Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-04-05

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has healing in the water. This IS your
secret"
@sWHAr is YOUR NAME?" Three Wild
mudlarks, were recently captured by Il
young divine and brought into Sunday
school in New York,
"What is your name, my boy9"
"Dan," replied the untaught one, who
was first interrogated.
"Oh, no your name is Daniel, say it
now?"
"Daniel"
eyes well, Daniel, take that seat"
"And what is your name2" was inter-
rogated of number two.
"Sam," calculated the urchin.
"Oh dear, no, it is Samuel; sit down,
Samuel, and now let us hear what your
name is, my bright little fellow?" said he,
turning to the third.
With grin of self satisfaction, and
shake of the head that would have done
honor to Lord Burleigh, the young cate
chumen, boldly replied: "Jim-ual, be
Jabers!"
Madame Achille Murant arriveda
New-O Orleans on the evening of the 10Th
from Havre. This lady is not only
daughter in law of the celebrated Joachim
Murat, bat also grand neice of Washing
ton. She and her husband were quietly
residing on their plantation in Florida,
when che revolution of '48 c..anged
France from monarch to a republic.
They went TO that country, from whence
she now returns.
Alta recent "tranirg' down East, after
ain order was given to "return ramrods, :"
one of the soldiers broke from the line,
and was off at full split. "Hollo," bawi-
ed the commanding officer, "wherc are
you going?" "Down TO Squire Muggins
to return the ramrod borrowed from
him."
An Irishman on being told to grease
the wagon, returned in about an hour af-
forwards and said, "I've CREASED every
part of wagon but them sticks where the
,oheels hang on, /"
HoeeIsH.-A paddy writing from the
West says pork is so plenty that every
third man you meet is a hog.
".Am | not little pales" enquired la
dy who was rather short and corpulent,
of crusty old bachelor. "You look more
a big tub," was the blunt reply.
The trial of Albert G.. Gaskins, the
young man who was arrested in January
last, by special agent IF the Post office
Department, charged with robbing the u.
s. Nail, took place, on Monday last, be-
fore the Circuit Court in this city. and
resulted in the conviction on four separ-
ate indictment. He was sentenced to for
ty years imprisonment at hard labor in
Edgefeld jail-ten years for each offence,
[Chor. Courier.
"Hallo" said Snooks to an old friend
the other day, whom he hadn't seen for a
dogs age, What are you doing up in
Dabe county?',
"ob, I am keeping flew goods"
"Woll," said Snooks. "I,ve no doubt
it's greet country to keep goods
How's" roots and yabs" in your mar
ket?"
Aotherly A6ection.-Mary, Countess
of Orkney, was deaf and dumb, and mar
ried, in 1853, by signs. She lived with
her husband, Murrougb, first Marquis of
Thomond, who was also her first cousin,
at his seat, Rostellan, on the harbor of
Cork. Shortly after the birth of her first
child, the nurse, with considerable aston
ishment, saw the mother cautiously ap-
proach the cradle in which the infant was
sleeping, evidently full of some deep de.
sign. The Countess. perfectly assuring
herself that the child really slept, took
out large stone, which she had concealed
under her shawl. The nurse, struck with
horror, and fully impressed with an idea
of the peculiar cunning and malignity of
dummies" seized at it, with an intent to
fling it away; but. before she could inter-
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