that they are moi
glad TO be indebted to for favors. Some
times they are extravagant, and have
graceless way of getting into debt
out of which they are helped yearly
and out of which they expect to bt
helped yearly. The ablect meannes'
into which n pastor can sink, and the
corresponding and consequent power
lcssness into which he can descend, find
too frequent illustration among tho
American ministry. 1t is shocking and
sickening that there are some men who
seem forced by their parishes to live IL
this way, and it is still more disgusting
to find men who seem tolerably com
Portable and contented while living II
this way. If a man is fit to preach, h,
is worth wages. If he is worth wages
they should be paid with all the bust
ness regularity that is demanded ant
enforced in business life. There is M
man in the community who work
harder for the money he receives THAI
the faithful minister There Is no mai
in whose work the community Is In
terested-to whom regular wages, tina
shall not cost him thought, are so In
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-11-03
The Death of Nero.

Most of our readers are more or less
familiar with the character of the Roman
Emperor Nero, and With tho perseCu-
tions the Christians suffered under his
reign. A graphic description of the
suffering to which the Christians were
exposed by this merciless despot would
but harrow the feelings of the reader.
Demoniac ingenuity was employed in
inficting the most revolving and terrible
torture. The victims were so disguised
by being sewod up in the skins of wild
beasts, or wrapped up in tarred sheets,
to be set on fire as torches to illuminate
the gardens of Nero, that they were de-
prived of all sympathy, and exposed
only to the derision OF the brutal mob.
Tender Christian maidens passed thro'
ordeals of exposure, suffering and death
too dread full for us in these modern days
even to contemplate. The divine sup
port which Christ promised his dis
ciples in these predicted hours of perse.
cution sustained them.
One night Nero, dressed in women's
clothes, was in one of the palaces Of
Rome, surrounded by his boon COM
panions, male and female, indulging in
the most loathsomc orgies, when great
uproar was heard in the streets. A mes
senger was sent to ascertain the cause.
He returned with the appalling tidings
that Galba, at the head of an avenging
army, was marching rapidly upon
Rome; that Instruction had broken
out in the streets, and that countless
mob, breathing threatening and slaugh
ter, were surging toward the palace.
The Wretched tyrant, as cowardly n
he was Infamous, was struck with dis
may. lie sprang from the table 50 sud-
denly as to overturn it, dashing the
most costly vases in fragments on the
floor. Beating his forehead like mad
man, he cried 81 am ruined am ru'
ined I" and called for a cup of poison
Suicide was the common resort in thos(
days, of the cowardly in the hours o
wretchedneSs. Nero took the poisoned
cup, but dare not drink it. lie called
for dagger, examined its polished
point, but had not suili cient nerve tC
press that to his heart. lie then rushed
from the palace, in his woman's garb
and with his long hair iluttering in th'
wind. Thus disguised, he almost flew
through the dMk and narrow streets
intending to plunge into the Tiber
When he reached the bank and gaze,
upon its gloomy waves. again his cour
age failed.
Several of his companions had accom-
panied him. One of them suggested
that he should fee to II country seat
about three miles from Rome, and ther
conceal himself Insane with terror
bareheaded, in his shameful garb, h
covered his face with his handkerchief
leaped upon n horse, and succeeded
through the thousand perils, IA gainin
his retreat. Just before he reached tn
, villa, some alarm so frightened him tina
he leaped from his horse, ana plunge
into a thicket by the roadside. Throug
brers and thorns, with torn clothes an