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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-08-08
Programme

Programme
Of the Oconee County Methodist
Sunday School Conference, to be
held at Whitmire's church on Fri
s.sj sst; a. S S "A ust
28d, Oath and 25th, 1889.
FIRST DAY--FRIDAY.5 3
10 "a. III. Conference convenes.
Devotional exercises. Roll call.
Organization. q .S.Ii
Topic for discussions: "The best
method Of securing the attendance
of the membership Of the church
upon the Sunday SCHOOL, Opened
by Rev. q. III. Pritchard, j. w.
Tompkins, M. +. Whitaker s.. M,
VanWyok, Il. w. Jordan and d. ".
Wright. a IN
1soPortts from schools. IS 5s 81.
Question box opened. u
12:80p. nr.-Intermission for din
ner.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
2P. M.Opening exercises. a,
Topic for discussions: sabbath
Observance" Opened by Rev. J. N.
Wright, Rev. DE-. Whitaker, Prof.
II. G. Reed, r. T. Jaynes, N. O..
Mcdonald, r. A. Perry, Gus. Shank
lin, G. q. Sanders.
Question box opened.
Reports from schools continued.
Adjournment
SECOND DAY--SATURRAY. ,2
9:3O A. M.-Opcning exercises.
Topic for discussion: "How to
make our Sunday schools more at
tractive and efficient for good"
Opened by Rev. NJ. L. G C.rlisle, V.
=. Swami, D. L, Moore, J. B. San
ders, J. r. McMahan, J. w. Grant,
B. II. Douthit, w. o. White, M. w.
Wright.
Reports from schools concluded.
Opening question box.
1890 T. M.-Intermission for din
ner.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
2:3O p. M.-Opening exercises.
Topic for discussion: "Vocal and
instrumental music in Sunday
schools" Opened by Rev. r. w.
Barbcr, Rev. r. M. Allison, Prof.
L. =. Smith, G. w. IIogscd, j. T..
Bryan, D. A. Smith, "A. T.. Whit
mire, J. w. James, J. w. Leo.
Report of committees.
Miscellaneous business.
Adjournment
THIRD DAY-SUNDAY.
$3.50 A. M.-Sunday school mass
meeting. Addresses by Roy. M. J..
Carlisle, r. Il. Jaynes and v. b.
Swami.
II A. M.-Prcaching by Rev. g.
III. Prlchard. y
All the above exercises will be in
tersperscd with vocal and instru-
mental music each day. Let all
come prepared to sing, to make a
"joyful noise unto the Lord" u
Delegates will come prepared to
give the following statistical infor-
nation from their Sunday schools:
Number of officers and teachers,
male and female. ,.
Number of pupils, male and fc-
male.
Average attendance.
Proportion in the church.
Literature used.
Number of volumes in library.
How many months school in scs-
sion during the year.
Money collected.
ID. a. SMITH,
Chairman Executive Committee.
j. B. SANDERS, Secretary.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-08-08
Some Unanswered Questions.

whether there are more great or
small people in the world.
At what precise point in life aman
ceases to be middlc-agcd.
Whether a hundred years hence
George Washington or some base
ball hero will appear the more glo-
rious character.
How much religious freedom there
would be under an Irish Republic.
How Shakespeare could have been
SO well informed without taking a
newspaper.
How so many people can be satis-
fled with themselves when they arc
entirely different from us.
When you made your first, your
greatest and your last mistake in
life.
Who sows the seed, and what sort
of seed is sown for that prolific crop,
ripening late in June in Northern
States, known as honorary degrees.
What DR.. I'almagc thinks of his
own sermons.
Who is the most important and
who tho least important person in
your ncighborhood.
Why there arc not even more Of
the famous theological critics, seeing
it is so easy to become famous the
illogical critic.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-08-08

The great bridge which is to cross
the st. Laurence at Quebec will,
with its approaches, be $4,000 feet,
or nearly six and a half miles long
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-08-08

Bradlaugh, the infdcl English agi-
tator, strongly urges scvcnty-fvc
per cent cut in "thc wages Of Queen
Victoria"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-08-08

He that will steal an egg will steal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-01

1.-The son, who had the pistol his
mother brought him, thought that his
father was dead and resolved to kill
the murderer at all hazards. He met
the robber face to face in the door and
fired point blank at his breast. In
stead of falling the robber rushed out.
The doctor, hearing the report of his
sons pistol thought the robber had
shot his wife in going out In few
seconds the brave old couple wore safe
in each others arms, and the next
morning the body of the notorious
robber and desperate, .Hoosier' Bill
Rodifer, was found in the back yard
with bullet through his breast. Now,
gentlemen, don't you think that old
woman had pluck in wonderful de-
gree, and that her husband was worthy
in every way to be her mate?"-N. Y.
Mail and Express.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-01
CELESTIAL WOES.

Destruction by Fire of $1,000 Houses at
Luchow China, Leaving 10000 People
Homeless, Destroying 1,2OO Lives. While
Hundreds are Daily Dying of Want and
Exposure.
SAN Francisco, July 2.-The steamer
Belgic. from Hong Kong and Yokohama,
arrived yesterday. She brings advices as
follows:
A recent fire at LUCKNOW destroyed ST.
900 houses. Over 1000 persons were
burned to death. and 400 others were
killed. Nearly 10000 people were made
homeless, and at last accounts were
camping out without shelter. and were
dying at the rate of 100 day from want
and exposure. The authorities were pro-
viding, as far as possibly, for their neces-
stiles.
Rev. Crosslet, prominent in mission
airy work in China, died, June 81, on
shipboard, between Sbang- Hal and ITEM
Tsin.
The Fourth of July was celebrated at
Yokohama. Minister Swift gave a re-
ception which was attended by all native
and foreign notables. The American
and other men-of-war in the harbor
fred saluteS.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-01
DRIFT OF OPINION.

--''Nepotism, or public office is 6
family snap" will be the title of the
Administration first novel, The char.
acters will all be related. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The greenback crop in the farm
er's pocket is rapidly drying up. At lat
est accounts he was still hoping for re
lief from the home market and higl
tariff protection.-N. Y. Herald.
commissioner Tanner has NJ
reason to complain of lack of atten
ton, at any rate. But there is such
thing as being attended to too much
And that's what's the matter with
Tanner. Times.
If limitation is the sinceres
form of flattery" President Harrison
must feel highly fattered by those OF
his appointees who are making secre-
taries and clerks of their wives and
their sisters and their cousins and
their aunts. IN. Y. World.
1t is estimated shat the Suga,
Trust has made a profit of $50, 900. OOC
during the last year in excess of the
profits of the sugar refners before the
trust was formed, all of which came
out of the people without any return
to the people. Some one might call
that robbery, but then the trusts are
such harmless little creatures. -Min-
neapolis Journal.
When the nomination for Presi-
dent was rendered to Benjamin
Harrison he was moved to say that
Fidelity and efficiency should be the
only sure tenure of office" We can
not make Tanner nor Clarkson nor
many other of Harrison's appoint
ments fit into any of the standard
dictionaries definitions of these terms.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
One of Corporal Tanners brill.
liant arguments is that the United
States is wealthy enough to give
liberal pension to every surviving
soldier For that matter the Govern
ment is wealthy enough to pay Mr..
Tanner a salary of 100000 a year.
but there is no particular reason why
the Government should. The primer
pie which governs such cases is not
lost on everybody if it is lost on
Tanner. kansas City Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-01
IRON PIGS.

Statistics Collated by the Ar-,-r,can Iron
and Steel Association Showing the Pro-
duction of Pig Iron in the United States,
Stocks on Hand, Etc.
PHILADELPHIA, July 24.-The American
Iron and Steel Association has collected
complete statistics of the production of
all kinds Of pig iron in the United States
for the first six months of 1899: also sta
tistics of the stock of unsold pig iron in
the hands of manufacturers on June 80
last and of the number of furnaces in
blast, and out of blast at that date.
The production of pig iron in the first
half of 1889 was the largest in any six
months in the history of the American
iron trade. The stocks of unsold pig
June 80 were much larger than at the
close of any semi-annual period for a
number of years. The total American
production of pig for the period named
was 4.107, 800 net tons of 1000 pounds, or
1861, 767 gross tons of 2,240 pounds, against
3.469.64G gross tons in the last six months
of 1888.
The increase in pig was wholly in the
kinds used for general foundry purposes.
There was a decrease in the production
of Bessemer pig. The stocks OF pig uu-
sold on June 80, and not intended for
consumption by the holders amounted to
5O2 1874 gross tons, against 3d. IA on Do.
cember 81. There We're 2SS furnaces in
full blast June 80, and 293 out of blast.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-01
TOM PLATT'S PARTY.
A Party Struggle That May Disrupt the
Republican Party.

A Party Struggle That May Disrupt the
Republican Party.
Either Tom Plat is going into the
Cabinet or there is going to be trouble
for President Harrison in New York.
The fight is on and the return of MIR.
Platt from Alaska, where he has
gone to recruit his strength, will be a
signal for the fray.
Tom Platt represents the working
Republicans of the Empire State-the
men who control the organization of
the party from the primary to the
election of delegates to a National
convention. These Republicans have
been ignored by the President so far.
Acting under the advice of Mr.. Blaine,
undoubtedly, Mr.. Harrison has de-
clined to recognize the claims of Mr.
Platt or his friends. IN the distribu-
ton of offices in New York up to this
time the recommendations of the
Platt men have been treated with
little less than contempt. At length
they have come to the conclusion that
war on the Administrator is the only
means by which they can secure what
they are pleased to term their rights
They will do no more pleading or
begging nor will they accept any
thing less than the very best at the
disposal of the Executive. The
favors which the Administration
is expected to bestow upon them
for the return of a cessation of hos
Utilities must be headed by the APP
pointment of Tom Plat to a position
in the Cabinet. If this can not be
brought about tae working Repub-
llcans of the State are determined
that he shall succeed Mr.. Evarts in
the Senate. and from his place on the
hoor of the upper house of Congress
they claim he will open fight on
blalne similar to that so well begun
and so ignobly ended in Garfield's
tiSe.
Inc admission OF Tom Platt to the
Canlnet by President Harrison would
De notice to James G.. Blaine that
he was no longer wanted, and would
be so accepted by the Maine states
man without delay. Mr.. Platt and
Mr.. Blaine could not sit at the same
table in the White House. The chasm
between them is so wide and so deem
that it can never be bridged over. It
| remains with Ms. Harrison to decide
whether he shall stand by Blaine or
whether he shall run the risk of
losing the vote of New York State in
the convention of 1892.
Notwithstanding all reports to the
contrary. Mr. Blaine is in feeble
] health and is no longer the fighter
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-01
COMMANDER MUllAN.

The Ex-Commauder of the Nipsic Tells
Why He Returned to Apla with the
Nessel-He Did Not Want to NeedlessIy
Jeopardize Two Hundred Lives.
DENVER, Col, July A.-Commander
Mullan, U. s. N, who commanded the
Nipsic, which was the only American
gun-boat not wrecked at Samoa, passed
through this city last evening on his way
to Annapolis. Commander Mullan is
the officer who compelled the Germans to
lower THEN colors in the harbor of Sa-
smua.
81 left Apia for Auckland May 9, under
convoy OF the Alert, but after going two
hundred and fifty miles, which took six
days time, l decided that the lives of
two hundred men on board would be i'm
periled in the event of a storm. so un-
seaworthy was the Nipsic, and 1 ordered
D.. them to return to Apia.
''The Nipsic's rudder was gone, and she
was unmanageable. Her coal supply
WAS insufficient, and if we had met rough
weather we could not have lowered our
own boats, and the Alert could not have
saved the men. At Apia Admiral KIM
berly disapproved of my action, and I
requested to be relieved of my command
which was granted, and 1 am on m way
to Annapolis"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-01
Assertions That Don't Consist.

Carnegie's reduction of wages both
ers the protection organs. 1t is diff
cult to say with a serious face that
protection keeps up wages when the
best protected concern in the country
is in the very act of reducing wages.
The plea of confession and avoidance
which is now most popular among pro-
tectionists is that Carnegie sells steel
rails nearly as cheap as English rails
can be bought, with freight added. and
yet pays double the wages paid to the
Same class of labor in England. Ii this
were true it would prove that wages
do not depend on projections; for If
they did, Carnegie would have to sell
his rails for much higher price than
English rails sell for to enable him to
pay double English wages. If it were
true it would not be true long, for
there is nothing to keep English work
men out of Mr.. Carnegie's shops, and
they would come there like flies to a
carcass if they could get double the
wages they get at home. The simple
fact is that Mr.. Carnegie gets all he
can out of the protective tariff and
gives no more of it in wages than ha
can helm. Y. Standard.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-01
THE AGE OF MEDIOCRiTY,
Reflections and Reveries of Wise Poe
Phil0sonller.

Reflections and Reveries of a Wise Poet
Philosopher.
The age of great men is going; the
epoch of the ant-hill, of life in multi
plicity. is beginning. The century of
individualism, if abstract equality tri-
umphs, runs a great risk of seeing no
more true individuals. By continual
leveling and division of labor, society
will become every thing and man moth
ing. AS the floor of valleys is raised
by the denudation ana washing down
of the mountains. what is average will
rise at the expense OF what is great.
The exceptional will disappear. A
plateau with fewer and fewer undula-
tons, without contrasts and without
oppositions-such will be the aspect
of human society. The statistician
will register growing progress.
and the moralist gradual de-
cline; on the one hand, a progress
of things; On the other, a decline of
souls. The useful will take the place
of the beautiful, industry of art, polit-
ical economy of religion, and arithme-
tic of poetry. The spleen will become
the malady of a leveling age. Is this
indeed the fate reserved for the dem
ocratic era? May not the general
well-being be purchased too dearly at
such price? The creative force
which in the beginning we see forever
tending to produce and multiply diff
ferences. will it afterward retrace its
steps and obliterate them one by one?
And equality, which in the dawn of ex-
istence is mere inertia, torpor, and
death, is it to become at last the
natural form of life? Or rather, above
the economic and political equal
ity to which the socialist and nom
too often for the term of it's efforts,
will there not arise new kingdom of
mind, a church of refuge, republic
of souls, in which, far beyond the
region of mere right and sordid utility,
beauty, devotion, holiness, heroism,
enthusiasm, the extraordinary, the in
finite, shall have worship and an
abiding city? Unitarian materialism,
barren well-being, the idolatry of the
flesh and of the H." of the temporal
and of Mammon, are they to be the
goal of our efforts, the final recon-
pense promised to the labors of our
race? do not believe it. The ideal
of humanity is something different and
higher. But the animal in us must be
satisfied first; we must first Danish
from among us all suffering which has
its origin in social arrangements, be-
fore we can return to spiritual goods.
From Amiel's journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-01
A COURAGEOUS WOMAN.
How She Got the Best of Il William VIII
WAS Bent on Robbery.

How She Got the Best of Il William Who
Was Bent on Robbery.
One day recently, in the rotunda OF
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, a number of
men were discussing the question of
pluck and bravery frequently exhibit
ed by persons advanced in years. Cen
eral Dan Maoauley, now a resident of
this city, but formerly of Indiana, re-
lated the most remarkable instance, as
follows:
DIR. Walker, about sixty years of
age, and his wife, a few years younger,
together with two grown sons, resided
in Indianapolis after the war. One
night Mrs. Walker retired late, but
not to sleep, for she expected her hus-
band to come in from the next room
every moment. A light was burning,
and lying on her bed she could see the
floor at certain angles. Instead of her
husband coming in she saw villain
ous-looling man. with a bowie-knife
between his teeth, crawling through
the door on his all fours. In second
he disappeared under the bed. Her
husband then came in, blew out the
light and got into bed.
Mrs. Walker said nothing for a few
minutes, for she was thinking OF a
scheme to capture the robber and save
herself and husband from being muir
dered. Finally she said aloud to her
husband: L am thirsty; I'll go and
get drink of water She got out of
bed and went to the room where her
two sons were sleeping. Putting her
hands over the mouth of one she
whispered in his ear that man was
under her bed and that she wanted his
pistol. The son told her that he gave
her the pistol a few days ago, because
she objected to having one around
loaded. Then she remembered that
she had hid it in the basement-room,
on top of a shelf. wait. boys, I'll get
it, she said. Going down stairs she
passed another robber, the pal of the
one under her bed, though she was I'M
aware of it at that time
after stumbling around in the dark
she managed to find the pistol and
hastily rushed up stairs with it. In
the meantime her husband suspected
that something was the matter, be-
cause she had consumed too much
time in getting d drink of water The
robber became suspicious also and was
pulling himself from under the bed,
and had almost assumed sitting posi-
ton, his face toward the bed and the
knife still clutched between his teeth,
when the old doctor was in the act of
springing to the door. Without mo-
ment's hesitation the doctor tumbled
right on the robber and at the same
time dealt him powerful blow in the
face. They both fell on the floor, the
doctor on top and gamely punching
him at every opportunity. 1t was a
short and desperate struggle. The
robber attempted to cut the doctor, but
the latter knocked the knife out of his
hand. In tumbling around the robber
got out his pistol and pulled the trig-
ger. but the old doctor seized his wrist
in time and the ball struck the ceiling.
With strong effort the robber extri-
Gated himself from the doctor and ran
for the door.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-01
OBERlY'S SUCCESSOR.
A Man with Blemished History Selected
for Important ONCE.

A Man with q Blemished History Selected
for an Important Office.
Mr.. John H. Oberly, Democrat, who
in several official capacities had made
an excellent record, was recently re-
moved by President Harrison from the
Office of Commissioner of Indian Af-
fairs, although his retention was
prayed for by the Indian Rights As
ISOLATION and by several thousand Re-
publicans and Democrats who were
familiar with the good work he had
done in the Indian Bureau. Mr.. James
L. Morgan was appointed his sue
cessor. The record of the War De-
partment show that Morgan, while
Colonel of the Fourteenth U. S. Col
ored Infantry, was tried in 1885 by a
court-martial and found guilty on
various charges, as follows: OF having
made false charges against fellow
officer; of having, while custodian of
recommendations for advancement for
himself and fellow-officer, retained
the latter and forwarded only those
in his own favor, and of having made
false musters for companies in his
regiment to his pecuniary advantage.
On these charges, with specifications,
Colonel Morgan was found guilty by
the unanimous verdict of the court and
sentenced to dismissal When this
sentence reached the department head
quarters it was set aside in the manner
thus described in the records:
In the foregoing cases of Colonel Thomas ].
Morgan, Fourteenth United States Colored
infantry. the court having found the accused
guilty of the first charge, the violation of the
fifteenth article OF war, had not authority &c
change the sentence prescribed in that article
for such offenses, and the failure to conform
to the requirement of the above article in
sentencing the accused is an error fatal to the
proceedings and judgment of the court so far
as it relates to the first charge.
The requirement of the fifteenth
article of war was that an officer
found guilty of violating it should be
'cashiered,' and thereby utterly dis
abled to have or hold any Office or en-
ployment in the service OF the United
States.
The New York Times says:
We suppose that it will be conceded that tn.
Indian COMMISSIONS ought to be a pure and
honest mar. That is true. indeed, of any pub
lie officer, but it is most important in this case,
because dishonest or dishonorable conduct
may inf:ct great injury on the Indians who
peculiarly helpless, and may greatly com
promise the Government, which has already
suffered deeply from tie ineff1ciency and cor
ruptIon of its agents.
How the President manages to find
so many men with blemished records
for important offices is good deal of
a mystery. He has made more i'm
proper appointments since he became
President than any of his predecessors
made in full term, Grant alone ex.
copied. Indianapolis journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-08-01
ELECTRICAL EXECUTIONS.

The "Wizard Of MenIo Park Gfves HI,
Opinion Before Referee Becker In Re-
gard to the Use of Electricity in Takinr
Human Life-The Average Resistance,
OF the Human Body as Ascertained by
Experiment..
NEW YORK. July 4.--Thos. A. Edison,
the wizard of Menlo Park came he.
fore Referee Becker in theKemm!er refer.
ence yesterday morning to testify DIS to the
probabilities Of electricity in its applica-
uon as DEATH dealing force Mr.. Edison
SAID tnat for twenty-six years he had
oeen actively interested in the workings
or electricity and considered himself
very we'll acquainted with dynamos. On
saturday, hearing that he would proba-
oily be called to testify in the case he
experimental on two hundred and fifty
of his workmen with the view Of ascer-
tanning their resistance. He found that
the average measurement was 1000 ohms,
the resistance exhibited varying from $50
1900 ohms. He had heard of tests that
proved that some parts of the body ex-
hibited a resistance of 200 900 ohms, and
he did not doubt it in the least. A burn
was conclusive evidence that the contact
was imperfect and that very little cur
rent passed through the body.
81 have come to the conclusion" no
said, THAT /, OO0 volts will cause instan-
taneous and painless death. If Mr..
Smith. who stated that he had experienced
a shock of 500 volts without serious in
jury, will come to my laboratory and sue
cessfully withstand shock of 100 volts,
1 will give him $780,"
In his experiments on his workmen.
Mr. Edison found that eight volts of al
ternating current was all they cared to
try.
A. E. Kennedy, one of Mr.. Edison's
electricians, next testified. He bell eyed
one thousand volts was enough to cause
death in all cases. The hearing will
probably be concluded to- day.