Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-04-07
Nihilist and Autocrat.
The DEATH STRUGGLE BETWEEN OpPosd'
ING FORCEs IN RUSSIA

The miniou of the Court sent to every
hamlet, clothed with tho power of life and
death, wreaked his lust Of authority or
greed for gain on gentle and simple alike.
The millions of money needed to maiotain
the State wore ground out Of the life blood
of the poverty stricken peasant on no system
but the mere will Of the local tyrant. Com-
plant was net by Wholesale confscation;
refusal was met by the knout, applied alike
to tho bare back of the aged and infrm os
we'll as children and women. When, with
every hope fed, tho lacerated peasant
| appealed to the last resource of tho miscra-'
ble-death Ibis kinsmen to tho remotest
generation were mado to pay the penalty
Finally driven to that last resort of the
| NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. commu-
nitios were slaughtered by court martial
and when the numbers became too great for
even this summary method thousands OF
communities were ohsined In couples and
driven Northward to the perpetual winter OF
Siberia to drag out miserable years in the
government mines. If in the march death
overlook tho victim his corpse was forced
npon his comrade to keep the lumber com-
pIete until the list could bo rocopted at the
end of the dolorious journey. Every road
in Russia has been stained by the blood and
bathed by tho tears Of men, women and
children who keep up this hidcous oavaloade'
year in and year out.
So it came to pass that the living came to
believe anything preferable to suoh exist
cncc and they said we will destroy all and
begin anew. This doctrine is called Nihi-
lism. Autocraoy met tho agitation with
redoubled rigors. The chief towns as we'll
as the country districts ran with blood. The
ominous vclley of the death platoon never
ceased from one end of the empire to the
other. But the Nihiist had reached tho
ears Of tho 85,000,0OO md the power of
! autooraoy became impotcnt. Its chief
butchers were secretly at first but later
boldly massaorod in the very panoply Of
their baleful power. The patton, tied hand
and foot, was fighting for life. The autocrat
! said: will root you out and seed thegtound
with salt. Nihilsm answered.: Bo it so.
You shall murder us man by man, but tho
last man will rid the earth of you and those
who como after will be FREQ.
This is bald but very brief statement of
the existing condition Of things in Russia.
The late Alexander knew what tho condi-
tions were upon which he held power. Ho
had but to concedo the people what all
people sooner or later achieve to havo fixed
himself in tho hearts Of his people as firmly
as his obstinucy fixed him in their hate.
Alexander III takes power on the same
conditions. If ho will it 80 he may be the
happy sovereign of great people. If he
will it otherwise sooner or later ho will como
to the same fate as his father; nor can he
complain if people bound hand aud foot
make use of. tho only weapon left them
tyrannioido. Philadelphia Times.
BITE OF A MAD Doa.--A writer in the
National Mtclltyencer says that spirits OF
hartshorn is certain romedy for the bite of
q mad dog, The wound, he adds, should be
constantly bathed with it and three or four
doses, diluted, taken inwardly, during the
day. Tho hartshorn decomposes chemically
tho virus insinuated into the wound and
Immediately alters and destroys its deliteri-'
ousness.
OF the twenty eight new iron furnaces
completed in the United Statos last year,
six were lccntcd in Virginia and five in
other Southern States. -Four new fur.
naces are now in course of construction
in tho South, and three moro are pro.
jeoted.
| A few years since, at the celebration Of
our national anniversary, poor peddler
present, being called upon for toast,
offered tho following: "Here's health to
poverty; it sticks to man when all his
friends fotsake hiur."