Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-11-10

Curses hko Chickens, come Home to
ROOSt."


Curses ike Chickens, come Home to
RooSt."
While We feel truly sorry for the suffcrings
and privations of tho poor of Chicago, we
cannot forget altogether tho past That &C.
centric individual, Rev. Henry Ward Beech.
or, who shouted Justify once for Sharp's Ri
Hes for Kansas Freedom Shriekes, is one of
his characteristic sermons(?) in New York,
lew days ago, III rapture cried, "God bless
the theatres for their charity to Chicago !;
but he could not close the subject without a
sneer at the South, the had seen no contri.
buttons from that quarter"
| 1t somc OF the silver now used in the
Northern Churches and on private tables,
taken from Columbia when it was burned up
by sherman, was returned, the Counbians
might feel better able to exhibit their charity
We cannot forgct' when the State House IN
Richmond fell and occasioncd such a loss of
lllc, that the Northern Press exclaimed it was
n rrovldcntial punishment for the Rebels
That was after we had heard "Lct us have
pcacc" We cannot forget the Yankee cxul.
tation over the burning of Columbia, tho dc.
vaStation aud ruin in Shcrman's "murch to
the Sea- We cannot forget their enjoyment
of Maj. Nichols (Shcrmans chief Of staff
vivid pictures of the clouds of smoke and pill
lars of fire which marked their path. Nenal,
Sab, nor the most fcrocous Scpoy, could
have enjoyed tho suffcrngs of tho poor suffer.
ers Of Columbia more than did that great pu.
ritnn heart which Mr.. Bccchcr blows about
30 much, 80 Great Puritan heart !! We
cannot forget that when the Southern papers
were expressing some anxiety about the late
tidal wave, that Chicago paper said, it
would be good thin. if it could submcrge
the whole South; nor can we forget that even
while the fires were burning, n Chicago cor
respondent ascribed their origin to Southern
Ku.Klux.
Mr. Bccchcr is welcome to our poor sym
pashy We have no money to give and don't
feel It our duty to give it it we had The
North has grown fat and sleek on p!underiny
the South on Shoaay contracts, on pccua
ton, fraud aud Legislative robbery. They
enjoy the ostentation of giving, and can make
rs much ont Of it rs most people, aud there is
no danger Of their impovcrishing themselves
by charitable acts, or in their not letting the
"riGht hand know what the left hand docth >"
In every North IN demonstration we only see
the old Phariscc-"'rhank God that | am
not us other mcm. - tniou Times
"looK on THIS PIcrunE, THEN ON
THAT. Tile Charleston NrgS Ia permitted
TO publish the following dispatch, which was
sent from Augusta, Ga, several days ago:
AUGUSTA, Ga, October Is, 1870.
10 the Ion, 4Noyor of' tie CIlyof Chjcogo: ::
Please draw on us for one ,housand dol
lars and distribute it among Your afflicted
people. BRANCH, SONS e. co.
Maj Il. y. Branch, the subscribing nem
Der and leading spi,it Of tho Gr;l, was gal
liant officer, IN Il prominent virginia rcA.i
msnt, and ~ y prisoner oi war wa: drawn a.
II hostage, ard !in;.lly, with many others, was
planted in range Of the guns of Fort Sumter
,l.c Romo ,mmr,riui states that in 1866
gentleman wrote FROM Georgia 10 q miui.trr
IN Chicago, rrpues,in. his assistance in Sa!.c
lting funds in tilat city u rchuli Que Of the
lS, aai,fSl lSc io,lowi",s nj in rn" r"spoS.
81 an at this time minister in ;he Old
school l'yeshJ Jtr'au Chwrnh, anl y -----
sent he y"wr petition ,ha> might Try to get
something .ior y1Ur AID IL rebuilding your
church. Bat haa 80 heart to to anything
with IL. lfl"r tee p@"p'c ~ou'1 rutter re.
b"ra .po" iA"m 10 nn yoa. Snal, sadly
small. is the Nh,iSian charity in this i.:::. .:
the world Fanatlcism seems to reign aud
rlotwhle hatred and mur,irrons malice wonld
hold still their bloody carnival"
| BrEvirY IN DEEDs. The California STATE
commission, appointed to revise the statute:
Vi that state, rccu,nn.end the adoption OF ,hc
!oliowiu:. new form of decd, as much better
thnn the long and Pathological Que now in
| use:
This grant made ----day of --, in the
year --, by ---- grnntor to --grau,rc
witnesses in that the @ranter in considcratio,
Of - dollars received from grantee, grants
to the grantee the real property situated ---
and bounded ~ follows:
Attest the hand of said .rantor -
Brcyi!y and binding force here take tn,
place Of the present yerbiagc and tautolog,
which bcoloud the meaning and increase Tho
cost ofrccording deeds We some time since
showed that there are one hundred and fifty
unnecessary words in the present forms o
bargains and sale deeds The copying of thes,
words imposes tax on all deeds recorded, in
addition to unnecessarily multiplying the nun
Der Of books in the halls of records. 1t i,
fully time that the old medieval style of Fin
@lish conveyance be wholly abrogated, and
we rejoice to see the State of California tax
ing measures to shorten and render sensible
the old musty forms. The District of Col
umbia has also adopted shorter form
What State will do 1t next p Thc Luno
! Drucr