Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-10-02

| Wv ha'u were distinotly hoard several hun
cred yards from tho railroad. 1t seemed
more like an excursion to big frolic than
to religious meeting, and that every
body on board took it for granted that no
one expected good behavior. The conduct
of many OF the young men otter they ar
rived at Sandy Springs was not only dis
respectful, but disgraceful ia the cxtrcme.
While the order Immediately about the
st&nd and church was generally very good,
out on tho outskirts and about the rairoud
it was extremely bad, ond calls for the
severcst condemnation. It reflects great
discrcdit on the morals and characters Of q
large number, who not only engaged in loud
swearing and excessive drinking, but also
in many other vices equally US degrading.
1t is day that will ong be remembered by
q great many who were in attendance on
the meeting, many scenes of which we
hopo will never again be enacted. we
understand that the authorities OF the camp
meeting werc opposed to having the trains
run, and even requested thot they should
not be run If so, VIC must say that the
railroad authorities are responsible for put
ting these trains on os matter of business on
Sunday to run to religious meeting, which
was anxious to have them dispensed with
l5c it said to the credit of the young men
! of Anderson they were 10 no wise connected
w'lh any of the bad behavior.
From the Anderson Journal.I
This time honored gathering has once
more come and gone, aud the good people
of the country may well pause and reflect
upon the general effect of it. There was a
MI fhn
the beginning, and on Sunday there was
some 5000 to 8,0COspeoplc upon the camp.
ground, about 1000 of them going on the
special excursion trains run that day from
Walhala, Greenvllc, Abbevile aud Co.
lumbiu. There were hundreds of dcvout
people present, who went there through
pious motives, but the great majority of the
people went there through idle curiosity or
on general holiday froiickipg expedition.
We have nothing whatever to say concern
ing the amount Of good accomplished at the
meeting, for it falls 80 far short of balancing
against the evil on the o:her hand that it is
scarcely worth taking into consideration.
10 attempt detailed account Of the disor.
dcrly conduct end fragrant wickcdness
attendant upon the occusion would be
futile We reached the camp ground on
the Walhalla train from Seneca City and
cumc away on the Columbia train to Andcr.
sou, and VIC can say that we have never
seen on any occasion such q disordcrly,
disrespcctfuI and riotous mob 1t being
the Sabbat:' day and there being q large
number Of ladies' on each train we were
utterly shocked at tho amount of loud curs-
ing, shouting and pistol shooting which wo
I'D fnoc cf,,1 N
civilization of our times. Immediately
around the church and nrbor there was
comparative order kept, but it was far
different on the outskirts, whi'c at the
railroad crossing tho scene beggars descrip-
tion. A negro man and white woman
who were found nssociatiDg together. appar.
emily married, were chased somo distance
and the old man mcrcilessly beaten with
sticks and clubs. We heard one pistol shot
during the chase, and it is rumored that he
has since died from injuries received. We
know that none of the disorderly parties
were from the town of Anderson, nnd we
nre pursuadcd that tho majority of them
came from distance. What is the lesson?
That there should never be anything of the
kind in our county again. Where ia the
responsibility? Some say that it was
nothing but the dcmoralized state of alTairs
that cxists among our people brought
together in collective form and appearing
more hidcous than it would appear scat.
tered throughout the country. This may
be SO, but ", regard it as an exceedingly
lbcra! view to say the least. Others say
that the railroad authorities are responsible
for their running the special trains on the
occasion, but it may bo said that they
would not hoTe been run but for the public
demand for them. 1t is on this account
that Sunday mail trains arc run, and for
that matter that railroads arc built and run
| at all. Others still lay the blame at the
door of the ministers for having the mecling
! when ouch things were liable to occur, and
they are defended on the ground that they
earnestly requested that the trains should
not be run on Sunday. We don't propose
to locate tho blame or suggest n remedy.
We knoy that the evil haq transpired that
brings the blush to all our best citizens,
and yo sincerely hope that We will be
spared tho shame of its repetition at any
time in tho future.
A SAD ACCIDENT NEAR TowNvILLE.-
We received by Wednesday mornings mail
the following sad ncws from Townvillc:
clearly last Saturday, tho goth instant,
john b. Dorr met most tragic fate by n
tub of sediment falling from tho mouth 10
the bottom, of we'll in which he was at
work, few miles from here, and striking
his head crushed the skull, oousing instant
death. This cad end is all the more unfort
unato in tho fact that Mr.. Dorr, himself
young, left a young wife and several little
children, who wcro dependent upon his