Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-06-19

nate, is one of the most effective, perhaps
on the whole the most effective, of all the
appeals which Southern legislators have as
yet addressed to the reason and conscience
of tho North"
A Massachusetts, man is working the co.
rundum mine in Macon County, N. @.
Many goms have been found therein, one
last week worth $4,000. OF ooruudum,
$76, 600 worth have been taken out, at an
expense of $4,000. Tho corundum is
precious stone, next in hardness to tho da-
mond.
"A glass Of whiskoy sells for dime and
is drunk in minute. It fires tho brain,
aud deranges and wcakcns the physical
system. On tho same tablo lies newspa-
per. 1t is covered with half million t5pe;
it brings intelligence from the four Quarters
of the globe. Tho newspaper costs less
than half the glass of grog; but it is mono
the less true that there is large number of
people who think whiskcy Cheap and news.
papers dear.
| -Europcan infantry soldiers are uni
formed as follows: French, blue coat and
red pants; British, red coat and blue pants:
German, blue with red faoings and double
row of buttons on the coat; Austrian, gray
coat and blue pants; Russian, coat and
pants dark brown, with q double row of
buttons on the coat; Turkish, an Oriental
cap, with tassel and fez, and blue coat and
pants Tho uniform Of tho United States
infantry consists of French fatigue oap,
dark blue coat and light blue pants.
II thought We'll of Hayes when lo
marched the troops away from tho State
governments in the South It was brave
and honest not on his part and might have
made him ono of the greatest of our Presi.
| dents But now that he says that the
soldiers must bo stationed at the polls, aud
tho army be required to supervise the elecs
tions, he has forfeited the regard held for
him. Still, | think it was his weakness
that led him to this last act. He was bull.
dozod into it by members of his Cabinet:
But had rather he had stood firm on tho
ground he first took Gen. Joe Hooker.
Tho failure Of a jury to convict tho
Yoakum brothers of murder at Bakersfield,
Cal, displeascd the populace. A mob broke
into the Jail at night; and ono of the priso-
hefs was quickly hanged to tho bars 6f his
cell, a moose boing thrown over his head,
and tho rope pulled through the grating.
Then the lynchers went to the others cell
door, and found he was fettcred to the
floor. AS thoy We're unable to enter, thcy
tried to lasso him, as they had done with
lis brother; and then choke him to death
by pulling at the rope, but he lodged tho
moose successfully. So they killed him
with their reyolvcrs, firing SO recklessly
that two of their own number wero aociden.
tally wounded.
= Between thirty fvo and forty thousand
men havo been thrown out of work by the
great strike of the iron workers of Pittsburg
and Allegheny City, Pa, which means
waste of at least 100000 day By the
strikors, and about as much more, merely
IN interest on capital invested, by tho pro.
prletors. Tho actual capital that will be
idle if the strike continues is estimated, by
business mon to be $25,000,000 in Ale.
ghany County alono. At youngstown,
Ohio, S3, 100000 capital and $500 men
will bc idle; at Sharon, Pa, Sl5,O0,OOO
and about 1000 men idle; at Newcastle,
Pa, $l,500,0O and about 900 men will
bo idle.
-Tcxas has enacted local option bell.
punch law. Zach county in the State may
decide, as heretofore, whether alcoholic
beverages Shall or shall not be sold within
its borders, and, should the verdict bo in
favor of the sale, then the county antorities
may decide upon the number Of places to
DO licchecd and provided with bell punches.
The Galveston Neacs estimates that 200
counties will adopt tho bell punch System,
and that tho number ,pdnchcs required will
be about 1000. 1t is singular fact that,
Notwithstanding the prevalence of violence
in Texas, tho sale Of liquor is strictly pro
hibited in many counties Of that State.
The bill which Mr., Springer intro.
duoed in the Hourc of Representatives on
Monday to regulate tho statoniDg of troops
during elections, and which forbids soldiers
stationed within two miles of place where
an election is being held from going out of
their barracks, oxcopt to mount or relieve
guard, is copied exactly from the
existing British Statutes on the
samo subject, passed during the reign of
the present Queen as o modification Of the
original act Of the time of William the
Third. Will the sovereign people Of our
free Republic consent to be denied the safe.
guards with which the British subject is
surrounded? We shall seeo.
Tho German Empire hasa population
of 4l,50O,000. Among European nations
it is second to only to Russia in size. 1t
comprises the Kingdoms Of Prussia, Brand
enburg, Pomorania, PoseD, Silesia, Saxony,
Schleswig Holstein, Hanover, Westphalia,
Rhenish Prussia, Hesse Nassau, Hohenzol-
lern, Lauonburg, Bavaria, Saxony Wurtem.
burg; ths grand duohies Of Baden, Hesse,
Mecklinburg Sohwerin, Meoklcnburg Sire
litS, Oldenburg, SAKE Woimor, Eisenach;