Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-09-22


citiscns is requested. Addresses will bo made
by prominent men of the county. Let all who
are interested ia the cause of temperance attend.
Death of President Garfield.
It has been stated since tho President was
carried to Long Branch that his blood llad boon
poisoned BY TIE wound lie received on the I'd
day Of July. On Friday last his situation grow
critical. He had several severe oh:lls aud from
these, in his exhausted condition. he was unable
rally. Gradually ho grew worse and expired
peacefully on Monday last at 10 o'clock r. NJ.
This Is the sud end Of public misfortune. If
the wishes and prayers Of tho people could havo
availed anything in this emergency they were
given with q degree of zeal and carnesncss
heretofore unknown in the history of our public
men.
The Atlanta Consultation, dwelling upon tho
result as stated above has an article which is
not only just and true, but will meet with
hearty response from every heart in the land:
"Tho death Of James A. Garfield is two.
fold calamity The country loses the services
Of President possessing the rarest qualGca-
tiohs for the performance Of oil the duties that
lay before him, and tho South loses q friend
capable of thoroughly sympathizing with the
difficulties Of tho grave problems which arc tho
legacies Of tho war To succeed in American
politics ono must needs be politician, and it is
not an enchanting business to the finer minds
engaged in it, and it is disgusting to all who
depend upon their merits for success 10
sensitive mind Tho road to the Presidency is
long and dirty. In pursuing it Mr.. Garfield
had the refuge Of scholarship He was par
n cn1tt ~
he never, like some of The Republican rivals,
made partsanship policy.
SIN tho campaign Of 1880 the people Of The
South had few glimpses of Mr. Garfield as a
man, but the newspapers of bolh parties kept
the politician perpctually to tho front. This
was inevitable, but the strong manly tone Of his
inaugural address caught tho attention of the
South, and our people began to takc moro than
passing interest in the man who was thoughtful
enough in tho hour Of his triumph 10 turn from,
the shouting thousands to kiss the trembling
lips Of his gray haired mother. Following this
came little glimpses of home life, almost ideal
in it's harmony and perfcction-so utterly differ
Ont from the homeife of some of our most
distinguished men. Nowhere on earth is tho
sentiment, of homo stronger and purer than In
tho South, and the little glimpse of the Presi-
dents life, to which we have alluded, were of
peculiar interest to our people. This interest
eliminated in the strongest sympathy with the
President, and when the news Of his attempted
assassination came, The grief and sorrow Of the
South showed Tho profound impression that had
been made upon tho minds Of tho people The
manifestations Of grief were confined to no
particular class, but they were kccncst where
they were least expected.
AFTER oil, tho secret Of tho sympathy felt
Tor MIR. Garfield in the South-rcmo,e as it
was and is from NIL personal or party con.
eiderations-.is the fact that he 10 typical
American. lie has made his own career.
lie conquered poverty and all tho obstacles
that poverty places in the way Of tho ambi.
tious, and fought his way upward to the
highest renown. Tho South cav in him n
man of large mind and broad sympathics--
man of genial impulses and of tempera-
ment TINT may well bo called poetic. Seeing
all this, our people had hopes that his nd,
ministration would bo productive Of the
largest resolts in allaying the prejudicos Of
scctionalism, and we have not the slightest
doubt that these hopes would have been
realized.
Whatever policy the President may have
marked out previous to tho attempt on his
lifo, wo believe ho would have risen from his
bed with his mind free from the slightest
trace or Vestige of partisanship. IIo could
not have ignored tho attitude of The South.
Ills genial and sympathetic nature would
have taken advantage Of the events of tho
past few months, and for tho a ret f;mo in
twenty odd years wo should have had a
President in full enjoyment Of the confidence
and esteem Of tho whole country"
sstH..t Il .-e--.-A--f7 |ys.s y. b'.
The question Of establishing Chain gang
IN Charleston, SO that babitual Offenders shall
DO put to work on tho streets inatoad Of idlng
away their time in jail, is now before the
Council of that oity Such law is in opera
tion1ln como other Southern cities. 'b &
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[Ypsilanti (Mich. Commoroial.1
Our representative lately learned tho fol-
loving from Mr.. Carl Siegmund, Cor. Con-
gress and Washington Sts.: Ny daughter
suffered from Rheumatism to suoti an estent
that II crippled her, rendering her unable to
walk atall. We consulted many physicians
and used oil kinds Of medicines, butin vain.
At last st. Jacobs Oil effected tho happiest
results. toured my daughter.