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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03
WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH- . 1851

will now strain every nerve to complete
tho road to their Atla"tic, Mississippi aud
Ohio junction at Big Lick by the LIST of
May, If tho w"sth'r permits Thoir ao
QUESTION East of Big Lick will likewise
prove Of great value 10 relieving tho pres
sure Of through business by carrying some
Of it to Norfolk, espcoiuily the cotton
trade, and that growing and prosperous
Virginia City will have no reason to regret
the turn affairs have taken So for, then,
the meaning Of the purchase Of the Allan
tic Mississippi and Ohio Rpilrood is that the
Louisville sod Nnshvil Q, which is at work
90 The extensions from LiviDgston to
Knoxville, has secured on outlet to the
seuhcard other than that which it nov bss
by way of Chattanooga aud Atlanta. But
thero is another powerful element to be
taken it to account
The Atluutio, siississippi aud Ohio Rail
road cannot reach Knoxville without run
ming over the East Tennessee aud Virginia
Raiiruod, which is the debouohiug limo for
Important roads. Col. Cole, the Superiu.
tcndeut of the Esst Tennessee Road, regards
the new purchase as promise of an addi-
tional outlet TO the East Tor his own line.
1t is plum then thst the Louisville and Nash
vile nust absorb the East Tennessee Road
in order to tecome independent. Col. Cole
ssys: ''Tho East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia system, in connections With the
Western North Carolina, is arranging to
close up tho gap, Of forty miles between
Wolf Greek, Tennessee, aud Asheyille,
North Carolina, giving another connection
to the East Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia
from Nlorristown, via the Western Nortl,
Curoln, end Richmond aud DanyilIo, to
deep water at West Point, and also via
Raleigh to Norfolk Closing tho g.p be-
tween Ashevil!e and Wolf Creek will nut
Charleston in close Connection with Knox.
vile, US soon us the Spartanburg md Ashe.
vile Railroad shall BE- com mp!eted.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad ia
the old opponeot of the Cipcipoat, South
| ern k'iIrond, which ia now considering tho
prus t'cability of meeting the Louisville and
NashviIIc's Knoxville cx,ensiun by building
for itself road through Emory Gap to the
Hame point. It is safe to say that tho Gin
cinnnti Southern Esiroad whom it reaches
Knoxville will not consent TO remuin depen
dent on the Louisville and Nashville tor
communication with the seabosrd. A free
outlet IN what it uceds. bud tlia. outlet if the
Tonucssrc roads be 10 oertnin hands, 1t oan
.nnty fnd by oo,niaR doWp to Churleaton
& Western connection with Charleston, by
way of Knoxville is sure to be had. It isa
railroad ncccsaity
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03
TIE AIR LINE RoAD.--The New York
correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution

TIE AIR LINE RoAD.--The New York
correspondents of the Atlanta Constitution
says: ".rhe officers Of the Air Limo Road
are here, preparing their annual report.
The result of the years work is most salts.
faotory, showing $l74,0O0 gain 10 the
esrnings over the year before. Col. Fore.
aore's record on this road is a fae one, and
confirms his position as one Of the very
best managers 10 America. When he took
the road 10 1877 the gross earnings were
about S580,000. For the present year
they arc almost $3.50, ,000-a gain 10 about
three years Of about $3.50, 900. The earn.
logs Of tbs road now pay its interest right
along, and it will become worry valuable
property. The New York owners are graft.
fed Of the result Of Col. Foreac1e's man
agement, and his conservatism and frank.
ness has given them such confidence ia him
that he has. been able to command their
money for Georgia development, aud oando
much more in the future"
"Tho immigration work of the road 10 @
leading feature in its management and will
grow to great proportions. Already about
ono hundred and fifty Swiss have been
brought into the Piedmont. regions, and
have invested in lands. The little COLONY
is doing we'll and large addition from
Switzerland will follow in the Spring. Tho
colony will be doubled, and probably tre.
bled, during tho present year. Those who
have already settled in Georgia are delighted
with the,outlook. I understand that this
Swiss experiment has not cost the road
over 81 900, under Maj. Houston's careful
supervision"
ut is interesting to note that the immi.
grafton statistics of the road show that tho
immigration into the region along it's line
shows that net gain of twelve hundred
over those who havo left it--this within
the pest year, l think. A great many
South Georgia farmers have moved into tho
Piedmont country, sinco it is demonstrated
that it is perfectly reliable cotton section.
But we must rely, aftor all, on foreign i'm.
migration to build up our waste places,
and ahe lSwiss colony will give us M.
clcus."
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03

city in the world, having been founded by
Uz, the grandson o. Noah, ,nore than 1000
years ago. We entered tho oity BY the
Jerusalem gate Passing along "the street
osllcd Straight" we soon came to the
Bazosts, the central feature 10 all Eastern
cities. They are very attractive with their
rich goods, brought from I'LL parts of Tur-
koy, Persia snd Arabia. and present a novel
and curious scene. The rich burgher Of
Damascus, tho steslthy Bedawiu of tho
Desert, the hardy Druze mouataiueer, and
the stately iohabjtant of Persia, are all
here, gathered together in ono picturesque
group. Crossing the square 10 which are
situated the Bazaars, NC &C mo to tho Mey.
den tho principal prone le Of Damascus,
at the further eud Of W. oh Is our hotel.
The next day, we visits the grand Mosque
originally a Christian church-with its
curious byzantine gate. Over the aroh of
ono OF the entrances to this mighty pagan
temple, in Greek text, is the following sem
tenoe:
"Thy kingdom. o Christ, Is an evorlast.
ing kingdom; and thy dominion endureth
throughout all generations"
How strange that this grand Christian
truth should be allowed to remain uuds.
turbed thousand years, over tho gate of
ono Of tho most august of Muslem shrines.
Near by, within the very shadow of tue
hlohammedan temple, is the the tomb of its
greatest defcnder-the mighty Saraoen
warrior, Sultan Saladin.
Accepting the Invitation of a friend,
we paid avisit to some Of the homes of
wealthy Damasoenes, aud found them truly
Easteru and very besutiful. Entering FROM
the dirty, noisy street, by low, mean
door, you arc hardly prepared for tho luxury
aud elegance within. In tho centro of the
building is large square, marble paved
court 10 the middle of this court foun.
tsin is playing, surrounded BY trees in full
Leaf, afording cool aud refreshing retroat
from tho rays of the suu. Opening off
from this equare are the different apartments,
somo exposed on one side to the court.
Around the sides of theRe rooms run wide
divans, covered with costly Eastern fabrics.
The walls around and tho ceiling above are
adorned with richly carved srabesques, iu.
teruixed with pious sentences from the
Koran. The whole effect, quite different
from anything we had before seen, was
novel, unique aud fascinating.
We we're compelled to decline visit
to the ruins of Ps'myra, the city built by
solomon aud destroyed by Nebuchaduczcr. N
IL was the home of the brilliant aud sadly
HISTORIC Zcnobia, who, ss Queen of tho
East, held her powerful court thero unt il
she was conquered by the Romans, wboso
sway at one time extended from the shores
of tho Atlantic to the baoks OF the Indus.
1t is situated some two hundred miles
from Damascus, in the very heart of the
desert.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03
CHICAGO AND CHARLESTON.
FROM the Chioago Tiu.es.1

The mcnns OF transportation now availa-
able. enormous as they Bre, are apparently
inadequate to the demunds made on thew
hy shippers nnd importers. New lines Of
COMMUNICATION, ~ Is known. are projected
between the e 'ntcru srnpnrIs aud Chicago,
but it will be severul years befnre any of
these new highways aro in practical opera
t'on. and The city, say lhose Interested 10
ills welfare. must bavo spredier help than
these can give. The warehouses; of Boston,
Nc" York, Phi'sdeIphia, aud Baltinore arc
even no" glutted with freight awaiting
transportation to the markets Of tho world
Again, the railways nre uvcrrun with bust
ness which they are impede, in handling
ny reason Of cIimatcric uni Kindred hiu-
ORANGES. For mouths each ar tho
Northero Lakes harbors and rivers are fro
zen, to the detrimcnt of bsyigatiou. Al
these ore praclicsI evils to which practical
remedies must bs applied, ond the latest
plan 10 obvia'e existing difficulties must be
allowed to Ut least possess these great ele :.
ments OF sGccess--daring, ability aud capi
tai.
10 day, or, If not to day, como time this
week. there will bo held II private meeting
OF the solid men Of Chiosgo At this
gathering the plan to be elaborated will bc
predica!ed, to a great extent, upon these
facts:
Chicago possesses from six to eight South
Essterly routes whereby present difficulties
ln the way Of foreign rsffio may be oov-
ated. The ports of Brunswick and Savan
uah. in Georgia. aud Port Royal in Chares-
ton, in South Carolina, Oh the South At
Iantlo coast, which ore open to navigation
all the year round, Gre not at greater dia-
tance from Chicago than the Eastern ter
mini, and the length Of route from them to
Europe ia the came, but with the advantage
"f heinY safer, because heyond the region
OF loeGergs and foys. Chicago is tho lake
end of the Chicago and Erstern Illinois,
Southern ond Kentucky Ceotrs, soon to
rench Augusta, Ga, ,ia Knoxville, Tenn.
This will, at on early day, become the
shortest route to the Southern seapurts,
being not over seven hundred and fifty
miles in length, aud the onIy link lacking
J" tn" line betweec Indianapolis and Lex .
iogton, Kentucky, which will GROSS the
Ohio River at Vevay. 1t will DO thus soen
that Chicago are"dy practically poasesse.
tho ocreused facilities for the development
of ito business, and needs only stretch out
hand to grasp them.
For some time back an active aud per-
ssvcring representative Of Southern ship
ping interests has agitated the subject OF
| op'ninx the Southeast Atlsntio ports to the
traffic Of this oity and the great West. The
project has already received tho formal in.
dorsement of the Boards Of Trade OF Chi.
cnao, St Louis, Kansas City, Indianapolis
apd Cincinnati. Hitherto railway combi
natious have prevented practioal start; but
now, instead OF ono line controlling tho
/ only road to tho Southeast Atlapto
scasoard, thero are several Independent
outlets.
Tho COMPANY COW forming hcse proposes
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03

not ouiy to purchase complete through
route to Port Royal, but also line of
atesmors aud sailing packets, 50 that freight
may be billed through FROM Chicago to
Liverpool via a line never subject to tho
delays of Northern Winter.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03

When a man asks favor at q
newspaper office and states that ho
has been subscriber for number
Of years, denial becomes an
impossibility. The argument is
clinched, and he can have tho
entire establishment for the asking.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03

LooUsTs IN 1881.-There are Two breeds
OF periodical locusts, ono appearing once in
II years and the other once 10 l3 years.
The earliest appearance of tho 17.year
locusts 10 this country, so far as records 60,
was in 1884, at Plymouth, Mass, and thew
have not failed to appear once in II years
ever snce. Both breeds will appear this
year, bat not in tho same localities.
Professor Riley, tho entomologist, ssys that
tho II year locusts will abound next juno
in Marquette and Green Lake counties,
Wis; 10 tho noighborhood of Wheeling,
West Va, and probably in Maryland,
Virginia, and the District of Columbis.
They may also appear, he says, in tho West
part of North Carolina, in Northwestern
Ohio, Lancaster county, Penn, aud West.
chester county, N. Y. The Professor says
that the 13.year brood will probably bo seen
in Southern Illinois, in all of Missouri
except the Northwest corner, in Louisiana,
Arksnsas, Indian Territory, Kentucky,
Tenaesseo, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
North Carolina, and South Carolina. The
two kinds of loouats differ very little in
appearance.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03

TIE NEGRO IN GEORGIA. A.-Thero are
IN Macon 9,673 colored persons and 1O.6l9
whites. 1t will be somewhat Of O surprise
to know that her colored citizens pay taxes
on S86,65O worth of city real estate. In
Bibb County, outside of the city limits.
they pay taxes on lands to the value Of
$l4l ,094, which is onc-nin,h of tho entire
valuation Of the farming lands in the coun.
ty. The valuation of oil kinds of property
owed by oolored people in the whole
county is $255,558. There arc fourteen
churches for these $500 people, with a
total membership Of about 3,7OO. Two
ohuruhes number over 1900 each. There
ore thirteen Sunday. schools, enrolling 1000
children and adults. Thcro are two public
SCHOOLS with sevon teachers, sustained BY
the city, having 400 soholsrs, out Of list
of 1900 children of school sge. Besides
these thero is the Lewis High School
(supported by the American Missionary
Assooiatiou) enrolling 1875 pupils this year,
also three or four private schools, number
ing about 200 moro, making total of 725
child,eD in the various schools.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03

REVISED VERSION.
Matthew 9: 9.13.
Our Father which
art in heaven. Hal.
lowed DO thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will bo done, as
in heoven, so on
earth. Give us this
day our daily bread.
And forgive US our
debts, as we also
have forgiven our
debtors. And lead
us not into tonpta-
ton, but deliver us
from the evil one.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03
America Leaping Ahead.

The London Times, Of the 22d ultimo,
renews It's previously expressed coogtatula-
tinns upon American prosperity es shown by
the census returns, aud 10 the course of q
long article on the subject remarks:
'"rhe details we publish this morning of
the principal facts elected by last years
oensus of the United States confirm the
Impression the original summary Of results
produced A nation has never exhibited
more magnificent picture Of material pro-.
grcss tor ten years. Since 1870 more than
eleven and u half millions have been added
to the population, at a rate Of 80 per cont.
increase. Except China and Great Britain
and Russia no government can count more
SUBJECTS In the number Of citizens moved
by similar impulses and recognizing common
ends the British Empire itself yields to the
great Republic. Fifty millions of human
beings in land like America moro than
match the eighty six millions of European
and Asiatic Russia. The four hundred and
twenty-five millions of China are not to be
compared with them IS force among man-
kind. The growth Of popustion may
generally be understood to imply the growth
of wealth and resources. As each census
in European State indicates numerical
advance, 1t may for the most part bo infer
red that fresh means Of support have been
made available. When, however, every
successive oensus in the United States
reveals an expansion by bounds and leaps,
faith in the instinct Of human nature not
to multiply beyond the power of exist
eooe is scarcely needed to reassure anxiety
The grsnary which is to feed the new mil
lions which have come, the millions which
are to follow, piles its stores for the whole
world to certify them. Each added Ame-
rican citizen has not to search for the live
lihood nature hides somewhere or other for
ali it's children. He is born or imported
with his inheritance labelled and allotted.
lie hrs but to go West or North or South,
there it is awaiting his advent"
ANDERSON, February 22.--Dirt was
broken at 4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon on
tho Savannah Valley Railroad. There was
q largo crowd, including many ladies.
Maj Whitner, ono Of tho directors, mado q
short speech, after which the first dirt was
shovelIed by Stephen MoCuly, our oldest
citizen and veteran railroad advoca to.
President Latimer threw tho second shovel
aod made short address. a great deal of
enthusiasm was manifestcd. Anderson
reaches out another hand to Charleston
will sho grasp it?
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03
COMMON YER SION.

COMMON VERSION.
Matthew 6: 8 10.
Our Father which
art in Heaven. Hal.
lowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done 10
earth, as 1t Is in
heaven. Give US
this day our daily
bead. And for
give us our debts,
as VIC forgive our
debtors, and lead us
not into temptation,
but deliver US from
evil.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03

Ten millions Of oattle arc annually
slaughtered in this country to supply the
hume demand for meat, which is valued at
8400, 100000.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03

The LoRD's PRAYER REVISED The
changes msdo in the revised version of tho
New Testament have already been noted,
but the following comparison will be Of
intaresf.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-03

North Carolina produces o2,500,00O
pounds Of tobacco por annun.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-24
Transuosition- Literary Curiosity.

&Eyery student OF nouns, pronouns
and verbs knows the necessity of trans
posing language for the sake of ascer-
tanning its grammatical construction.
The following. from the Ecdngettcat
Messenger, shows twenty-six different
re:diugssof one of Gray's well-knewn
poetical lines, yet the sense is not aft
fected:
The weary plowman plods his homcward way.
The plowinan weary, plods his homeward way,
His henlewari way the weary plowInan plods.
His homeward way the plowman, weary, plods.
The weary plow1nan homeward piods his way,
The paDNgnsan, weary, hoHcwird piods his way,
His way the weary pioYlnstI Eoneward piods,
His WY the plow1ri;irl. weary hofe~afff pIods,
The ploWnl$til, IIomewartl. plufts his weary way,
His way the i1ownaIl, homewa1si, weary plods,
His ho3newa weary way the plowlnan plods,
Weary, the plowmau homewartt plods his way,
Weary, the plowman plods his honlew;ird way,
Honiewarl, his way the weary plowlnln plods,
Homeward, his way the plowman weary PODS,
HomewaTd, his weary way the piowman plotis,
The plowman, homewaFu, weary plods.iils way.
His weary way, the piowman hoIncwairi piods.
His weary wny, the homewsrd plownan piods-
HomewaTT the plowman pi0ds his weary way.
Honewafst the weary piowIfan ploes his way.
The plownlail, weary. his honsewtsrd way PODS,
The plownan plods his hGmeward. weary way,
The plowlntn plods his weary, hOnewaru way,
Weary the plowrnan his why hssnleEard plodS.
Weary his homoward way the plowman plods.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-24
A Cats Stratapem,

MIR. G. w. Eddy, of Waterford, ILL.,,
owns q cat. There is perhaps nothing
singular in that fact, as in that village
cats and dogs form a large proportion
of the population. There arc not SO
many dogs as there were, however, and
that cat was the cause of the tragical
fate that befell one of the dogs recent
ly. Dogs and cats have naturally
strange antipathy for each other. 1t is
MOI necessary, we suppose, to enlarge
upon this fact Dogs are the stronger,
and their feline foes always seek shell
ter in flight when attacked. Recently,
Mr.. Eddy's cat was basking in the sun
shine on the back porch, when
strange canine made its way into the
yard. The cur espied the cat. and his
lips twitched as he thought of the fun
he was going to have. He started for
pussy, and the cat curled its tail over
its back and fled. There was lively
chase around the yard for few mo-
ments. and poor pussy was soreiy
pressed, until at last happy lnsplra-
lion seized her. In the yard was a
deep well, and around it an old-fash-
toned well-house. We do not know
that pussy realized the full extent OF the
consequences that would ensue, but
she acted as though she did. The door
of the well-house was open, and run
ming at full speed the cat sprang to tue
open door, swung herself around, chung
to the lattice work below. as her head
lodged down out of sight. The dog
did not stop to reason either, but made
leap after the cat and, as the cat
foresaw, went down into the well. The
cat just laughed as she went back to
finish her siesta, to the music of the
dog bowling in the well. The next day
doggy was fislled ont, and there are
many men busy dipping the water out
of the well to purify it, not caring to
realize that such small matter as a
dog or two in the drinking water for
cities is never noticed. But some folks
will be nariicnIar.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-24
Singing School Oourtship,

There is not a country-b:ed man or
woman now living but will tell you that
life can offer nothing comparable with
the innocent zest of that old style court
ing that was done at singing school in
the starlight and candleli ght of the first
half of our century. There are few
hearts so withered and cold but they
beat quicker sometimes when they hear
in old-fashioned churches the wailing,
sobbing. or exulting strains of Brad
street." or China or Coronation"
and the mind floats down on the cur
rent of these old melodies to that fresh
young day of hopes and illusions-of
voices that were sweet, no matter how
false they sang-of nights that were
rosy with dreams, no matter what Fab
renheit said-of girls who bl1shed with
out cause, and of lovers who talked for
hours about anything but love.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-24
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