Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-07-11

breast. was iting in my wagon whit
tling stick. had no weapon, but my
driver had q pistol, dcrringcr, belonging
to nc, and which had given him TO carry.
| had killed rabbit with it rs wo came
on. When J. hado Duckworth second
time to put up his weapon, said, alfred,
| want you to understand that | want no
trouble with you.'
81 then dropped my hand into the wagon.
crs pocket and took tho pistol and cooked
it, and said again, the third time, tAlfrcd,
want no fuss with you-I want only
gent cman's chance Ii replied, Got out
of that wagonn Ills pistol was cooked and
aimed at me. drew mine and fired on
him. As did so, and when the ball struck
! him, his pistol went otf and tho ball struck
under the wagon wheel l suppose his
finger contracted when he was hit, and fired
off HIS weapon. lie fell against tho fence
Landlord was bohind tho wagon and had
two pistols in his hands. A nun can think
pretty fast in such moment, and thought
tho best thing could do is to run around
aud take Landlords pistols from him
Then | thought that would be risk, as he
might kill me. started up tho road and
had gone about thirty yards, when Landlord
shot ut Inc aud kept shooting until he had
shot four times lie missed mo every timc,
and thought 'if that's tho best you can
do will 60 back and kill You ,oiM rochr
Then | thought, as he had two pistols, ho
might kill mo- so l crossed tho fcnco and
went on up the hill. I waited Tor my
wagon to come ou, but man met it aud
turned it back.
81 came over into South Carolina, and
tho next day the news camo to mo that they
thought it was all right with Duckworth;
the doctor had attended him and dressed his
wound, Git was in the throat,) aud said he
would get we'll if they didn't move him
They moved him, tho wound blcd afrcsh,
and he died that night. They examined
him and found that he had no warrant for
me. Three men, however, jumped on their
horses aud went to Frank Cases to get the
warrant, and ho wouldn't give it up. Case
soon after sent me word that if would
come and give him $780, COSTS, he would
give mo the warrant. thought it would
do mo no good, an SO | didn't go for it.
He has it yet. The names of those who
were present aud saw tho killing were Peter
Lincc, his son, William linco, aud Joe aud
ls; B9s" G'''by !. They could prove Y, all have
father told jim Cautroll, tho other day, that
his son was highstrung and had done
wrong. That when ho was first killed he
wanted them to got nc, but since l hat
been so prosecuted ho would do anything
he could to holp me. IIo hoped, he said,
that would get out Of tho way. lIc said
at tho same time, that ho supposed Red
monl would kill him, too, now, if he got q
chance; but would not hurt him or any
other man, unless they forco me to do so
Cantre!l told him as much, and tha, would
como laughing, and if had auytbing to
drink ho would get it. IIo would bo just
as good 10 you as he wcud be to me-
"Thc feeling against mo on account ol
DucIworth' 8 killing has died ont ip North
Carolina" said Redmond, in concluding this
portion of his story, "and l would be per
fectly willing to 70 there and surrcnde,
myself any day for trial if my case could
hD tried ia the State courts. | am mol
willing to atand trial in the United States
Court, where tho revenue officers would
have it all their own way, and could swea,
what they pleased against me, or pay some
ono elso to do it,
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Thc 0utIoak GoA' Better Times
One Of the most notable articles I'd tho
July y-August number Of tho International
Ro"cY is paper OH industrial recopstruc--
tion By Mr.. Edward Atkinson, of Massa-
chusotts. Mr. Atkinson, after a careful
survey Of tho industrial field, holds TINT the
limit of the fall in prices has been reached,
and that with the practical disappearance
of the so-caled premium on gold our nor.
nal relations with the world arc about
restored, and VIC may look forward with
confidence to renewed prosperity at no very
diatanS day. Referring to our exports and
their enormous increase Of late, he ponts
out that tho great volume Of them consists
of articles Of prime necessity to foreign pco.-
pies. "Our corn and meat Europe lhust
have or suiler from want; our cotton sho
must buy or her operatives must be dlo
and her commerce crippled; our petroleum,
our lumber, our leather aro ARTICLES of
common need, not of luxury, and many of
our goods aud wares command tho markets
of tho world" IIo contends that the
waste of war was not wholly waste; that n
good deal of tho monoy expended was used
10 the Improvement of farms, in conducting
railroads and mills and factories. Vast
improvements wcrc also mado in manufao-
turing mechanics arts and in labor sayinr