Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-09-16
WALnALIA SOUTH CAROLINA, SEPTEMBER Iss0
now not only very important distributing
centre for merchandise, but is fast becoming


manufacturing place. Tho AppeaEs
annual report speaks Of several cotton seed
oil factories, ironworks, gin manufaotory,
wagon, broom, soap, sugar, candy and othor
factories, oil prosperous. Most encouraging
OF oil, because it speaks Of thrift among tho
!oboring mon, Momphis has seven loan aud
building associations, which havo joint
capital of million dollars.
Wherever VIC turn, In Texas, Ar
kansas, Georgia, and cvon in Vir-
glnlo, wo road only Of rapidly increasing
prosperity and of general wel-doiug
1t will not do for Southern men
after suoh an official showing to com
plain of the poverty Of thoir region.
The Southern Statos arc prosperous 1t
would not bo cxtravsgant to say that their
people arc OIL the whole moro prosperous
than those of most pnrts of tho North.
Undoubtedly the conditions of living are
easier in tho South than in the North.
But tho change for tho better in tho lust
four years is very remarkable. Everywhere
VIC read of new industries starting into life:
manufactures of various kinds arc rapidly
increasing md give employment to incrcas.
ing numbers of the poor whites, TO whom
factory lito is distinct advance in tho soae
OF prosperity. Tho business of market
gardening for Northern consumption has
been found SO profitable that vegetable and
small-fruit gardens aud orchards arc found
in oil tho States from Virginia to Louisiana.
1t Is absurd to charge that region thus
hea'thfully prosperous is lawless or idle.
The South produced lost year tho greatest
cotton crop in its history, aud this years
crop Will be oven greater. But, over and
aboeo the cotton, it is producing q, multi
tudo of other things which wcro totally
unknown in tho Southern States before
tho war. With moro hcnlthful political
life, such as would follow from "dividcd"
South, this prosperity would be still more
rapidly incrcascd.-N 7. Herald.
TIE RADICAL PLATFORM Tho pat-
form adopted 5y tho Radicals at Columbia
Is Us follows, the first plank endorsing Car
field and Arthur: I'd. Believing that the
right to free ballot is right prcsorvutiyc
of all rights, We dcnounco the Democratic
party of South Carolina for tho Outrageous
system of fraud which they inauguratcd for
the purpose of supprcssug that right. and
wo assert that it is only by preventing
full vote, by denying free ballot and
Gratis m can have any any hope hope whatever of carry
ing South Carolina.
the Democratic Governor of tho State in
refusing to allow the Republicans in many
Counties of the State any representation
whatever on tho board of commissioners
of election recently appointed, and tho de-
uial Of such representation gives good
ground for the belief that in such cases
the commissioners of election were ap-
pointed for tho purpose of dcfrauding tho
popular will by an unscrupulous exercise
of the large powers which tho election laws
of the State confer upon thom.
4th. In the appointment of managers of
election by the commissioners of elections,
we demand that Republican manager bo
appointed OF Zach poll, and in making this
demand VIC call attention to tho fact that
when tho Republicans controlled tho ap-
pointment of election officers representation
was allowed at every election to tho Demo
Gratis on every board of commissioners and
every board of managers.
9Th. That we cmphutcally deny tho
assertion made by Wade Hampton that
$4,000 Republicans voted for him as the
Democratic candidate for Governor ut tho
general election Of 1878, and VIC believe
that tho assertion was made to account for
the Thousands of tissue ballots stuffed in
tho ballot boxes by Wado IIampton's cleo.
ton officers at TINT election
9th. We charge tho Democratic party
with being unfaithful to tho many pledges
and promises mado to the people of this
State, os demonstrated by their reckless
disregard Of the rights Of citizens, md cs.
pccially their attempts to disfranchisc
largo portion of tho voters by unconsitu
tional cuactments.
7th. That wo arraign tho Democratic
party for their bad management of the
State Pcnitcn,ary and tho brutal treatment
of the convics in that institution, the
sick kening details of which sends thrill of
horror to the hearts of all humane people
and make blot on the civilization of tho
ago.
SAVE TIE FRAaMEErs.-Som years
ago the dust and shavings from book
bindcry, whore gold leaf is used to make
tho titles on the backs Of books, woro sent
to the gold-beatcr's to be burnt out. And
how much gold do you think vas found
from tho little PARTICLES that had fallen on
tho foor2 Why lump that was valued at
SlO0--cnough to buy 400 Bibles. The
shovings from tho edges of books in the
same bindery sell for from SO, 200 to So, 500
year for paper rags
If boys and girls would save tho frag
mcnts of timo, and devote tllcm to reading
and study, they might booomo learned and
wise. If they would save the fragments of
money, they might become wealthy and uso