Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1877-11-29

pcolhilY with the CRY OF reputation being
raised, which will effeotualy prevent any
such loan as is contemplated by our ootem-
porary:
Owing to the poverty of the country gcno
rally, it has strained tho tax payer 10 meet
the demands of tho State and county 20.
vcruments tho present year. Tho taxes
just collected was for the year 1876. aud
it is obvious to every ons who is at all 10.
formed upon the peouniary condition Of q
largo majority Of tho tax payers, that it
will be impossible for them to pay another
tax out of the proceeds of the present crop.
Our representatives who will moct in few
doys, fresh from their constituents should
take in the situation at a glanoo, and nuke
provisions for running the State and county
governments without calling upon tho people
again before tho next crop is placed upon
tho market. 1t would seem that if tho
phosphate royalties are honestly paid in
there would be very little, if any deficiency,
required to run the State government. But,
in the event that it is not, the Governor
should be authorized to borrow sufficient
money to dcfray the expenses Of the govern.
| ment for six mouths of tho fiscal yoar upon
which we have just entered, to be paid from
the first collections in October, aud require
all officers Of the government to wait until
tho collections arc made in October and
November for the. latter half of their salaries.
The best way to rcliovo the counties is tho
establishment of tho old system in force
before tho Radicals came into power; and If
necessary for the Legislature to call State
order to accomplish this, it should be done
nnr l. =. .lI-
arc afflicted with too many cffioes-they are
too expensive for one sparse population and
limited means. Let US 60 back to
old ways and old names in this particular.
FIELD. MARSHAL CouNr Won WRANaEL,
whose death at the ago of 90 is Just an
uounced, was the oldest officer of rank 10
the German army and probably in the world
lIc entered the Prussian army at tho uge of
IL, fought under the present Emperor in
tho successful campaign against Bonapartc
in 1911, and served as coloncl in Blucher's
army OF the battle of Waterloo Ho distin.
guishcd himself oglinst the Berlin insur-
gents aud in the Schleswig- Holstcin cam
paign in 1858, and was mado Geld-mar-
shnl on tho Goth anniversary of his entrance
into tho Prussian service. In 1861 the old
warrior, then in his Slst year, startled all
Europe by the vigor with which he con
Quoted tho campaign against Denmark: and
was nude count by his sovereign and
covered with new decorations. On account
of his ago, he was compelled to be merely
an observer Of tho Austrian war in 1866,
and bitterly repined because unable to ac-
company the German hosts against France
in l. 4
iuacxiblc in all questions which concerned
honor. Once, it is said, when his only son
had ruined and disgracei himself at the
gambling table, tho old warrior called tho
unhappy youth into his presence. laid q
pistol on the table. aud, with the words "a
dishonorea Prussian officer has no place left
in life, walked quietly out. Tho son shot
himself, and the father never suffered his
name to be mentioned again in his hearing.
WASHINGTON, November 1S.-Thc argu
ment of the city tax cases before the Su-
premc Court began on Friday, and will last
probably until Tuesday. Mcssrs. James
Lowndcs aud A. G Magrath argue against
the levy of the tax, and Messrs. j. b.
Campbell, Phillips aud Carpenter for the
tax.
These involve the right Of the CITY of
Charleston to tax its own stock The cases
were tried before Judge Graham in Charles.
ton, in 1878, when it was decided that the
taxes were constitutionally and legally i'm
posed. An appeal was taken to the State
Supreme Court and was heard at tho April
term, 1871, The court dismissed tho
appeal, holding that the tax in question docs
not impair the obligation of the contract.
aud that payment of the tax may be en-
forced by doduotng the amount from the
interest duo on the stock. About half
million dollars arc involved.
Col Ellison S. Keitt, of Ncwbcrry, has
instituted suit against tire proprietor of tho
New York Times for SANDER; the said
proprietor, in scurrious article, published
in tho Times, having charged Colonel
Kcitt with bigamy. No more absurd
charge could have been made against the
Innocent man thon the one in the following
despatch from Washington, which appeared
in the Times, some months ago, and upon
which the plaintiff bases his suit:
ga private letter from South Carolina
states that Colonel Keitt, Of Ncwbcrry Court
llousc, was arrested at that place on Satur
day last, on the charge of bigamy, and, in
default of bail, was held to wait the action
of the grand jury. This c:cposc has oroatcd
a sensation in South Carolina, as the accused
is near relative of the late Lawrence NJ.
Kcitt, who figured so prominently in Con-
gress prior to tho rebellion, and is connected
with some of the best families 10 that State"
1t there ia any law mr. iustioo IN Nou