Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-03-15

TIoN.-A letter from Ystad, in Swed.
en-, contains an account of strange
and revolving scene at an execution,
which took place there OH the 2Sth of
| January:
That day having been fixed for
the decapltatlon of journeyman
butcher, named Marcusson, and a
woman named Betilla Nilsdotter, for
having murdered the husband of the
latter, a vast number Of the peasan-
try arrived on the previous evening,
and blvouacked in the town all night.
! Although for sixty years no execu-
uon had taken place in the province,
and for upwards of eight years none
IN oil Sweden, it was not SO much
curiosity, which attracted the multi.
tude, as the desire to swallow drop
OF the blood OF the criminals at the
moment it should spurt from beneath
lhe axe 1.-THE eXecutioner, it being 4
popular belief IN Sweden that it rem
ders the weak strong, cures II sorts
OF maladles, and secures long life.
When the scaffold was erected the
people assembled around with cups,
glasses, bowls, some even with large
saucepans TO catch the blood The
woman was first beheaded, and then
the man. The anxiety of the spec
tators was very great, and the mo.
ment that the poor mans head
was severed they broke through the
line OF soldiers The soldiers, TO
drive them back, Justify employed
the butt ends of their muskets, and
a desperate conflict ensued. At last
the crowd succeeded in reaching the
scaffold; butin the meantime, the DO
lice had placed the bodies in a cart,
and had sent them off under strong
escort of cavalry. They had, how
ever, taken the precaution of remov-
ing, by spades and pickaXes, the por-
tons OF the road on which drops Of
blood happened to fall, to prevent the
people from tapping up the blood"
MoNAsTIC FoUNDATroNs.-Bene-
dict formed the first regular monaste-
ry, under rules, on the site of tenn
pie of Apollo, in 543, under the direc-
ton OF two angels and three COWS.
Pope Gregory the Great and St. Pie
tro Damiano record his life and mira.
cles, and tell that tie devil often ap-
peared to him as blackbird or with
his hoofS and horns; and that he
wrought miracles as habit, raised
the dead, sang psalms before he was
born. His monastic rule was, in.
o76, declared by the church to be in
splred and of equal authority with the
Scriptures: 200 works have been
written upon it, and the last by Cal
met, in two quartos. But the rule.
itselIwas unluckiiy burntin S97, with
sacks of food which heaven had sent
sent for the saints. Nuns were of
Egyptian origin, the name nonnus
being of that language.
An aged Comple.-Mrs. Nancy
Gordon died at Rockaway, N. j., on
the 10th inst, aged near 90. Had
she lived till March Id, she would
have seen the seventy first anniversary
OF her marriage. During the whole
time she and her husband, who still
survives her at the age of 92, have
lived within sight ofRockaway Chur-
en-: This aged pair have had nine
children, OF whom five survive; forty
nine grand children, of whome thirty
three survive; one hundred and three
great grand children, Of whom seven
ty four survive, and two great great.
grand children, both still living, maxi
ngln number their descendants, living
ant dead, one hundred and sixty-three
of whom one hundred and fourteen
still survive.
Remarkable Memory.- Perhaps the
most remarkable instance on record
of the power of memory IS the one
related Of WillIan, Lion n stroJIing
player of England, who wagered a
crown bowl of punch that he could
repeat the contents of one number of
the DAILY Advertiser, a paper then
crammed with advertisements from
beginning TO end. The next morn
ing, Notwithstanding the want of con
nectlon between the paragraphs, The
variety of advertisements, and the
general chaos which is prevalent in
any. newspaper, he repeated ii from
beginning to end WITHOUT the least
hesitation or mistake.
The Law Magazine relates ar
a!necdote of Sergeant Davy. dis
tlnguished lawyear at the time of
Lord Mansfield that being once cal.