Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-01-30

VIII evidently have to yield In reducing the
price Of fertilizers or keep thom in their ware.
houses.
Tho Washington correspondent Of the
Baltimore SIN says that Joseph H. Sloss,
nominated for United States Marshal for the
Northern District of Alabama, was former
Demooratic member Of Congress from that
State. The present marshal is, Of course, q
Republican, and his proposed displacement
by Democrat would seem to be proof that
the Administration has not determined, as
has latoly been asserted, to hereafter appoint
Republicans only to Office in the South.
The report of P. L. Griffin, Superintendent
| of tho State Lunatic Asylum, shows that at
the beginning of tho past year there were
in the institution 306 patients, of whom 1853
wcro malcs' and l43 fomalos Of these 40
havo recovered and So havo dod. There arc
now in the institution 33l patients, Isl now
patients having been admitted during the
year. Of those now in tho institution 124
arc white males, LOG white fomaes, 81 CO.
lored malos and 50 coored females.
At tho sixty second anniversary moosing
oftho American Colonization Society, held in
Washington en- Tuesday night the Secretary
rsad his annual report, showing that Is, 900
negroes were sent to Liberia in 1878. There
was $4,000 in the treasury on January
last year, nll of which was expended excopt
$500. At this rato it will not taku long to
accomplish the complete exodus of the negroes
from American soil,
Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Williams. of Utah,
were the other day before the judicial Com
mittco of Cong' oss praying that the recent
decision of tho Supreme Court shall not be
enforced upon those now living in bigamy,
us the surrender of all but one wifo would
drive the others with their children into q
state of dcstituton Lot tho law be enforced,
and this blot upon civilization be removed at
once. Tho bigamists havo all tho whilo
known their lires wcro illegal aud scandalous.
Mrs Mary j. jacobs, wifo of Rev. w. P.
Jacobs, and Matron of Thonwcll Orphnnage,
died at tho Orphanage, Clinton, S. c., on tho
18th inst. by this sad event the Orphanago
has met with what seems to DO an irreparablo
loss. Mrs. jacobs vas emincntly fitted for
the position she occupied. She co-opcrated
fully with her husband in his work of benifi.
ccncc, identifying herself with all tho inter
ests Of the institution, and as far as it is.
possible for any ono to be, was mother to
the orphan. She died in The midst of her
usefulness, in the 35th year Of heragc. "Hor
sun has gone down whlo It was yet days"
but while 'sho rests from her labors, her
works do follow her" La uenScUe Herald,
Our Senator Butler has prepared petition
Of the Washington Street Methodist Church of
Columbia. asking compensation Tor property
destroyed by U. S. soldiers during the war.
He has also introduced bill npproprating
$780, 600 for tho continuation of tho improves
mcnt Of Charleston Harbor.
The Nc,cs and Courier announces that the
commissions Of tho aidessdoocamp Of tho Go,
vernon expire upon tho resignation of tho
Governor. What effect the dsbanding of so
largo an army Of military men during q period
of profound peace will have. We oan only
surriSo by the experience Of history 1t has
usually been an exigency rcsorted to with the
most cautious regard for tho public safety,
regardless of the individual preservation of
the outgoing veterans. Darwin's theory of
the survival Of the ittess generally roscucs a
few from oblivion.
Now that resumption has thrown gold out
of the list of speculative commodities, the
Now York brokers seeG1 to have pitched upon
mining stocks rs substitute. a regular
Mining Exchange has grown into iiourlshing
existence within q year or so, and the citizens
Of New York and Boston have largely shared
with tho San Franciscans in the ups and
downs of fortune occasioned by the fluctua>
tons of Nevada shares. That mining specu.
lation at New York is to be nurscd into per.
manency is indicated by tho launching of
"Bullion Club" which had its first public
dinner last week, over which presided Bray.
ton Ivcs, tho President Of tho regular Stock
Board. The club proposes to fit up attractive
quarters, in which shall bo gathered tho most
complete statistics md information regarding
ovory prominent mino and mining camp in
tho country, thereby establishing confidence
in mining industry, and protection to investo
ors.
Among tho many people on whom tho
Khcdivo's bankruptcy has borno moro hardly
than upon that magnificent parsonage himself
aro tho American officers who wont out to
Egypt at the close of tho civil war to take
commissions in his service. There wore forty
or fifty of thcm at one time, all on tho gonoe
ral staff, nnd gorgeous general staff they
mado. Usually thoy had not much to do
except to go on exploring expeditions up the
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in action they showed themselves good sol.