Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-08-23
Fifteen Thousand Christians Slain
Dy Turks.

ny Turks.
LONDON, August lathe Ncus' Bu-
oharist correspondent tolegraphs as follows:
81 have written the following as I received
it, and from the terrible accounts which the
fugitives continually bring over the Balkans,
l fear it must be only too true. On July
III, tho day of the Russian evacuation of
Eski Saghra, the Turks ordered that all
Christions, men, women aud children,
should DO shot as they left their houses.
Those who remained within were burnt alive.
The order was given to buru down and de-
sstroy every particle of Christian property
in the place. Many leading Turkish mcr-
chants took part in tho affair. One des
patched lnrge number of Bashi Bnzouks
over the Tohirpan District This district
is one Of the richest in that part of Turkey.
1t coutaina very largo proportion of
Christian inhabitants, with over 200
churches and 500 schools aud colleges all
of which have been burned The destruo..
tion extended to the villages of Broe hdan,
Maho'esi, RAM aud mnny others; in all
about sixty villages containing from $50 to
200 families each. Scarcely fifty persons
have escaped alive. The Bulgarian fugi-
tives ut Gnbro1a and Selvi estimate that
from IL 600 to $4,000 Christmas hive been
mnssacrcd in the Eski Saghra aud Tohirpan
districts alone. Soldiers were posted along
the road from Eski Sughra to Kasanlik with
orders to shoot everybody passing
The Times military correspondent at
Eucharist gives particulars of the Eski
Saghry massacre similar to those tolegraphed
by the Da,Iy Ne,os' correspondent.
THE STRIKER Who STARTED THE GUAR
STRIKE "A fireman named AmmOn had boon
discharged for gond cause from the service of
tho Fort Wayne Railroad. In rcvenge he
conceived tho idea of inaugnruting resis
tance to the road 10 the form of q strike lie
went at tho work coo!ly and deliberately.
His scheme at first contemplated engineers NJ
we'll firemen and brak emeu in n grand con
certed movement. but tho engineers had
already been on an unsuccessful strike. and
besides wcro already banded in n brotherhood
governed by regular code of laws, and act-
ing only on its own motinn, independent of
all other lradee unions. lie. therefore. con-
fined his efforts to the fremcn, brnkemen and
conductors and switchmen. and equipped with
q ritual and set Of rules and bylaws similar
to thoao Of tho engineers, he travelled up and
down the eastern division of the Baltimore
and Ohio Rnilrond as well rs the Fort Wayne
bound bv oath to resist the railroad company
through the medium of atrikes. Having nc
com plisi,ed his work 81 far IA theso roads were
concerned, he next essayed the Pennsylvania
Central. and was succeeding so we'll in his
work that he enlarged hs field of labor and
sent out emissuries to work tho New York
and Erie Roade lie seems to have had a
decided faculty for organizing. and an inteli-
gencc above the average class of work men to
10 oh ha holn III 80
ing the same degree of success ut tho head nf
the fremen and brakemen that Mr.. Arthur
has achieved as the organizer of the engineers
in his Brotherhood of tho Foot Board. Had
he succeeded, the strike would have been
much mnrc formidable than tho event hns
proved. Before he had cnmpleted bis purpose.
however. thoro was premature explosion in
West Virginia. on the line of the Baltimcre
and Ohio Road. and when he had laid the
train on that and other roads. it spread with
wonderful rapidity. Everything was oppor.
tune. lle had prepared the way. and the
ten per cent. reduction was tho match that
started the con0agraton.. The strike was the
end he was aiming at, but it came too soon
His plans were not fully contaminated. but
when once it started, it was beyond his con-
troll. Chicago Times.
THE FAMINE IN INDIA.-The Marquis
of Salisbury, Secretary of State of Icda,
speaking on Friday at the prize distribution
at the College Of Indian Engineers, gave q
very gloomy view Of famine prospects IN
India II regret to say," the Marquis re- .
marked, "that our prospects instead IF
Frightening have during the last few weeks
become more gloomy. There appears too
much reason to believe that second period
of famine is settling down over tho vast
district which constitutes Southern India,
and that famine cannot do otherwise than
produce terrible mortality. 1 fear there is
little reason to hOre."
After expluining how the difficulties of
coping with tho famine wccc increased by
the lack of railway communication, and tho
fact that nearly all tho drnught animals had
died Of drought, the Marquis said: but
the physi; ;al circumstances are such that
even il we can prevent any widespread
suffering from actuul famne-which l very
muoh doubt--thero o,n be no doubt that
severe epdemics will follow and complete
its work /"
The Constitutional Convention of Georgia
seems determined co put down tho wild hunt
for judicial Offices in that State by fixing
tho salaries at very low living rates The
salaries of tho Supreme Court judges arc
fixed at not exceeding three thousand dol
lars in currency. Tho Superior Court
judges and solicitors general aro to bo
elected by joint ballot Of the Legislature,
with aalarios not to exceed two thousand
dollars 10 currency. There was a long
debate and a hard struggle on these matters,
but the retrenohment and reform p,rty wero
victorious. Tho Attorney Gonoral of tho
State is to be elected by the people, and