Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-10-24

Bishop w. NJ. Wightman, of the NJ. Il
Church South, recently had very narrow
escape in Montana Territory. Ho had just
been to hold q conference at Denver, Color.
ado, and went thence to Montana to hold
the conference there. Ho was, Of course,
on stage, and one bright morning he
reached breakfast house to fud it in
flames. The Cheyenne Indians had just
made raid on the place, and had destroyed
things generally. The good bishop found
q poor Methodist preacher sitting quite
disconsolate near tho ruins. The Indians
had robbed him of his horse and wagon.
The sayages hud not been gouc three hours
and the bishop was luckily late enough to
escape.
Recently, in Clarendon County, negro
man who had gained the reputation of being
notorious thief, was arrested BY scverul
colored men, who had been tho victims of
his rogucry. lie had in his possession,
when caught, shut gun and several articles
of clothing belonging to tho parties who
arrested him. They at once gave him his
choice to be carried to Jail or take one hun.
dred lashcs. He chose the latter punish
mont. Tho Press is Informed that the
whipping was administered by threo stall.
wart negro mcn, who took turn about.
They peeled the skin from the poor wretch 8
back ut every lick, he, during the time cry
icg and begging for mercy After the one
hundred lashcs he agreed to take had been
given him, ho was united and told by his
colored brethren to "leab dc county and
nc5ber set foot back here ogin." Half
dead with pain, his back literally raw from
the blows he had received, with no one to
sympathizo with or befricnd him, the poor
devil staggered of down the road to fud Il
homo in some otLcr county.
At meeting of tho Democratic Conven-
tion of Charleston County, S. c.. held Tues
day night, the following members of the
Legislature wcrc made: For The State Sen.
ate-Geperal Rudolph Sicgling. For Rep
rcscntatives-G. Lamb BUST, j. Francis
Britton, G. Il Cassidy, James NJ. Eason,
S. Q. Eckhart, w. II. Ellie, John L. Ficken,
John Gonzalez, Wm. Henderson, G. II.
Miles, A. S. j. Perry, B. H. Rutledge, G.
II. Simonton. James Simcns, Jr., Rev.
Wm. Smalls, George r.. Walker, j. b.
Wiggins.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, has written q
letter, in which he sharply arragns Prcsi..
nent Hayes for the gross misuse Of his patro,
mage" 1Ir. Hill says tho President "las
failed because he has shown himself utterly
unequal to his opportunity; because he has
utterly fnilcd to realize that the Chof Magis
trate of " great country has no personal
friends, no personal enemies. and owes no
personal obligations only to his country. lie
has thrown away tho grandest opportunity
ever given to q man, only that ho might give
Offices and rewards to as worthless a set of
rapscallions as ever disgraced humanity;" "a
set of men," ho adds, "who were the guilty
concoctors of the frauds in tho South, by the
help of which Mr.. Hayes reached tho White
House."
| Of the uncertainty Of success we have
examples every day before US. Scarcely
can man turn his eyes upon the world
without observing tho sudden rotation of
affairs--thc ruin of the afl1ucnt, the down
| fall of tho high: and it may reasonably be
hoped that no man to whom the opportu--
mites of such observation occur, can forboar
applying them to his own condition, and
| refloctiDg that what ho now contemplates
in another, hc may in few days experience
| himself.
You may lave strong, eagle eyed faith;
we'll, you may probably be enabled to do o
great many things in life, to work wonders
to tramplc on impossbilitics. You may
have sanguinc hope-well, your lifo will
pass brightly, not gloomily. But the vision
of God as ho is, to SEQ the King in his
beauty is vouohsafed not to science, nor to
talent, but only to purity and love.