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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02

exists to-day Republican admins
tration which would allow the gen.
tleman from Indiana, in the terms
which he used, to become its spokes-
man. They are peacemakers, the
sworn protectors of the liberties and
rights of the American people, not
disseminators of discord. But, sir,
to show how far he has gone wrong,
how far he is trespassing upon the
courtesy of the Democratic House,
and has permitted his viperous tongue
to SANDER the people OF the section
that represent, the State which rep
resent, ] beg but moments time to
call the attention of the House to the
facts underlying his words and to
give him and the country the true
history of that which ne seeks to
detail. l challenge him, sir, here
and now in the face OF the American
people to deny that it was Repub-
lican Supreme Court, composed OF
Republican native Carolinian, a
Republican negro and Republican
imported from the North, which
determined the question of the valid
ity OF the vote of South Carolina in
1876. If that be 50, and | challenge
him now and here to rise in his place
and deny it, his SANDER, coming with
the venom that it did from his ser
pent tongue, falls back with its
malignity buried in his own bosom"
Mr.. Johnston, of Indiana: 'That
is, understand the gentleman, to
deny the allegation and defy the
alligator
Mr.. Johnstone, of South Carolina:
sThere is no alligator here; | hear
but the serpent's hiss. All, Mr.,
Chairman, permit me to state that
the gentleman from Indiana, after
having INDUCED in the bitterest vitu-
peration against the Democratic
party throughout America, has been
able to instance but one place, the
7th district OF South Carolina, in
which he says specifically that the
rights of the colored man have been
subverted, and in the same breath IL
which he makes that statement he
tells the country that at the time tc
which he alludes a Democratic House
seated the Republican nominee upon
the contest made.
zone word more, mr. Chairman
1 had imagined that the judicia
Office is sacred one. I had imag
ined that no Judge with the spirit o.
right implanted in his bosom, with {
broad conception of the judicial char
acter, would permit himself to sit il
judgment upon case not yet heare
and to deliver q decree therein. But
-
that is the position in which the gen
tleman from Indiana stands He-i
q member of the committee on elec
tons with contest pending in II.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02
A Sectional Debate.
COL. TOMBSTONE DEFENDS The SOUTH

The Washington correspondent OF
The Neacs and Courier, writing from
that city under date of May 25, says
While the politicians in the Sen
ate were struggling with the silver
question the members of the House
were fighting phantom force bill.
On the proposition to appropriate
100000 for the colored mans
department at the Worlds Fair a
bitter partisan discussion ensued.
Representative Johnston, of Indi-
ana, young Republican who repre-
sents President Harrison's district in
Congress, made regular "bloody
shirt" speech, with the probable inten-
ton of remind g the Southern dele
gates to Minneapolis that it is their
duty to stand by President Harrison,
the champion of the force bill Gen.
Hooker, of Mississippi, made patri-
otic speech defending the Southern
people, black and white, and denounc-
ing the effort of the young nan from
Indiana to revive sectional feeling
at this late day.
For some time there was consider
able excitement in the House, and a
number of stormy scenes occurred.
The more prudent Republicans con-
demned the course of Johnston as
impolitic and uncalled for. On the
other hand it gave the Democrats an
opportunity to appeal to their Farm
ers' Alliance friends, who are dis
posed to drift away from the Demo-
cratic moorings. Thousands of cop
les of Johnston's speech will be imme-
diately printed and distributed
throughout the Southern States for
campaign effect.
After Gen. Hooker was through
with the Indiana Johnston, Repre-
sentative George Johnstone, of South
Carolina, challenged certain state
ments which his Republican .--me-
sake had made rejecting upon the
people of the Palmetto State. Mr..
Johnstone was allowed but three
minutes to speak, but in that brief
period he delivered one of the most
sca,hing rebukes to the Indiana Con-
gresham ever heard in the House of
Representatives, With considera-
BILE feeling in his voice and gestures
that could not be misunderstood the
South Carolinian proceeded to arra'esSS
the proteM4sf President gss, 90
f/xN
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02
They We're Sea.Sick.
THE NERVE OF THE BRIDE ALONE
SAVED THE MARRIAGE FROM
FAILURE.
[San Francisco Chronicle.

a clandestine marriage took place
outside the heads the other morning
on the tug Ida w. The groom was
a Christian and the bride a Jewess.
They took minister with them, who
performed the ceremony. The groom
is believed to be a resident of this
city, while the bride is thought to
be resident of Oakland.
This marriage at sea was little
out Of the general run. On Tuesday
evening young man appeared on
Mission Pier ! and wanted to char
ter the stern wheel steamer Grace
Barton to go outside the heads. He
said he had just run away with an
Oakland young lady, and that they
must be married right away. When
told that the Grace Barton could not
go outside, he appeared very much
disappointed and endeavored to get
the Ida W. Capt. Dan James dis
suaded him from going to the sea at
night, as the bar was breaking.
After consultation with the pros
pective bride it was decided that the
wedding should be deferred Until
next morning.
Promptly at 9 o'clock Wednesday
morning the bridal couple boarded
the Ida W. They were accompanied
by the groom's sister, her husband
and tall, slim minister The bride
was good looking, short and plump.
She was OF dark complexion and her
features were of the Jewish cast.
She appeared about nineteen years
old. Her dress was snuff colored,
and she wore small hat. The groom
W2o ABOUT medium SlZeG ana nicely
dressed in black suit. He did not
appear over nineteen years old, and
only the faintest sign Of mustache
was visible on his upper lip.
There was pretty good swell on
the bay, but the wedding party in
sisted upon remaining on deck, and
located themselves on a big hawser
at the stern of the tug. As Point
Bonita was neared the tug began to
pitct and roll. When directly be-
~ Noljs North and Sonth -
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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02

increased our crops of oats, wheat,
corn and hay, and our supply OF
homc-bred horses, mules, cattle and
hogs.
We have in the past decade
increased our taxable values 70 per
cent, agricultural products 81 per
cent, live stock Al per cent, manu-
factures 1919 per cent, mineral out
put S67 per cent, fruits 100 per cent,
pig iron 1OS per cent, lumber pro-
ducts 1873 per cent, and population
1919 per cent.
Then our State, county, municipal
and per capita Indebtedness has
decreased. The commercial reports
show fewer failures and reduced lia-
bilities. Despite the decline in cot
ton, the failures and liabilities in the
South are less for 1892 than for 1891
Our average increase OF per capita
wealth from 1880 to 1890 was lOC
per cent more than in the New Eng.
land States or in the central West.
We are now producing more pl2
iron than the whole country turned
out in 1870, ard in ten years tht
number of our looms and spindle'
has increased 800 per cent, while the
South consumes nearly as much raw
cotton in her manufactures as wa
consumed in the entire country II
1866. Our wool manufactures have
also increased nearly 500 per cent IL
ten years.
These facts do not make it appar
ent that existing financial condition
are Just and favorable; they slmpl,,
show that the South has prospere'
in spite of robber tariff and al
oppressive financial system. Tha
we have done so well under dlsad
vantages shows that with the liberia
, legislation demanded by the Demo
cratic masses this section would lea
, into an era of flush times.
But it is in the highest degre
encouraging to know that we ar
forging ahead. In the near futur
the completion OF the Nicaragu
canal, the opening Of direct trad
with Europe, and the shifting OF tn
cotton manufacturing industry to ta
cotton region will make our advance
ment and development still NOR
rapid. We have passed through tn
worst of our trials and struggles, ah
our future is just what brains, pluc
and hard work will make it!
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02

Sioux CRY, Iowa, May 27.-Gov.
Boies arrived here to-day in response
to request of the relief committee
and after investigating the flooded
district resolved to issue prociama-
ton inviting the people OF Iowa and
the country generally to contribute
for the relief of the distressed peo'
pie. The proclamation will be sent
out from Des Moines tomorrow, and
will state that 100000 is needed for
this purpose. Two more bodies OF
drowned people were recovered this
morning.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02
Ladies are Unfortunate,

Because the higher they rise in society
the weaker theyfnd themselves bodily.
Risley's Philotoken controls the nerves;
aids nature in her various functions, and
thus combats with the many ills OF wo-
mankind successfully. If your druggist
has not got it he will order it for you for.
81 a bottle, from Chas. F. RisIey, Whole
sale Druggist, 90 Cortlandt Street, New
York. Send for a descriptive pamphlet,
with directions and certificates from
many ladies who have used It and can't
say enough infsyorof Risley's g PhilotekeM
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02
The Height Of the Tallest Man.
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Turner, the naturalist, declared
that he once saw, upon the coast OF
Brazil, a race of gigantic savages,
one of whom was twelve feet in
height. NJ Thevet, of France, IN
his description of America, published
at Paris in 1875, asserted that he
saw and measured the skeleton OF a
South American which was eleven
feet FIVE inches in length. The
Chinese are said to claim that in the
last century there were men in their
country who measured fifteen feet IN
height. Josephus mentioned the
case of a Hebrew who was ten feet
two inches in height. Pliny tells OF
an Arabian giant, Gabara, nine feet
nine Inches, the tallest man IN the
days of Claudius. John Middleton
born at Hale, in lancashire, IN the
time OF James l., was nine feet three
inches in height; his hand was seven.
teen inches long and 81 inches broad
says DR.. Plott in his aIIistory O
Staffordshire." The Irish giant
Murphy, contemporary with o'Brien
was eight feet ten inches. a skele
ton in tie Museum Of Trinity Col
lege, Dublin, is eight feet SIX inches
in height, and that of Charles Byrn'
in the Museum of the College o.
Surgeons, London, is eight feet for.
inches. The tallest living man
Chang-tu-Sing, the Chinese giant
His height is eight feet three iaches
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02
The Rocky Mountains.
Nineteenth Century,

No description, however full and
eloquent, can do justice to the scenery
of the Canadian Rockies and British
Columbia. The human eye alone
can do so. The countless giant peaks,
clothed in everlasting robes OF snow,
the glacier, waterfalls, lakes, rivers,
valleys and pine woods which pass
before the gaze of the bewildered
traveller from Banff, in Alberta, to
Vancouver would make half-a-dozen
Switzerlands and leave enough of the
Alpine material and glacier wonders
over to supply every other country
in Europe with as much OF the mar
vellous and sublime in nature as
would suffice for home admiration.
Going down the enchanting canon
of the Fraser, one is puzzled which
to marvel at most-the variety and
beauty and wild extravaganza OF
scenic grandeur, or the daring genius
of man as seen in the construction of
railway through region where
precipitous but timber-clad noun
tains and roaring torrent were
apparently intended by nature to
reign supreme.
Lamartine, in his 'Voyage en- ORR
ent,.' writing of the effect which the
first sight of the ruins of Baalbec
made upon his mind, said that if a
language existed which would con-
vey in a word as much as the eye
could take in at glance it alone
would enable him to describe the
views before him in manner thai
would interpret his impressions Of
them to his readers.
A language of this compass woulc
be needed in order to give true
conception of the FIVE hundred miles
continuation of every possible com
bination of natural scenery along
which the Canadian Pacific rallwa.
) carries the tourist, from Banff, OF
the summit of the Rockies, to Van
couver, on the banks of Burrard Inlet
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02
wALHAl1A. SOUTH CARO- GL1NA, JUNE 2. 1892

1 baye got into new world. What
l learned at your house is worth
more than you owed me, and am
debtor yet. Hereafter, l shall take
as my motto, Put yourself in his
place, and try to regulate my actions
by it,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02

Advices from the West during the
past week indicate that the floods in
the Mississippi valle,,' are the most
destructive that have occurred in the
past fifty years. Nearly all Of the
streams in Kansas, Nebraska, Indian
Territory, Iowa, Missouri and Arkan-
sas are high out of their banks and
working great destruction to the
adjacent bottom lands. Throughout
the flooded district as many as 300
lives have been lost within the past
week OF ten days, and the destruc-
ton to property within radius Of
twenty miles of St. Louis alone
amounts to considerably more than
s5,000,000. The dispatches state
that it is hard to give any definite
idea of the floods. From the city of
Alton, on the Mississippi, just oppo-
site the mouth of the Missouri, to
St. Charles is a distance of twelve
miles, and the whole country is COW
cred with one vast flood of muddy
water. The same condition of affairs
exists for many miles down the river
toward St. Louis, and there is no
probability that the river can resume
its natural channel for several weeks.
In many places the swift current has
washed away whole farms, and it is
not thought that the river can ever
r"ssi-no "a -------s--
-.s,ensv-.rs original channel. Hun
dreds of families have been driven
from their homes, thousands of acres
OF crops have been destroyed, and to
add to the otherwise beleagured con-
dition of the people, sickness has
broken out to a most alarming extent.
The cry of distress has been raised
in many localities, and funds are
being raised for the relief of the SUI
ferers. The governor of Illinois and
staff boarded steamer at Alton last
Saturday and made partial tour OF
the flooded districts with a view to
calling an extra session of the Legls-
lature to make an appropriation for
the relief of the people. Tents,
blankets, cots and other quartermas-
ter stores have been distributed IN
large quantities, but there is no prob
ability that the supply will hold out.
Congress has been asked for an
appropriation for the relief of the
people along the lower Mississippi
but it has refused to make such an
appropriation.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02

raised from the dependency that
hangs over the South today are
more for themselves than for the
people, and this course must be
changed or else it will elevate a few
to princely fortunes and drive many
into the hands of poverty. The only
way of preventing this is to expose
those few to the waves of the ocean
and let them share with us, who are
being washed down for the lack Of
means to build dikes against their
waves. All this is caused by the i'll
starred deeds set up t. man in order
that he, himself only, may be lifted
above others either to look down
upon them with scorn or to smile
upon them with fiattery.
1t seems impossible for man to do
right. They are quarreling and
fussiny from the school boy in the
school room to the Senator in the
House OF Congress; from the boot
black on the streets to the million
rires in New York.
Now man is either an elevator or
depressor. Indeed, he has put
much in reach of science, but it is as
Newton said after all his wonderful
discoveries: 81 seem to myself to
have been only boy playing on the
seashore, while the great ocean of
truth lies undiscovered before me"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02

NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 27.-The
will of ex-President James K. Polk
was to-day declared invalid, and his
home place, with his historic man
sion and tomb, being about one acre
in the centre of the city, will be sold
and tEe proceeds divided among
fifty or more heirs-at-law, who are
scattered from New York to Cali
fornia. President Polk, although a
fine lawyer, attempted to establish q
perpetuity, and left his place to the
State in trust for the use of the most
deserving of the Polk family, and on
this ground the viii was to-day set
aside: The place is worth sSo,ooo'
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02

JACKSON, MISS, May 27.-Ever
since the adoption, putting into force
the Mississippi constitution Of 1890,
its validity has been questioned, for
it was not submitted to the people
for.rati6cation. The Supreme Court
yesterday held that the constitutional
convention was competent to put
into effect new constitution With:
out submission to the people.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02

The descendants of Christopher
Columbus, who are to beiDsited to
the Worlds Fair, were named as tol-
lows in the United States Senate
ssCristobal Colon de Colon de CorGa,
Duke of yeragua Marquis de Bai77
boleo, his brother, Don Cristodal de
Larreatigui, his son, and their wives
and children, if any,.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02

1t vii. undoubtedly surprise many
persons to learn that the nursery or
floral interests in the United States
now reach a value Of nearly $4,000
900 and claim an empire of more
than 10000 acres.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02

A Pennsylvania judge has decreed
that hotel guest must be served
with a meal whenever he asks for it,
irrespective Of the regular meal
hours
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02

Some people imagine that the
world stands still until il aas heard
their side OF the story.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-06-02

@ "eio oio0 wy 'Ao''
1ul and prosperous nations on
i, to fall from their great height
'lization, knowledge and art to
= state of depression.
;ome of us praise ourselves too
.eh. 1t is well enough to look
t for number one and to think
netting of yourself, for if you do
OF no one else is going to think
.nything of you. But there is a
init to II things, and when you
100 this limit You are sure enough
aa ocean of destroying waves
isolate, alone, without
1T even the sympa-
rades.
y it is to-day. Our
1t would have us
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-11
THE plTrSBURG DISPATCH

John Connolly. No. 52l Fourth avenue; John
j. Gibbons, No. 420 Locust street: Louis
Winkleman, No. 500 Walnut street; Gottlieb
Fritz. No. sos Fifth avenue Charles Fechter,
Nos. Dab and 245 Fifth avenue; w. j. Denny,
Nos. 306 30s, $40 and 3l2 Fifth avenue;
Samuel Bernkrant, No. 43l Fourth avenue;
William A. Kelly, No. 507 Walnut street:
Michael Mead, No. 459 Fifth avenue: Konrad
Housaman, No. 147 Fifth avenue; Edward
Fritchie, No. Al Center street: Sebastian
Englert, Nos. 1904 4l306 Fifth avenue; Andrew
P. Ferguson, No. 1i69 Fifth avenue; Julius
Frederick, No. 1912 Fifth avenues. Nicholas
Wolf, Nos 6Ol, 6O3, sos and 607 Fifth avenue;
John Foth, No l402 Fifth avenue; George M.
Wasmuth, Nos. 927 and 929 Walnut street;
John NJ. Kiddie, near Demmler station;
Frank Ferrigan, Market and Eleventh
streets: Felix Vodka, No. 420 Market street;
Frank 81. Miller, Locust and Jerome streets;
George Altmeyer, No. Ill Fifth avenue.
Wholesale-Andrew Fischer, No. 1887 Fifth
avenue; Samuel Reiter, No. 453 Fourth ave-
nue.; L. Wigand, Diamond street and Black.
berry alley; j. III. Malloy, Nos. 24s and 2oo
Fifth avenue; William j. Dorsey, Fourth
avenue, between Martin and Peach streets;
Henry Shermer, No. 39l Jerome street; James
A. Roth and Samuel A. Roth, No. 1O6 Ninth
street: Sarah McHale and James j. McHale,
No. 400 Market street; Frank G. Bergman,
No. 422 Market street.
Distillers-Thomas Moore, No. l Thir-'
teenth street.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-11
THE FIRE RECORD.

In Franklin township, Westmoreland
county, James Hamflton's barn. Loss, s., 500;
uninsured.
AT New Castle, the foundry of the Vulcan
Iron Works foundry Loss, 5000; well in
sured. Origin unknown.
AT Des Moines, Ia, the Capital City Opera
House block. Several adjoining buildings
were damaged. Loss, $4,000.
AN alarm of fire from box SO at 8 o'clock
last evening was caused by fire in one of the
boiler rooms at Carnegie's Thirty third
street mill. The fire originated from q
spark falling on some waste. The loss was
slight.
AT Sterling, ILL.,, a large three-story house
of the Sterling Manufacturing Company to-
gether with $4,000 worth of finished farm
machinery. A workman had dipped q hot
casting into q tank of asphaltum, causing
the fire.
AT Massillon the large barn formerly con-
nected with the fremont House, now owned
by Masters & Finley and occupied by the
Ridgeway Burton Coal Company's teams and
wagons: also frame building adj joining oc-
cupied as a dwelling by Philip, Essinger.
Four horses were rescued. Loss, $1,000; in
sured.