Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-07-24

Whloh tHe pcOplo OF Calll0rnla arc subjected,
and which, by the indignation il awakened
contributed as much as anything to tn,
adoption Of tho now Constitution, is tn.
extortion Of tho Central Pacific Railroat
Company. This corporation, which has
acquired wealth that is simply enormous,
without having riskcd money Of its own to
any considerable extent, the road having
bccn built almost entirely with subsidies
received from the Federal Government and
from tho State, has absorbed oil tho riva
and competing roads of California, and
renders it impossible for new competing
lines TO come into oxistenco. AS soon ee
any attempt Of that kind is made, rates Of
freight and travel are lowered to such
point as to kill off tho threatened rival, and
then they arc raised higher thun ever. II
was to meet this practice that tho clause iu
the new Constitution was intended, which
provides when rates have once been lowered
they shall remain at the rcd..oei figure
unless for good reasnI tho new board Of
railway commissioners give permission to
RAISE t.cm. Tho railroud is owned chiefly
by three men, Of whom the leading figure
is Leland Stanford. These men have gone
SO far as practically TO prohibit merchants
from making freight contracts with the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and from
/ somo of tho agricultural counties the freight
rates have been so excessive that farmers
have allowed their grain to rot, because oil
that they could have gotten for it would have
gone to the railroad company for trans
portation. The new constitution, if fairly
enforced, will provo potent check to this
grinding monopoly; but the question is,
| whether it will bo so enforced. The great
issue in California to-day is, whether Tie
officials and judges to be elected this full
| shall be sincere supporters Of tho Const:tu-
tion, or creatures of the railroad corporation
PREVENTION BETTER THAN Cure
Tho following extract is from an address by
tho venerable DR.. Samuel D. Gross, recently
deli at tho dedication services at the
unveiling of the Mcdowell monument, iu
Danville, Ky. These words have practi-
cal ring, aud were addressed to the young
men of the Kentucky Medical Society, who
| were present in largo numbers:
Tho great question of tho day is, not
this operation or that-not ovarotomy, or
lithotomy, or hip joint amputation, which
has reflected SO much glory upon Kentucky
medicinc-but preventive medicine, The
hygiene of our persons, our dwellings, our
strccts-in word, our surroundings, what
over and wherever they may be, whether
in tho oity, town, hamlet, or country, and
the establishment of efliccnt town and State
boards of health, through whose agency VIC
shall be tho bcItor able to prevent the ori-
gin and fatal effects of what arc known rs
the zymotic diseases, which carry so much
woe and sorrow into our families, and often
sweep like q hurricane oTer tho Garth, do.
stroy'ug millions of human lives 10 on
incredibly short time. The day has arrived
when the people must be reused to deeper
and moro earnest sense of the. peoples
welfare, and suitable measures adopted for
the protection as we'll Us for the better dc.
velopment Of their physical, moral and
intellectual powers. This is the great
problem of tho doy, tho question which
you, as representatives of the rising gone
ration of physicians, should urge, in season
and out of season, upon the attention of
your fellow citizens-tho question which
above and beyond all others, should engage
your most serious thoughts and elicit your
most earnest cooperation.
No SMOKING IN HERE.-"You can't
smoke in here" suid John street oonduc-
tor to oountryman, who was pulling away
vigorously at five cent cigar in car full
of ladies'
The man didn't seem to hear.
"l say" cried the man of tho bell punch,
in louder key, "If you want to smoke
come cut hero on tho PLATFORM"
"All right" returned the passenger, and
he stepped out. "Didn't think it would
hurt nothin'," Eo said, apologctically,
''sccin's there ain't any straw in the car to
catch fire.
"But there are ladies there"
"Oh, yes; didn't think nothin' bout that.
Might get ashes on their gowns and splc
'cm."
1T isn't SO much that" explained tho
conductor, "but ladies object to smoke"
"Well didn't ask apy of 'cm to smoke,
did |? They needn't object before they're
invited"
"You don't understand. Smoke is disa.
grccablo to tho ladies'"
"Best reason in tho world why they
shouldn't practice it. Catch me smoking
If it were dieagrceablc to me!' And he
TRANQUILITY pulled away at his five ccntcr.
A scamp, who represented himself as a
government agent, excited tho negroes of
Holmes County, Mississippi, by telling
them that free train would tako them on
tho following Sunday to Kansas He
charged every man 81 for small flag,
which was to bo his tito to q spot of land
when lie reached Kansas. The news