Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-01-13
suffer death as in the case of wilful mur..

suffer death as in the case of wilful mur..
der"
SEC. 2. That Section 8 of the said
Chapter of tho General Statutes 5e, and
tho same is hereby amended, 80 as to read as
follows: "SEorIoN 8. "Whoever shall
willingly or knowingly carry or deliver any
such challenge, in writing or verbally,
deliver any message intended as or
purporting to be such challenge, or who
shall be present at tho fighting of any
duel as n second or aid or give oouutenance
therteto, shall for every such offence, on
conviction thereof, be forever disabled from
holding any office of profit or honor in this
State, and shall be imprisoned in tho Pen
itontiary for term not exceeding two years,
at the discretion Of tho Court, and sha!l be
| fined in a sum not less than flvo hundred
dollars or more than ono thousand dollars"
SEC. 3. That from and after tho passage
of this Act all members elected to the
General Assembly, uEd all officers now
required to take and subscribo tho oath
prescribed in Art. II, Section 80 of tho
Constitution of the State, shall, in addition
thereto, take tho following oath, before
entering upon the duties of their respective
| Offices, to be administered 10 like
uanner as the oath now rcquired: "I do
solemuly swear Cor affirm, us the case may
| boz that have not since the first day of
January, A. d. 1881, Engaged in duel
within or without tho State, either as
principal or second, or been present thereat
US party thereto in behalf Of either of the
principals in said duel, and that will not,
during the term of Office to which have
been elected, Cor appointed as tho case may
be,) engage in duel as principal, or aid
aud abct in such duel as second, or as
party thereto in behalf of either principal
or otherwise" To which shall bo added
in the case of all officers charged with the
preservation of tho peace, tho following:
"Ana l will, to the extent of my ability,
ENFORCE tho penalties prescribed by law
against dueling and will not fail to bring
to Justice oil persons offending against tho
said law that may como within my view or
knowledge"
Sec. 4. That this Act shall not affect
Indictment now pending for offences under
the law as it now exists, or indictments that
may be brought for offences con-
mittod before tho passage Of this Act
Greenvilc, :. c., bought 10000 bales of
cotton this season.
j. B. Drake had cotton to mature in
llendcraonyiIle, N. c., this season.
Six large bears were captured recently in
the Balsam Mountains, near Hendcrsonyille,
NC.
Tho Silver Valley mine in Davidson
county, N. c., yields fifty tons Of ore per
day worth $50 per ton.
On the lst instant Greensboro N. c., had
1000 partridges in market Prices ranged
from five to eight GEMS.
$4,000 California salmon arc to be do
posted soon in Broad River, S. g., and
100000 salmon in Broad, Reedy, Sa!uda
and Tugalo Rivers on the Air Line Rail-
way.
Let him who regards tho loss of time
make proper use of that which is to como in
future.
Winston, N. G., has twenty tobacco fac
tories.
The Watch on the Rind-guarding
watermelon patch.
The man who capped the climax didn't
know it was loaded, or ho wouldn't have
done it.
Mr. Ever was married to Miss Joy. The
friends of the victims were shocked when
the press called her ga thing of beauty"
because she was ga Joy for Ever"
North Carolina has 65 cotton factories
6ud $50 tobacco factories.
| Jay Gould's latest acquisition makes q
total of 10000 miles of railroad under his
control, or ninth of tho entire railroad
mileage of the country.
The Baptists of North Carolina have
given, during tho Convention year, for
Foreign Missions S4,595 43; for State
Missions, $685. Is; for Sunday schools
little over $4,000; for education, 81 1,77l.S3,
and for Domestic Missions, 1000.
William Rush, soldier of 1912, died
near .Audcrsonvllo, S. c., aged ninety
years. He could, up to tho time of his
death, read without glasscs and could repeat
chapter after chapter of the New Testament
His funeral was attended by four maiden
daughters, aged respectively 81, 81, Cd and
66, aud son 6S.
WASHINGTON, January THE follow
ing is statement of the population of
certain Southern States, according to tho
census of 1880 1t is subject to possible
corrcctons Alabama 1,26l,24l Arkansas
SO2 1854, Florida 266,56S, Georgia ,537,..
S78, Louisiana 940,263, North Carolina
| 100000, South Carolina 905, ,706, Ten