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The New York herald., 1879-09-12
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SYRACUSE. Sept IL. 1879.
The Convention. Yves called to order at about ton
O'Clock with Mr.. Jacobs in the chair. The Chair
man announced that many delegates without
seats. and called the persons who were not dele
gates to retire from the foor (Cries from the gal
lery. "Put out them Tammany roughs'D The Chair
requested the police to from the gallery any
man who insults any member OF this Convention.
The intruders failing to vacate their seats the Chair
again appealed to them and said that If they would
not retire. his only to clear the body Of
the hall and readmit only those holding delegates
tickets The delegates must be protected In their
rights. (Applause.) He saw dozen men in front Of
him whom he knew and who were not delegates
REPORT OF THE CoMMrTEE ON DELEGATIONS
Mr.. BERGAN, Of Jefferson, from the Committee on
Credentials. reported seating the Peckham members
from Albany. tho o Brien members from Dutchess
county. the Mclaughlin members from Kings
county. the Tammany Hall members. including the
Twenty-fourth dictrict, headed by s. G. Courtney,
from New York; the Gaynor members from onon-
daga. the Warner members from Orleans and the
Murphy members from Rensselaer, county.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. -t
Mr.. REEVES, of suffolk, from the Committee
Permanent Organization, reported the following per-
manent officers. by the unanimous concurrence Of
its members eNtNf1st
The New York herald., 1879-09-12
lAresitient-J. G. Jacobs

r Secretarics. e<X
Reading. w. H. Quincy. ct St1<3z
Recording. L. r. Griffith, d. Lamont snd U*B&
Taleott. c frg 3ta.. .sxtAt I&>
One secretary from each district was - ~
ported.
The report was adopted unanimously.
STATE CoNMIrrEE. -. -<....r
Mr.. FAULKNER, OF Livingston. onoxed res olutton
REQ esting the delegates from tho YoverHl Congress
siona districts select and thsir respective
members of the State COMMITTEES. and II. In any
case majority cannot agree upon it's member. to
report to the Convention for its actio n.
Adopted. st. s&4 iSL4
The different delegations named their State Com
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08


BY Mr.. Stephens. Of Georgia. and some other
OF the more conservative Southern members.
In adopting this course the Democracy hay.
ing used every fair effort to rid the country Of
military interference with elections, aud fail
Ing. could go before the people In 1880 on
the most favorable footing. On tho other
hand should the party in power adjourn
without passing the appropriation bills
neoessaryto carry on the Government because
of the veto 70 the riders. the Democrats would
lose all tho advantage likely to be gained
from this laudable effort, and would End
themselves blamed by both parties. Here
is our opportunity. and whilo We think the
proposed legislation is needed and should
receive the signature Of tho President, yot il
would be far better to go before the people
having done all that could be done to accom-
plish good purpose. and refusing, by reason
of failure, to block the wheels Of the govern
ment by denying the necessary appropria-
tions. This course will doubtless be adopted
by the Democrats both as to the army bill
and the bills to make appropriations for the
legislative and judicial departments Of The
government, }.t ~ ,,#;s. ;t:rt. :
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08

Consider for atnoment The amount annually
expended by our people towards the making
q notop 10 The parchase Of Fertilizers. In
our last sssue we estimated the cost Of ferti-
nxess bought BY our people at sixty thousand
dollars. rating cotton at ten cents per pound.
:ln this estimate wereckoned from Gales made
at Seneca City, Westminster, Walhalra and
West Union, not including fertilizers bought
at Fort Madison nor at Pendleton, nor from
accessible points along the Georgia line. We
are satisfed the estimate is therefore ten
thousand dollars short of tho actual cost to
the farmers of this county for fertilizers.
This absorbs twelve to fourteen hundred bales
Of cotton, and the strength, of these fertilizers
is expended in one season, and a like expense
incurred every year. Ought we not to
strive to stop or at least lessen this expendi-
turef A failure of the cotton crop for year,
either from food, drought, blight or worms,
would leave our people heavily involved aud
cripple our future farming interests for o
iength9of time On the other hand, if we
would turn our attention to making manure,
its effects upon the land would bo permanent
improvement, and in o few years our farms
"""'N W uouSAVu ~ leTtiuty. nat vast
amount Of barn yard manure could be made
BY an outlay Of sixty thousand dollars. 1t
would employ six hundred able bodied hands
for twelve months at ono hundred dolless per
year, whose whole time could be employed in
maaihg manure, or eighteen hundred hands
during tho four cold months of tho year.
II this large body of laborers was employed for
t.,- 4.
leaves, muck and woods earth into our lots. how
rapidly would our lands be improved, and how
soon with our mild climate would We have the
most desirable country to be found anywhere.
Still we 60 on year after year buying fertilizers
and exhausing rather than improving our soils,
BY stimulating the plants to draw as much as
possible of tho substance Of the soil, without
giving anything permanent in return.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08
Assessors.

We publish in this issue the list of assessors
appointed by our County Auditor in the several
Townships Of the County under the Act of De-
cember Gath, 1873. This is the best plan Of
assessment ever adopted in the State and we
trust the work of the assessors will prove salts
.actory. Under the last assessment so much
complaint was made by several counties of tho
action Of the State Board of Equalization that
new assessment was ordered to quiet the
trouble. The members Of the Board of Asses
sors receive no compensation, except that they
arc exempt from road and jury duty in their
respective Counties. Any person dissatisfied
with the assessment Of his property by the
Township Board may appeal to the County Board
OF Equalization, which is composed of the
Chairmen of tho Board for each Township. In
the State Board Of Equalization every County is
represented, tho Chairman Of each County Board
of Equalization being tho member Of the State
Board from that County. Formerly the State
Board, invested with tie power to raise and re-
duce County assessments, was composed of one
person from each Congressional District of the
State, SO that the Board often knew little of the
soil, climate and products of many counties and
had very imperfect ideas of the true value OF
lands in such Counties. AS now stands, every
County being represented, the Board can obtain
such information as will enable it to act with
fairness and judgment. We have always
thanghi ce: lands we're too s,igh 10 proportion
to the valuation in other Counties md we hope
the present system will be 80 carried out as Ia
meet general approval and give us fair and
equitable basis Of taxation.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08
Taxes.

The time for beginning 10 COLLECT the State and
County taxes has come and gone, and yet no
notice of the opening Of the books or of the
tcrms Of collection has been announced. The
tax bill provides for the collection Of tho taxes
levied In two installments, the fret of which
shall be due and payable from the first day Of
May to the first day Of June, 1879, and tho
second from the fifteenth day Of September to
the thirtieth day Of October, 1870, leaving the
payment Of the first installment optional to the
taxpayer, with the proviso that any person who
shalt fall or refuse to pay his taxes under the
drst installment, shall be charged with penalty
of five per cent, which shall be added.
Several Of our citizens we understand, have
called to pay their taxes, but found the Office
closed and no officer to receive them. we do
not know the why or wherefore, but it would be
hard to add the penalty to parties when their
failure to pay is the fault of the government
Our taxes this year aggregate 81 mills, as
follows: For the support of the State Govern
ment, 2a mills; for public schools, mills; for
ordinary County expenses, mills; to pay the
past Indebtedness Of the County, mill.
In tho future, with the Air Line Railroad sub
ject to taxation, we will hardly be called on 10
pay an extra County tax, but on the contrary
we hope to sec County expenses SO reduced that
tax Of two mills will be sufficient The Air
Line and Blue Ridge Railroads are duo several
years back taxes, which, when collected. will
have surplus fund in tho County treasury.
The State taxes arc about as low as We can hope
to get them for q number of yoars.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08
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IP Advertisements inserted at
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I Obituary Notices exceed
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Communications of personal
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announcements of Candidates
willbe chargcd for as ADVERTISE
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oTN Necessity compels us to
ndhore strictly to the require
ments Of cash payments.
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A Mammoth Journal.

The New York Herald is The largest i ,spaper
published In the United States and is lied with
important mstter of. news from eve !, State in
the Union and from every civilized country of
the world. 1t has it's correspondents almost
everywhere and epares no expense to put before
its readers all matters of public interest, whe-
Their they rolato to religion politics. temperance,
war, peace and even the geographical condition
of various countries. About the lst instant it
issued quintuple sheet containing ono hundred
and twenty closely printed columns. eighty FIVE
and half Of which were advertisements, being
the largest space hitherto oalled for. Tho
Herald is independent in politics and ably
edited, and no paper in the United States
furnishes more valuable and useful information
than tho daily Herald
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08
"A terrible wife murder was perpetrated
a. fnhnsadaxs ~ Dokkon aaillo Qanlk noAa ,kxx

A terrible wife murder was perpetrated
last Thursday, at Pottonsville, Scott County,
Va. a young man. named Sam Bishop,
Slaughtered his young and beautiful wife, to
whom be had been married but a short time.
He had been OF at work. and after waiting
until late for her husband his wife sat down
to the table and was eating dinner, when
He walked up to hor and sent the keen blade
of the axe crashing through her skull, liter 4
ally splitting her head In half. the axe edge
stopping only when &c reached the trunk Of the
body itself. Bishop was arrested AT once and
from his way Of talking lie Is believed to be
Of unsonod mind. He says he is glad he did
the deed, and would doit over again, and
that he was forced to do 1t.
GALvssros, Texas. May 5.--A special to
the Ne,os from Overton, says'J. r. Young
and John Riley, who had been confined in
jail for drunkenness, attempted to escape BY
setting fro to the building. The flames
spread rapidly, and being unable to extin.
guish them, the mon were both burned to-.
death. ~ 8E
A special to tLo Ne,os from lIempstead'
aaye: "As the congregation we're leaving tho,
Methodist Church yesterday. Col. Jared T..
Kirby shnt and killed John Steele, who in
quarrel fourteen years ago shot and killed
Kirby's father"
WoRK EoR THE CoAvIoTs. Twenty five con-.
victs have been turned over to Mr.. J. w. Wood
ward to be carried to Barnwel County and
placed at work on the railroad between Black.
vile and Barnwell, distance o. about ten
miles. Mr.. Woodward intends 10 complete tho
road by the first of October Columbia
Register.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08
Our Farming Interests.

Wo spoke in our last issue Of the impors
tanco of making the farm self-sustaining,
every farmer striving to raise his own corn,
meat and -four as The highest consideration,
and then planting as much cotton as he can
we'll manure and cultivate. In our present
impoverished condition, this is forced on US,
rs we have neither the capital nor tho skilled
labor to develop the mineral and manufacture
ing resources of tho country. Tho time will
como, in our opinion, whom tho capital and
labor OF this section will flow mostly in the
channels of manufacturing industry and
stock raising. We have always believed that
our soil and climate were adapted to the
growth Of the cereals and the raising Of stock,
and that these branches of agricultural indus,
try would prove more remunerativo than
forcing climate and attempting to grow
cotton. In fact the richest sectons of the
North arc devoted to tho growth of wheat,
corn and tho grasses and to stock raising and
go cannot see why wo cannot pros.
per undor like pursuits In growing
cotton here. q large percentage Of the
income is absorbed in labor in making and
gathering 1t and in fertilizers to force the
plant and the climate. With the cereals and
stock growing, manufacturing enterprises are
always found, and whore tho raw material
abounds no hore, whether we want timber,
cotton or other articles, and water powore are
found on nearly every stream, with mild
climate, healthy atmosphere and cool water,
what more could bo asked of nature ns stop
ping stones to wealth and prosperity7 We
believe, therefore, the time will como whom
these natural resources and local advantages
will be utilized and made the instruments Of
.wealth. The sooner this can be done the
sbettcr, for our present industries ore neither
as safe nor remuneratige as they ehopld be.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08
Sherif's S Sales.

by virtue Of au execution TO mo directed /
- will sell, on MONDAY, sale day in June,
1879, at tho Court House door in Walhalla.
between the legal hours of sale, the following.
described property, to wit:
ONE Tract of Land situated in Oconee
County. containing 80 acres, more or less,
adjoining lands of W. j. Duflie and others,
levied on as tho property of james II. Cox
at the suit of Isaac Standridge.
TERMS OF SALE--CASH.
JAMES ii. ROBINS,
Sheriff Ocouee County.
May 8, 1879 25-4t
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08
TAX RETURNS
COUNTY AUDlTOR's OFFICE
WALHALLA, 8. c., APRIL 20, 1874.

WALHALLA, s. c., APRIL 20, 1874.
HoTlCE Is hereby given that tie Auditors
Office will be open to receive TAX RETURNS
from June lst to July 2Otk. 1870.
The Auditor or his Assistant will attend at the
following places at tho time specified for tho
assessment Of Personal Property, xizs
West Union, Monday, June OH.
Seneca City, Tuesday and Wednesday, Juno
10Th and llth.
Bird Abbett's, Thursday, June 18th.
Sittons Mills, Friday, Juno 18th.
J. Is. Sanders, Saturday, June 14lb.
Fair Play, Monday and Tuesday, June 10Th
and l7th.
Bacholors' Retreat, Wednesday, June 18th.
Westminster, Thursday and Friday, juno 1sih
and Goth.
Thomas Powell's, Saturday, june 2lst.
Fehton Halls, Tuesday June Gath.
Mrs. Barkers, Wednesday, June 25th.
McDade's Mills, Thursday June 28th.
william Rowland's, Friday, Juno 9th.
Lays Mills Saturday, juno 28th.
Taey's Shops, Tuesday, July lst.
High Falls, Wednesday, July I'd. NHr.
After tile goth Of July the returns OF those
railing to return will be made from the best in.
formation that can be obtained and fifty per
cent. added thereto. ,a
All male persons from twer. q to sixty
years of age, excepting those oxempt by low,
are required to return their polls.
Merchants, manufacturers and bankers must
make their returns strictly according to law.
Each taxpayer, except when impossible 10
do so, must make their own return.
All assessments Of personal property must
bo "the usual selling price Of similar property
on the usual terms 81 exsoutors' or adminislra.-
tors sales, at tho place where The return Is
made" 90. n. WATSON 81 &
Y Auditor Oooheo Connty. ~
May !, 1870 24.st
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08
APPOINTMENT /.
TOWNSHIP ASSESSORS
REAL ESTATE.
Office Of County Auditor,
MAY 6, 1879.


DY IN Act Of the Legislature, approved De-
cember 24th, 1878, I am required to appoia.
three intelligent and discreet freeholders in
each Township in the County, who shall consti-,
tuto Township Board of Assessors for Real
Estate. therefore mako the following appoint
ments, viz:
Center-w. J. IIix, S. II. Johns and J. A..
Erod.
Seneoa-Sloan Y. Stribling, r. Y. II. Lowery
and T. p. Werner.
Tugaloo-John S. Dickson, Wm J. Siribling ),
and o. l. Walker
Wngener-W. c. Keith, W. J. Nevin and +. !.
F. Sharp.
Keowee-A. q. Grant, 3. Frank Robertson
and J. NJ. Cannon.
Pnlaski-W. II. Thrift, Wm. J. Dea,on and J.
E. Phillips
Chattooga-Abe, Robins, Geo W. symmes
and ". A. King.
White Waier-Jesse 10y, Franklin l.. Moody.
Jr., and VIM. Rowland.
The persons appointed for the several Town
ships will meet together at some convenient
place. take The constitutional oath Of Office,
elect chairman and thus become the Township
Board Of Assessors. The clairmen of the
seyernl Township Boards shall together consti-
tute tho County Board of Equal za,ion. For
tho purpose OF organizing said County Board !
The chairmen Of the various Township Boards
will meet in the Auditors Office on MONDAY,
tho ID day Of June. 1870.
d, IL. WATSON,
Auditor Oconcc County,
May g. 1879 25.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08

The monument to the Confederate dead will be
unveiled in Columbia on the 18th instant.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08

Charleston is going to establish brewery and
hereafter manufacture her own beer.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08

Governor Hampton it is said will return home
In few days, to remain until his wounded leg
improves. 1t has given him much pain since he
has been in Washington.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08

The circumference of the head of Hon. A. II.
Stephens is 22a inches. while that of his body
is 244 His weight is Is pounds.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08

The General Assembly Of the Southern
Presbyterian Church will meet in Louisville,
Kentucky, May 10th.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08

Tho Southern Baptist Convention meets in
Atlanta to- day, May 8.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08

AS mark of progress in cotton manu- fact ories
At tho South, we note that nine car loads of the
staple, embracing three hundred bales, were
shipped FROM Atlanta to the Camperdown mills
In Greenyille, S. c., last week.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08

The crop reports from all parts of Texaa are
very encouraging.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08

Texas is as large rs thirty -four States like
Massachusetts.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08

Atlanta is having grand time this week
in the assembling of able men from all parts
OF tho country in that city. Tho Baptist
Convention is in session there and also n
convention Of sanitarians and medical sci,
entista.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-05-08

The new tobacco law went into operation
on the first instant. Underits provisions the
tax is reduced from twenty -four to sixteen
cents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-18
JUST PUBLISHED.

Acarefdlly revised Treatise on Catsrrh with an 40
curae description Of symptoms and Sympathetic dis.
cases. together with minute directions for effcctinR
with sASToRp's RApIoAL CURE speedy, and pcrms:
health. OF vast Importance to all ncted with catarrh
IL s wrapped about each bottle Of the RADICAL CURE
Each package OF sANroRp's RADICAL CURE contains
rr sanfords Improved Inhalng Tube with full dlrec.
tons Tor use IN all cases. Prce Sold by ali whole.
sale and retail druggists throughout the United States
and Wholesale Druggists. Boston, Mass.
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STOCKBRIDGE
MAN URES.

Originated by Lev Stockbridge, Professor of Ag
They have baen extensively used for six years Send
n little book describing them and giving direc,
tions for cultivating farm and garden crops Every
should send for q copy mailed free. BOWkER
FERTILIZER COMPANY, ~ Chatham
street, Boston, y Park Place, New York,
and 2i North Water street, Rochester, N.
Y. 15tf
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Farm At AUCTION.

FAWUu ~ AVObSO"s
CITUATED In Sidney, Me-, 9 miles from Augusta
y on the river rosd leading from Augusta to Wet:
home. Cuts from IS to % tons OF hay, three
falling boiling springs story and half house
and ell painted and blinded, seven rooms, good
stable i1x27 capbosrded and painted, new barn built
last year 4Ox50. all connected Near schools and
meetings, mile from depot and also one halt OF
the crops win be sold ON Wednesday, Oct. the stl
ALP NJ, ut public auction. If stormy the next fair
day. GEO. W. JONES, Auctoneer.
For further particulars address NJ. w. NoRTHEY,
COoDers Mills, Me. 37tf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-10-18

Interest on deposits payable twice year, Feb and
Aug. Interest not drawn out is added to the deposit.
thus making COMPOUND INTEREST.
Interest begins the first day of each month.
Money deposited before the tenth day of each
month"; will draw interest from the first day Of the
same month.
sTUnder the existing law Of this State all d.pos-
Its in Savings Banks, are exempt from municipal tar
alton.
No retarns of names Of depositors required to
be made to State authorities and all accounts
held by this Bank to be strictly prirate and conf.
IL, fiai.
!, rried women and persons under age can deposit
m in their own names, SO that 1t can be drawn
oni themselves, or on their order.
Es -r,al advantages afforded to Executors Guar.
dians Trustees, and others having In charge Trust
Funds.
WIN. X. SMITH, Treasurer
Augusta, Jan. I, 1879. t&wu
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UPHOLSTERING.

The undersigned takes this method to inform the
public that he has taken room at the shop of G.. f.
Town Bridge St. where he Is ready to answer all or
ders for UphOlstering. ParlOr Sets upholstered
IN SILK, Hair cloth, Terry, or Rep. Mattresses
and LOum xes made good as new. Repair
Ing OF all Descriptions. Old Furniture
Renmintesl and Pictures Framed. He trusts
to be- able to give satisfaction In regard to style OF
work and prices. will give all orders prompt atten-
tion. Js H. AIN1fl.
Bridge ST., near R. R. Crossing.
iune3-tly
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Weekly Kennebec Journal

Pubishesi every Wednesday morning. IS the largest
folio paper In the state, containing political
tcles agricultural and scientific matter tales poetry
anecdotes, household matter, markets, &C., &C.
Terms, ~ per AMMAN in Gdrdnce.
Traasient Advertisements. 600 per inch for first
week 50 per week for each subsequent insertion
Special Notices, $3.50 per inch for first week; 90
cents per week for each subsequent week.
Business Notices, In reading columns, &c cents per
line for first Insertion 10 cents PER line for each SUBJ
sequent insertion.
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AUGUSTA SAVINGS BANK
ORGANIZED in I848.

TRUSTEES Thomas Lambard, Jas. W. North
Artemas Libbey, VIM. $. Badger, Sam'l Titcomb.