Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-06-23
The British and Foreign Bible Society
Put in circulation 10 China, lest year 220,-.
600 copies Of Scripture.

O.AHeh auu 1OIeIEO Olole COcloty
Put in circulation 10 China, last year 220,-.
600 copies of Scripture.
Young Priester, the parrioido, was
found "not guilty" on the plea of insanity.
He way sentenced by Judge Mackey to til,
Lunatic Asylum for life.
The colored people 10 Abbeville have
formed life insurance association. The
membership foe is 81, and the assessinepf
$l.l0 per member for each death in the
association.
The German Postofice has adopted
and used postage stamps whose oolors can
be cancelled by water. This prevents fraud,
Tor as soon as tho stamps ore washed the
color Is obiiterated.
Tho manufacture Of oil from American
cotton seed has begun in Italy On large
scale. 1t is mixed With olfvo oil and soldi
for table use.
There has been notable scaroity Of
drunken men on the streets of Charlotte
since prohibition Went into effect, and the
avo6ation OF policeman has become deoid.
edly monotonous.
lfe delinquent barkeepers of Colam--
bra Who were indicted last week for
falling to pay che 800 State license. are
paying up. They saw that the law against
the m was too clear to be evaded.
LIN Weutern Africa, within tho last
forty years, 120 missionaries have fallen at
their posts; but their labors arc seen in the
30,oOo converts to Christianity in that re-
gion.
The Railroad Gazette reports 1865
accidents on the roads for tho past year, in
which 800 persons were killed and 1,673
Injured. This is the worst record our roads
have made, being ESQ per cent. greater
than for the previous twelve months:
"Ratloual Dress Society" has been
formed in London, the object of which is
to promote the adoption, according to indi.
vldual taste and convenience, of a style OF
dress based upon considerations of health.
comfort and beauty. The annual subsor;n.
ton Is only half crown.
Gen. Gordon has returned to Atlanta.
and will at once begin the construction Of
his new road, the Georgia Pacific. The
capitol stock of the road is SIC, 100000 and
1t has oil been subscribed. The road will
be built direct from Atlanta to the Mis-
sissippi River, by way of Columbus and!
Aberdeen.
Tho Hartwell San of Iaet week came to-
US mourning the death OF Mira. E:izabeth'
Benson, wife Of Hon. j. lS. Benson. She
was the daughter Of Col. Jeptha Norton, Of
old Pendleton District, aud was born in
1924 near the village of O!d Piokena.
She was married in 1847 to Mr.. Benaon.
and for time they lived at Pendletou.
then at Fair Play, and when Hartweli was
located they became its first settlers.
Peru is in dreadful way No Congress-:
three olain,snts of power, each with an
army; no money; no orcdit no means of
getting the foe to withdraw; no means Of
restoring order; no hope anywhere. The
people penniless and despairing-pawninp
their pictures and jewelry to buy bread.
Everybody is ruined, and there are no
means by which TO set the wheels of the
eountry's industries in motion once more.
DEATH FROM TIGHT LAcrNa.-The evils
of tight lacing were shown at an inquest
which was held last week at Kilburn npop
tho body of Mrs. Amelia Jury. DR.. Hill
stated that upon making post mortem ex.
animation he found that the stomach was
contracted in the middle by firm band.
narrowing it to one eighth of tho usual
size, so there were virtually two stomaohs,
and this contraction was on level with a
deep indeptation on the liver, correspond
ing to where the stays were tightly bound
round. The liver itself was Aattened out.
and was driven down very deep in the
pelvis also, and there was no doubt but
what this was also produced by tight laoipp:
The Coroner said that he sometime ago held
an inquest where it was shown that the
liver had been very seriously injured
through tight lacing, and perhaps these
cases would act as a caution against tho
practices now adopted Glasgow News.
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THE STAR ROUTE FRAuDs.-It is RI,
ported from Washington that the govern;
ment expects to be able to prove that the
Star Route thieves have plundered the
treasury to the extent of about million
dollars. 1t can hardly be said that the
statement is startling, for the country was
undoubtedly prepared to hear that the
plundcr amounted to a good deal. So
many of tie thieves have grown very rick
and 80 much money has evidently been ex-
pended 10 bribes and corruption that it was
to be expected that much moro than mil
lion i'll gotten dollars found their way out Of
tho treasury and into the Golfers of the
members of the ring. The information
probably means that stealings amounting
to millions have been discovered in ossea,
where there is reason to believe that
conspiracy to defraud can be established.
The network of evidence is clearly growing,