Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-04-29

MERIDIAN, Miss, April 2G.-A heavy
storm passed over Macon, Mississippi, last
night, blowing away twenty-five houses,
including tho Mobile and Ohio Railroad
machine shops. round house. depot. telegraph
Office and master mechanics Office. Sixteen
cars were blown from tho track, seventeen
persons wero killed and twenty-five wounded.
Tho loss Of the property is estimated at not
less than 100000 Meridian was called on
to send physicians, and six or eight have gono
hence to attend the suffering.
CHICAGO, April 2G.-Later advices from
tho parts of !ho State swept by Saturday
nights storm show that tho loss of life and
destruction of property was oven greater
than Mt first reported. Near Taylorsyile
many houses were demolished and their
inmates crippled, killed or carried away.
Hundreds of cattle and hogs were killed, and
fowls were found dead and almost stripped
of feathers in tho tracks Of tho cyclone. For
violence and dostructiveness the storm has
never been cqualed in this part of tho
country.
The Abbevlle Press and Banner, says:
"Thc commission created by on act Of the
last session of tho Legislature for the in
vestigation of ol eyed cruetics practiced
upon convicts by tho Greenwood aud Au-
gusta Railroad is now in session ut Green
wood. Numbers of witnesses have, been
summoned, and it is quito probable that il
will continue its work until the oppropria-
ton of 81, 800 mado for the purpose is
exhausted. Nothing SO far has been
developed to criminalIy iucupatc tho rail
road authorities The commission hold a
secret session each day
Tho Tennessee Historical Society has been
presented with coat made by President
"Andy" Johnson in 1866 for Judge w, w.
Pepper, who was Mt that time Judge Of the
Seventh Judicial Circuit of Tennessee. An
| drew johnson was Governor Of the State, and
the coat wns made by him in rc.urn for an
iron shovel mado and sent him oy Judge
Pepper. johnson was u tailor and Pepper a
| blacksmith by trade.
The prisoners at Moscow Tigni, Novgo
rod SAHARA and othcr dcpots awaiting exile to
Siberia, number over 10000. Tho river
| Orc5urg has been hlockuded for n month by
unprecedented snow storms, and numerous
deaths of prisoners overtaken by storms have
occurred. Many village communities are
Strengthened for food owing to the impossibiity
of communicating with tho usual places Of
supply.
The famous Island No 10 10 the Misss-
sippl river, which was three miles long, and
which, during tho war, contained two or
three fertile plantations, and ON which tho
Copicdcratcs erected carthworks to obstruct
the passage of the Federal gunboats, has
been entirely swept away by tho river, and
The present island is only u sandbunl,
ovcrgrown with cottonwood and willows
LoNDox, April "a Tho Lord Mayor
of London has received telegram from,
the Christian committee at Bagdud, which
says: "icrrblc famine is raging throughout
Mcssopotamia and Kurdistnn. Immense
masses of starving Christians arc crawling
hithcr for relief. Our resources are totally
inadequate to meet their necessities"
Congressman Evins, of Spartanburg, is
being complmentcd on his good work
lie it credited with getting the various
committees, before which were the bills,
to rcpnrt fnvorably on tho following appro-
prlntlons: $4,000 for the Kings Mountain
| Centennial; $500 for bronze statue of
Gen. Morgan; $4,000 for Federal court
house at Grcenvic.
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Quincy, ILL, April 24.--A cyclone
strucS tho North line of Adams County last
night dong material damage. 1t went from
West to Erst Twenty houses and barns
are known to be demolished and several
persons killed aud wounded.
Col Wm G. Beatty, a prominent citizen
and leading member of the Yorkvillo bar,
died suddenly on Wednesday night last in
the seventy seventh year of his age.