Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-11-27

One Of the most important matters before |
the present Legislature, is tho election of a |
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court. This |
Court 10 she last resort in all matters of liti-
CATION whether life or property be at stake,
and every member of the Court should com.
bno ability with experience. 1t is thought
MolVer will be nude Chief Justice and an
Associate Justice be elected to Rll his place.
we have but one interest in the matter, give
us lawyer in the fullest sense of the torn.
We made fying trip to Grocnvillo last
weok. The gathering of buggios and wagous
on the street and the largo crowd of people
indicated prosperous and thriving busine ess.
The city has widened and deeponed and pro-
misses to become the leading market of the up
country. We saw good deal of cotton on
the streets and about the factories on the
river. 1t was commanding liz cents last
Thursday. Court thcre brokB on Friday Of
the third week.
Wcregret to state that Mr.. N. G. Bulwinkel.
citizen Of our town, died suddenly last Sun.
day evening from cramp colo. He was taken
sick about noon on Saturday, while at work,
and had to be hauled homo, living only
little over twenty-four hours. Mr.. Bulwin,
kel was young man of Industrious habits.
His funeral services wero conducted by Dr.
j. p Smeltzor at tho Lutheran Church on
Tuesday morning at 10 O'clock after which
his remains were buried in the Lutheran
Cometory.
No one doubts that the patronage given
the Grecnville and Columbia Railroad by tie
Anderson Branch and Blue Ridge Division
moro than warrants better accommodation
for passengers. We have only miserable
little black holo for Cur, and it is run on o
schedule to suit the convenience of a freight
train. The line from Bolton to Walhalla is
OF more value to the road than from Bolton
to Grcenville, and sheer justice demands TINT
tho people should have improved accommo-
dntiono.
Capt. f. G. Evans, the we'll known faithful
engineer on the Anderson and Blue Ridge
| division, who has been running for years
| with no casualties and few accidents, was
discharged last week. we are informed
because in his judgment it was unsafe to
make mail train time while he had to do
heavy local freight business with an inferior
| engino. strong petition, voluntarily gots
ten up ut Anderson. has been sent to the
authorities to have him reinstnted, which we
hope will be promptly done by q manage
ment which has sufficient intelligence to
appreciate his worth and fidelity Ander-
son Journal.
On last Wednesday evening, about dark, a
passing colorcd man discovered that the
prisoners in the dungeon at the West end of
the jail we're making considerable progress
in efforts to escape. The prisoners were
Amercus and Riley Moore, the two older
brothers of those charged with tic killing of
Alex. Bryce in Oconeo County. BY some
means not yet discovered. apparently with n
razor, they had cut two one inch bars out of
the grating nearly nine feet from the floor, to
do which ono must have stood on the others
shoulders, probably alternately Cor long
! time Those bars removed, they displaced
CRATE between the inner mud outer buro and
gained access to the brick, several of which
had been removed, making clear hole
about 10 inches square, when they we're
discovered. The prisoners were removed to
the other dungeon and chained together and
to the middle of tho floor. Here wo found
them on Thursday morning and ondeavored
to elicit the particulars of their efforts to
escape, but they wero reticent, only saying
that they "had been piddIing at i, for good
while" They further stated that tho bars
hud been cut just ns VIC found them for two
days before they were discovered. Although
these prisoners were sent to Anderson for
safc keeping. they would probably havo
gained their freedom he fore this paper reaches
tho public had they not been accidentally
discovered, but they will be safely kept now
and will be ready when the Sheriff of Oconeo
comes to take them to trial-Anaerson Jour-
nal, 2lst.