Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-04-19

ambwell's s wrath. and shaking his cane
portentously over Owens head, he asked:
"Did you snap Gun?"
The culprit trembling with fear, muir
INJURED: Eyes sir, snapt Gun, I didn't
knoat he aoas loaded"
Ms PATIENT.
Mr.. NJ, now distinguished professor
in college not Il thousand miles from
w, had attended the family of a rich old
miser for several years, and in addition
to other services, hnd performed several
operations for cataract, which seemed a
family disease. Being naturally mod
est fellow he as ashamed TO ask his
fees, and they were not paid. AT length
the old man himself became blind, and
sent for NJ, who thought this good
chance for obtaining an acknowledge
ment of his claim, so, after listening toall
the old mans complaints, he remmkcd-
Il have no doubt / can cure you, sir; hut
there is ONLY one condition upon which
will perform the operation. have, as
YOU are aware, attended your family for
som years, without the usual compcnsa-
tiou; now YOU must promise 10 give me IL
check of fifty dollars MS soon as ! hive re-
stored the sight OF one eye, a.d ! will
thenfinish the operation
After some demurrng. the old fellow
agreed to his propo ition, and NJ. COM
mcncpd. In a little time one eve was re-
lieveu, l. oking up he remarked. How
| large YOU lookp ard on some one hand
ing him title. joyfully exclaimed 1t is
perfectly legihleto mel
After allowing time for his ec-tacies to
subsdr, M. gently hintcd he was ready
to proceed as soon as the check was Civ
en-. The old man unused a few minutes,
and Their looking up with most villain
Gus leer, said, 'Dr.. I wouldn't give a
rye straw to see out Of more than one
eye
Quit splitting that nasty tobackcrr on
the floor. Josh. or I'll whip you
La. mother, whv don't you sneak pro-
perlv? You should have snid. cease
eiecting that offensive saliva of the Vir-
ginia weed upon the promenade, or !
shall administer to YOU severe castiga.
ton Ahem!
PowER OF SrEAM.--'Is it stame?' sal
nm IriShman: 'by the sainly st. PathTck,
hut it's great thing inti,elv, for d,ivin'
thngs--it put me through nine States in
dav!-divil word lie in it,
Nine Statcs?' exclaimed dozen in as.
tonishment.
'Yis. nine o. them. he iabers, as aisy as
a-can 'ud i,ck her ear! D'vez sce, now:
got married in New York in the mornin'
and wint wild my wife Biddy to Baltimore
the same day--hould your wist now. and
count the states. There was the state o
matrimonv. which entered from a single
state, and oher state, in the State o
New York, and Iwint through New Jar
! srv, Pinsylvanr and Diliwaur into Mary
J land, whe G arrived in a most beautiful
state of jollifcation! There is nine, by tn,
!, r ID of Moses--count 'em if yez like. Och
but stances a scrougerp
A PETRfrIEb boDY.--The Houston
{ (Miss) Republican of a recent date says
"a subject which had been buried fo
five or six years, was taken up few
days since, for the purpose of removing
, to differen; location, ard found in 8
high state of petriiaction 1t required
, the strength of six men to raise the ccffi!
from the vault; this caused TO open it. t'
discover the cause of the weight; when
to their surprise. they found it to contain
a form OF stone. With the exception o
the fingers. r,rt of on Of the feet. and
small spot under the position of th'
! hands. which had decayed before petri
ficti n had taken place. the body was Al
paienily solid stone.
During the present week, we hav'
been furnished with letter from gen
tleman who resides in Mississippi. 10 hi
brother in Greenville DistlicD who WA
present at the exhuming of the remnin'
; described in the article above He states
tln,tit was the body of lady who was
formerly resident o! Laurens S. O., anf
mentions her name. The following is ar