Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-09-08
wALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER g. 1871

-"o 'eso'u'lous were UNANIMOUSLY adopted.
The stock holders then proceeded to elect
by ballot, officers for the remainder of the
year On counting the ballots, the followin 9
gentlemen were elected. Prcsident-Gen en-
Jss ~; Harrison Secretary aud Treasurer
Nt.1i d. dailard; Directors y. S. Goth
ren, M. Q. Butler, Henry Gourdin, j. w.
Dobson, j. r. Siler, NC Altman, w. L
Love and @. d. Smith.
On motion of Mr. Wm Sloan, tho follow.
ing resolution was adopted:
RcsolOed, That the chairman of this meet.
ing, together with the local director, be re-.
quested to appoint some day in September
next, for mass meeting of the citizens of
this and adjacent counties, on the subject of
procuring aid for this railroad.
On motion Of President Harrison, the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted (:
4Resolued, That the thanks of this meetno
are horeby rendered to the chairman and sec.
retary for the prompt and able manner in
which they have discharged their respective
duties.
On motion of Mr.. j Johnston, it was
resolved, that the secretary transmit copy
OF these proceedings to tho " G. Citizen,
KsoDce Courier and AAens IFatchn,aa,
with request to publish the same. The
meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of
the President
.Isigned) j. L. ROBINSON, Ch'm'n.
ny N. ALTMAN, Secretary.
SINGULAR CASE OF FEMALE ADVENTURE.
DEVOTION AND DEATH.--One of the most
roharkable instances Of woman's attachment
to man and heroism under adversity came to
oursnotice to-day. Iobcgin at the commence
lne1t we will state that in 1860 young lady
in$the city of Arburn, NJ Y, the daughter
| of wealthy parents, eloped with young man
named Niles, railroad engineer, and both
proceeded to cleveland, Chic, and after.
wards to Toledo They were pursued by an
Infatuated brother of the young ludy, and in
the{latter place, to avoid detection, after the
@stsssMgsS ssH ceremony had been performed, the
IL tis disguise, and wife seiing: applet esnc
passed her brother several times on the street
without recognition on his part Shortly af.
terwnrd early in the war, the two went South
to Nashville, Tennessee, where Niles procur.
cd employment as locomotive engineer, his
wife engaging as fireman, still keeping up her
disguise. Between Nashville and Chattauoo-
go shot from rebel inflicted serious
wound upon the engineer, and he was taken
to the government hospital at Murfrcesboro,
Tennessee His wife followed and to her
careful nursing Niles owes his life. When
sufficiently recovered to endure the hardships
of travelling they returned to Cleuvcland A |
few months later the alleged gold discoveries
at Mandock, Canada, attracted them thither,
and the wife accompanied her husband, still
in masculine garments. The vicssitudes of
her career, exposed to hardshsps and acc.
dents, were too severe, however, and few
few weeks since she died at Cleaveland, af.
ter brief illness. Niles, who is now in this
city, is a man about 40 years of age, and
does not refer to the heroic devotion of his
wife but in terms Of the warnest admiration.
= Oshkosh Northeastern, Aug. 1SM.
SpURuEoN ON THE DUNK CuRsE.-In
his review of ''The Seven Curses of London"
Mr.. Spurgeop says:
"This demon of drink must be fought, for
it swallows men by thousands, makes their
children paupers, and their souls the prey Of
the devil There should be combined, vigor.
GUS action among all the Temperance mcu for
such control of licenses that the dens of drunk.
enness should be made far less numerous, to
say the least, and if we went in for still sever.
cr restrictions, So much the better. Wc are
Enthusiastically overdone with gin palaces and
heer.houses; they are thrust upon US at eve.
~ street corner they are multiplied beyond
any pretence of demand. Not the public's
good, but the pubioans good, appears to be
the.aim of licensers
"Quet neighborhoods cannot spring, up,
because the beer shor rises simultaneously
or if such thing should, for few nontbs,
be sccn under heaven rs a sober region, uni.
vorsaily respectable, and guiltlcss Of intoxioa
tion, the Bucchanalian missionary opens his
| temple and converts tho population to the
common error Of drinking ways j is true,
tho donand for driuk creates the supply but
1t is as surely true, tho all surrounding omni.
presence of the stimulunt suggests and propa.
gates the craving AT any rate no two opin-
oauions exist upon one point, namely, that
the accnrsed habit Of intoxication lies at the
root Of tho main part Of London's poverty,
misery, and crimo."-
TnE Air LINE ERAILRoAD--EARIY CON-
PLETION TO GREENvILLE,-Ws havo satis.
| factory infoyma ton that the Air. Line Rail.
road Is to be completed from Charlotte to
Greonville early next spring, perhaps in Fob.
ruary next. Wo shall, therefore, in all prob
ability, have direct connection between Green.
vile and New York much sooner than the
most sanguine havo calculated The finish.
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