Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-01-10
State Items.

Inc NewOerry iiefdt1 opposes tho estaD.
lishmcnt Of State University at this time.
Col. D. Wyatt Aiken thinks that Carolina
could easily grow all tho toa consumed by the
United States.
There arc now moro convicts in tho State
Penitentiary than hare ever boon in that in
stitution.
The difference between the expenditures
under Chamberlain and Hampton amounts to
$l,O45,000. Reform.
Judge Northrop eays ho is confident the
conyenes in January.
Fairfield County is out of debt. oxoopt 70
school Claims, which amount to about one
thousand dollars.
Dypthoria is on the increase in Newberry;
several deaths hayo occurred during the past
week.
Mike Floyd coorcd, was killed. by train
on the South Carolina Railroad, ut Wiliston
last wock.
The dwelling of Mr.. G. w. Montgomery, q
few miles above Columbia, was destroyed by
fire on tho 4th. Loss about $l,500. No inss~
rance.
Lynch Evinc, of Barnwell County, shot
and killed Cyrus lIawkinson ono day last
week. Both colored. Lynch, it is said, has
fed to Georgia.
A disastrous fire occurred at Kingstree,
last week, destroying tho store Of L., Benja-
min and Edwin Epps. Fire supposed to bo
the yyork IF nj ;p,on.};o,,
The Batcsburg Monitor is the title of q new
paper recently started at Batosburg.
The street railroad in Grconyle has been
leased for five years at 81 900 year.
Miss Ida Jones, the daughter of Major
Samuel L. Jones, of Grcenvillc, died suddenly
in Charleston recently, where she had gone
to finish her education.
John Rambo was shot and killed by John
Lowry, in Edgofeld County recently. Low
ry made his escape.
Tho house has passed bill requiring MI
executions of the death penalty to be imposed
privately. We hope it will become q law, as
VIC believe good would result from it's enact
mont.
a bill has been introduced in tho Legisla-
turo requiring persons who contemplate mar,
riagc to obtain license before tho ceremony
can be legally performed. Cooval with it
another has been introduced repeating the
divorce law.
The Commissioner of Internal Reyonue
intends increasing his forco of deputy collect.
ors in North and South Carolina and Georgia
khokt tho,, bo L.
nal Revenue laws in that region, and to
prevent defiance Of government officers with
success, as was tho case at Spartanburg, S.
c., last week.
The election in Union County on tho 10Th
instant, to fill tho vacancy in the House of
Representatives occasioncd by the resignation
Of Hon. W. II. Wallace, resulted in the elec-
ton Of r. w. Shand by q handsome majority
over an independent candidate.
The Camden (Korshaw) Gazette says that
about forty negroes passed through town last
Monday on their way to Liberia. They are
said to have como from Lancaster, and
are on their way to Charleston to get
aboard tho "big ship" which is to to take
them to Liberia.
Mr.. George Johnstono, the regular Demo-
cratic candidate for member Of the Lcgisla-
ture, and the Rev. j. @. Boyd, tho regular
Democratic candidate for school commissioner
for Newborry County, havo becn eleotod over
tho independent candidates by nearly 200
majority.
Tho Abbevilo Press and Bannar, speaking
Of our reduction in price, says: "The KEowgE
COURIER is an excellent newspaper and we
fear it has made mistake iu reducing it's
subscription to 80 low q figure. 1t is worth
the money formerly charged for it, and we
doubt not, it's humorous subscribers woro
willing to paya fair prico for such an ably
conducted newspaper"
Says the Edgefeld Aduertiser: "Tho lion
low is repealed and the usury law is enacted.
Times are bound to be hdrd. Tho merchants
have shut down on credit, and tho bank docs
not want to loan. Yos wo expcct this, but
our people must bear it for awhile. Let us
commence in 1878 anew in life, and create q
capital for ourselves, got out Of the hands Of
banks and capitaliste. Tho lien law being
repealed, and the usery Law bslag enacted
lafter one years hardships we will moyo on to
twcaltlpand prosperity.