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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-04-25

ssps to I'D 30 lSiaoi broshesly
love Ahonhs Klisn ,sc eonsido two faots: n s.
Z. gg 4 That 50 many States wefo represented,
viz, Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia,
Illinois. Indian Territory, Indiana. Iowa,
Kansas. Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan,
Minnesota. h1isslssippi, Missouri, Nebraska,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
North Caroline, New York, Ohio, Pennsyl.,
yania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tsnnes.
see, Texas, Vermont Virginia, West Virginia,
DISTRICT Of Columbia, Wisconsin, also Canada
and Italy. S Sd
2. That 30 many denominations wero repre-.
sented, viz: Baptists, Congregationalists,
Cumberland Prosbyterians, Episoopalians,
Evangelists, Disciples, Method;sta North,
Mothodists South, Lutherany, Reformed
Dato,, Rofolmod aermon, Presbyte.:ans
Nol.h, presby yterians South and the United
Brethren. The North aud South forgot the
bloody battle fields as they stood side by side
In tho causo Of ono common Master. The
various denominations shook hands over the
walls which separate them; and yet it is well
to bear in mind that the denominational
differences were not made little of. Tho fact
is thoy were not mentioned. Tho study of
the Bible in tho Sunday schools was the grand
theme. The various subjects were ably dig
cussod by great and good mon, as vii! bo seen
by examining tho following programme of tho
Convention:
THEME;--OUE WORK.
!. REPORTED.
W:da ,stlay Morning, 10 o'clock.
Temporary Organization.
Address OF welcome, by His Excellenoy
Hon. A. n. Colquitt, Governor Of Geolgi
Responses by Rev. John Potts, D. D.,
Toronto, Canada, and Gonoral Clinton D.
Fisk, New York.
Report of Executive Committpo; by John
Z. scarlos, Jr., Chairman, Now Havon,
Report Of Statistical Secretary, by Il. Pay
son Porter; Chicago, Illinois.
Wednesaay A):en,oon, ESQ O'Clock.
Permanent Organization.
Reports f,om States and Provinces, by
selected representatives.
Wcdncsday Ees,,ing, 7:$o O'Clock.
Responsive Scrvico.--"lraisc &c tie Lord"
Report Of International Losson Committee,
by Rev. Warren Randolph, y. D., Secretary
Of Committee, indianapolis, Indiana.
Addresses by Rev. John Hall, D. D., Now
York, b. +. Jacobs, Esq, Chicago, Illinois,
and Rev. J. II. Vincent, d. D., Chairman.
2. DEFINED.
Thursday Morning, 8 O'Clock.
Promise service.
Tho truo basis Of Sunday school work.
Addresses by Rov: j. A. Wordon, Prince
ton, N. j., Superintendent Sunday school
Department. Presbyterian Church,
How related to other agencies.
Address by Roy. L. I. Chamberlain, Nor
wioh, Conn.
Possibilities in tho future.
Addrcas by Ecv. Il. II. Morodith, D. D.,
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TAX NOTICE.

TIE BOOKS FOR TIE COLLECTION OF
TAXES for the 6scal year ] S77 will BIO opened
in MY office, at WaihGlla, on WEDNESDAYS
May Ist, 1878. =
State Tax, a. mills.e
School Tax, % do 5i
County Tax, 8 do
Special County Tax, do s
Total Tax. - 10 mills.
by Act of tho Legislature tho Tax oan ba
paid in two instullmonts. The first in May and
the second in October, or tho whole Tax can ba
paid in October, with five per cent interest on
first insnllmcnt. &1t
RICHARD s. PORC HER, t.
Treasurer Oconeo County. +
April rs, 1915 23-2t S
LAW NS0TXCMa.
-O:O-- II
TIME undcrsigned having retired from tho
n. Oflico Of Judge of tho 1st Circuit, has.
resumed 7If'J lIsa C1TClg OF THE I,AW'l
in tho Counties Of Abbevillo, Anderson,
Qconce, Pickcns and 0roenvillo. s8
business is respectfully solicited for thesa
Counties; also for tho City of Charleston, and
in the United Statos Courts for tho District Of
South Carolina. All matters committed to
his charge will receive prompt and faithful
attention. {
IIo may be addressed or consulted at his
Old olico, Anderson g. H., S. @.
u. u. REED. "a
April Is, 1873. 23-4t $
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4. PROMOTED.

Friday Morning, 0 O'clock
!. By State and Provincial Organizations.
Addresses by Stephen Paxson, of Missouri,
and Rev. VIM. Millard, Toronto, Ont.
ii. State Conventions and Institutes.
Addresses by Prof. w. i. Sherwin, Newark,
NJ j., and Wm. Reynolds, Peoria, Ill.
Friday A.Jsernoon, 2:so o'clock.
III. BY normal instruction.
a. In Assemblies, etc.
Address by Rov. A. j. Baird, D. D., Nash
yillo, Tenn.
b. In Normal Glasses.
: Addresses by D. II: MaoVioar, I'll. D.,
Germantown, Gaic.
Friday Euening, 1870 o'clock.
w. Ey Christian love and sympathy.
Responsive sorvice.-"C Christian fe11ow>
Addresses by Rov. j. T. Leftervioh,
Atlanta, Georgia, and othors.
The ultimate aim of this Convention is to
havo oil Protestants to wake up on tho subject
Of Sunday schools, to have cyery Protestant
Sunday school throughout tho whole earth
studying tho samo lesson ovory Sunday; and
to study thom in such way as to bring the
pages of tho Biblo before oyory pupils eye
that he may study the Bible in oil its frosh-
ness and beauty, and to LAY aside. tho old.
fashioned question books, which fail to b2ing
US into such close contact with Gods word.
10 perfoot tho plan tho Convention recom--
nended each State, which has no organiza--
tion, land most Of the Southern States havo
nono,) to organize and havo State Sunday
School Convention. The Convention hopos
that in fow years there will not be left single
State unorganizcd; nay, not o single county
iu any State, nor o single township in any
county which will not DO roady to appear in
Toronto, Canada, (whore tho noxt I. 8. 8. O..
will occur three years bonoe,) with q bright
star, which indicates organization on the
largo map used by tho Convention.
Does any ono prefer to stand OF and predict
o failure ~ to say tho work can't be done?
Let him do 60. This Sunday school work
will 80 on without him. Ihero are too many
shoulders at tho wheel, and God is too willing
to reward faithful laborers to allow this Sun.
day school scheme for studying his word to
fail.
Tho delegates from tho Southern States made
q resolution to 60 home and roorganize imme.
diasely, not only in States but in counties also.
Tho night ecssions Of the Convention were
oponed with areading service, in which some
selected person read alternately with the
congregation. The reading was very improsl
sivo and profitable, and this, as well MS the
speeches tlropghout oil tho session, was
interspeysed with tho swootost Of music, lod by
Wm. q. Fischer, of New York, who made
,eyory ,s body slso aing, but Gang rory little
5hinsolf & &
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FRIDAY Morning, 0 O'clock
!. BY State and Provincial Organizations.
and Rev. VIM. hlillard, Toronto, Ont.
III. State Conventions and Institutes.
Addresses by Prof. w. i. Sherwin, Newark
NJ D., and VIM. Reynolds, Peoria, Ill.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07

eternal excavations of all honorable men. In
addition to this, and to indicate the necessity
for strong government"-a government OF
rifles and Calling guns-we are told OF war
upon labor saving machinery" throughout
the west-of a universal bonfire fed by
tramps with plows, harrows, mowers and
reapers, of a state of society the most de-
plorable and daily growing worse. With
every such Munchausuen story we have
coupled something about the army and the
purpose of the democratic party to reduce
its numerical force so that anarchy
might the more readily be inaugurated
The purpose of the radical organs is readily
understood; they lie to obscure the infamy
OF their party and if possible detract from
the influence of the democratic party.
We do not suppose that there have been a
half dozen farm implements destroyed by
tramps in all of the country; at least no au-
thentic accounts of such destruction have
been recorded. That there are bad men in
the country is not contradicted, and that
their number has been vastly augmented by
the financial policy of the radical party is
fact which admits of abundant proof. What
is wanted to reduce the number of tramps is
tc vitalize the industries of the country.
To do this is to reverse the financial
policy of the radical party; to have, sufh-
cient currency for the demands of Legitimate
business, to stop corruption in high places,
to dry up the currents of fraud and restore
to the ballot its constitutional power. This
done, confidence will return, industries will
revive, money will seek investment in some
thing besides government bonds, and an era
of prosperity will be ushered in upon the
country.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07

democratic. Hayes has offered the south DO
more than he has offered the north or the
west, and that is just nothing at all, for he
had nothing to offer. When the Gazette
talks about ''reign of terror in the south
it publishes knowingly miserably mischiev-
Gus lie. The radicals are in the minority in
the southern states as democrats are in the
minority in Iowa and Kansas. They hold
conventions and declare it inexpedient to
nominate tickets, because they know they
have not votes enough to elect them, and
that is the whole story. 1t is high time that
this talk about Hayes southern policy
ceases There is absolutely nothing in it.
Placing Key in his cabinet does not amount
to policy" junketing into southern Dor
der states and saying insipid things does not
amount to policy" As well talk of an
eastern, western or northern policy as Of a
southern policy. Hayes southern policy, we
say again-if he has such thing about him
lis to confer federal offices upon a set of
perjury-d damned sconndrels, who made it
possible for him to occupy the position he
now befouls.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07

how the people have been holding
the democratic party to its record of late
years Quite recently the radical party had
the president by fair majority of the peo-
pie, not as at present, by fraud, forgery and
perjury. 1t had both houses of congress.
1t was supreme. The people have been
holding the radical party to it's record"
AS result it lost the house of representa-
tives, and then it lost the presidency
by majority of more than a quarter
of million of votes, and on the 4th of March,
1879, it will relax its grip upon the senate.
All this time the people have been holding
the democratic party and the radical party
to their records. We like it exceedingly.
We want more OF that sort of holding. The
record of the radical party, since it held
power, does not suit the people. 1t has
stolen too much. 1t has had
too many thieves in Office. 1t
has debauched every department of the gov
eminent. 1t has played into the hands of
the Shylocks and disregarded the welfare of
the masses of the people. 1t has been guilty
of frauds and forgeries and perjuries of in
discribable infamy, and the people are hold.
ing it to its record. The radical party, by
its financial policy, has created an army of
more than million of idle men
and women, and reduced them to
such abject poverty that they can not
purchase food nor clothing. 1t has driven
thousands of them on to the highways as
tramps, to find their way at last into pris-
ons, and the people are holding the guilty
party to its record. They are denouncing it,
cursing it, splitting in it's face, kicking it out
of power, holding 1t to its record. Let the
Journal set its wind mill, its water mill and
its steam mills at work and tryit again. We
like this record business, and we will en-
deavor to give the Journal as much of 1t as
it can stow away until the Tallapoosa junk
eter gets back and tells the boys to say no
more about records.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07
Pacific Railroad Lands.
[St. Louis Republican


When Secretary Schurz made his decision
in the Dudymont case, affirming the right of
settlers to pre-empt such lands granted to
the several Pacific railroads as were not sold
within three years after the roads we're COM
pleted, 1t was thought to settle very impor-
tant question, and that settlers would now
have right to take up choice railroad
lands at the government price of $1.25 per
acre, or to enter them under the homestead
act. But it appears that ali the lands grant
ed these railroads have been mOrtgaged to Sc
cure the payment of what are called the land
grant bonds, issued to further the construc-
ton of the roads; and the Boston Advertiser
refers to supreme court decision rendered
in 1874, which holds that this mortgage is
such disposal of the lands within the mean
ing of the law as to exempt them from pre-
emption. If the decision referred 10 has
the effect which the Advertiser imputes to
it, the secretary's opinion will possess no
force whatever. The holders of the land
grant bonds issued by the roads have an in
terest in the lands prior to that of all others,
as the lands were solemnly pledged and
actually conveyed to trustees to secure the
payment of the bonds; and no ruling
of the interior department ought
to deprive them of their equity.
The secretarys decision has di-
rected the attention of western Immigrants
to the railroad lands, and many are prepar-
ing to enter and occupy homesteads on them;
but the roads deny the force of the decision
and are warning settlers not to trespass on
their lands. 1t would be unfortunate ifany
considerable number of emigrants should
settle on lands which they would have to
abandon
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07
THE PRESIDENCY FOR 1850.
New Albany Ledger Standard, July 80

New Albany Ledger Standaru, July 5O.I
The discussion in the democratic press of
the country has already commenced in re-
gard to the available candidate for the presi-
dency of the democratic party in 1880. The
names of many good men are mentioned in
connection with that high and responsible
position, and the election of any one of
them we have no doubt would reflect great
credit upon the democratic party, and per-
ha ps rebound to the interest of our common
country. The great poin. to be regarded in
the selection of candidate is which of the
names mentioned will bring to tire party the
greatest strength, or the amount of strength
that will enable us to come out of the con-
test with victory perched upon our banner?
This is one of the main facts to be closely
considered and must not be lost
sight of in choice of the
candidate. The man must not
only possess all the personal features that
would make him eminently fit for the place
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07
TRAMPS AND LABOR-sAVING MA
CHINERY.

The radical organs totally bankrupt of
everything approximating truth whereby to
conduct the present campaign, are com
PEELED to resort to lying or back square
down and admit that their party can not be
defended. Convicted of crimes that admit
of no extenuation, of profigacy that defies
exaggeration, and of a financial policy that
unsettled the foundations of business and
filled the land with idlers and tramps, the
radical party seeks by false state
ments to divert the attention of the
perple from its record. To do this
Its organs are constantly asserting that in
the farming districts of the west and north
west there is and has been such an urgent
demand for laborers in harvest fields that
the cry of forced idleness is a sham, when
the fact is there has been no such demand
for men. The county press of the state has
not made such statements, nor has the city
press been informed of any farming district
where labor was in demand in excess of the
supply in the immediate neighborhcOds.
The hue and cry has been gotten up
by radical organs to relieve the party of
the responsibility of having pursued a finan-
.cial policy that has filled the land with idle
ness and pauperism. Here in indianapolis
are a large number of men who would be
whereby they might earn wages sufficient to
purchase the bare necessities of life. But
the press of indianapolis has not been able
to point Quito them any locality or district
where their condition could be improved.
We have not been informed where the
farmers are whe wanted laborers beyond
what the immediate locality could supply.
This thing Of advising labofers to ''go vest
has long since played out" for the curse of
the radical policy has in every state, county,
city, town and village compelled working
men TO stand all the day idle'' there being
no one to offer even penny for their ser
vices. We are told of man in this city, a
good citizen, with family, VINO had in
dustfiously sought for work and failed, but
who finally heard of job in Wayne county
that promised work. But he had no money
to reach the eldorado A friend sought to
obtain for him a railroad pass and failed.
There was nothing left but to turn tramp
and try to reach the place by walking. His
necessities were pressing, and he started out
with all the risks Of the road. Still another
instance: We were informed of citizen of
Indianapolis, resident for years, skilled
workman, who was indefatgable in his eff
xorts to obtain work. Failure met him
everywhere; every avenue to labor at any
price was dreary waste; until at last he
confessed 10 having stolen fuel wherewith to
cook a scanty meal for wife and children.
A party that has driven such men from
home and into criminal habits deserves the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07
FIGURES WORTH STUDYING.

Statesmen, political economists and bust
ness men OF thorough familiarity with the
varinus departments of trade and commerce,
with state of affairs so anomalous in all re-
CARDS as TO defy explanation by any of the
ordinary methods of reasoning or calcula-
ton as applied to such subjects. This
statement has often been made in
these columns We have repeatedly
shown that with fabulous abundance
the country was in the graspof unprecedent-
ed restitution; that when upon all ordinary
theories the people should have been at
work and prosperous they have been idle
and steadily drifting into condition of the
most pinching poverty and wretchedness;
that when we had a right to expect business
activity and prosperity the people have
been confronted with failures, bankruptcy
and business prostration and demoraliza-
ton that defies computation or
exaggeration. Nothing like it was
ever known or heard of in any civilized
country under heaven. From 1866 to 1873
the radical party was engaged in fashioning
and perfecting a financial curse which, in
due time, overspread the country like a
pail. Jehovah, true to his covenant, sent
seed time and harvest, and crops followed
each other until the supply vastly exceeded
the demand. Food supplies steadily in
creased while contraction, like an anaconda,
frightened its coils around almost
every other industry in the land,
so that with increasing abundance
home consumption steadily fell off. The
exports of domestic produce assumed un
precedented magnitude, and the United
States presented the anomalous spectacle of
feeding the world with her surplus products
while thousands and hundreds of thousands
of her own population were enduring the
pangs of hunger and starvation. We find In
the New York Daily Bulletin the following
table of exports, comparing 1923 with
1876 Z including thirty-six articles, constr
tuting five-sixths of the total value of our
exports of domestic commodities, each show
q -
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07
He Has Views.
Interview with Senator Jones in Gold Hill

Interview with Senator Jones in Gold Hill
News.
He says the presidents theories are utterly
impracticable and entirely opposed TO the
genius and institutions of this country;
they are founded on a principle, which, if
carried out would create in America an arls-
tocracy of perpetual oficeholders Mr.. Jones
holds that this would breed corruption, and
cites as proof thatthe defaulters of to-day are
not new clerks but old and trusted Ones
Furthermore, he believes that the offices be-
long to the majority. 81 have no hesitation
in saying" he declares, that in my opinion
whenever the president makes an appoint
ment to office of a man belonging to the
minority party, he makes confession either
of lack of faith in the principles of his own
party, or lack of belief that there is in the
ranks of his own party fit material from
which to select officeholders am In favor
of genuine civil service reform; not a reform
on paper; not reform which says a few
only are fit to exercise the functions of the
government. We want all to have chance
to rise, and that / believe to be the true
principle of republicanism."
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07
RADICAL PROFLIGACY AND DEMO
CRATIC ECONOMY.

The official records demonstrate conclu-
sively that since the democratic party OBJ
tanned control of the national house of rep
resentatives the expenditures of the govern
ment have been largely reduced, not, how
ever, to the extent that would have been ac-
complished if a radical senate had not on
every occasion sought to defeat the demo-
cratic policy of retrenchment. Notwlth-
standing radical opposition the records are
conclusive. The Detroit Free Press, in re-
Spouse to an inquiry, says that the receipts
and expenditures of the government for the
fiscal years ending with June 30, from 1873
to 1876, inclusive, being the last four years
for which a republican house made appro-
'priations, were as follows:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07

DURING the last three weeks, although
every effort has been made by the treasury to
get the silver dollars into circulation, it
has only succeeded in putting out $4,000 in
excess of those which have returned. Being
receivao ole for customs they come back nearly
as fast as they can be paid out.-Journal.
This is poor, drivcling, idIotic statement
of Shylock organs, the purpose of which is
to make the silver legislation unpopular
1t is very effectually squelched by the New
York Graphic when it asks if the efforts of
the treasury to get gold into circulation do
not meet with the same fate. Gold finds its
way back into the treasury more rapidly, if
possible, than the silver dollars. If the ar
gument Is good against silver it is equally
strong against gold.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07

The suspension of the great grocery house
of r. NJ. Bishop & Co., of Cincinnati, will be
likely to attract more than ordinary atten-
and head of the firm occupies the Office of
governor of Ohio. This fact, however, has
nothing to do with the suspension of the
business firm, which is the result, as in
thousands of other instances, of the general
paralysis of business throughout the country.
This failure places on record some import
ant data which it will be well for the people
to consider. 1t is stated by Mr.. Bishop that
block of buildings which cost $3.50, 900 cash
has shrunken in value to an extent that it
could not be sold for more than 500, 900,
and that a building which rented for SIS, 900
now rents for 5000. This shrinkage
of values is the result of the curse
of contraction inaugurated by the radical
Shylock policy, which has robbed the people
of multiplied millions of dollars, and is still
robbing them. What is true of Cincinnati
real estate Is also true of real estate in every
city of the country, in every county, town
and village. Failures not only continue
but they increase in numbers and in the ag-
gregates of losses. Every failure in the
county throws out of employment large
number of people, dependent upon their
salaries, upon their daily labor, for support,
and thus the army of idlers daily receives
recruits, the area of poverty widens and the
fangs of hunger take deeper hold upon the
vitals of the unfortunate. Such is the curse