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T E R M S : Published ovory Thursday morning, For subscription, $1.50 por annum, strictly in advancoj for six months, 7?"> cents; for four months, 60 cents. Advertisements insei ted at one dollar per square of one inch or less for the (list insertion ami fifty cents for each sub sequent insertion. Obituary Notices exceeding (Ive lines, Tributos of Kospoct, Communications of a personal character, when adinissable, ami Announcements of Candidates will he ohargod foras advertisements, .lol? Printing neatly and cheaply execu ted. Xcccssity^oinpels us lo adhere strictly to tin? requirements of Cash Marmonts D .m IS 1E13 a To mn, Onn HHf Bc Tr., n,.., ., ,,"" ww .hc m?t "," ^ Tho|, ?- ?? ~ ~ ^ ^ ^ HY THOMPSON, SMITH & JAYNMS. WAl.llAf.f,A^OtTT1I CAROLINA, DI2CEMHEH Iii, 188?L VOLUME XL_NO ?O. = A T = -JUST RECEIVED A big Killing in Killi Stock of Dry doods and Notions. Tri ni niings, Plushes, Vclveline, tte, in bright and latest colors and styles nt tho usual low prices. MU mWEWMB F'O'H, ?A?H. Clonr of knots Wooden Buckets, 2 for 2?0. Dig Tin Covered Duckets at 5o. (Tinware at cost.) Decorated Tin Chnmbor Sets at il.50. I) wights Loose Soda at 6e. or ti pounds for 2f>o. liest (doss Starch, 2 packages for 5c. (J.1 tireen and Black Teas, at 25c per pound. liest Imperial, Young Dyson, (Jun Powder and Engl isl Breakfast Teas at 50c. per pound. Desi Oolong I Mack Tea at 75c. per pound, hoggetts Blended Tea at 75c. per pound. Kino uncolored Japan Tea in beautiful Baskets, 75c. oneil Pin e, Whole Bean, Parched Kio Coffee at 25c. Carter's Ink in I quart bottles at only 50c. .lohn .Moore's Sous One Horse Plows at 4(4.60 .lohn Moore's ?Sons Two Horse Plows with Bolling Coal ter am fi nage Wheel complete, very cheap. All steele Spades and Shovels at only G5c. each. Big Bargains in Buggie Whips from 15 to 75e. each. Pocket Knives, Table Cutlery, Ac., large stock, very cheap. Bes) Home-made .Molasses, '? gallons for ?Jil. Good Laundry Soap al lc. per pound. Toilet Soap, ?1 cakes for 5c. Adamant<ne Candles al "Joe. per dozen. SVIew Holiday Coods. HOLMES & CUNT'S KAN CY CAKES, vi/.: Social Teas, Ieee Honey ('.ikes. Lemon, Kancy and Sugar Jumbles, Yinilia Crisps, New York Teas, Honey Jumbles, New Orleans Chocolat Jumbles, Mixec Cakes, Ac, Ac, at only 20c per pound. New Valencia Kaisins, 20c. per !b. Loose Muscatel Raisins, 20c. per lb Citron, per pound, 25c. New Currants, 3 pounds for 25c. 25 Cheese, bought before the rise, '.i pounds for 50c. Imported fnsh Macearoni, sold at loo. per pound. Evaporated Dried Apples, sold at 5c per pound. Large fresh h.?ported Prunes, sold at 10c per pound. Davis' Baking Powder in cms, at only 25c. per pound. This Bakinjj Powder is equal to Boyal Baking Powder. While Beans nt ?1.50 per bushel. Mixed Beans at ?1.00 per bushel. New Corn at ode. per bushel. Cow Peas at 7">c per bushel. Pearl Barley, I pounds for 2?C. Good Bak'ug Soda al 5c. per pound. Canned Corn Beef at 12.1c per pound. New Sugar Corn al I He per can. Good Sardines, in olive oil, I boxes for 25e. Large \ pound boxes Sardines at only ldc Kresh Lobsters at 20c. per can. Pure Mustard al ofic. per pound. 1 pound full weight Ousters, ldc per can. 2 pound full weight Oysters, ?I cans for 50c. Dried Chipped Beef, 25c. per box. 1 pound fresh Mackerel at 15c. per cnn. Potted Ham, Schriinps, ?fcc. Dessiccaied Cocoanut, 20o. per can. Assorted Jams, 25c. Marmalade, 20c. Nelson's Gelnline, 20e. Kennet, 2??c Sausage Seasoning, l?o. Package Mince Meal, Lie. Prepared Kreuch Mustard, 1 Dc. per bottle. Can Pears, 15c. Pine Apple, 15c. "Pure Fruit Tobi ('hewing Gum, 5c per box. Tomato Catsup, BOc. per bottle. \\ orcestershire Sauce, 20c. per bottle. Large quart bottles Queen Olives af 25c per bottle. Large quart h.dib s Sweet Mixed Pickles, 86c. per bottle. Large quart bottles .Mixed Chow-Chow at 25c. per bottle. Good Mixed Cucumber Pickles at ldc. per bottle. The linest Pickled White Onions at 20c per bottle Kresh Horse Kadish al 15e. per bottle. Pepper Sance and Capres at 15c. and 20c. per bottle. ' llorseford's Bread Preparation at ldc. and 20c. por package Warner's Safe Yeas! at 10c. per box. -GREAT REDUCTION OK PRICES ON Salt, Flour, Meal, Sugar, ( 'ol'fee, Rice, Bacon, Lard, I lams, I bunin y, Spices, (dc, Al Low Prices - Boot - Shoes and Rubbers, full stock. I ?uhhci' ( 'oats, all sizes. Genuine Persian LVvctsable Rubber Couts, cnn bc worn as ulsters oi overcoats. Stove-, Bangers and Heaters. I lani ware, Agricultural Implements, Crockery ami Glassware. Paints, oils. Varnish,Glass, Fully, Ac Very respectfully, 0. i Sclmmacher, Walhalla, S. 0. J .' ?nods packed and delivered free. HIGHLANDERS SOUTH. Description of Their Country, Cus toms, ami Peculiarities. I.IKK IN THU MOUNTAIN'S OK THU l'AI.MKTTO STATIC AS 8I?KN HY A ItlGllMON'Dtilt. . [Correspondence of tho Richmond Dis patch.] OCONKK COUNTY, S. C., Nov., 2:1, '89. A very queer custom of this sec tion is thc manner of burial often practiced. Instead of elaborate marble head-stones or other such memorials to tho dead thc Carolinian will build over tl"! mound a shed or small house to protect thc grave from thc inclemency of the weather. At li rsl one is likely to take these little structures for buby-houscs. In thc case of the better class of moun taineers he will paint this wooden mausoleum. Thc less favored will content themselves with tl shed ar rangement, which is made by driv ing two forked slickes in thc ground and then placing on these n rail, which forms a ridge-pole, upon which tho plank is laid shedding to the ground. * In regard to the settlement of this valuable section of the Slate, thc most intelligent people advance the opinion thai immigration is the thing needful. And it does look as if there is a great deni of waste ground. At the sam? tiine, consider ing thc early age nt which people marry and commence life hen-, il would appear flint South Carolina would in a few years have a teeming population-as numerous as that of I Asia. Several couples I met were married at the early ages of twelve I and seventeen respectively-the , girls twelve and thc men seventeen, j I This I am told occurs quito often, and early marriages aro the rule. The result is that there are many grandparents at forty years of age. I have met several. Ludicrous mis takes are often made by your cor respondent in taking children, mo thers, fathers, grandmother:, and ? grandfathers for brothers and sis ters. Thc early days of many of the country readers of the Dispatch will be panoramacd in a ride through these wilds by thc sight of thou sands bf goldon-hucd pumpkins, oymlins, and gourds lying in tho patches. Thc pumpkins arc cul into slices and hung across a ridge-pole or up against thc side of thc house alongside the wildcat and coon skins and look like strips of herring hung out to dry on an liaslern North Carolinian's dwelling. The gourd is universally used as a vessel out of which to drink thc (dear waler thal abounds everywhere, and thousands hang from poles planted in the earth, a hole being cut in each of them large enough to admit the entrance of a bluebird or blackmartin, thus affording them a comfortable ncst ingplace. Thc sweet notes of tho bluebirds are thus heard around every man's house. The villainous Kng lish sparrow is making his appear ance ami asserting himself as in Virginia, and is "agin" nil other birds to the manner horn. These mountain people know not what a nuisance is being precipitated upon them in these posts, ami should qunrnntinc against them as against yellow-fever. Yesterday I struck a typical moun taineer of tho sportive proclivities of thc Virginian, who had his pack of hounds and got his meat from thc woods. Ile claimed to have killed more wildcats than any other man in the region and invited me lo dis mount and look ut bis trophies wildcat taiN and bragged of a 'pos sum hunt he hud last night. Through mc lie invites festive Virginians to come down and lake a hunt. Tray, Manche, and Sweetheart are at their service. <>< O\I:I: COI N ; Y, S. C., Nov., *2 I, '89. Kefercnee has been made ill former j letters to thc pool- class of houses found in the mountains of 'his coun try. Thc farther you go the worse the houses are. lt is inconceivable toa mau who linds it necessary to incise himself in an overcoat, fur cap, and rubber shoes to protect himself from the cold, (hal the people of the moun tains should reverse the order of life and prefer lo stable ami house theil' horses and cattle and live ?oil! of doors" themselves. Hut such itt tin. laid, lu mans cases houses are piero rail pens covered with staves o.r plank, which is equivalent almost to living outside. Tlie indifference to one's habita tion may he judged by the following admission : A man was bemoaning tho extravagance of one of his neighbors, who had "ai red" property, and who, lie said, had "wellnigh run through" with what he had received by his "foolishness." in building "a plank house" (with one room and a shed attachment.) And this was said by a man who lived in a one room, uuehitlked log house; who had money in the bank and a mortgage upon many of his hoighbors' cattle, cotton crops, and lands, and had produce piled so high round his house that he lived in its shadow; and withal he was an excellent, fel low. A common drawback of this coun try is that every man tries to eon ii ne his operation to his own labor with out hiring. A farmer with splendid "low grounds" boasted to me that he bad made 500 bushels of Corri and other stuff and had never hired n mau a single day. Your correspon dent mildly suggested that pe rh apt if be had hired some one to work bj his side he might, have made doubh thc quantity, hut "O, no, that wouh not pay," was his answer. A pitiable sight-one that fills tin heart with sadness-in tho lowe country is the old plantations tba were worked by slaveholders. The; can ho recognized nt once by the re mains of old fences rotting on tit ground, where they wore nine rail high and ridered, by their over worked appearance, and thc fine oh houses which were built to sta) The modern mountaineer eschew them as he would a haunted palace and, liku tho Indians when thc Gov eminent built them cabins, stable their horses in them and built wijj wains in front of them for them selves. Scarcely a vestige of slaver remains in the sh apo of tho "ol I quarters," and the negro himself i ever here has for the most pm vamoosed. Patches and not farm are now cultivated, and it would aj pear that only enough produce fi home or hoighborbood consumptio is aimed at, although the lands ai fertile enough to make ail Kastei Virginian's mouth water. Th country holds its own, and moi land has been cleared than has bei allowed to grow up. No timothy i clover is grown, although a man rm walk across fields of uugalhered n live dead grass so thickly coverii the ground that ho need not get li feet muddy. The almost total a sonco of the sound of the woodman axe and the crack of the sportsman gun, and that sweetest music tl baying of the hounds, is oppressa it is a dead hush that should n characterize these splendid mon laius. Indeed I have yet to Iii how these people amuse tltcmsclvi First of all, the country is "dry no liquor to bo had. The dearth tho hilarity this Unid produces presented in these parts has great changed my mind oil this subjci Is it this absence, or is it the shadi of tho great mountains that cam no merry laughter or shouts to t hounds to be heard ill its dismal lu lows. ? Just herc I will note another ; sonco in these mountain homes; laughter, no smiles and no surpr ever expressed, and there is rea more gandhi y or "chin music" this letter than you could "grub" < of thc average family in a wei Whether it is oil account ol a li itod vocabulary or a disinclination talk I am unable to say, but wi: they do utter a word it is to 1 point and "horse sense." The trees of lilis vicinity ; simply glorious, especially tho pill These giants (,f the forest have grain in many cases as close as leaves ol' a hook, and are so mnjci in height and graceful in shape as excite a spirit of devotion. I ? qiicntly lind myself taking off liai lo thom and bowing obesiat I suppose it is their sweet, sad mi thal suppresses anything like bi Icrousttcss in tho hardy mountaim Cedars and holly are rare, and wi found arc very unlike the Virgi growth-nothing like so boauti their limbs curving more downw: the foliage less dense, and of not rich a green. Around old hoi cedars were planted as orniniei appendages. The modern Carol highlander plants neither tree shrub, and says there aro ah'oi 10 many of them, mid ItboHft" s inagnilh ieid growths as I know ni cause, tho very angels to wc There, is nothing more Inchtlicll than to see these noble., barkless, bleached monarchs of thc foi roaring their almost limbless tru 75 or 80 foot in tho olear air, biding their tinto until tho fierce winds that sweep these hills shall lay them prone 1 upon the ground, to return to the . generous earth from which they sprang. To mc they aro thc spec tres ami ghosts of these regions skeletons that command my sym pathy and almost my tears. WKSTMINSTKK, S. C., Nov. 20, '89. Sir Walter Scott has written of the Highlanders and invested them with a halo of romance and poetry, and our own incomparable Bryant has sung of thc hills and dales, and trees and plants, and murmuring streams, and pictured them so vivid ly that tho imaginative person, even while thc bleak November winds arc howling around the chimney-corner, can sniff thc fragrant order of .lune Howers, mid from a snug place be side tliO blazing logs hear the. music of brooklets. Sir Walter's High land rs may have-been creatures ap proximating his language and de scriptions, bilt tho Highlanders of the mountains encircling this beautiful little town are far different from those of the great Scotch romances. Thc Highlanders of Oeonee county, as a general rule, are unpoetical and almost without superstitions, fur ther than lunar influences upon the planting of corn and potatoes and the curing of hog meat. lie meets all your inquiries which he dqps not exactly understand with a "which ?" His "n-ens" and "we-uns" and "youV are relics of the war, and the average lowlander is not unwill ing to hear (bein, but rather likes it for a change. Hut the "which" at every turn of conversation is unbear able. The Oeonee Highlander, on account ol' the inconveniences and discomforts he is willing to endure is rather the subject of the philan thropist than ot' the poet. Bryant'. descriptions, however, I lind not si far-let ched, and his autumnal fan oies and (lights can he realized ii these glorious mountains in all tin fullness and beauty of his mehtnoho ly but rich descriptions id* Daim Nature's work. A horseback ride through thesi mountains is one of thc most ox lnlarating experiences. The loneli ness of thc ride, the absence of tole graph poles, steam whistles, and th rumbling of railroad trains-no even the sight of a cabin for hour and bonis-make the translation t another and long-passed age easj Such a ride is productive of a rt In spective mid pensive mood, an one's imagination is apt to revert V thc time when the lordly India stalked these hills and the pantile stealthily sought his prey among th wild animals that made these rock and caverns their dens. One's mint too, is apt to turn still further bac in the centuries when the might convulsion of nature occurred tin caused the upheaval that piled roc upon rock and the centuries afle wards that it ret pi i red to shape an round them into their present var ons forms. The sad requiem of tl moaning trees over the fallen ar decaying giants that have been lt; rooted hy the fearful inouiitain-to undoes that rend and tear from thc beds the rocks themselves arc co stain reminders of our porishau natures. The gloomy thoughts th arc engendered by the shadows these heights and the sunless lu lows are, however, often dissip?t by the dangers of the declivities ai the uncertainty of the depths of ti Streams that have to be forded aft heavy rains and the ever preso solicitude of being lost in the mon tains. This last was recently I fate (d' your correspondent, who ! ter hours of wandering was prep: mg to build his Aro for the nig] when he was rescued by a mount: lassie who happened that way, w with simple but true womanly ? stinct, straightway upon melding unexpected a vistor, began her toi as she walked down the mount,' path hy raking her hair with an o fashioned wooden coarse comb wi one hand, while she Mi ried with 1 slat-bonnet in the other. Vol she was a simple child of i lure. She wore boy's shoes, t large for her; hail holes in her stoi bigs; had never seen "the train" been lo town, could neither read i write, and said ber lathev had store and she stayed in it, WI inquiring how, under these eireu stances, she could "make chang she I'Oplied. "There's no money these paris. Wo'uns takes stuff our things"-meaning barter, !? further said that the most moi ?he ever had was twenty-live cet and that she would have gone to to und hired to the people, hu,^ \\v was "no placo like home," using Howard Payne's identical words. That homo was a single-room log sabin, presided over by a stepmother nid inhabited by five half-sisters, rho family only ate wheat bread nico a week-Sunday mornings. They drank coffee (without sugar) when they could get it. In parting with this little woman of thc hills die navely said : "I like the nice talk of the lowlander. Good-by." Cn nun. LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. IIOITKK, DUCK M UK lt 8. On the unfavorable report of tho juoioiary committee, the following bills were rejected: Hill repealing thc law against carrying concealed weapons. Hill increasing the poll tax to $2. Hill to regulate costs in civil cases where the costs arc less than $100. Hill to carry into effect Article X, Section 8, of tile Constitution, in re gard to public schools, by providing that no public school teacher shall receive for his services per month more than one-sixth of the amount to which Iiis school is entitled for the year. Hi!! lo reduce thc privilege tax on commercial fertilizers from *2.r> cents lo 10 cents a ton. Hill to permit persons in Ocoiieo county liable to road duty to pay a commutation tax in lieu of work ing the public, roads was passed and ordered to be sent lo the Senate. Hill providing a mode of ascer taining the names (d' registered vo ters convicted of disqualifying crimes and requiring their names to be erased by the Supervisor of Regis tration from the registration books passed to a third reading without division. The following were among thc new bills introduced: Hy Mr. Bowen-To provide a more efficient mode of working thc public roads of this State. A bill was introduced by Air. Zim merman to-day to amend tho pen sion act, providing that "the widow of any soldier or sailor from the State of South Carolina, or any of the Confederate States, now residing in til is State, who lost Iiis life while in the service, of thc State or Con federate States, or who has died since thc war from injuries received or disease contracted while in said service, shall be entitled," etc. Hy Mr. Turner-To regulate the per diem and mileage of witnesses bound over to testify at the Court of General Sessions in the State; also to authorize certain detectives to carry pistols concealed about their persons wdiile actually engaged in duty. In the Senate, a bill to incorpo rate the town of Fair Play in OcO nec county, was passed and ordered to the House. lioUSK, I)KCKMKKK 4. The following are the most note worthy of the now bills : Hy Mr. rCugcan H. Cary, lo pro vide for tlic inspection of scales, weights and measures. To provide a punishment for mak ing use of false scales, weights and measures. Hy Mr. King, to amend thc law relating to sales under execution. Hy Mr. W. I), Hvans, to regulate thc annual settlements of county commissioners and county treasurers for county and school taxes. Hy Mr. Connor, to amend the law relating to woights and measures. Hy Mr. Watson, lo amend thc law as to the penally for carrying con cealed weapons. (Prescribes six months in the Penitentiary as au in variable punishment.) Hy Mr. ('handler, to amend the law relating to the age of consent. (Changes it from IO lo 10 years.) Mr. Thompson offered a concur rent resolution, willoh was adopted, requesting our Senators and licprc tentatives in Congress to usc all proper efforts "to secure such liberal und special appropriation as shall LMieourage and aid iii thc production ind manufacture, not only of jute, luit pine straw and all other fibrous iVrtiolcs that can be used as a cover ing for cotton bales and for making k'lgs and other purposes." The special order for the day was the bill to amend the usury law. It lid not seek to change the present maximum rate of 7 per cent upon 3011 tr (lots not made in writing, hut l>roposcs to reduce the rate permis ?blo upon written contracts from 10 per cent, as at present, to 8 per KEOWEE COURIER, [WHKKIJY,] -KSTAULISIIHI) A.T Old Pickens in 1840, -MOVKI) TO-- 7 Walhalla in 1868. Destroyed by Fire June Olr.+ IQQ7 falkii) . WVJ> t < Re-Established August ll 1887. cent. There was a long debate up on it, in which thc arguments for and against a usury law so familiar to tho public wero produced as now. Mr. Leo's motion to indofmitoly postpone was lost hy a voto of 42 to 09, and tho hill passed its second reading without a division. A. mo tion to reconsider wftB tabled. Thc hill to exempt' a portion of Whitewater Township, in Oconee county, from tho operations of tho stock law, was passed and sent to thc Senate. In the Senate the following were among thc new hills introduced: Senator Pope, joint resolution amending Article I, Section 2, of the Constitution of this Stato, so that tho number of Associate Jus tices of the Supremo Court will bo four instead of two as they now aro. senator I/.lar, to amend Chaptor .10, Section 1,256, of tho General Statutes, so as to authori/.c and em power thc Clerks of Courts in their respective counties to test at least once a year thc weights and meas ures of merchants, butchers, factors and cotton buyers; also to examine thc weights and measures of any particular merchant upon complaint by any person. Tho bill lo require railroads operat ing over fifty miles of road in the State to run at least one unmixed passenger train a day was favorably reported. Thursday, December 5, very little progress was made hy thc House in clearing its calendar, containing over ono hundred and seventy hills. There was nothing of general importance done and after a three hours session the 1 louse adjourned. There seems lo he au unexplained apathy to work on thc part of tho House, where hills arc accumulating at a rapid rate, and very few dis posed of. Such tardiness in legisla tive work is inexcusable. In the Senate, however, there seems to he more of a disposition for diligent, and effective work. Tho following arc some of thc new hills reported favorably by thc commit tees : To provide for thc calling of a constitutional convention. To amend Section 2,230 and 2,237 of thc General Statutes of South Carolina in relation to juries. To reduce thc salaries of Stato olliccrs, their (dorks and employees. To amend F . ' < 1,105 of tho General Statute, iii relation to de duction for tare on hales of unmanu factured cotton. Providing for thc fixing of tho term of o fl] co of official stenogra phers, their appointment and removal from office. Amendments of thc Statutes pro viding for thc formation of corpora tions under thc general laws. Proposing an amendment to Sec tion 5, Article IO, of the Constitu tion of this State relating to tho school tax. To amend Section 1,08-1 of tho General Statutes relating to work on public roads. NHW ni I.i.s. To provide for thc administration of insolvent debtors' estates. To provide for thc payment of tho expenses of elections in this State. To require all railroad companies to stop their trains carrying passen gers twice a day at all stations when signalled for that purpose. To provide a mode for executing criminals in this State. Thc hill proposes that all criminals shall bo executed in thc State Penitentiary hy a public exccutionccr under tho supervision of tho Superintendent of thc Penitentiary. IUI.I.s I M'A VOKAIII.Y UKPORTKD. To amend thc Act to declare thc law relating to married women. To repeal all Acts or parts of Acts relating to agricultural liens for ad vances or supplies. I {elating to assessing and collec tion of taxes. To provide for regulating mar riages. To amend the provision of tho Constitution prohibiting Judges from charging juries on tho facts in crimi IIul cases. Kr.Koi.rvtox AS TO Tine WORLD'S KA tu. Senator Buist introduced tho fol lowing resolution : li?sot?cdf hy the Senate of South Carolina, thc House of Representa tives concurring, That it is the sense of the General Asscmhlv of South Carolina that thc city of New York, in thc State of New York, is the most appropriate locality in tho United States for the successful hold ing of the World's Pair contempl?t ed hy thc nation in tho year 1892.