Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-08-16

.eu" "ao hoiu ~ LulnouTBu on July ~.
The union embraces 100 societies, with
membership exceeding 10000. Gentlemen
representing the American appociat;ons we're
present from New York, Brooklin, and Co
lumbia, s. c..
IT isa blessed thing for a man to have
contented wife-one who will not live 10 a
style beyond her husbands income Just
because her next door neighbor does; one
who can be happy in the love of her hus-
band, her home, and it's beautiful duties,
without asking tho world for its smiles or it's
favor.
Tho United Methodist Free Churches of
England, with membership of only TO-.
OOO persons, have sent out, and are sustain.
ing in the foreign field, Fifty soven mission.
aries. Under tho Divine blessing, they
bave now 6,540 COMMUNICATE members Of
their native churches-2,677 Of whom we're
brought in during the past year.
Northern papers are nstonished that the
strike did not extend through the South.
We believe in the roign Of the law down
here. Any attempt ut mob violence would
DO put down With stern hand, and the
parties attempting it punished by due pro-
cess of law.
At recent meeting Of tho board of
Trustees of the South Carolina University,
the designations of all the Professors we're
accepted. Prof. Barnwell was elected Lii
brarian, and an arrangement was made
looking to the reopening of the University
at some future day.
The Columbia cnnal property which was
purchased by MIR. Sprague for the nominal
price of $500 is attracting considerable at
tention. 1t is now urged that he has failed
to comply With tho spirit of the contract,
and has also fallen short of what was do
manded by its letter. 1t is proposed now
to make him surrender or do his duty.
1t is rather significant that all the late
disturbances took place in Republican To-
oalties. Chicago and Pittsburg are Re-
publican cities, and Pennsylvania is Repub-
lican State, yet in comparison TO the record
of New York, State and city, both Demo
cratic, they present poor showing. The
dangerous classes are not all Democratic, it
would seem.
There never has been since "time where.
OF the memory OF man runneth not to tho
contrary fnor prospects of on abundant
yield Of both corn aud cotton, particular 2
the latter. Cotton is somewhat more back
ward than usual, but if no disaster overtak es
the u-on fine yield will be realized. AS to
peaches and watormeIons the abundance is
groater than for many yearp.
Not only arc fruits of oil kinds more
abundant in tho South than in any season
since the war, but they arc finer. Such
peaches have not been seen iu Georgia iu
twenty years as are now coming to market.
North Carolina now controls the mica
trade. The stove. trade now takes between
80, 900 and 10000 pounds year, nearly
all of which 10 shipped by Mitchell and
Yanoy, assisted by Jackson and Macon
counties, all 10 North Carolina.
Stanley Matthews, the roputed author of
the railroad and labor plank in the Ohio
Republican platform, (who has been inter
viewed by g correspondent of the New York
Tribune,) thinks that one result of the
great railroad strike will bo to bring new
questions to the sront in national politics
+ Some action, he thinks, will be demanded
OF Congress at the next session to protect
the public against new end perhaps moro
dangerous disturbances. Tho railroads are
not like other corporate or private enter.
prses. They. GROSS State lines, and their
efficient management is on affair vitality
affecting the whole body of the people. 4
blockade In Chicago may be of more im-
portance to the people of the State Of
New York than one within their own Dor.
ders.
Fortunately Dir. Matthews holds the
constitution, 10 the articles relating to post
routes aud to commerce between the States
conters upon Congress ample power to leg.
isate upon this question, but all do not
agree with him in this, and there can be
little doubt, he says, that the vague move
ments Of the last few years in that direction
will now crystalize into something moro
tangible under the pressure of public neoes-
sity. In any measures which may be
adopted, the liberty Of employees to combine
to demand such price as thoy choose to set
upon their labor must not be interfered
With, and the right of the companies to 90
into the labor market and got the cheapest
service they can obtain should, of course, be
recognized. What the government oan do,
he says, is to protect the public against the
consequences Of sttikos by nssertipga super.
vision over the roads, and 'obliging both
parties to all quarreis about wages to submit
their differences to tribunal of arbitration
The Government can cay to the companies
aud their men, "'rhe public interest will
not permit thu aveufes Of transit to be
blockaded while you are at odds with each
other. You must continue to operate your
roads aud leave dispute to on impartial tri>
bunal provided by the United States" A
surer method Of dealing with strikes of all
kinds has been 10 practice for some time