Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-12-04

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the United States Sonata from bbaiiiaa..
Tho standing committees have been ans
nounced In the Senate. Col. Mason is a
member Of the Committee on Charitable
I%nstitutions, C~oinnsitssS Oh CC..ss.. ms %S....aa
Grievances, Committee on Military.
The standing committees of tho House
of Representatives have been appointed
by Mr.. Speaker Irby. Mr.. Albert Zim-,
norman IL n member of the Committee,
on interpretations anu tho Committees OH
Privileges and Elections. Capt. j. r..
S!,anklin is q mernber Of the Committee
on Education and the Committee on En-
crossed Mills.
Cards are ont fora double wedding
at I Macon, Ga, Wednesday evening,
December 10th, 1890, ut eight O'Clock,
the contributing parties being Miss Julia
Abel To Mr.. Eugene George and Miss
Kathleen Abel to Mr.. Lew. Kilburn. The
~Eroomsmen were formerly employees In
the COURIER office and are natives of
Walhalla, s.. G. We congratulate our
young friends IN the steps they arc about
to take. s
The Supreme Court has ordered the
State Board Of Canvassers to issue a
certificate Of election to Col. Elliott az
member of Congress elect from tho 18th.
Congressional District, better known as
the ''Black District" The managers of
election decided in favor of Col. Elliott.
Miller appealed. The State Board Of
~Canvassers were evenly divided on the
question. Miller received alarge majority
of the votes. Tley were not counted by
tho managers, for the reason that the
ballots did not conform to the law in
size and color. Col. Elliott holds his cer-
tifcato of election upon a strict construc-
ton Of the law, and not upon the merits
Of the case.
The Columbia Register says ''the politi-
cal broom Is to be kept busy, If all re-
ports are true, and 1t is the current talk
of the street that the p~enitentiary, the
asylum-in fact, all State institutions,
even to the Supreme Court itself-are to
be taken in charge by new mon who have
been brought to the surface by tho recent
political revolution in the State. For
Colon | Lipscomb's place, Col. W.. j.
Talbort, of Edgefield, Mr.. w. w. Brooker,
Of same county J. r. Earle, Of Goo
nee, and MI. j. Il. CASTOR, of. Aiken, arc
tho leading candidates, whilst DR.. Samp-
son Pope is said to have an eye on the
asylum, and Major Meetze, of Lexington,
is spoken Of as the successor of Chief
Justice Simpson. So it goes.
News reached Walhalla Wednes-
day morning that Henry Weldon,
the negro who raped in a horrible
and diabolical manner, Mrs. John II.
Walters, neal Central last Monday,
was canght Tuesday night at Rich
land. He stole into the house Mon
day morning in the absence of Mr..
Walters, and found Mrs. Walters
busy with her household duties. He
slipped a moose over her head, choked
her to the floor and dragged her TO
the woods, where he accomplished
his hellish designs. He kept her in
the woods from 8 o'clock until noon
The news was sent to all stations on
the Air Line, and the negro having
como in this direction, the people Of
Pickens organized posses to pursue
him. They secured Oconee county
Tuesday, until he was caught at
Richland trestle by Mr.. M. II. Hughs
as he was in the act of crossing the
trestle. He was carried back to
Pickens and lynched early Wednes-
day morning upon his confession of
guilt. ....