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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-05
New Life

is given by using Browns
IRON BITrERs. In the
Winter it strengthens and
warns the system; in the
Spring it enrichcs the blood
and conquers disease; in the
Summer it gives tone to the
nerves and digestive organs;
in the Fall it enables the
system to stand the shock
Of sudden changes.
In no way can disease be
so surely prevented as by
keeping the system in per-
feet condition. Browns
IRON BITTERs ensures per-
feet health through the
changing seasons, it disarms
the danger from impure
water and miaslnatic air,
and it prevents Consump-
ton, Kidney and Liver Dis
case, &c.
II. S. Berlin, Esq, Of the
well-Snown firm Of II. S.
Berlin & Co., Attorneys, lie
Droit Building, Washing
ton, D. c., writes, Dec. 9Th,
1881:
Genthmen.' take pleas.
urc in stating that have used
Browns Iron Bittcrs for ma
laria and nervous troubles,
caused by ovcrwork, with
excellent results.
Beware Of limitations.
Ask for BRoWN's IRON B1r-
TIERS, and insist on having
it. Don't be imposed on
with something recon-
mcnded as "1Mst as good."
The genuine is made only
by the Brown Chemical Co.
Baltimore, Md.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-05
WALIALLA, SOUTH S,

thero with free tuition, as the catalogues
will show. 1t is true tho faculty advertise
that tuition is free, but we can see no war
rant in tho law for it.
These are few of tho many potent
reasons for our opposition to tho scheme,
and for continuing to oppose it with the
lights now before us.-AbJevsUc Medium,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-05

Beautiful faces ore those that wear
1t matters little if dark or fair
Whole soulcd honesty printed there.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-05

PERMANENT INVESTMENT WHICH THE
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND
MENT WOULD REQUIRE.
so New court houses with
sufficient grounds for cite
and public square @ Sl0,-
600 100000
SO Poor house farms W $4,000 l25,O0O
$50 Iron safes C0 $3.50 each for
the Offices OF 30 Sheriffs,
Clerks, Masters, Probate
Judges aud Trcasurcrs 62,500
Desks, rigc: holes and other
furniture for sanc $4,000
Books and transfer of records $4,000
$l,0G2, 500
We know that there are persons who
would be willing to hold court over some
body's store room, or 10 somebody's gin
house, and then confino tho prisoners n the
village guard house, and thus save the Jail
and court house expense. There are others
again who would require the bonded officers
to keep their moneys aud papers in their
pockets, or in a borrowed safe and it is also
certain that there arc still large class who
would bo willing to cut down tho fees of
the Judges and the Solicitors to half the
present pay. There arc also many men
who think tho present pay of the old
county officers would be reduced sufficiently
to pay the new officers. There are yet
another class of men who think the officers
who would accept one-third of their present
pay in Abbcvilc county, are hard to find.
There are others again who think tho above
figures arc all wrong. But it should not bo
forgotten that the Supervisors of Registra-
ton, the Auditors and tho Trcasurcrs in no
county receive less than $500.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-05

According to Congressman William D.
Kelley, who has just returned from n trip
to Colorado and Nevada, farming in those
States present the higcst attraction. BY
invitation he went to tho ranch or farm
of B. II. Eaton, in Weld County, which
ho began breaking last year under now
md elevated ditch. In the spring Of 1881
his 5000 acres bore nothing but gramma
grass and cactus. This year 5000 of these
5000 acres, under wheat, and $50 under
potatoes, Wills yield a net profit of over
500, 900. On one side of tho road which
he has laid out through his farm grew moth.
ing but cact and yuccas and gramma grass,
whilo for thousands of acres on tho other
side, whore the irrigating ditch ran, now.
ing machines and headers wcro cutting the
enormous crop of wheat.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-05
Macl1ey Wins at Summerville
Especial Dispatch to Tho Columbia Regis
ter

SuMMERvlLLE, S. c., September 81
On the two hundred and titty,Iirst ballot
d. W. NJ. Mackcy, the,fraudulent Congress
man, was nominated as the Republican oan-
didate in the Seventh or BIaok District.
The vote stood: Mackey 2T, Lee Is, Snalls
3. Nlackcy's pccuniary influence has dono
wonders. Many of his dusky adhcrcnts
consider him good enough negro for them.
His renforcements came from Beaufort
and Coleton, tho former furnishing three
and the latter two. Ice also received
now vote from Colcton. 1t is only qucs.
ton of time as to tho boiting of Leo and
Smalls, who arc bitterly opposed to Mackey
w. L. w.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-05

Lou Griffin. mulatto woman, and her
child four months old, were brutally mur-
dcrcd in Austin Township, Grccnyi!lc
county, on Tuesday of last week. She and
her husband lived on the farm of DR..
Crayton, though they had been separated
for some time on account of an alleged too
c'oso intimacy between her and Riley An
dcrson, another colorcd man. On tho goth
ultimo she had started to n place about
eight miles distant, leaving about 'clook.
She was not again seen alive, but was
found dead with her infant beside her on
Wednesday about ssI2 O'Clock by some
white children. Her body wos not above
one mile from DR.. Crayton's farm and when
found was "lyipg on her back with her
head inclined to one side, with her arms
extended and bcsmcarcd with blood, ono
bloody hand still clutohing her apron"
Severe wounds, the effects Of heavy blows
were visible upon her forehead. The BODY
of the child was on the right of the mother
aud its skull was terribly crushed. At the
and suspicion attached to Riley Anderson,
the evidence being such as to warrant the
jury in finding verdict that Lou Griffin and
her child "came to their death by strokes
with q stick in tho hands Of Riley Anderson
on the Gosh Of September, 1882" Sheriff
GiIrcath arrested Anderson and hc was Iodg
ed in jail at Grecnyllc. Anderson is short
heavy built man and has always borne an
excellent character, being 40 industrious
farmer. He has considerable property. Ito
denies any knowledge of tho murder and
by reason Of his past character many doubt
his guilt
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-05
Tho New County Movement.
From tho Abbevillo Press and Banner. |

lGFoul tHo ADDePlllc freSS ana Banner.I
In order that our people may begin to
think about their ability to meet the in
creased expense that would be incurred by
the adoption Of the proposed constitutional
amendment, reducing tho area of the
counties, wo offer some figures below. The
estimate below is for the fees aud salaries
of the officers of Abbevile county. Of
course where the fees aro paid out of tho
treasury, but where the fees are contingent
on tho services rendered in such offices as
the Probate Judge, the Master ia Equity,
the Sheriff and the Clerk, in order to make
tho salary sufficient in the smaller, counties
the fees will have to be raised, so that
citizen having business in one of these
Offices must pay higher than he would havo
done if the county is not divided. The
law, wo believe, requires some of these
officers to keep their offices open every day.
In Abbeyillc county tho salaries aud fees
in Abbevillo county are estimated as fol-
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-05

WIIMINGToN, DEL, September
21.-Scyen black men, two whitc
mon and one white boy woro pub,
licly whipped in the Jail yard at
Newcastle, yesterday, in the midst
OF a driving rain, for various petty
crimes.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-05

"Not honor, but money is nccdcd," is
the motto Of tho hybrid party of Grocn-
backcrs, Republicans and Independents.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-05

LII AUUc'lilc county the Sa aries aud ices
in Abbevilo county are estimated as fol-
lows:
Sheriff and Deputy $1,000
Clerk 1900
Auditor 1000
Treasurer 800
Master in Equity 600
Probate Judge $500
School Commissioner 600
Go. Commissioners Il Clerk 1000
Supervisor Registration 500
In this estimate of the Shcriff's income
no allowance is mado for tho board Of
prisoners, as that item Of expense would be-,
under the proposed arrangement, no more
than it is at present.
These figures are about as low as compc-
tent men can be found to do the work. In
tho State Offices the increased expense will
be something About ten new Judges aud
as many additional Solicitors will be rec
quircd. The Judges now receive salary
of $500 annually, and tho Solicitor
81. 500. The increased annual expense
for cerica! force or new officers u Columbia
could not be less than $4,000. The EROS
posed constitutional amendment would aGd
fifty new counties in this State. This
would add the names of fifty new Senators
to the pay roll, $3.50 to cach). The act
of drawing jury costs S23. In each county
there are annually three petit juries and
one grand jury-four in all, at coat of
s92. Annual expense alone for drawing
iuries for fifty new counties would be 81, 600
The Jury commissioner is required to at-
tend court at cost of 50 II day-on an
average of four days at each court-S24 o
year, For fifty counties $1,000. At each
court there are usually about half dozen
bniliffs at $50 day for every day of the
Criminal Court, say six days days at 50 u
day, S3l For fifty counties, s2,700 At
each court the man who calls court gets
something and it is necessary to have
one If these Mt every court in every county.
Incidental expenses at each court, repairs Of
public buildings, insurance, wood, lights,
stationery, &C., $500 year for each
county. Fifty counties, $4,000.
PROBABLE ANNUAL, COST OF ADOPTING TIE
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-31
THE RENT QUESTION.

The New York Times in commenting
on the Irish troubles cites an interest
ing point in regard to the adjustment of
differences about alleged exorbitant rem
tails. 1t says: Ireland, peculiar in many
respects, has become the one country,
probably, in the world where man may
not lease property for what he can get.
II the tenant deems the rent too high, he
can appeal to the land court, which has
ample powers to reduce the rent. Thus,
the Irish tenant, already enjoying entire
immunity from CONSUMPTION, so greivous
in Germany and elsewhere, is, further,
now almost secure from the possibility
of excessive rent, and thus in possession
of an advantage denied him even here.
In addition to. this, the government is
now about to assume the responsibility
of saying to the tenant, "Your arrears
are forgiven" It is very natural, then,
that the tenants in Skye, seeing what
good things Ireland is getting, should
have wanted some too, and the English
government, having thus initiated inter-
ference between man and man in con-
tracts, the chances ere that the
principle will extend. Land is
rented enormously high in other
countries besides Ireland. In Belgium,
for instance, where the population to the
acre is the largest in Europe, and where
there is little emigration, the rural pop
ulation only get along by dint of thrift,
industry and skill in husbandry almost
unknown in Ireland. Government inter-
ference to reduce land would be nearly
as great boon in Brabant as in Con-
naught, nor would it come at all amiss to
toilers on the ungrateful soil of Pommer-
ania. And then arises the question, if
such boon be extended to dwellers in
the country, why not, too, in the town?
Here, in this very city, are tens of thou
sands to whom rent is the paralysis of
industry. Indeed, it is averred that the
evictions here last year actually exceeded
those in Ireland and they are briskly in
progress to-day. The principle initiated
by the land act is, then, scarcely likely,
in such days as these, to have mere To-
cal action. 1t is the edge and not very
thin one either, of what may prove big
wedge, and, so far as other countries are
concerned, by far the most important fea-
ture in the Irish campaign.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-31
THE CENTER OF POPULATION.

A volume recently issued from the
census Office, embracing portion of
the statistics gathered at the enumeration
of 1880, contains, among many valuable
maps illustrating the distribution, dem
sity and character of population, a dia-
gram which shows how the center Of
population has shifted from decade to
decade since 1870, in it's steady march
westward. What statisticians understand
by the term center of population, it may
be well to explain, is the point at which
equilibrium would be reached were the
country taken as plain surface without
weight, but capable Of sustaining weight,
and the inhabitants distributed over it
in number and position as they are
found at the period under consideration,
each inhabitant being supposed to be of
equal weight, and consequently to exert
pressure on the pivotal point in direct
proportion to his distance therefrom.
The first census of the United States,
taken in 1890, showed the center of pop
ulation to be on the eastern shore of
Maryland, about two miles from Balti-
more, and near the thirty ninth parallel
of latitude. From that point it has
moved westward at the average rate of
about tifty-one miles in decade, never
deviating as much as degree to the
north or south Of the thirty ninth
parallel. By 1900 it was moved forty
one miles, and was found at point
eighteen miles west of Baltimore. In
1910 it was near the Potomac in Virginia,
at place forty miles northwest of
Washington, having travelled thirty-six
miles during the preceding decade. It's
progress in the following ten years was
fifty miles, and in 1920 it was in the
valley Of Virginia, sixteen miles north of
Woodstock.
The census Of 1880 discovered that the
center Of population, previously little
north of the thirty ninth parallel, had
passed that line and was q trifie to the
south Of it, at q point in the Allegheny
Mountains, nineteen miles west Of Moor
field, Va, the progress westward since
1920 being thirty y-nine miles. This was
the most decided southward movement it
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-31
ADULTERATED SUGAR.

At the quarterly meeting of the New
York state board of health, the sanitary
committee, through Prot. Chandler, sub
mitted supplementary report on sugar
by Albert L. Colby. After reviewing
the work of others in this branch of an
alytical research, and enumeratiug the
adulterations, organic and inorganic, de-
tected-to wit: glucose, potato and other
starches, -four, dextrine, vegetable al
bumen, blood, fragments of sugar cane,
woody fibre, sporules and filaments of
fungi, acarus sacchori or sugar mite,
sand, particles of stone and grit, chalk,
marble dust, pipe clay, terra alba, gyp-
sum, plaster of Paris, bone dust, lead,
iron, lime, chloride of lime, common
salt, etc.-Prof. Chandler and Mr.. Colby
show that the sugars now in the market
are generally free from this long list of
insoluble and mineral matters alleged to
be used in former times, and that, owing
to the improvements in the processes of
refining and puriAcation and the absence
of raw sugars from the retail trade, most
of the organic impurities previously de-
tected are now removed, and that the
sugar mite is seldom seem. The sugars
of to-day are, however, subject to adul-
teration by the addition of starch or
grape sugar to the cane sugar, and by
the bleaching of the brown sugars by
the use of tin salts. One hundred and
seven carefully selected samples Of sugar
procured in New York city showed 1e-
suits as follows: Thirty.one were mi-
croscopically clean, forty-eight slightly
contaminated with dust, twenty-five con-
tained considerable dirt, and six were
very dirty. Forty-one samples of white
sugar were all found to be pure, and in
the sixty'six samples Of brown sugars,
three were adulterated to a very large ex-
tent with glucose and four showed the
presence of tin.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-31
HOW WATCHES ARE aaAD:.

It will be apparent to any one who will examine
. SOLID GOLD WATCH, that aside from the neces-
ssry thickness for engraving and polishing, large
proportion Of tho PRECIOUS METAL used is
needed only to sti6en and hold the engraved
portions in place and supply the necessary selidity
and strength. The surplus gold is actually need
less 10 far Is UTILITY and beauty are concerned.
In JAMES BOSS. PATENT GOLD WATCH CASES
this WASTE Of precious metal is overcome, and the
SAME soL1D1rx and STRENGTH produced at from
one-thrd to onehaf the usual cost Of solid cases.
This process 10 Of the most simple nature as fol-
lows plate Of nickel composition metal, especial
ly adapted to the purpose, has two plates Of SOLID
GOLD soldered enc on each side The three are
then passed between roshed steel rollers, and the
result ID strip Of heavy plated composition, from
which tho cases. backs, centres, bezels ETC., cut
and shaped by suitable dies and formers. The
gold in these Is sufficiently thick to aamit Of
al kinds Of chasing, engraving snd eDamelns; the
engraved cases have been carried until worn per
4 CITY smooth by time and use without removing
tho gold. 5.$G
THIS Is TIE ONLY CASE MADE WITH TWO
PLATES OF SOLID GOLD AND WARRANTED
By SPECIAL OERrIF1.TE.
For sale by all Jewelers.. Ask for illustrated ost-
slo@ue, and 70 zee warrant. 81
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-31
Work Never Finished.

from the New Haven Reg1ster.J
Two kinds of work in this world are
never finished. The first is the work of
the farmer. After his days work is over
he does his chores until bedtime and he
chores it for an hour in the morning be-
fore his days work begins. The second
is the work of q newspaper man. 1t is
ceaseless and never lets up One days
issue isn'tpublished before the next pre-
sents itself, and even in his moments Of
apparent leisure his brain is working at
steam-engine rate. What a newspaper
man needs Is mechanical appliance that
would shut off the current OF thought and
turn it on at will. The first man. who IN.
vents such an appliance has our order,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-31
Flash Words.
from Oliver Wendell Holmes.]

From Oliver Wendell Holmes.J
think there is one habit said to
one company a day or two afterwards
worse than that of punning. 1t is the
gradual substitution of can't or flash
terms for words which characterize their
object. I have known several very gen.
teel idiots whose whole vocabulary had
deliquesced into some half dozen ex-
pressions. All things fell into one Of
two great categories, fast or slow. Mans
chief e7d was to be =" brick, " When
the great calamities of life overlook their
friends, these last were spoken of as be-
ing So good deal cut up." Nine-tenths
of human existence were summed up
in the word s'bore." These expressions
come to be algebraic symbols of minds
which have grown too weak or indolent
to discriminate. They are the blank
checks of intellectual bankruptcy; you
may fill them up with what idea you like;
it makes no difference; for there are no
funds in the treasury upon which they
are drawn. w. .~ -" --.---. -.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-31
mOrtuarYs

Geo. T. Doughty, secretary Of the Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad, died
at Cincinnati, on the 25th inst.
Moses Taylor, one of the oldest citizens and
fnanciers Of New York City, died ON the 23d
inst. He was one of the few remaining citizens
of the old school of New Workers, and was
about 80 years of age.
Capt. 81. r. Cleverly, veteran shipmaster,
died in Boston, on the 21st inst. He had
medal for saving life at the wreck of the steam
er Central America.
Harriet W. Dare, Of GAINESVILLE, o., teacher
of the Ohio Institute for the Deaf and Dumb,
fell dead while gathering flowers on the night
of the Goth inst.
Rev. George &. Pinnell, who died at Dead
assistant rector Of Trinity Church, New York,
and filed pulpits in Buffalo.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-31

venerable maiden lady of Vermont had
made with her own hands, and sent to
him as pleasant reminder of the days
of his boyhood. The kind-hearted
President acknowledged the favor in q
graceful note, which was printed in the
journals in various parts Of the country.
At once supply of confectionery began
to pour into the White House, and it has
been asserted that more than ton of
sweetmeats heve been received during
the winter and spring.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-31
A Mother's Love.

(From the Youths Companion.1
A private letter brings us this singular
story. A widowed lady in New York
gave her only daughter in marriage to q
physician who lived in California. The
mother aud daughter were deeply at
tachel to each other, and had been in.
separable companions for years.
After the newly married couple had
gone, the mother, who was an invalid,
sank suddenly and rapidly. kilograms
were sent after them urging them to re-
turn, but as their exact course was not
known, the messages failed to reach
them.
The mother grew worse. Her prayer
was that che might live to see her child
again if but for moment. On the after
noon before her death she was left alone
for few minutes, and when her attend
ant returned, she was found sitting up
in bed, her cheeks flushed, her face illu-
minated with delight.
Have you seen Charlotte ?" she
asked. "She has Just gone into the
other room.
"Charlotte has not oome," they said.
"Oh yes," she replied, smiling, 81
have had her in my arms. I kissed her.
God has been so good to me, to bring
her back in time r and 80 talking she
sank into an exhausted slumber from
which she never awoke.
Now on this afternoon the daughter
was in Omaha, totally ignorant of her
mothers illness. Her husband after
wards wrote that on that afternoon,
being in their private parlor in q hotel,
she suddenly sank into a deep sleep
which lasted nearly an hour. From this
che awoke pale and sobbing, saying she
had dreamed she was with her mother,
who looked strangely i'll and exhausted.
The impression, however, soon passed
away.
This coincidence, of course, can easily
be explained on natural grounds, and
yet one almost wishes that it could not
be SO explained. We would like to
believe against reason that the mothers
love would be stroug enough to bring
back her child for that brief moment to
ease the pain of death.
In Pompeii, lately, the workmen dis.
covered in the hardened mud of new OK.
cavations, two empty spaces left by de-
cayed and vanished bodies. The
spaces having been filed as mould
would be with plaster, as is the usual
practice, the figure of q woman with hel
arms outstretched to a little boy were
brought to light. .=.-. .
The child was just beyond her reach,
but as the fiery food flowed in upon her,
see had held out her arms to save him
in vain. Eighteen centuries have passed
since then. Every atom Of that woman'a
form hes passed from sight. Yet there
is the mothers love, immortal still.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-05-31
Frost and Snow.

The cold, unreasonable weather which has
been experienced thus far the present season
throughout the west and northwest, was sup
piemented by heavy and in some cases dam
aging frosts, on the nights of the 21st and 22d
insts. From various portions of Iowa snow is
reported to have fallen, Oskaloosa recording a
depth of four and a half inches. Frost wsA
also experienced in Kansas. and in Wisconsin
ice one-eighth inch thick formed. The most
tender species Of vegetables were, of course,
blasted, but on the whole it is thought no last
ing harm to fruit or grain will result from the
viGitafiOn