Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-03-13

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Tho twenty~two counties Of Northeast
Georgia traversed by the Atlanta & Charlotte
Air Limo contain 842.5lS acres of wild land,
returned for taxation Mt valuation Of Sll6,,
630--an average of 32a conts per acre
They contain also 5000 "a acres of improved
land. valued for taxation Mt $Il 1886. l43-an
average value Of R3 764 per moro. The same
counties return S3.O9I,523 of hogs. sheep and
cattle, oran Average Of $l4735 80 per county.
COLUMBIA, March 9.-Thc State Treass
uror and Comptroller General announce
| that they have sufficient funds on hand to
pay all tho State institutions for four months
Of tho present fiscal year without waiting
for collection of taxes. Tho payment will
not cncroach on the interest money held 10
dispute. II is derived from tho surplus
over tho appropriations of last year and
from tho PHOSPHATE royalty. Tho good
news affords great relief to the institutions
interested.
To the general reader it viii hardly seem
orcditablc that the value of tho nunual
product of butter and cheese in the United
States is 50,o00,0OO greater than TINT Of
the wheat crop; yet such Is the fact, the
former being $3.50, 600, 900, aud tho latter
about 100000. The COW is an i'm
mcnsc factor in our productive wealth.
Washington POST
Fred. Douslaes objects to Senator Win
dcm's scheme of colonizing the negroes in
one Of Western Territories. He says that
Massachusetts, fifty years ago wns Us bad a
place for tho colored man as Mississippi is
today, and prophecies that public opinion
in tho South will chcngo as it has done in
the North.
There is world Of consolation in the
knowledge that Sam Ice, tho fugacous
criminal whom tho President nominated for
Postmaster ut Sumter was not confirmed by
the Senate. Too late Sumter will get n
respectable and competent Postmaster, as
the Senate will copGrm none other.
The State Supreme Court rendered q
decision in Columbia on the 4th instant, in
which it is held that writs of mandamus
will not issue to compel the receipt of bills
Of tho Bank Of the State for taxes, and that
the ''Act to facilitate tho collection OF taxes, y
does not violate tho obligation of contract
and is an adequate remedy.
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Another Georgian who cmigratcd to Texas
two years ago has returned to his friends
His possessions consisted of slung shot, n
pair Of old boot legs and II twist of homo
made tobacco. iIo is loud in his praises Of
the climate.
The Springfield Republican is inclined to
believe that South Carolina is pushing the
Republican mourners too hard. The trouble
is that these Republican mourners strained
the law to such tension that the reaction is
terrific.
A committee of the Tennessee Legislature
has discovered that ten millions of the State
debt was illegally created. Isn't this discov-
cry rather beatcd- if we may be allowed tho
expression?
DANyILLE. VA, February 26.-Judgo Alex.
Rives is holding United States Court here.
Five County Court Judges have been indicted
by the Grand Jury to day for failing to ALLOW
negro Jurors to serve Great indignation
prevails.
The census bill as passed provides for
$50 supervisors to be appointed by the
President, by and with the consent of the
Senate. The cnumcrators are to tho num-
Der of one for about every 1000 of popula-
ton.
! The men who work will thrive Those