Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-02-03

the Significant fact that the "chance" men
are all busted, and the ''science" men have
got the money. 1t is the deliberate opinion
of this jury that the "chance" theory con.
cerning seven.up is pernicious doctrine, and
calculated to inflict untold suffering and pe.
cuniary loss upon any community that takes
stock in it,
"That is the way that seven up came to
be set apart and particularized in the statute
books of Kentucky as being game not
OF chance, but of science, therefore not pun.
ishablc under the law" said Mr.. Knott -
'Ii'"t verdict is of record, and holds good to
this day."
a ROYAL Row ON EDIsro IsLAND.-A
large number Of freedmen who had been re.
sldlog upon one of the plantations of the
Baynard estate, on Edisto Island, for several
years back, refused to enter into contract to
work for the present year, aud some time ago
they were ordered to leave the place. This
they positively refused to do. Upon appi.
cation to Trial Justice Magrath by tho par.
ties in charge of tho place, notices to quit
were served upon the whole party. These
notices were torn up and Indignantly fuug
back at tho officers who served them. After
the expiration of the usual time, warrants
OF cjectmcnt were placed in the hands of tho
officers, and they were ordered to execute
them. AS soou as the minions of tho law
appeared at the plantation to execute their
orders, the whole settlement turned out with
guns. muskcts, swords, axes, clubs, &C., and
attacked the invaders, who were speedily put
to flight and barely escaped with their lives
The whole plantation is now III the widest
commotion. The freedmen arc determined
not to quit the place, and swear they will kill
any one that attempts to drive item off.
The place is now we'll supplied with provs
ions, and threatens to hold out as stubbornIy
as Paris The men arc armed, and seem de-
Tie case ls III the minus IN; rrfc sAie4, ;"hs
will proceed to Edisto on Tuesday morning
with large posse comitatus.- Charleston
Ncps.
HORRIBLE OUTRAaE IN LOUISVILLE Ga.
We have received letter from Jefferson
county, giving the particulars of one of the
most rcvolting outragcs which has ever dis
graced tho annals of civilization
| 1t seems that on Saturday tight last band
of disguised men. who are supposed to have
been Ku Klux, visited Louisville, the county
site of Jefferson county, and demanded the
key of the Jail from the jaicr, j udge Dichl.
|
They went to the Jail, opened it, took out
nine prisoners, five of whom had been pre-
viously tried and convicted, and fv.lr of
whom had been committed or charges duly
made. The prisoners were carried little
distance from the village and whipped severe.
ly by the band, and the ears Of seven Of them
were cut off. They then turned these seven
loose together with one whose ears they neg.
lectcd to cut. The ninth was brought back
to the Jail, shot twelve times and killed
The one killed had been committed for bur-
ming recently the gin house of Allen Brown
The name Of this negro was Charles Butler
who formerly belonged to DR.. Dixon. One
Of the other negroes (Jim Stadleton) had
both Of his ears taken off.
The people of the country all the true
men-are justly indignant at this diabolical
conduct. They are determined to ferret out
the offenders and bring them to Justice
augusta (Ga) Chronicle & Sentinel.
EB- In Bashear City, La, fow days
since, Noyes' Crescent City circus was cxhib
ting, when it became necessary to eject two
drunken and unruly negroes In the course
of al hour, the offenders returned, accompa
MED by mob of 200 or 800 negroes, arm.
ed with shot.guns and other weapons, who
surrounded tho tent. A young man named
Wilson, clog dancer, becoming alarmed,
started to run out, and was shot dead BY the
black miscrcants. The next morning FIVE or
six negroes wero arrested for completely in
the murder, and temporarily confined in the
hotel. About noon another mob number.
ing some 800 or 400 negroes, invaded the
town, al armed with shot guns, muskets and
rcvolvors, and attacked about forty of the at.
tachees Of tho circus upon tho wharf, who
were loading the show material upon the Ma.
tagorda, woundng two slightly. The circus
men hastily jumped aboard the steamer,
which Immediately slipped it's cables and stood
out in tho bay under a dropping fire from tho
assailants. The negroes then marched out of