Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-02-23
The News and Courier 1882.


Tho News AND COURIER, in The New Year.
will have other object than to help the pco-
pie Of So,th Carolina to manage their own
affairs in their own way. To this end it will
encourage tho expression of intelligent opinion
on subjects of general interest and strive to
bo the means Of laying before the whole State
tho views of those who have something sensi
bio to say md know how to say it. The NEWS
AND COURIER will not be passive spectator of
events. II will utter its opinions frankly and
freely, but, holding That what is wise and true
has nothing to fear from anay sis and discussion,
it will never seek TO strengthen its own position
honestly differ from it.
The News AND CoUnIER, With Que exception,
is the only newspaper i'll tho South Atlantic
States which receives the whole Of the Southern
dispatches Of the New York Associated Press,
and this service will be supplemented BY special
dispatches from every part Of the State and the
United States.
Recognizing tho Importance Of giving tho
pooplc tho earliest and most accurate intelii-
gence in State and National Affairs, the News
AND CounIEn will assign ono Of tho most trusted
and most capable members Of its Staff to per-
manent duty at Columbia, and has stationed
at Washington the gentleman who earned
golden opinions whilo on duty at the State
Capitol. This will be year Of fermcnt and
possibly of change in South Carolina, and
what tho people require is TO have all Tie
news without fear or favor, and no matter
whom it helps or hurts. The Resident Corr
respondent Of the News AND COURIER at Co
lumbia will give our readers information con-
oerning men and things which can be obtained
in no other newspaper In like manner, tho
Resident Correspondent of the News AND
CouniEn at Washington, having other news
paper to serve ana being nobody's henchman,
will bo in position to report impartially tho pro-
gress of events md tho acts of public men.
The great effort of the NEWS AND COURIER
will be to got the most ncws, and 10 get it first
and in tho best shape. The purpose is to mako
II newspaper That no business man, no planter
or farmer, no person interested iu public alfnirs
can afford to do without
The SUNDAY News will retain its social and
literary character, in connection with all tho
news Of tho day, and Tho discussion Of homo
subjects of local import and application will be
continued. Hereafter mono of tho news pub
lshcd in the SUNDAY NEWS will be published in
the NEWS AND COURIER
Tho TnI-WEEKLY edition of tho NEWS AND
COURIER will be issued as before, giving tho
reader the news contained in The News AND
COURIER, with slight exceptions, at ono.half the
prico.
The WEEKLY News will be greatly improved.
The Chess column and The Agricultural De-
partment will be continued. Puzzles and Prob
Ions for young md old will bc permanent
feature, beginning with the New Year, and in
few weeks we shall begin The publications of
''Ten Terrible Tales" by nm English author Of
established reputation Arrangements have
been made likewise for Serial Story by q
South Carolina author whose works have at
tained great popularity in Northern periodicals.
There is not anywhere in the South better
advertising medium than tho News AND CoU-
RrER, and in South Carolina it has the advcrtis-
ing field, outside of the influential woolly press
in tho country, virtually to itself. 1t goes into
overy part of South Carolina and of tho United
States, and has reached commanding position
with The reading public.
The terms Of the News AND COURIER arc as
follows: